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"I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK."

Old/new photos of the original Sputnik-style sign and the flat, vector-drawn image of the old sign that went up when the city insisted they remove the original in 1999.

"Generative models can be powerfully useful—if you’re willing to adapt your approach."

"This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds."

"Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit — at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression."

"Not everything that happened this year was terrible."

"Users might overlook things that change too fast — and even when they do notice, changeable screen elements are harder to understand in a limited timeframe."

"From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues."

"A lot of developers still believe the Web would be better if we had One Browser To Rule Them All. At first, that might sound nice in theory. Less testing! Less inconsistency! Less bugs! But this is forgetting our users. Would it be good to effectively force them to use a single browser? To deny them the possibility to choose their preferred user interfaces and features? Of course not! It’s forgetting that competition drives innovation. "

"When every blog has the same hero section, when every portfolio follows the same grid, when every restaurant site looks interchangeable, we create an echo chamber of sameness. The cost isn’t just visual monotony – it’s the slow erosion of the web’s ability to surprise, delight, and showcase truly individual perspectives."