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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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There’s a line by Ursula Franklin that I think of often, where she talks about the need to resist framing everything in coldly quantitative terms: “These are not questions of economics; they are questions of justice — and we have to address them as such.”

Anyway, I liked this post of @adactio’s quite a bit. https://adactio.com/journal/20154

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Somewhat related, I think: an excellent post by @eric on customizing scroll bars with CSS. (And why you really, really shouldn’t do it.) https://ericwbailey.website/published/dont-use-custom-css-scrollbars/

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Tech workers: if you, like me, have ever wondered about how automation will impact your work, you should probably pay close attention to how “artificial intelligence” figures into the WGA strike. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub

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@davatron5000 “Let’s circle back in Q3 to see if you’ve been replaced yet.”

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@jessamyn @davatron5000

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@xgebi Yes! Thank you so much for asking: the MBA is the WGA’s “Minimum Basic Agreement,” the collective bargaining agreement they’re currently negotiating over.

More info, if it’s of interest:

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/faq

https://www.wga.org/contracts/contracts/mba

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“It isn’t ‘AI’ that has worked to eliminate writers’ rooms and it isn’t ‘streaming’ that’s shifted the revenue shared with writers and other artists to pennies on the dollar. It’s companies that have done that, often exploiting the loopholes in their labor and royalty contracts that allow them to do so.”

new @tim just dropped, and it is GOOD https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/alexa-will-not-replace-us/

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Marvelous, marvelous news. https://nation.africa/kenya/business/technology/facebook-youtube-and-tiktok-content-moderators-in-kenya-form-labour-union-4219046

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Just got word from my friends at @abookapart that paperback copies of my two books are 25% off! DANG

Here’re some links, if you (or someone you know) would like them:

https://abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design

https://abookapart.com/products/responsive-design-patterns-principles

They’ve been around for a minute, but I’m still real proud of them. 💜

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I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were really something

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

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@kissane erin can i talk to you about the part of your very excellent essay that made me choke on my wine

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@phire @kissane feature not a bug erin

FEATURE NOT A BUG

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@fox @kissane SAME. just hits all the way down 🏆💕🏆

markboulton, to random

Two months of endless YouTube videos, umpteen specialist tools (nut files, anyone?), and lots of mistakes along the way. I made my dad a guitar. Shhhh. It’s a surprise.

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@markboulton WOW, MARK

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So Dropbox is doing the two things every big tech company is doing:

  1. Laying off workers
  2. 'Moving into AI’

Could it not? I like Dropbox just to sync my files in the background and leave it at that.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23700629/dropbox-laying-off-500-people-pivoting-ai

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@jonhicks You and me both. https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/110254221909735660

(These layoffs are terrible; thanks for the heads-up on them.)

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What the FUCK

The USPS reports on who goes to apply for a passport to REDDIT, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE and SNAPCHAT.

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@aredridel wait w h a t

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Pretty new mouse!

It sounds like a gimmick, but I actually will use the extra middle button under the scroll wheel, that opens up the emoji picker ✨

Also Bluetooth. Also did I say it was pretty? So pretty. And a free spinning wheel. And silent buttons.

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@sarajw wowwww i love this

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🍞🍞

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@futurebird It may not surprise you to learn these are the two most frequently-asked questions in our house

I mean, this was the before shot

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okay i love you all but by my math we’ve had a few years of animating in Every

Single

Block Of

Content

as the user scrolls down a web page, idk let’s maybe take a minute and look over the data

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hell yeah i HTML

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