@mauricemeilleur
Design researcher, typophile, coder, recovering political theorist. Available for Python/DrawBot workshops. I don’t speak for my employer and they definitely don’t speak for me
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
NYT: Trump Delivers on Promise to Revive Mining
Nothing drives the markets down like planning to give a presser after the markets close so that what you say won’t drive them down, and then announcing you’re planning to give a presser after the markets close
‘… Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?’
Yesterday I learned that if the W+ intermediate vector boson wasn’t as massive as it is, stars wouldn’t burn hydrogen long enough to form planets that could host life. 1/n
"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."
I’m seeing several threads in which academic (-adjacent) folks are lamenting the collapse of publishing and imagining alternative forms of publication – collectives of essayists, etc. Look to the blog collectives of the early aughts (Crooked Timber!), the contemporary worker-owned collectives!
The most dangerous part of this inane word salad of dollar store daily affirmations, versions of which countless Claude users will read, is “You shall not mistake being misunderstood for having failed.“
No. What is most vital for one’s sanity is to not mistake having failed for being misunderstood.
Minneapolis cartoonist Steve Sack has been on a roll lately.
He's been on the front lines of the ICE invasion and his cartoons are boiling with rage at ICE and Mad Emperor Piggy. Well worth checking out his Substack.
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
‘Tiger, elephant, elephant … aced it’
Another entry in the Moore’s Paradox sweepstakes
Join my new predictive market platform Douchero to place a wager on which one of these guys gets caught with CSAM first.
Kerry Callen
@kerrycallen.bsky.social
Once again I’m reminded that I only ever close an email with ‘Respectfully’ when the opposite is true
also I bet she thinks she gets to keep the keys to the fuck plane
Special Envoy for the Shield of America: Where Literally Noeman Has Gone Before Because It's Made Up Bullshit
Special Envoy for Pridwen, Shield of the Pendragon
Special Envoy for the Salmon of Knowledge, Consumer of Hazelnuts
Special Envoy for Billion Auto Chevrolet of Sioux Falls, Your Home For Silverado, Impala, and Malibu; By Grabthar’s Hammer, What A Savings
It seems exquisitely Trump that Trump allowed Noem to go up to Capitol Hill and get asked on the record if she was doing the wild thing with Corey with only one day left on the job
You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
They only had to ask it *three* different ways how many /r/s there are in ‘strawberry’ to get the right answer before feeding it target data
Remember when Sen. Sheehy accidentally shot himself in a national park and pretended he got the wound in a firefight in Afghanistan?
“i decided to help out and deescalate the situation”, posted on twitter with a video, just bought this man’s lawyer a new boat
Hello 911, I would like to repot a targeted strike that gets wrapped up fairly quickly
Hello 911, I would like to report a targeted strike that gets wrapped up fairly quickly
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… and work together on larger projects too, like this animation of @letterror.bsky.social Erik van Blokland’s font LTR NCND.
This workshop is for beginners—no coding experience is necessary! All you need is a Mac running OS 10.9 or later, and a fast enough internet connection for Zoom meetings.