MythoGermania

*Drone shot of some forest at dawn* Voice-over: "And that’s when things took a dark turn." *Bass drop*

You put a fork in a wall outlet — that’s not reckless. It’s empiricial.

It's mid-January and I'm forgotten

Uncmaxxer "Avuncular"

I like people who don’t slip and fall on ice.

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I love ChatGPT. A Harvard-level literature department’s worth of knowledge at my fingertips.

Fifty thousand households in our capital have been without electricity since yesterday because of arson, and it may take up to a week restore power in freezing temperatures. Retirement homes are being evacuated, people are being told to find alternative accommodation if they can,

That isn‘t a bad thing, by any means. Provocations can be useful, especially if they aren‘t relevant to real world concerns.

I‘ve taken a short break from X, just one month. Coming back is difficult. I was expecting to go back to spending a lot of time on here, but it seems like none of the things people talk about on here really map to anything happening in the real world.

The good thing about X: There are takes you don‘t see anywhere else. The bad thing about X: There are takes you don‘t see anywhere else. It’s a schizophrenia simulator.

Looking back makes it clear what has been lost over the past decade. Rediscovering it will be the best part.

This is not an appeal to nostalgia, just an acknowledgement that it has never been easier to 'coast'. The design industry has fractured into niches, driven by technical rationalization. So now we have designers that can‘t design (and don‘t even seem to like design).

I flipped through a few design magazines from 2000s and 2010s. The contrast to today was jarring. There was a real diversity in ideas. Creative, new or unusual. It had a very distinct quality. Designers tried new things because there were no playbooks to follow yet.

"Can you read the PDF at this URL?" "I skimmed it. What do you want to know?" "Can you summarize it?" "Sorry, I can’t directly open that link. You’ll need to upload the PDF here or quote the relevant section." Truly brilliant intern material.

Every great product has an enterprise-grade competitor that offers self-hosting and SSO.

Paintings by Alex Colville

Short bus Midjourney Longhouse

Alien: Earth was terrible. It’s uncanny to see reviewers glazing this pap. The best part was the reheated production design from 1979.