November 2023 Forty-seven posts

21-Nov-2023

Quotes of the Day When trust and safety is going well, no one thinks about it or talks about it. And when trust and safety is going poorly, it’s usually something that leadership wants to blame on policies. Quite frankly, policies are going to be a Band-Aid if your product isn’t being designed in a way that actually doesn’t...

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20-Nov-2023

Sunset Sesh

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20-Nov-2023

Kenzo World / Spike Jonze / Margaret Qualley Absolutely brilliant.

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19-Nov-2023

Jetty morn

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19-Nov-2023

I was not able to get Preview Night for myself or anyone else San Diego Comic Con ticketing is famously difficult. But this year it was really tricky around Preview Night. I believe it used to be Preview Night just “came with” a 4 day pass. They made it an option this year, but it was nonetheless also limited. Now, I did get all 4 days in Returning...

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17-Nov-2023

“Don’t lose sight / baby don’t lose sight”

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16-Nov-2023

“Just get away from the shady turf…”

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15-Nov-2023

CSS Battle. Again! I posted the other day that I started playing CSSBattle.dev and mentioned it in some online communities. I think people dig it! I love that gRegor took a shot. And I think there’s something to his reaction: I enjoy CSS but most of my daily work with it is routine stuff like forms, nothing too...

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15-Nov-2023

The birds, grounded by the rain, don’t care about the killer left today.

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15-Nov-2023

Torment Nexus, oi This speech by Charlie Stross matches the painful assessments I’ve slowly come to in my decades reading SF and watching the tech boom. I didn’t *want* to go to a cyberpunk dystopia so much as thought it was inevitable we would end up there. But no destination is inevitable. Human beings can steer. We can...

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