Not a sneer, but an interesting article from WaPo (archive link) about the rise/return of "dumb tech", and its link to the backlash against smart tech
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hmm, it's nice that this exists but feels like they could've gone a bit further in their writing, providing more exposition than just making a laundry list of instances found to be doing the thing. this reads very "I picked up on a trend and just wanted to be the first to mention it in writing"
There is a thing in crypto called "ux/acc" which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn't being adopted
If your turds are lovingly polished by highly trained artisans, they're still shit.
can we pin this one?
I believe it'll happen a bit later when david/self/blake are around
i completely forgot until i saw this comment
i've been running on adrenalin since thursday for reasons i'm not going into yet (started deeply fucked up, i'm smiling but i'm very fucking furious, may be resolving to less fucked up cross fingers, i'm smiling like that Ukrainian politician who made the phone video welcoming the Russian invaders into Hell) so expect nothing of me for a little while until all is more determinate
it's useful having a cowriter, we can cover for each other