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Steve Farrugia

@fasterandworse.com

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Experienced user Australian In Amsterdam I talk about product design and I'm quite critical open to work, open to talks Words: https://fasterandworse.com Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 15d

Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...

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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 17m

that's a really bad list, sorry to hear that. I have a few small things which I suspect were caused by/residual

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 26m

yeah I don't think i'd be able to go if there were a lot of people in the room

I had a tough bout of LC as well

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 32m

every time I've been to cinemas here I've been almost alone in that room. That plus reclining seats makes it a good deal.

I will report back

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 4h

Poster for THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)

Poster features a painting of a screeching, yellow-eyed woman with an exposed brain. The tagline says: "CRAWLING, SLIMY THINGS TERROR-BENT ON DESTROYING THE WORLD!".

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 45m

I have a ticket to watch it tomorrow, so I guess it's a hate watch

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 1h

About to activate my 3 free months of Health+ so I can get in on the eventual class action lawsuit

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”

Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more

Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.

www.cultofmac.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2h

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 2h

ELI5 UX design

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Dystopia now comes with a Halloween costume.

Ring puts a fun twist on the surveillance state with security camera Halloween costumes.

Amazon now sells its new $200 4K Outdoor Cam Pro with your choice of one of five free Halloween camera costumes, or you can 3D print your own. Sticking a camouflaged camera behind your bowl could be a...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Future iterations have cameras. (I wish i didn’t know this) 9to5mac.com/2025/03/09/a...

Apple is 'actively developing' AirPods with cameras - 9to5Mac

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is ‘actively developing’ a version of AirPods with integrated cameras. This tech is unlikely...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”

Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more

Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.

www.cultofmac.com

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 2h

i did not know airpods were data collectors

“The enhanced Health app will continue gathering data from Apple devices like iPhone, Apple Watch, earbuds and compatible third-party products,” Cult of Mac reported in March. “But you can expect a crucial difference. The AI coach will analyze the information to provide personalized health-improvement recommendations.”

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 3h

ah yes, the rote task "cooking dinner"

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 3h

just call it "Volume 1"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Think I may have to add a chapter. #LuxurySurveillance

“For humans, the money isn't half-bad — as long as you're willing to wear a pair of Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to record yourself doing things like folding clothes on a table.”

You can now get paid to fold your laundry, as long as you're willing to film it

AI startups are paying people to film themselves doing chores so robots can learn. Find out how much you could earn and why demand is booming.

www.businessinsider.com

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zer0point @zer0point-vids.bsky.social · 6h

every discussion i see on here that bears on banning gen ai in some fashion includes a code-is-speech guy who is like “good luck when anybody can run a model at home lol” and im like go for it. all 7 of you. ai would be relegated to a hobby on the level of say 3d printing

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 4h

SciShow Deleted the Knitting Video

YouTube video by Lucy Liang📎

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

AI advocates, to a person, are literally unable to tell good from bad. When you say you can, they think you're *lying*.

Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 1d

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 7h

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 10h

a banger morning at @webdevconf.com so far

@strange.website spitting truth bars right here

Henry on stage with a slide that says social media apps are a fucken prison

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 23h

OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Siri-alike has compute problems

‘a friend who’s a computer who isn’t your weird AI girlfriend’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMq... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251009-ope... - podcast

time: 3 min 38 sec

Jony Ive and Sam Altman in black and white

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 21h

blockchains really did a number on people struggling with the idea that the real world isn't digital

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 1d

I like hearing these stories

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Lich 𐃥 @adjectivalnoun.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was 2007 I was in a short term rental office across from a fashion events planner and still clearly remember her voice saying “It‘s got to be all flash. Html is historic.”

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 1d

the "Expression Suite" haha

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...

Microsoft Blend - Wikipedia

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 1d

Oh I think that was part of the silverlight toolkit, like a UI design thing that could output as silverlight

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