The Twitter / Olympics integration could be so so so much better QR codes to join event chats Threads for each match Sharing highlights through synced timestamps

Who IS Uncle Sam? wrong answers only

The weakness of the interpretation is that this psychologist imagines that people are either “conformists” or “truthers” This exp shows that humans are rational, adaptive and humble enough to not stake survival on being right. Complex environments require heuristics.

Let’s go The Olympics victory phrase of 2024

As long as designers are stuck in how they limit their strategic value

Alternatively a good faith explanation is the Overton window. One group called the radicals must be pushing the edges of what might be considered normal discourse “The more normal something appears to be, the more ideological it is” - Wahneema Lubiano

Would love to see more player profiles of Chinese athletes in the Olympics. Maybe it's the US-centric coverage I'm watching but it always feels like China stories revert to nationalism, US = individualism. is this just a media access problem? what gives?

Those insisting that the VP pick doesn’t matter based on precedent don’t seem to get that this isn’t a normal election. There was no primary! Biden dropped out 4 months before election day! Historical precedent is probably not so useful. I’d guess the VP matters more than usual.

Vance and Walz shake hands at the vice presidential debate. Walz keeps holding onto Vance’s hand. He lifts it up for the audience to see and says “soft.” He shakes his head. “You got city boy hands, JD.” The crowd goes wild. Donald Trump fires Vance via Truth Social mid debate.

What designer or marketing team decided to call watchlist "my stuff" on Peacock? Now hearing it over their ad reads and its just terrible.

Very unfortunate that this is an additional concern for women in the US. x.com/emilykmay/stat… Curious about this demographic as it pertains the current polling and political strategy to appeal to more women & conservatives.

Any mutuals in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin or London?

Designers could be working on interesting real world challenges Instead, we’re renaming components and organizing variables

Had a wonderful Sunday at the Berlin Global exhibit followed by international karaoke in Mauser Park

Meanwhile, the German state of Thuringia just voted into power the first far-right (née fascist) party since 1942 Berlin feels like a bubble in a global rightward shift

.Time to Say Goodbye ya'll nailed it today. people are dying, Americans suffering, the world is exploding, and leaders are talking about polls. it's insane. this is not just the youth, we are all so disillusioned.

Lyn Alden life and not-life, conscious and not-conscious, sacred and not sacred. These are interesting phliosophical discussions but problematic in the conditions we find ourselves in where the rhetoric is weaponized for relationships of master-slave, real not-real, better or worse.

Lyn Alden from a flows/forces/relational perspective, who among us can be said to be "intelligent" or "agentic" as essence. we live in a system of relationships. agency is an emergent property of the affordances and environment. It's a dynamic state (or potentiality) not an essence

Much of design work is invisible labor

Stakeholders always be asking wen screens never how screens