Being disabled is not a moral failing.
It’s not something you can try harder your way out of.
Healthy lifestyle and “wellness” won’t stop it from happening.
It’s a minority group you can join at any time.
We aren’t less than.
We aren’t expendable.
We aren’t to blame.
What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research: https://osf.io/t968e
Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research"
Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading!
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None of us are standard-issue but many of us waste our lives pretending to be.
Twas frymblal and the autism,
Did remech & runction in the wabe.
All mimsy where the fexcectorn,
And the bicylce outgrabe.
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
“The Left needs a Guys Getting Laid Narrative, it’s being left behind by the right” is simultaneously ridiculously wrongheaded and true-but-not-like-that.
Another entry in the “everything is structured content if you’re brave enough” file
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#Drupal core now uses @htmx.org for the BigPipe module. Removed the dependency on jQuery and 20Ko of compressed JS in the process. tresbien.tech/blog/drupal-...
From @spavel.bsky.social’s newsletter: “It is understandable that employees stop emotionally investing into their work after being treated so heartlessly. But it leaves UX and Product in an awkward place. Because design is the rendering of care, and if no one cares, then you can’t do design.”
Very glad this paper is published, especially in an open science forward journal!
This one means a lot as it triggered so.much.beef. Was often told that I didn't know what I was doing/wasn't going to work - turns out I was right 😜
TL;DR: trust your instincts + rethink using literal competitors
sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes
There are three kinds of rules: agreements, threats, and physics.
The last two are imposed on those who follow them. The first is negotiated between equals.
Dear web developers:
In the year 2025, can we please validate email addresses with trailing spaces instead of saying they’re invalid?
@github.com I think you got a rate limiter issue that affects people using patches hosted on *.githubusercontent.com
The error applies to authenticated requests too. Details: github.com/orgs/communi...
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
This is a critical distinction between LLM-generated language artifacts and those created by humans with communicative intent.
We are used to parsing language as a kind of “carrier for ideas” — something borne of meaningful intent, not necessarily a thing in and of itself.
one rule of internet discourse: every time cobol is back in the news, i am required to share this brilliant piece from @histoftech.bsky.social logicmag.io/care/built-t...
AI is useful for "accidental complexity" burdens in programming where the only challenge is technical: like how to invoke methods in an SDK, etc.
It's not as good with "essential complexity," where the challenge is not just technical: how to architect things, policy, coordination, validation
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
“I am troubled that hens keep dying on the fox’s watch; while I wholeheartedly support his mission of monitoring all chickens for safety, I believe it could be done better, more effectively. Perhaps his idea of hiring more foxes has merit.”
I hear some saying “‘Move fast and break things’ may work for Silicon Valley but it doesn’t work for government.” It doesn’t work for Silicon Valley either. If you need a mantra, a much better one would be “Move deliberately and fix things.”
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
I wrote a little about a new bit of helpful mental machinery I learned yesterday courtesy of @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com: v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/resili...
These are *great* additions to my “systems thinking“ toolbag, and I’m definitely going to be chasing down Lorin’s sources!
There’s a special place in hell for companies who design forms but then don’t leave enough space to fill in the information requested on those forms like bro you have *ruined* my day
