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Vincent Pickering
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Enterprise Design | Service Design | Systems Thinking. I make complicated problems simpler for people Personal Website: https://vincentp.me
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · Nov 25
I've been working on a print and play card deck to foster creativity and team building!

It is available totally for free on my website, where you can also find the instructions for the game.

A more detailed explanation is below 👇

#UX #Design #CardDeck #Creativity

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Creative CreationsCreative Creations
Service Design, Enterprise Design, UI, UX, HTML, CSS and IndieWeb
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 3d
"Please train our algorithm" its for your benefit 🙄
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 4d
OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion during the quarter.

Totally a viable business 🙄

www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss
: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 5d
The perfect deliveroo food business, you don't even have to pay the phone bill
a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his mouth open and his arms outstretched on a purple background .
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his mouth open and his arms outstretched on a purple background laughing
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 5d
Did Microsoft agree to this yet? I thought they were preventing them from going public?
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 5d
Been loving my Hi-Fi Walker H20 Pro. No more dumb notifications and other crap distracting me from music and disconnecting from online.

If you own your own music, I would recommend a DAP (Digital Audio Player)!
Hi-Fi Walker H20 Pro. A music player known as a DAP
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 6d
Also after all that he still didn't get it. Steam is successful because they have great games at fair prices with regular sales and a good return policy. All the other stuff is icing on the cake, but none of it is why Steam has endured so long
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 6d
I believe its referencing this story from a while back. The problem is all over Amazon Marketplace

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 6d
Do not like the new Bluesky icon, I'm no flat icon purist but the shading and bevels are not good. Feels like late 90s/00s icon design.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 7d
Garth Marenghi feels ripe for the Partridge treatment. Would love more of him interviewing other horror writers and directors

youtu.be/q7dyWmIPXFk?...
Garth Marenghi meets Mike Flanagan - GARTH MARENGHI’S SKULL-FLUSHER
YouTube video by Garth Marenghi
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 8d
As soon as I put on anything by Wojciech Golczewski, it takes moments before I'm in a creative "zone". Would highly recommend if you need to do some design thinking or problem solving. Its worked for me for years 🧠 🎧

wojciechgolczewski.bandcamp.com/music
Wojciech Golczewski
film composer - electronic - synth - retro - 8bit
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
All of this is predicated that LLMs are not going to collapse due to financial weight required to do the most basic things and they can figure out how to do complex, multi-step actions.

Neither of which looks likely to be solved anytime soon.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
Ultimately, we built websites to help people do things, learn things and share human moments. The open web isn't a database to mine, it's humanity. Sometimes companies were involved, but that was entirely optional and contextual. This future isn't human, it's corporate and full of empty promises.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
Companies have never put people before profits.

Building an open web to hand it over to companies for them to be the gatekeepers, manipulators and arbiters of what information they deem acceptable seems dumb to me.

AI Agents aren't for the good of mankind. They are propaganda machines for money
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
If you put an "all knowing" machine in the middle and just accept the answers, you are surrendering a lot.

There is nothing whatsoever to stop a company boosting "anything" they want to be "that thing" you requested from the AI Agent because it benefits them, not you.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
Consider the number of actions you perform to do a new task.

How did I find out about the thing?
What is the thing?
Why is it useful?
When is it useful?
How do I know the information I just consumed is reliable?
What is the cost of consumption?

Etc.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 9d
This article unravels quickly for me. Firstly, the assumption you already know "the thing" you want to do. Its a huge problem with all the future AI fantasing.

Apparently in the future no-one does due diligence we just accept the first answer we get. Which is problematic on a number of levels.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 10d
Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”

(Source: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...)
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12d
NOT 13 Cows thats too big. Chop them up a bit, and bring them back to me in smaller pieces.
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12d
Storm has passed. Got pretty intense for a while. There is a tree that has fallen on the slope above our house.... seems to be lying flat now. No chance it will hit our house, but if it does move its gonna land in the garden with a thud!
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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 14d
Stop the distopia, I want to get off
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 14d
Microsoft are already pushing gamers to Cloud Gaming and deliberately away from Xbox to justify their server spend. If they sell Xbox, i'm assuming this push would still continue to prop up its AI spend just under another brand perhaps...
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 15d
The AWS outage yet again shows that we aren't using the internet in the way it was designed. Passing everything through a single point of failure is plain dumb when the infrastructure you are building it on has incredibly redundancy
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 18d
I hate it when its just pictures of voles. I've been duped again!
a squirrel is eating a piece of food in the grass .
Alt: a vole is eating a piece of food in the grass .
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 19d
I would love for you to set your guests a challenge to find the oddest / most left field tech product at the show each and talk about it.

Bring back the fun, weird tech and celebrate it. 🤩
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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 21d
"How are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?"

Oh...here and there......
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...I'll get my coat.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21d
i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question
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