i feel just really heartbroken for the players who came out and spoke up against him when they hadn’t before, they had the strength to try to protect their fellow players and team staff and as usual the league spits in their face
replugging my essay, “taste is not scalable” where I had the audacity to quote Kant on taste coz this is getting a bit ridiculous. taste in what? art assets? typography? writing? static design? video editing? cinematography? UI? interaction design? UX? taxonomies? copy? TASTE IN WHAT? WHOSE TASTE? AND THEIR TASTE IN WHAT? AND WHAT WILL THAT BEING FORMULISED DO FOR ANYONE?
tech industry didn’t have the vocabulary to discuss human art and creativity so it’s created a new binary definition: taste vs slop. naturally, there were going to be models and companies “solving” for taste. it started with “context”. I don’t mean to diss on this company, I know others too in this space and it’s been the most soulless work to watch which is really something if you’re going to turn “taste” into your category.
you know what’s the real slop? these catchphrases and whoever keeps coming up with them.
ghibli’s work is BEYOND “tasteful”. AI generated ghiblislop is bottom of the trash pile. go figure.
TASTE IS NOT SCALABLE.
https://t.co/yMtxWWBGAD
considering leafs fans “hate” their players so much i sure have been happy to watch former leafs like kadri, bozak, kessel, freddy, etc win with other teams
Back in March it was reported that Marner refused to be traded to Carolina (knew he was walking to Vegas for free) and it cost the Leafs getting Rantanen in return. Fast forward a year later he loses his chance at the cup to the SAME team he refused to be traded to. Leafs end up winning the 2026 draft lottery instead. What a poetic outcome. Karma is real lol
what’s crazy to me about the suzuki sitch is that hrtwt looovveess to talk about how racism in the nhl would have affected shane and complain about how rr never mentioned it but when a ACTUAL Asian man wins an award, first of Asian descent to do so, yall are micro aggressive
I spent too much time on this:
CLARK: My contention is that with Claude’s new design tool, Figma has essentially been rendered obsolete, the canvas-based paradigm is most aptly characterized as a legacy artifact from the era before models could generate production-ready interfaces from inten—
WILL: [interrupting] Of course that’s your contention. You’ve never shipped anything and just watched the launch video twice. You just got finished reading some hot take, probably a Twitter thread or whoever’s got a Substack this week, and you’re gonna be convinced Figma’s dead until next month when you actually try to iterate on a flow and realize “regenerate” isn’t the same as “nudge this four pixels.” Then you’re gonna pivot to talking about how the canvas was always just a lossy interface for intent. That’s gonna last until next year when you’re in here regurgitating some take about how design tools are collapsing into a single agentic surface, you know, the post-craft utopia and the disintermediation of taste by foundation models.
CLARK: [taken aback] Well as a matter of fact I won’t, because generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas in the first pla—
WILL: “Generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas, especially as models get better at reasoning about layout and hierarchy…” You got that from that Figma-is-dead thread, right? The one that went viral last week. Yeah, I read it too. You gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us, or you have any thoughts — of your own — on this? Or is that your thing, you come into a bar, you skim some trending tweets over lunch and you pawn it off as your own idea to impress some founders, embarrass my friend?
[Clark is stunned]
WILL: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in about fifty product cycles you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in building things. One: don’t pick a side in a tool war you’re not actually building in. And two: the people shipping right now are using Claude and Figma and Claude Code before you’ve finished writing your LinkedIn post about which one won.
CLARK: Yeah, well I’ll have Claude build my whole product stack, and you’ll still be pushing rectangles around in Figma.
WILL: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I’ll still know how to think when the model’s wrong.