Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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How often does it get autocorrected to Chadcn?
It’s refreshing how much more comfortable you can be as a designer working with a rough prototype or early implementation when you’re 100% confident you’ll be able to make any desired design changes yourself before it ships.
LLMs are an amazing change to this workflow.
I’m sometimes struck by how uncritical our industry is. Scrolling through LinkedIn and most of the posts are takes on an LLM company’s takes on how we will use LLMs.
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
It’s possible to believe that people deserve a better government AND that they shouldn’t be bombed by other countries with terrible governments of their own.
One fundamental issue is that so much of tech has a pure production mindset. They only care about the output. So much of what we do is about the value created while making something, not just the thing that comes out the end.
Just got reverse Pagliaccied by the Claude app.
Claude: I don’t have any information about the Claude Mac app
Me: But Claude, you are the Claude Mac app.
Wild the amount of effort Instagram makes to prevent anyone else from getting any value from their data. Working on an app and learning just how much obfuscation there is in their web app. Crazy stuff.
It's hard to imagine just how much better the web could be without this shit.
Yeah could see it from that angle too. Either way, it’s a moment and I’m curious how they get through it.
I see problems for Figma. The massive toolchains and integration workflows that make them sticky and allow them to extract lots of money from large companies… are what will make it hard for them to move with the market.
Turns out if you don’t get bought by Adobe you can just become Adobe 2.0.
The people using their website are not their (main) customers. They are a resource to be managed. The choices are not adversarial from their perspective, is a calculated risk with a flexible resource.
I think about scenarios like this way more than I should
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
Not enough people using AI understand this
yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
Makes sense. Would be better to cancel because they are a terrible company, but this is a good start.
Uncool Runnings
Some interesting touches in the new Ferrari Luce interior designed by Jonny Ive and LoveFrom.
Particularly interesting that the first visuals of their first electric vehicle are of the interior.
www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/f...
360 feedback is basically writing report cards for your colleagues.
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
It’s a testament to the effectiveness of media serving the billionaire class that we only have one Luigi so far.
I’m becoming convinced that the approach where an LLM finds the most probable output based on training data is not great for software because the most probable output in reality is not always good code. In fact it appears it’s usually not.
We should never have taught LLMs the word “comprehensive”
Oh wow. You went deep there. I was considering Sanity for a long overdue revamp of my personal site… but then decided to build an iOS app instead 😅
What CMS are you using?
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
I think design teams and designers can tend to overestimate our roles. From where I’m standing these days:
Code is the system, Figma is tooling.
In the era of Cursor, I wouldn’t have a designer on a design systems team that isn’t contributing code.
Writing/content is often most neglected.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Does anyone else find that Cursor has good days and bad days? Some days it’s magic and others it’s like a completely different model. Can’t even remember the details from the last few messages in our discussion
