26 June 2025
xWithout juniors and interns a field has no future.
100%! And we are seeing the deterioration of these roles everywhere. Doing the menial junior level tasks is how people learn a job top to bottom. Pushing for AI to take those menial tasks, removes the education and pipelines, which will result in the next generation getting thrown in the deep end. Some will make it, but a lot more people will drown.
26 June 2025
xInspired by Laoziās Dao De Jing, itās Rubinās take on intuitive programming.
This is weird to me. On the one hand, I hate AI. On the other, I get how Rick Rubin could see vibe coding as something similar to his own musical process as someone who doesnāt play an instrument or mix, etc. So to him, this is no different. Heās essentially a product manager who is okay with killing of the engineers. I wonder how heād feel once AI can replace the sound mixer and engineers in the booth; would he be okay with giving that job to AI?
26 June 2025
xāA good logo always tries to convey the brand promise,ā says type designer and Hoefler & Co. founder Jonathan Hoefler. āAnd this one definitely foreshadows the tragic collisions ahead.ā
Such a shoddy logo. It just looks like something a 13 year old would come up with in KidPix to put on a tough guy faƧade. Elon Musk so badly wants to be edgy and have people like him.
26 June 2025
xāWe deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,ā McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. āfucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadlyāthe failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.ā
It doesnāt sound like it works for cops and ice agents wearing masks, but thatās what we need; fight fire with fire. Itās just insane these agents can wear masks, not identify themselves, and just throw people in the back a van; itās gestapo shit.
26 June 2025
xCards on the table, Iām a weirdo who actually liked the Finder icon in Tahoe developer beta 1. I think it looked great and was a proper reimagining of the icon Iād been staring at in my dock for the past few decades for the new design system in Tahoe.
Iām with Matt on this one. I canāt believe people are so opposed to change that flipping a color is such a travesty. And if we look at it from a pure design perspective, I think the original one fits better with the liquid glass motif.
26 June 2025
xI didnāt think the thoughts that would have produced those words in my brain. I think that matters.
100%. A common refrain is that the moment you try to teach something or put it to paper is when you realize how much you really know about the topic. With AI we are outsourcing the foundations of thinking and understanding.
26 June 2025
xShe will stay on as global editorial director of Vogue, and as global chief content officer of Vogue parent company CondƩ Nast.
Wow! Itās finally happening! Maybe sheās just sticking around CondĆ© Nast until they find her replacement, but if not, I donāt see this going well. Having that kind of oversight over your replacement makes it more difficult for them to make the job theirs.
25 June 2025
xSo Thompson will take his thoughts on abundance, culture, the NBA, technology and other topics to the platform, where he hopes he will have the freedom to express himself in away that he canāt at The Atlantic.
Going to opposite direction of Charlie Warzel, who launched a Substack a few years ago and then The Atlantic ābought itā when they made their newsletter push. Itāll be interesting to see how Thompson approaches it and if he sticks to it for the long run.
25 June 2025
xThe complex decision is one of the first of its kind in a series of high-profile copyright lawsuits brought by authors and artists against AI companies, and itās largely a very bad decision for authors, artists, writers, and web developers.
Forgot to mention this yesterday, but referenced it a couple posts ago around NVIDIAās stock price. Itās wild that we are just going to allow this to happen. Making this legal is going to ruin so many industries. This is not equivalent to a library buying a book and loaning it out. Itās just not.
25 June 2025
xNot gonna sugar-coat it: this video made me want to throw my phone in the ocean, destroy my TV, and log off the internet never to return. Oof.
If you didnāt watch this when Kottke posted it yesterday, you really should. I didnāt even realize NY Times was making short docs like this. Itās brilliant and depressing at the same time and makes me feel even more like we are on a giant downward slope.
25 June 2025
xI was a huge Feed Me supporter from the pretty early days, but cancelled in early 2024 (I thinkāaround the time of the rebrand). Emily always had a focus on NYC, but around that time, it felt like she was writing longer pieces dialed into the city and making the culture/marketing/branding/business links and commentary lower priority. Still, it was interesting to get her perspective on it here and how she views the newsletter and where she wants to take things.
25 June 2025
xNot surprising given the court rulings today. Itās bonkers we are just going to let these machines digest everything to regurgitate poor assimilations of them with zero repercussions.
25 June 2025
xWe figured that was unlikely to be true. And we were right: sometime in the last several days, the Trump Mobile site appears to have been scrubbed of all language indicating the phone is to be made in the USA.
Not that any of us are actually surprised. Grifters gonna grift after all.
24 June 2025
xItās as if the producers watched TNTās program and concluded that having two guys who donāt really like or watch basketball yell at each other was the key to its success, rather than the chemistry and trust among its hosts.
