Ed 

Principal UX Eng @microsoft. Previously Staff Design Eng @twitter. Genuinely dumb after 3 pm. ECE from @UWaterloo

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

🧵 Here’s the tea on Design Tokens for Twitter’s new Visual Design Language. Specifically, the learnings that I gained working on Android, iOS, and Web for the Revenue, Marketing, and Consumer design systems.
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[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@kelin_online 💯 this, and anyone who proclaims otherwise is usually cherrypicking claims in retrospect. The only thing to do is to prototype and get real user feedback. Otherwise it’s mostly theater masquerading as strategy. It’s become so evident that some people just yap with no lived exp.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@Nale Agreed, it depends if the child is choosing the path or if it’s chosen for them.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

I’m an immigrant. So are my parents. I ran Track through high school and college. Track taught me grit and gave me an outlet to succeed beyond my academics. A childhood of pure academic grinding isn’t discipline, you’re holding them back with old country thinking.

[Natalia Burina @Nale]

My immigrant parents didn't allow me to play sports. In retrospect they had a point.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

I know design twitter loves it but I actually hate the acrylic blur on background instead of light gray with opacity. It actively hurts my eyes. And sometimes I actually do care about the stuff in the background.

[UFC @ufc]

The hunt is on 👀

The #UFC328 artist series poster has arrived!

🎨: @OSporin

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@sathaxe 👋🏻 down

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@lukasoppermann I was specifically referring to the case where one is re-styling another web app within their web app. Think Copilot within Word.

I think perf of Design Tokens applies much less when you're talking about a single product (Twitter) than white-labeling enterprise products (MSFT)

[Brand @Brand]

BREAKING 🚨: This is extremely illegal. This is Matthew Gallagher, who created 800+ Facebook accounts posing as fake doctors to advertise on Facebook, and went on to build a GLP-1 telehealth company with just $20,000, AI, and only one full-time teammate, his brother. The New York Times fabricated their AI startup story.

It generated 401M USD in 2025 and could reach 1.8B USD in 2026. Medvi received FDA Warning Letter #721455 in February 2026 for misbranding violations. Its clinician network, OpenLoop, suffered a data breach in January 2026 that exposed 1.6 million patient records.

Futurism reported that they used AI-generated deepfake before-and-after photos in their marketing. A class action lawsuit was filed in Delaware in November 2025. They are also running 800+ fake doctor accounts on Facebook to sell compounded GLP-1s.

[Braelyn ⛓️ @braelyn_ai]

> its 2028 in san francisco
> you are one of the last software engineers
> “human in the loop” is your job description
> wake up for your 9am standup at openai
> scan your face to verify age

> you join the call as the only human, the agents initiate slow mode so you can follow along
> discussion around optimizing power consumption for models on autonomous weapons
> consider raising an ethics concern
> remember your job is symbolic
> close laptop

> $1.50 costco hotdog for breakfast. the last affordable meal in SF
> agents ping you occasionally (less often now)

> walk back to your studio with 2 roommates
> see your ex-cofounder on the street
> you two built a website for tracking what stores carried white monster in 2019
> you built that website by hand and had a blast doing it

“must…. escape the… permanent underclass” he rambles

“we never had a chance,” you think

> phone buzzes
> email from HR
> you’ve been laid off
> sama tweets that openai is 100% automated
> openai stock booms
> 90% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 8 people
> you are the permanent underclass

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

AI creates a productivity ceiling that's decoupled from human understanding. People keep doing things, but don't learn while doing. The depth of knowledge underneath is eroding. The rate at which AI improves sets the speed limit for humanity.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

16 oz = 1 lb.
12 inches = 1 foot.
3 feet = 1 yard.
1760 yards = 1 mile.
32° freezes, 98.6° body temp, 212° boils.
Fluid oz ≠ oz.
😬🔫

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@aakashgupta If this is the case wouldn’t all large cap IPOs want to price themselves extremely high? Investors get an exit and retail + 401(k)s bear the burden until lock up sinks the ship

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@striedinger @sebastienlorber Typeahead would be a nightmare. You wouldn’t know what to match for. Even for 2 languages you’d probably get 30 results no matter what you type.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@JohnTitor @HighyieldHarry That’s not how a take private works.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

There is so much to be said about this tour. My first instinct was to go into critique mode. But I have thought about this for a while. And honestly for a 21 year old I would say he has done something beautiful. Something that will be remembered for a long time. He did more for African tourism (once you remove the really embarrassing Nigerian part of it) than any tourism board in Africa in the past few years. He was a young man having the time of his life, coming with no pretence of expertise or philanthropy. Just doing random stuff he enjoyed. Sometimes chaotic. Often genuine interactions with people across the continent. We saw the funny, the interesting and the ugly (again, thanks Nigeria). I see a rare example of a young streamer who has gone beyond the sometimes banal streaming culture to do something truly worthwhile.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

@alex_du @Bitcoineo In 1990s China, you could move cities for work, but your children couldn't attend local public schools. Schools were funded by hukou (household registration), not where you actually lived. Millions of families had to leave kids behind with grandparents or pay for schools.

[Ed  @EdDaWord]

Coding with AI killed my flow state. I went from solving puzzles to picking dialogue options.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

A single ICU Nurse is worth more to society than every ICE Agent put together.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

They executed him on his knees in the street. I cannot believe what is happening to my country. I say this not as a Democrat, or a Republican, but as an American. They are boiling us like frogs, trying to acclimate us to the destruction of our nation.