The Disk: the real story of MPs' Expenses - Full Film youtu.be/ZWH0ang_fBU via YouTube

Our patron, Bertrand Russell, died #onthisday in 1970. If you do one thing today, listen to his short and powerful message to future generations and make sure others see it too.

Great statement: "The naive optimism of tech’s early days is gone, replaced by a backlash that, at its extremes, can be equally naive."

Great episode

Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To? lithub.com/can-fiction-in… via Literary Hub

"Storytelling may be our most essential human technology." Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To? | Literary Hub tmblr.co/ZicWPV2nm-1AD

Photoshop is 30 years old today. See my 2011 article "Inside Photoshop" for the analysis of its interface and tools (revised version became a chapter in Software Takes Command, 2013) #SoftwareTakesCommand computationalculture.net/inside-photosh…

Why is Stripe's API so good? Teams debate the naming of each field, talk about trade-offs, and attempt to plan ahead for new features that may change the shape of the API. We *take the time* to get it right, and individual engineers recognize the best design requires teamwork.

Why Philosophy of Information Matters - Lecture youtu.be/8AyQmpCV_Rg

Entertaining and informative episode :)

This talk by Craig Mod is one of the best stoic practical meditations on our modern digital culture. Highly recommended for anyone who works in tech youtu.be/WrAxvpvfB2w

“How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home” - This is disgusting: nytimes.com/2020/05/06/tec…

New post on Interface Studies: AI & The Lost Joy of Finding Things Out interfacestudies.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-l…

Fascinating point. I pointed to that recently but not from a security perspective. If AI can autonomously engage with existing software. Where is the intrinsic value of building software for people? interfacestudies.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-l…

When Software Becomes the User: AI Agents & The Future of Interfaces youtu.be/eIOUkNxd4Jo?si…