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📢 2 new pieces with my name on them published yesterday! First: #Tech #Oligarchy Is Not Tech. I wrote in Science As Culture that Tech Oligarchy is a form of technophilia, that #software practitioners and tech schol…

New fav tech youtube channel?
#youtube #tech…

"Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e‑waste"
#Energy #Renewables #Technology

Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e-waste
Retrofit solutions need to prioritise the use of renewable, sustainable materials that minimise the consequences of resource consumption and pollution.

The reason there are no more good ideas in tech is that every office has these "low odor" whiteboard markers. Ten years ago, every Design Thinking session participant was way more creative because they were strung out on marker fumes.
#UX #tech

At 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech

"Virgin Media O2 launches interactive pilot to encourage tech reuse"
#Technology
https://www.edie.net/virgin-media-o2-launches-interactiv…

Virgin Media O2 launches interactive pilot to encourage tech reuse
Virgin Media O2 is piloting the ‘O2 Tech Refab Lab’ at its flagship Westfield Stratford City store, featuring discovery zones where customers can learn how devices can receive a second life.

#Tech #Steam #Autonomous
This is cool. Steam built it's controller to use it's haptic feed back to find and move to it's charger.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DRp-eh2pCFo

A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.
#UX #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment

#Tech #Google #Chrome
I installed a windows Task Mgr replacement a few weeks ago and it just now pops up this fun dialog of an unsigned setup.exe running. Immediately after that it reports that the GoogleChromeElevationService was installed (and notably signed by Google).
JFC Google. SIGN YOUR SHIT

I follow enough #design and #apple and #tech and #software #design

Handoffs drool, meetings rule. To fully realize our design vision we MUST coordinate with other people, and therefore deliberately design our meetings to be effective. But instead we are ceding the influence that meetings give us, to focus on LLM-powered solipsism.
#tech #UXDesign #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #LLM #UX #design

Reading a lot of Linux projects talking about LLMs now, focusing on if they work well enough or not. No talk about ethics, ideals or politics.
If it continues down this path, FLOSS will end up like the Ed Sheeran of software.
#software #foss #floss #libresoftware #linux #lxqt #desktopEnvironment #openSource #ethics #llm #techbros #tech

Antichrist-Theologie, Anti-Demokratie-Blogs, Eugenik-Manifeste und ein rassistischer Geburtenkult: Das Netzwerk um Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Marc Andreessen und Elon Musk hat System – und reicht bis zu Jens Spahn. Mein Blick auf die Ideologie hinter den Schlagzeilen. #TechBros #Demokratie #Musk
http://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/08/27/das-netzwerk-hinter-den-tech-bros-ideologie-statt-zufall/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#Tech #Hairpulling #Ooops
So I just switched ISPs and went from a provider router to my own router.
Odd things on the network. My router could see devices and servers but I couldn't access them from my computer.
Said devices and servers had static IPs.
I entirely missed the default IPs going from 192.168.0.xxx to 192.168.1.xxx with the router switch.
lol
well that and rebooting the router 3 times but youtube kept playing??? cache is fun haha

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way.
Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.
#tech #software #softwareDevelopment #productmanagement

Rare books about to be burned (sorry, I mean pulped) by Anthropic.
Picture by the Washington Post, found through this post: #books #AI #techbros #tech

The narrative of AI "inevitability" hit a fever pitch in recent weeks. The announcements have the subtext of press releases: it's here, it's powerful. But what IS here, exactly?
For most of us, what's here is severely uninspiring: a system that is mainly good at proliferating "slop grenades." Less "super-intelligence," more "normal SaaS product."
Don't listen to the hype men. Look with your own eyes, and exercise *your own* agency.
#AI #LLM #tech #software #UX

Açò és bona idea?
#valencia #solar #tech #paiporta

Etwas, was wir vermutlich immer noch viel zu wenig ernst nehmen ist Folgendes:
Es gibt
-bei den Evangelikalen in den USA
-bei Putin und dieser Perversion einer orthodoxen Kirche
-bei den Tech-Bros und ihren abartigen pseudospirituellen Gedankenmustern
diese Vorstellung, dass im Moment ein Kampf Gut gegen Böse stattfindet, dass der "Endkampf" bevorstehe, man das Ende beschleunigen müsse, damit dann "der Erlöser" endlich erscheine.
1/2
#Putin #Netanjahu #TechBros #Endzeit #neueWege #gemeinsam

Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity.
And nowhere is the lack of respect more apparent than in how LLMs have been productized and adopted. The "human in the loop" excuse pushes consequences down onto scrupulous employees and ultimately onto the very users on whom we claim to be centered.
The consequences of disrespectful software are now becoming apparent across tech.
#UX #UXDesign #LLM #AI #tech

The job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.
#AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #UX #UXDesign

In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention?
Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.
#AI #llm #ux #uxdesign #tech #softwaredevelopment

I like Tchaikovsky's views on genAI, from the there's no "I" in it and the Chinese Room argument to what he says about the artistic process. Oh, and his advice to young writers / artists: "I mean... don't use it?"
I guess it's a very Mastodon friendly interview:
- Invidious: #adrianTchaikovsky #ai #books #writer #tech #scienceFiction #genAI #writing #interview

Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem.
But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the number of things that can and will go wrong.
#AI #LLM #softwaredevelopment #tech

I don't want to be that guy, I don't know how this biotech will pan out, but I really want to say:
Hey! I know the name of this Torment Nexus! It's called Korrok! From John Dies at the End!
#ArtificialIntelligenge #bioComputing #biologicalComputer #tech #biotech #dataCenters #computing #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #JasonPargin #JamesWong #books #movies #sciencefiction #corticalLabs #dayOne