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beep

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

Designer. Started that responsive design thing. Writes a bit, or tries to. Spends a normal amount of time thinking about The Locked Tomb series.

A perfectly normal amount of time.

My new book is YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION! (You can purchase it from my bio, or just about anywhere books are sold!)

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exchgr, to random
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oh no. oh god. i just got the youtube app screensaver on apple tv. it’s so horrible and pointless. it just slowly zooms in on the freeze frame i paused on, preventing the apple tv screensaver from activating. what were they thinking

beep,
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@exchgr it’s horrible i want to disable it

beep, to random
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PEOPLE OF THE AIRPLANE LISTEN TO ME

TOSS YOUR MASSIVE CARRY-ON BAG INTO THE FIRST OVERHEAD COMPARTMENT YOU SEE, REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOUR SEAT IS ACTUALLY LOCATED

YOUR BAG’S COMFORT IS PARAMOUNT, ALSO THERE IS NO WAY THIS STRATEGY COULD HAVE SECOND ORDER REPERCUSSIONS FOR ANYONE ELSE

DavidDarnes, to random
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I realise this poll was somewhat controversial, I should've turned on the option to select both (cool that Mastodon does that!). Also not a surprise that most people selected ‘Developer' down to where I posted the poll and my audience.

However I also think that people working on often begin the design work and end up doing the implementation work as well. Though I could be wrong (cc @beep interested in your Opinions™)
https://mastodon.design/@DavidDarnes/112281559307211608

beep,
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@heydon @sarajw @DavidDarnes This is really, really good, Heydon. Thank you 💜

For my part, I think design systems have generally entrenched a lot of the old, bad divisions between design and engineering. Wrote this a few years back, but I think it generally holds up: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-design-systems-between-us/

latte, to random
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making use of my digital garden as a scraps dumping ground...finally updated my webcomics post with what's rattling around my brain about responsive comics

https://anhvn.com/garden/webcomics/

beep,
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@latte anh this extremely rules

lzg, to random
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    beep,
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    @lzg truly the dream

    beep, to random
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    realized a few days ago* that i should have some business cards for Labor Notes, and they just arrived last night! whole host of tiny things i’d do differently if i was going to do another batch, but these should work well for the conference this week 💜

    • i’m very astute and good at things
    beep, to random
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    Solidarity with these tech workers, solidarity forever. https://www.instagram.com/p/C51DSugON4G/

    beep,
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    (via https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/, which was via @Mer__edith)

    beep,
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    “Around 9:45PM on Tuesday, nearly eight hours into the protest, a group of police officers and a man who appears to work at Google approached the four workers remaining in the New York office and told them to exit the building. ’We’re asking you to leave again for the last time,’ the man said after informing the workers they’ve been placed on administrative leave and their access to the building has been revoked.”

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133056/google-protests-project-nimbus-no-tech-for-apartheid

    kissane, to random
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    Happy book launch day to @kjhealy and @marionfourcade whose The Ordinal Society has been keeping me up late reading and rereading and following references:

    https://theordinalsociety.com

    If you have feelings about how financialization and omnipresent networks affect humans and societies, I can't rec this highly enough—look at this TOC!

    https://theordinalsociety.com/images/tos_sample.pdf

    It's also so tightly and cleanly argued—the authors make that look easy and it's not. A real joy.

    beep,
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    @kissane god that intro just rips

    sophie, to random
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    Mastodon has a far higher proportion of reply guys than Twitter ever did

    beep,
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    @sophie ok i realize i’m fulfilling a specific and terrible prophecy here by replying, and i thoroughly apologize for that, but: yes, 100%

    beep,
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    @sophie oh well in that case [unfurls scroll with WELLACTUALLY written in blackletter caps at the top]

    DavidDarnes, (edited ) to random
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    “I work on and I am a…”

    beep,
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    @DavidDarnes oh do i have Theories™ about how this split is going to shake out

    inquiline, to Unions
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    Fuck, horrible news about/for Jane McAlevey

    https://janemcalevey.com/writing/latest-news/

    #unions #labor #cancer

    beep,
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    @inquiline oh my god 💜

    collin, to random
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    I'm not mixed. This really bums me out. I love Lower Decks and the characters on it.
    https://mastodon.online/@virtualbri/112259969897616521

    beep,
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    @collin Ach, goddammit.

    Yay for Strange New Worlds, but man I’m going to miss Lower Decks. Before SNW showed up, LD was easily my favorite of the nu-Treks.

    beep, to random
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    🦊

    wrote up how i’m blocking “artificial intelligence” bots from accessing my website, with some copy-and-paste code that should (🤞🏻) stay up-to-date whenever i update my blocklist https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/

    beep,
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    i really wish i didn’t have to think about any of this

    beep,
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    @cory Oh hey WONDERFUL, I’d missed this. Thank you, Cory!

    hotdogsladies, to random
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    A serving suggestion for this week’s very important @RecDiffs:

    beep,
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    @hotdogsladies merlin i only had time to watch like six minutes of this

    but it feels like i just saw the secret and unutterable true name of god

    rjkwon, to random
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    Wrote a note on some life things from the past couple months: https://kwon.nyc/notes/lately/

    beep,
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    @rjkwon What a fantastic post. And wow, did I love this reframe:

    phire, to random
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    mute all notifications from post when

    beep,
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    @phire godddd i wish there was a way to auto-mute posts, like after X boosts

    beep, to random
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    i apologize sincerely for what i am about to do (microwave some leftover fish)

    hotdogsladies, to random
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    I look at the cat. The cat looks at me.

    It’s a very young relationship, but so far this cat is kind of rocking my world.

    image/jpeg
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    beep,
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    @hotdogsladies obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PymVUQcXha0

    beep, to random
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    “Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.” https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

    [removes glasses; pinches bridge of nose; sighs until the heat death of the universe]

    beep,
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    “[Bezos’ wealth] is the result of deliberately hiding actual work – designing, making, sorting, packing, cooking, farming, delivering – behind little icons on your smartphone screen, in order to devalue it. It is the systematic use of the fake robot trick to lower the value of labour, until people are reportedly sleeping in tents at the factory gates, then banking the difference.”

    Short, searing post from James Bridle on the real, human costs of automation: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon-ai-cashier-less-shops-humans-technology

    beep,
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    @jessamyn Every single graf is just exquisite, I’m real grateful to the friend who shared it with me.

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