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Curious Service Designer
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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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37 years ago today
Fugazi at the legendary concert, Wilson Center, Washington DC, December 19, 1988

Fugazi - Wilson Center 12/29/88 - Waiting Room

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #posthardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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In an amazing coincidence, the size of Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center is exactly equal to the total size of all the redactions of his name from the Epstein Files.
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“Service design does a lot of things, but it doesn’t do anything alone.”

— Alistair Greo

#ServiceDesign
H/t @claragt.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
2026 Pantone Color of the Year is the color of empty despair and sadness found when lost in the fog…
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Slowly scanning old negatives from my skateboarding era
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Winter is coming
a man on a horse holding a flag with a dragon on it
ALT: a man on a horse holding a flag with a dragon on it
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Tell me again how #AI is so magical? Garbage in, garbage out.

“An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”
October 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Winter is coming
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Winter is coming. Pray for snow
September 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
September 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Always a nice day for a walk in the woods
September 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Mürren Switzerland
July 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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70% of Gen Z have captions on all the time

80% of Netflix members regularly use captions

85% of Facebook videos are watched without sound

— at last week’s Google AI #Accessibility Day, Sebastian Grebasch from its Berlin office shared some interesting stats I’ve never seen before
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#caminodesantigo on the way to Pamplona in 2022
June 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Alpi di Suisi / Seiser Alm
May 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Wish I was still walking the #camino - hope to get the chance again #caminodesantiago
May 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM