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I know there has been some stuff published / talked about regarding "critical ignoring" as it pertains to online information/disinformation in general. But has anyone done work on critical ignoring in the context of knowledge work?

Every day, even in the tools we are actually using, there are 1000 pieces of info, of which only 10 are relevant to the task at hand. It is a constant source of anxiety. "Does this message pertain to me?"

That's without trying to keep up on all the new stuff.

Sure, one of the biggest monopolies in the world that hates interop so much the CEO said ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ and doesn't let you send or receive messages on anything other than their hardware and charges you 4x for memory you can't upgrade ever put out an ad with bad taste, let's get really angry about that.

Please sign my petition to remove the first R from February.

It's a day for this record.

This is just good writing. The best pull quote is the last sentence, so I won't ruin it.

newrepublic.com/article/180924/dissident-dialogues-festival-anti-woke-grifters

via @nickheer

If your entire business is based on user-generated content, and said content represents almost all of your IP, and the business idea is people visit your internet property to gain access to that content...then selling it all in one go to another company so people can go to that other company's internet property to get the value from said content...maybe I'm missing something, but that feels short-sighted in a pretty obvious way.

The best thing ever written about the practice of web design 🔥

tonsky.me/blog/centering/

“Okay, so let’s say he can get three percent interest on that. That would be six billion dollars per year, which would be about… [taps on phone] oh, around 17 million dollars a day. So if he runs around throwing money in the air, eight hours a day, he’ll have to throw a little over two million dollars an hour.”

crookedtimber.org/2024/05/06/run-bezos-run/

Ok, I'm bucking up and doing two pomodoros worth of wrestling AWS permissions for this project. I need encouraging music and would like to request suggestions. I'm starting with Supertramp. That's kind of the vibe at the moment.

From bike ride with the boys this morning. Rained just a little bit last night