"And, although Oregon Trail users were complicit in the exposure of their sensitive dysentery information on our platform, we like to think that we’re better than that." mcsweeneys.net/articles/orego…

“I Just Want To Be A Good Man” by Pastor Champion is our Album of the Day. l8r.it/B5Ew

I’m looking for ambitious designers eager to work with startups to join @Upperstudy’s apprenticeship program. Here’s a few things that make this the opportunity you’ve been looking for:

When product design exploded there was too much focus on process. There are a lot of designers out there who think their job is to facilitate process vs. generate outcomes.

Dave Smith, the influential founder of synth manufacturer Sequential Circuits and co-inventor of MIDI, has died, aged 72 thequietus.com/articles/31617…

Do you have design experience? Well, our portfolio companies need you! Visit our careers page: careers.precursorvc.com/jobs to see opportunities at our portfolio companies for designers. Shout out to AnyRoad Savvy Healthie Carda Health Halfdays Credrails Inc Measurelab

Just heard Julia Hobsbawm refer to offices as "palaces of presenteeism." *chef's kiss*

"Indifference Will Devour You" is out today. music made with acoustic & electronic instruments, in studios and at home: beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/indiffer… 💿💿 also available on compact disc 💿💿 many indebted thanks to @gmiddleb for the lovely photography, layout, and design //

Want to help make large language models like ChatGPT better? Read this. (Even better, please considering sharing). #citizenscience for #GPT garymarcus.substack.com/p/large-langua…

And yet Detroit style pizza is better than both

Any product designers in-between jobs doing freelancing these days? A number of companies looking for support have reached out this past week...

Remote work is here to stay and it’s going to change everything

Fascinatingly, AIs bullshit (speak without regard to truth) under the same conditions as humans. Folks bullshit when they are expected to have an opinion on a topic they don't know & they won’t be corrected. AIs hallucinate most when forced to answer on topics they don't "know"

Arsenal have named Oleksandr Zinchenko as captain today as a mark of love and respect on the anniversary of the war in Ukraine. The Athletic | Football 🔴⚪️🇺🇦 #AFC theathletic.com/4251147/2023/0…

It’s ok if you fall apart sometimes. S’mores fall apart, and we still love them.

Tomorrow is our Mayoral runoff in Chicago. Public safety is a key issue. I wrote an op-Ed in Crain’s Chicago Business about both, and how Brandon Johnson’s summer youth employment proposal will help It’s behind a paywall, so I’ll summarize below chicagobusiness.com/opinion/youth-…

damn it. i hate to be here tell you about this. and i hate that it happened. we got seriously robbed the other night and we lost some stuff we will never be able to get back. please share and amplify this, we have lots debt coming our way. THANK YOU!! gofundme.com/f/tiny-telepho…

Tiny Telephone - my second home - was robbed. Among the items we lost: a *perfect* 1961 Telefunken U47, and all of our electric guitars and basses. We have been devastated by this. We’re still running sessions, but the damage has been painful.

With pedestrian deaths in the U.S. at their highest point in four decades, advocates and urban residents across the nation are urging lawmakers to break from car culture. apnews.com/article/walkab…

Imagine if Superman were hiring The alter ego of James Shedden 🦸‍♂️ is Sheds 👨‍💼 the first designer at incident.io And he’s looking for the first person to join his team—an actual dream job 📋 JD here: boards.eu.greenhouse.io/incidentio/job…