My Modest Proposal re: social media remains unchanged: if you're going to lop off access for an arbitrary amount of the bottom of the actuarial scale, do the same at the top. No under 16s in the UK? Great!, so long as no over-65s either (80.9 year avg lifespan, minus 16).
Unfortunately, this fight to protect our civil liberties isn’t over. Email your Members of Congress and demand they don’t vote to reauthorize FISA without major reforms like closing the loopholes that allow warrantless mass surveillance and the purchasing of private data: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-congress-say-no-warrantless-ai-mass-surveillance/?source=mastodon
Good afternoon!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
Just a friendly reminder that 50 years of "trickle down" has turned millionaires into billionaires, and billionaires into trillionaires.
Meanwhile the minimum wage stayed stagnant and prices skyrocketed on everything from gas to groceries to homes.
The trickle never came.
I just learned that Trump isn’t actually competing in the mixed martial arts thing, which makes it much less interesting to me.
The kids are alright.
Loyal dissenters, as studied by Dominic Packer, are people who strongly identify with their group but *are also capable of dissenting with their group's norms.* They are key agents of reshaping and moving groups toward better. They are, as he calls them in a delightful paper title, "rebels with a cause."
Disrupting the empathy dampening is absolutely possible, and the more you cultivate habits of empathy, the more you become willing to point out hypocritical groups, the more you play this role
Shareholder supremacy can be used as an excuse to do the most evil things if they can get away with it
Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/13/minority-shareholder-report/
We hear about competition all day long. Win goals, win games, win business, win against the other applicant, win against the other team.
I've been in a lot of workplaces where the dominant messaging about how we should all act was that competition is what delivers the sharpest knowledge work, and I'd bet a lot of you have heard this too.
But the science of group problem-solving tells a different story
Sleep is very important, which is why it’s one of the first things I do after my alarm goes off in the morning.
Thanks also to the organisers of React Summit for inviting me back to share a challenging message of hard data that paints a largely (cultural) React-incompatible, but I think hopeful, utopian horizon.
En route to SFO from AMS and grateful for all the lovely people who invited me to events and said hello. Particularly chuffed I got to stop in on the Web We Want event and the CSS Café; amazing talks that gave me hope.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dracos/116748127736504326
Soonsnap lives, breathes, and jumps again!
Welp, I think WPT is totally cooked.
6+ months ago I walked a Catchpoint employee through how the new version fails to meet basic needs and how unbelievably slow it is. Did I mention unusable on mobile?
Traced the WPT UI again using WPT. "Enjoy":
https://portal.catchpoint.com/UI/Entry/WPTITP/ARKv-C-E-mvCs5tjeyafgtwAA-N
"Someone who... could save millions of lives and chooses not to. But not only chooses not to, but personally goes into the government agency that, for a very small amount of money, saves those lives and decides that no, those people are going to die."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people
RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116748107172435312
Say it with me: boomers broke the weather.
Time to take away the keys.
For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk a high impact but low probability risk for the future of humanity.
Recently I've changed my mind.
Here I explain why. ⬇️
https://youtu.be/Cg0N9MWw9Vk?si=sNcrTlo9aDiVBesx
My position on new HTML elements is the same as my view of new underground Muni & BART lines: we should be adding a new one every year, based on good data about needs, until life feels meaningfully better for the average user.
And then we should keep at it for another decade to make up for lost time.
The objections in both cases are mirrors of each other: "but it will take a long time!" and "but the <first one> won't solve <tangentially related problem>!".
I have good news on both fronts: the more of it we do, the better and faster we get at it, and the more new problems we develop capacity to solve.
One guess (no prizes) for a rough estimate of that ratio at Apple, Google, and Meta, expressed as the % of the marketing budget spent on ironclad pro-privacy-lobbying & advocacy.
Rounding up, do you have any doubt it's < 1% for all of them?