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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-02-01 at 01:44

weird how it’s either “desperate to incinerate the social safety net” OR “knows how to buy a suit that fucking fits,” it’s never both

apparently

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-31 at 01:39

“…I can think of no better central principle for people who want to make, repair, and use better alternative systems of communication and collaboration and communion than Franklin’s tradition of justice, which works to eliminate the conditions that produce justified fear and is grounded in real understanding of those fears and the conditions that produce them.” — @kissane, https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-31 at 01:35

One of my favorite thinkers, writing about one of my other favorite thinkers: here’s @kissane on Ursula Franklin. https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-30 at 02:47

Today was a really, really hard day.

But someone came sprinting when she heard me walk in the door, so that counts for something.

💜

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-29 at 13:41

don’t forget kids, the G in AGI stands for grift

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-29 at 13:32

“hey, your plagiarism machine stole from MY plagiarism machine” — tech ceos in 2025, apparently https://www.theverge.com/news/601195/openai-evidence-deepseek-distillation-ai-data

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-28 at 21:49

tech companies in 1980: computers are like bicycles for the mind

tech companies in 2025: please,,,,, my thunderingly expensive SLA with openai,,,, is very sick,,,,,,,,

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-28 at 21:48

forcibly opting all of your users into a feature nobody was using certainly speaks volumes as to the quality of said feature

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-28 at 21:44

Hey, Apple users: if you install the latest iOS, iPadOS, or macOS updates, you’ll be automatically opted into “Apple Intelligence”. If you don’t want that running on your computer, you’ll need to go into Settings to disable it.

(this is far from the most pressing thing happening today, but just a heads-up)

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-28 at 14:59

can’t do much else right now, but one thing i can do is to get some nazi code off of my website

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-28 at 02:06

Current status: https://bukk.it/kermit-no.gif

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-27 at 15:55

just had a (very tiny) earthquake in boston

if this timeline was a tv show, i would have fired the writers’ room by now

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-27 at 15:55

anyway the science is clear: we must attack and dethrone maine https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pmk3/dyfi/intensity

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-27 at 14:29

get out your RAZRs and your flared low-rise jeans, we’re blogging like it’s the early-to-mid 2000s baby

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-27 at 14:29

I realize folks are busy, so I wouldn’t presume to put another thing on anyone’s plate. But if they’re game — and if they don’t hate the very idea of these things — I’d love to hear how @latte, @kayserifserif, @maya, @jalcine, and @henry might answer these questions.

(At the very least, you should check out their websites!)

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Written by Ethan Marcotte on 2025-01-27 at 14:24

🦊

Heck yeah, I love a good blogging challenge! Thanks so much to @jonhicks and @nazhamid for sending it my way! https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blog-questions-challenge/

[#]blogging

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