Peter Scott Reid

"You know what people need? More notifications" - Some backend dev at LinkedIn. I'm convinced not a single real user was consulted with this new 'catch up' feature. Set it on fire and start again.

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Previously: ODPM; DETR; DoE; MHLG; MT&CP and others...

🚨 FIRST TIME WRITING 'MINISTRY OF HOUSING COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT' 🚨 Previously the: Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) 2006-18 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) 2018-21 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) 2021-24

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Hard to know if this is stupid or straw-manning or what, but it sure is something.

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something truly magical about how even other Tesla drivers hate the Cybertruck guys

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user experience design is my passion

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it remains completely baffling to me that Google got away with turning this feature on, for the web at large, without advertising any option to turn it off

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“Welcome to Sea World, your call may be recorded for training porpoises”

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Tell the maga gamers in your life to get ready for $5000 video cards

Trump says Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as ‘it doesn’t give us anything’www.theguardian.com Trump’s interview with Bloomberg will call into question Washington’s support for the island democracy should he win back the White House

Jamelle Bouie talks through the JD Vance Selection: Trump’s V.P. Pick Doesn’t Exactly Balance the Ticket www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Opinion | Trump’s V.P. Pick Doesn’t Exactly Balance the Ticketwww.nytimes.com J.D. Vance wasn’t the most obvious choice.

Churchill as hip, smh

Norman Mailer's insane list of Hip things and Square things:

They're off to the big self service area in the sky

The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/w... [gift link 🎁]

The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Societywww.nytimes.com No rule requires Japan’s elementary school students to wear the boxy, bulky backpack known as the randoseru. But for nearly 150 years, nearly all of them have.

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lmfao

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Quite the agenda

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This is how you do it.

"The Beckhams are British in a new way, a way that wealthy people who live most of the time in places like Dubai and Miami are British, loving the royal family and hating income tax while deploring the press they relentlessly deploy." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Andrew O’Hagan · Push Me Pull You: Creating the Beckhamswww.lrb.co.uk For a couple of decades, the Beckhams took on the mantle of national aspiration when the royals lost their cool, but too...

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the great thing about the hugely productive ai era is that regardless of how much productivity is actually created, all the leaders believe that *you can get more for less*

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Gideon Levy one the few telling the truth in Haaretz

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

Tonight's reading: A Modest Proposal - For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729) www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swiftwww.gutenberg.org

It's an experience just to be inside the Royal Albert Hall. Such steepness, with thousands of people but none all that far away

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*slams fist* We need more AI dammit "sure boss what do you wanna use the AI for" Make it do AI "but what should it actuall..." MAKE. IT. DO. A. I.

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The #DSDay24 call for speakers is open! We’re looking for keynotes, speakers and panel hosts for #DesignSystemDay 2024. Join us on Thursday 5 September in Liverpool and make this event our best yet! Find out what we’re looking for and how to apply: design-system.service.gov.uk/community/ca...

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There is a lot of research on this. Learning about racism doesn't make white kids feel guilty. Here is what it does. Summary of some of the studies here: fivethirtyeight.com/features/wha...

Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.

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good lord

When deciding if someone is worth listening to on new tech developments, I feel it's valuable to see what they have (at least tacitly) endorsed before