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Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax, the first of several expected major donations by tech leaders in 2026 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-weal…

Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

Ok ... Toch een wat vreemde lui die Duitse TV makers.
'Buitenlandse films' gaan ze nasynchroniseren, maar als er in een Duitse film een andere taal (Scandinavisch, Engels, Pools, ...) gesproken wordt, gebruiken ze ondertiteling... 🙃
(En een Duitse crimi in t buitenland ... 😅😅🙃)
#ARD

The predominant lyrical mode relies more and more on the listener almost unconsciously failing to register the singer isnt singing to / for them specifically till one day a veil is pierced in the minds of millions and everyone is brutally decapitated by swiftes in musical rapture, intoxicated by a sudden backlog of unanswered screams

And once again with #AltText4You.
Why is that one simple link so hard to click?

DrŸmmer om dommedag | Klassekampen https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2026-03-14/drommer-om-dommedag/Hjex

Drømmer om dommedag
Filmskaper Tonje Hessen Schei mener vi må forstå makta og ideologien til ­evangelikale fundamentalister i USA for å forstå motivasjonen bak krigen i Iran.

Xicoia Studios releases a single and music video made by "real humans" starring AI "actor" Tilly Norwood ahead of Norwood's official AI acting debut this year (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ge…

AI Actor Tilly Norwood Drops Debut Single and Music Video ‘Take the Lead’: “I’m Just a Tool, but I’ve Got Life”
Featuring Norwood flying through the clouds on a blow-up flamingo, the video begins with a note: "The following production was made by 18 real humans."

EVERYTHING
HAS MEANING
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THAT OTHER THAN BY TRYING TO SHOW YOU

Neben #startrek Starfleet Academy ging's in meinem Science-Fiction-Januar auch um diverse Weltraumsagas (von 1968 bis 2025) und um Ken Lius Thriller in einer AI-gesättigten Welt, All That We See or Seem.
https://

Science Fiction und Fantasy im Januar 2026
Ich fange mit dem Bildschirm an, das ist einfacher, weil in den letzten Wochen recht reduziert - zum einen deswegen, weil meine Kinder mehr Lust auf Gesellschaftsspiele als auf das gemeinsame Filmgucken hatten, zum anderen, weil ich meine freie Zeit neben Arbeit und Wahlkampf dann lieber in Lego ges

TIL: @… was sold, to the highest bidder. At least one in the EU. It could have been much worse.
#Threema