Whole heartedly agree with all of this. ESPN was absolutely trash. Doris Burke is the only thing they have going for them. They better not screw up Inside the NBA next year.
24 June 2025
xThe US military strikes on three of Iranās nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the countryās nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.
Surprise, surprise, we wasted billions of dollars on bombs that achieve nothing except strike the ego of our big dumb president.
24 June 2025
xThe additional funding is projected to increase the number of film jobs supported by the program by 40-50%, according to the California Film Commission ā or 4,400 to 5,500 jobs.
I think itās great that they are working to reinvigorate a dyingābut pivotalāindustry, but Iād much rather see this money come from reductions in pay for the top end of CEOs and movie stars who are overpaid.
20 June 2025
xThe build quality is astonishing, the Topre-style switches are better than Topreās, the stabilizers are better than anyoneās, and the keyboard is beautiful and a joy to type on. The Seneca is a genuine technical accomplishment.
Holy. Crap. $3600?! Who wants to hire Humdrum Industries for 24 hours so I can snag one of these magnificent beauties. Still probably just going to pick-up an HHKB to replace my RealForce, but goddamn do I want this.
19 June 2025
xAnd despite recent murmurs that the screenplay may eventually be published ā possibly even novelized ā nothing can replace the cinematic experience that couldāve been.
I know it could never be what Lynch imagined, but I so badly want Dern, Watts, and MacLachlan to find a director they like who is a bit earlier in their careerāmaybe Dream Scenarioās Kristoffer Borgliāand get this movie made.
19 June 2025
xNext month, they plan to launch Neon Ichiban, a site they intend to be āa dedicated experience for comics,ā Mr. Steinberger said, after raising more than $7 million from investors in the game and movie industries.
I have way too many thoughts about this. First Steinberger was a founder of ComiXology and along with Mosher, oversaw its collapse in Amazonās hands. Also, these two recently founded DSTLRY, which readers of Foofaraw might know I despise because of their digital tactics. Then thereās the fact Iām not sure digital comics is a business that warrants $7mil in fundingāunless you plan to sell to a tech conglomerate again. Lastly, Sweet Shop is a digital comics store coming from a much smaller indie team that also has Image and IDW lined up already. Competition is great, but Iām not sure I trust these guys to do whatās best for comics.
18 June 2025
xSo far, ānone of our best people have decided to take them up on that,ā according to Altman.
Really, really hard to take Altman at his word on anything, especially something like this, but Meta did make $45b in profit (based on a quick search) last year⦠Still who is insane enough to turn down $100 million to work for one evil, shitty tech place over another.
18 June 2025
xContent moderation experts seem to approve. āI donāt think itās hype,ā said Vaishnavi J, a founder of Vys, a trust and safety advisory firm that helps companies implement AI safeguards for youth harms.
I know people might think of me as a huge AI hater, but this is an area I appreciate being explored. Moderation is hard and having people stare at posts all dayāsome that may be disturbingāis an admirable thing to avoid. Iād use it similar to Clarkesworldās filters1, where everything goes through a funnel, and the items flagged are then reviewed by a human, and the filter is adjusted accordingly. With AI, maybe you could try to have it come up with its own confidence level, and review those with low confidence and only review the high confidence if thereās an appeal.
I donāt think they use AI for their filtering, for the record.ā©ļø
18 June 2025
xAll told, Bob Ross churned out ~30k paintings in his lifetime ā nearly 3x the output of Picasso, a prolific painter in his own right.
Itās incredibly cool to just think about the fact most of those are hanging up in normal peopleās houses. Too often it feels like art is an asset stowed away, but given Rossās prolificness and āevery manā nature, flips that on its head in a way few have.
18 June 2025
xSlight font refresh here to bring in some sans with Degular from Ohno as the main body font. Swear Cilati takes over the quotes now. Still considering picking up a license for Untitled Sansā¦
17 June 2025
xCity Comptroller Brad Lander has been released without charges after being arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
Gestapo out in full force, I see. We really need better systems in place to hold cops and federal agents accountable for when they do shit like this. Arrest someone for no reason and then immediately release them? Thatās harassment, at a bare minimum. You canāt just wipe this under the rug, because then the behavior is perpetuated and thatās why you have the ACAB movementāas even good cops feel like they have to āprotect their ownā instead of holding their peers to account when they cross the line.
17 June 2025
xWhat kind of moron would paint brick?
This feels like it was aimed directly at me. My wife and I have an inside joke that whenever we see a brick building, sheāll ask me about it and Iāll say whether itās āgood brickā or not.
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