@joelvanderwerf i was wondering

@bleepbloop nice, i’ll check it out, thanks! agreed, i have max’s udemy courses on complete css and js, and his ts one i have queued for last 🤣

PBS Digital: A Short History of Punctuation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKLTrnZvXHQ

#language #typography #video

In this week's issue of Cybercultural, my online magazine about internet history, I look at how Slashdot's "karma" system inspired the moderation efforts of BowieNet version 2.0 (launched in May 2000). I also check in with Google and Amazon in the year 2000: despite the dot-com downturn, their karma was just fine. (bonus: a pic of Google's founders wearing tin foil capes at that year's Webbys!). https://cybercultural.com/p/karma-2000-slashdot-bowienet-v2/

now that my Big Project™ for the year has shipped and is wrapping up, i will be enjoying some relative down time at work, in which i’d like to spend time topping up my waning modern web dev knowledge.

💡i am looking for recommendations on good online courses to bridge my knowledge gap in latest (not trendiest) CSS and JS practices. i have a few already queued up, but this will help me prioritize.

boosts are most welcome. thank you in advance! #webDev #CSS #javascript

Mark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/mark-simonson-studio-at-25/

Instead of worrying that TikTok could carry Chinese government propaganda — which the Supreme Court declined to even consider — "people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for US government propaganda," EFF’s @davidgreene and @evacide said.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2025/09/23/tiktoks-future-us-owners-to-control-algorithm-and-data-in-proposed-deal/

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "

(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

@letterror 🤖 Reality Check #1 18/20
🔥 Perfect Streak: 16

I can spot AI images 90% of the time. 🧠
Can you beat me? realitycheckk.com

#nowPlaying

> Obscure Vietnamese New Wave made in Little Saigon (Orange County), California from the mid-80s to mid-90s … The extravagance of the hairstyles, the fits & the attitude gave the recently migrated Vietnamese a newly found, shared interest with their non-Viet counterparts. Music & style unified people amidst high cultural sensitivity due to the aftermath of the Vietnam War

#vWave #80s #eurodance #italoDisco #synthPop

Vwave – Rare Vietnamese New Wave 1980s

https://vwave.bandcamp.com/album/vwave-rare-vietnamese-new-wave-1980s

@sohan i was TOAST all day from lack of sleep 🍞

The First PBS Station is Shutting Down Following Cuts in Federal Funding | Cord Cutters News https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-first-pbs-station-is-shutting-down-following-cuts-in-federal-funding/

@kims i am curious to know what was in these “thoughtful conversations”

We have been conditioned to think in terms of battles with definitive, lasting outcomes fought by heroic figures. But the reality is imperfect people struggling day by day to make change, often with no positive outcome or reassurance that what they are doing is effective. They push forward because of belief and hope for a better future.

This is the hard work in front of all of us. Decide every day to show up and do what you can to make things better. Try harder, push further, do more. Celebrate successes, no matter how small, and accept setbacks as part of a process of learning. Find allies, build community, create networks of support.

This essay from the only Arabic-speaking fact-checker at The New Yorker in the days and months after Oct 7 is an astonishing, haunting, infuriating read

It deserves a trigger warning for all the things you'd expect in a piece about fact-checking the details of a genocide

https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

@spacehobo ha!

since i’m up, PSA that if you live in California, Oregon, or Washington, you can get loud early earthquake alerts sent to you via #UCBerkeley’s MyShake app. since i’m not physically in CA right now i don’t know if other early alerts were also sent 🤞🏽

https://myshake.berkeley.edu

#myShake #earthquake #sfba

my sympathetic nervous system is not going to let me sleep yet

#earthquake

my work phone thinks it’s still in sf and definitively woke me up with an alarm to drop cover and hold. i had to check online to find out it wasn’t for my present location. 🫨

#earthquake #sfba

exactly how are people doing wired iphone to iphone migration while also keeping connected to power? i could only put the donor phone on a wireless charger 🤷🏻‍♀️ i hope this will be enough to get through the few hours transfer.

(photo taken with a third/work iphone 😅)

#iphone