‮Jeff Eaton

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Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, and shitposting as a service

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he belpful 🥰

*opens up the Internet after a nice weekend offline and takes a biiiiiiig sip of coffee*

A thing that is useful to remember about the GOP is that for decades the die-hards in the anti-abortion movement complained bitterly that political conservatives didn’t care enough about ending abortion. No one believes that anymore; the GOP can remove it from the platform, because it’s redundant.

Republicans omit national abortion ban from platform for first time in 40 years

Republicans omit national abortion ban from platform for first time in 40 yearswww.theguardian.com Party instead opts to focus on power of states to regulate abortion in move that reflects Trump’s position

Gotta admit, having been raised and come of age in the authoritatian religious right, it is taking an enormous amount of active work not to slide under the waves of despair these days.

I grew up politically active in the pro-life movement and the broader religious culture war. There existence of a currently-publicly-proposed “moderate option” has never, ever indicated a softening of the underlying goal of total bans.

If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.

Listen Closely to the Men Crafting the GOP’s Anti-Abortion Policynewrepublic.com The main dispute within Trump’s Republican Party is not about how severely to punish women for having abortions, but merely how to “frame the argument.”

“Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out “I swear to God!” is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.” — Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

The strange and difficult thing about the Current State Of Affairs in the US is watching lots of people come to grips with what it’s like to live under authoritarian ideology.

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we've escalated from "the US Postal Service Inspection Service has a SWAT team" to "the US Postal Service Inspection Service has its own true crime podcast"

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"Jeeves, this Chatting Gupt is simply a pip!" "I'm afraid I'm not familiar with your reference, sir. Are you perhaps referring to ChatGPT?" 'Ah! Yes, that's it. Do you know it gave me some cracking suggestions for a lunch with Aunt Agatha? Look here!"

the 80s were a hell of a time

Reddit’s r/interestingasfuck sub is having A Real Day Of It discovering that sign language is a complex language with idiom, slang, and creative potential, all thanks to Cardi B’s concert interpereter www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

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What paying online (or hey, even print) publications that would publish an essay about the far right and AI?

Celebrating a wonderful anniversary today with @sparrowpost.bsky.social; nineteen years ago, and it still just seems like yesterday!

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We now live in a world where there's a non-zero chance The Phantom is going to punch Elon Musk.

Honestly, they’re terrible guests.

Not many people know that Mr. Beast’s parents, Donna and Robert Beast, changed their surname to better fit in when they emigrated. “Housenbold” was popular at the time thanks to the long-running CBS radio comedy, “Hosting the Housenbolds,” but ironically it’s now much less memorable.

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I am a former tech entrepreneur who now works in middle management. My greatest hits include: * virtually every major venture capital investor is an active fascist * there is no such thing as “the technology industry” * everyone is waving red flags but you still only listen to the same 5 lying CEOs

i teach people how to make products customers actually want. my greatest hits include: * that is not a product, that is a hobby * and what does your market research say? uhuh thought so * i’ve seen 500 other ppl try to sell a salon booking app before, but maybe you’ll be the one who makes it

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Hi, I'm a product designer. My greatest hits include: - what problem does this solve? - you don't need a dashboard - why do you want to add AI? - no, we shouldn't use a survey - intuitive for an exec and intuitive for the user aren't the same thing - no, I can't "make it pop"

hi, i’m a ux writer. my greatest hits include: -this is called a content band aid. it’s when you try to solve an interaction problem by explaining it a bunch. it never works. -that’s not going to localize well in russian -do we need this *points at words* -em dash is the long one

BREAKING NEWS www.sciencefocus.com/news/salty-l...

A new colour of cat has been discoveredwww.sciencefocus.com The salty liquorice cat has an unusual coat, but the usual suspect is not behind this phenomenon. Now scientists know what is.

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A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

Mmmmm, holiday weekend, perfect time to replace my personal home page with a photoshopped Andy Capp cartoon eaton.fyi

Eaton, FYIeaton.fyi A spicy mix of content architecture, CMS strategy, and team facilitation.

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a bad take is viewed

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I am the kind of person who, when assigned by their therapist to start a daily journaling practice, decides to make a spreadsheet.

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but doctor, pagliacci is out of network

In which I rant about magic, AI, and the tricks that language plays on us. theinterconnected.net/eaton/incant...

Incantationtheinterconnected.net Telling computers what to do has always been a job for specialists — almost by definition it is an act of translation, of adaptation, of understanding two worlds and bridging the gap between them. …

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THE ORCAS GET POLICE TENSE NOW

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My most unpopular opinion: Jack isn't wrong, Jack is never the problem and bluntly neither is Elon It's the folks who enable them and the convenient triangulation opportunity they give everyone So it's easy to center them and then magnify them rather than ... WORK

Went to get some pastries and ran into this chonker. You can tell he’s havin’ a good day.