Mason Morrow

Design, Usability, and Software 🏳️‍🌈

[fish @fishPointer]

trillions of dollars spent on AI and the only interface is still a chatbot. still no branching canvas, no mindmap, no dimensionality, no forking, no inversion, no merging. no custom functions. no style and no creativity

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Nobody is more stressed than a 25-32 yrs old thinking they are running out of time.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Benjamin Franklin wearing a coonskin cap while being received by the French court. "Proper" attire at the time would have been a powdered wig, but Franklin enjoyed playing up his "rustic" American identity. On these trips, he asked for military support for newly independent US.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

can't actually think of a problem that wouldn't largely self-correct if we could just reduce the cost of housing by like 75%

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus.

Data: Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet.

Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

If you are a working historian thinking of your subjects at all in terms of “IQ” then you are not remotely competent

[(((Alan Rosenblatt, PhD))) @DrDigiPol]

Did you know that Medicare does NOT pay for long-term care. NOPE... 2/3s of long-term care for your grandparents and parents is paid by MEDICAID.

So if you want to cut Medicaid, get ready to have your parents move into your house when they need long-term care, because YOU will be providing it.

https://t.co/aKn8MYwleV

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Instead of illegally trying to shut down huge pieces of our government that serve working people, Elon Musk could cut $2 trillion of actual waste by targeting handouts to the rich and powerful.

Here’s how: (🧵)

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

The WSJ documented over $50 billion in Medicare Advantage fraud -- insurers systemically diagnosing fake diseases in patients so they can overbill the gov. That is 100000x more than any of the silly sounding grants that go viral here.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

So much AI hype is due to techies who don't know about anything else suddenly playing literati, social scientists, philosophers, while ignoring centuries of ideas. Certain areas of tech seem to promote a view of tech people as universal intellectuals & they themselves buy it

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Hey Microsoft please stop trying to invent God and just make Outlook search work.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This is coined, "Theme Park Urbanism", where vacation destinations, like Disney World, provide the average American with a walkable environment they can only associate with vacation, and never with their own neighborhood.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember this? Disney understood 70 years ago what driving (& bad urban and suburban design creating car dependancy) can do to us. “Motor Mania” from 1950. Are you a Mr. Walker or a Mr. Wheeler? #CarDependency #RoadRage HT @LiorSteinberg

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Yes: https://t.co/ePET836KQn

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Singapore pegs the salaries of government officials & top civil servants to the money they might earn at the top of the private sector.

Coincidentally, Singapore also has one of the most efficient & effective governments in the world.