Thomas Cannon
@thomascannon.me
Web developer, musician, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd.
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
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Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
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Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
Just watched for the first time and can confirm
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just watched for the first time and can confirm
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Great news, everyone!
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
In Bari Weiss’ CBS, we’ve simply run out of news! Time to check in on *checks notes*
Turkey vs. Ham
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demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
![“We worked [on Hyper Gunsport] with a localization company that refused to give the names of the people that actually did the work; they just wanted to have their company name in there,” Sheffield said. “They say they do that because ‘It's the standard’ and ‘to avoid poaching’ or whatever, but I hate that and think it's total BS. … I've also seen a lot of folks complain about how they weren't credited on a game because they'd left the studio before the game they worked on was finished. And indeed, our lead 3D artist left two years ago. But he's still the first artist credited because he set the style and visual tone for a lot of the game. Not working on the game to the very end doesn't negate the work he did.”
The more Sheffield thought about how to meet the needs of so many different types of contributors – and discussed the matter on social media – the more a comprehensive, detail-oriented approach to crediting started to make sense.
“That had all been percolating in the back of my mind as we got close to finishing, and then it just sort of hit me as it came time for me to write the credits,” he said. “I discussed this approach with the team and everyone was fine with it, so we just went for it. We always want to credit everyone that touched the game, so even though the core team was 7 or 8 people at any given time, we credited around 145 people in Demonschool. Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit. And you basically can tell who the core team was by reading the descriptions. None of us are precious about that anyway.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreibksibak2xsgvbrid7evym3utz6yzfccilowfs7apv7b2sddssd3q@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
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the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
Well damn this was a delight and is now part of the holiday rotation
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Well damn this was a delight and is now part of the holiday rotation
Hallmark channel jump scare boxd.it/ILLK
Round and Round (2023)
While Rachel is stuck in a time loop, reliving the night of her parents' Hanukkah party, she leans on the boy her grandmother is trying to set her up with to make it out.
boxd.it
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hallmark channel jump scare boxd.it/ILLK
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UI/UX folks: What's the best way to handle this kind of input grouping, where you want to provide a checkbox to mark something for removal, but also allow for undoing?
I'm not a fan of "removing" the section on a click, because it leads people to think the data has been removed.
I'm not a fan of "removing" the section on a click, because it leads people to think the data has been removed.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
UI/UX folks: What's the best way to handle this kind of input grouping, where you want to provide a checkbox to mark something for removal, but also allow for undoing?
I'm not a fan of "removing" the section on a click, because it leads people to think the data has been removed.
I'm not a fan of "removing" the section on a click, because it leads people to think the data has been removed.
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The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
Going through my emails, which included this essay from @psbhq.bsky.social’s Patreon. And BY GOD it’s wonderful, crunchy prose.
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
What Makes a Hero and the True Measure of the Human Spirit: Walter Lippmann’s Stunning Tribute to Amelia Earhart
“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.…
www.themarginalian.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Going through my emails, which included this essay from @psbhq.bsky.social’s Patreon. And BY GOD it’s wonderful, crunchy prose.
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/08/w...
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Nobody asked, but:
I think the biggest pitfall of sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, especially for worldbuilders, in the infodump.
You're (rightfully) just so proud of all the work you put into creating a cohesive setting that you just wanna PUKE it all over readers/watchers on page one.
(thread)
I think the biggest pitfall of sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, especially for worldbuilders, in the infodump.
You're (rightfully) just so proud of all the work you put into creating a cohesive setting that you just wanna PUKE it all over readers/watchers on page one.
(thread)
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Nobody asked, but:
I think the biggest pitfall of sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, especially for worldbuilders, in the infodump.
You're (rightfully) just so proud of all the work you put into creating a cohesive setting that you just wanna PUKE it all over readers/watchers on page one.
(thread)
I think the biggest pitfall of sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, especially for worldbuilders, in the infodump.
You're (rightfully) just so proud of all the work you put into creating a cohesive setting that you just wanna PUKE it all over readers/watchers on page one.
(thread)
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Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
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Here are the slides from my @sfruby.com keynote today!
#sfruby #sfruby2025
speakerdeck.com/marcoroth/he...
#sfruby #sfruby2025
speakerdeck.com/marcoroth/he...
Herb to ReActionView: A New Foundation for the View Layer @ San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025
This keynote is an overview of how Herb came to be, what Herb can do for you today, and what the future with ReActionView might look like and how Herb c…
speakerdeck.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Here are the slides from my @sfruby.com keynote today!
#sfruby #sfruby2025
speakerdeck.com/marcoroth/he...
#sfruby #sfruby2025
speakerdeck.com/marcoroth/he...
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
Uh oh, I have drafted some ramblings after FINALLY watching a version of this event from 2019(!!!) about the parallels between the original Star Wars and Rogue One www.oscars.org/events/galac...
(You can find copies of the livestream, and I implore you to!)
(You can find copies of the livestream, and I implore you to!)
GALACTIC INNOVATIONS: STAR WARS AND ROGUE ONE | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
www.oscars.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Uh oh, I have drafted some ramblings after FINALLY watching a version of this event from 2019(!!!) about the parallels between the original Star Wars and Rogue One www.oscars.org/events/galac...
(You can find copies of the livestream, and I implore you to!)
(You can find copies of the livestream, and I implore you to!)
What have we *really* gained in the past (almost) decade of tech?: https://microblog.thomascannon.me/2025/11/18/what-have-we-really-gained.html
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
What have we *really* gained in the past (almost) decade of tech?: https://microblog.thomascannon.me/2025/11/18/what-have-we-really-gained.html
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If Github stays down for 15 minutes, we're legally allowed to go home.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If Github stays down for 15 minutes, we're legally allowed to go home.
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Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI