The UI Guy

Advocate by training. Nerd by birth. Doomed to wonkery until the revolution comes.
Get in, loser. We're fixing the UI system.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

I speak to people at Microsoft all the time, and if Satya knew anything about the mood at the company he'd know that they're absolutely miserable and hate his leadership along with the rest of his team. They love leaking stuff because they loathe the company

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Dion @2024dion]

It took <100 years for American settlers to destroy fully 99% of this unique landscape and the thousands of species of plants and animals that called it home

[Wise @trikcode]

A person deleted 3 months of AI generated code because he could not understand it.

He could not explain why it was written that way.

[Heather Dow @PatriotPostGirl]

55% of Michigan voters don’t want a data center in their community. While you get the noise, brown water, hiked energy bills, and the grid strain; data centers get the servers, the subsidies, and the self-congratulatory press release. Because nothing builds community quite like turning cornfields into AI sweatshops while calling it economic development.

[Doinkadect Klomberbatch @Doinkadect]

As someone who graduated with a master’s in 2023, spent 2 years unable to get work and so had to return to university, I’ve been screaming this for years and it’s great it’s finally being reported on

What it’s missing is that even those with jobs are mostly…

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[The UI Guy @That_UI_Guy]

We must fight for the day that opposition to war brings people together as much as funding war brings together Republicans and Democrats.

[Gongwer Michigan (State Affairs Michigan) @GongwerMichigan]

MACKINAC ISLAND – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday was surrounded by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle while signing legislation to provide significant funding for improvements at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

Read the full story: https://t.co/bbWKeiEobi

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Why are we continually finding more ways to subsidize the wealthiest generation in our country’s history?

38% of all federal spending is for seniors.
Of mandatory spending it is over half. And of age-assignable spending it is 62%.

For a group that is 18% of the total population with more home equity, more stock holdings, and more savings.

So the obvious answer is… exempt them from property taxes too, creating yet another reverse wealth transfer to be borne by the younger and poorer.

[The UI Guy @That_UI_Guy]

@urbanistmama @jasonc_nc Time to think about getting rid of some stuff before it becomes a burden on their family who don't want it and will have to throw it all away.

[The UI Guy @That_UI_Guy]

The real "vibesession" is the utter loss of hope among working people that their position is going to get any better.

Having a job is good. But if it immiserates you and you have no clear way out...

[The Midwesterner @Th_Midwesterner]

Van Buren Twp officials dole out $125 million in tax breaks for Google data center https://t.co/RexbkTmpTb

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Please stop comparing dying from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.” Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

This skull-measuring pedophile apologist thinks everyone who makes $60k a year — i.e., most Americans — has “failed at life” and should not be allowed to run for office.

As I have said before, the “Abundance” technocrats have nothing but contempt for American democracy and the people who make it up. They’d sell out democracy to an orderly fascist in a heartbeat. Trump is a little too messy for them. But JD Vance? Or some tech bro? They’d fall in line like clockwork.

[Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr]

woo buddy, it’s grim

[Meme Space Nine @meme_space_nine]

Yeah, millennials insisted on making the SATs part of the school's performance framework. They insisted on AP courses becoming part of the curriculum. They insisted on college recruiters taking trips to schools. They insisted on scholarship forms being in every admin office. Millennials demanded statistics lessons on the differences between college graduates and high schoolers in earning potential with zero time being given to the trades. Millennials were the cause of all this. Not their Boomer school administrators, Boomer bank CEOs, Boomer Politicians and Boomer parents.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

I have a hunch that people don't like AI data centers

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

What stage of capitalism is this?

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City.

There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there.

After more digging, we found that more than a dozen other crypto companies were not just incorporated there but also claim the address as their HQ.

Turns out, SBF even did business with the the office listed as Polymarket's HQ, which is a law firm that ignored all of our requests for comment.

https://t.co/FZSeRa8orS