Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
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Over-empowered superstars can promote groupthink just as much or even WORSE than an on-average lower-skilled collective (!!!) because in a cutthroat kind of hero culture people glom onto and mindlessly follow the superstars
One of the costs that only emerges when you look beyond individuals
One of the costs that only emerges when you look beyond individuals
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Over-empowered superstars can promote groupthink just as much or even WORSE than an on-average lower-skilled collective (!!!) because in a cutthroat kind of hero culture people glom onto and mindlessly follow the superstars
One of the costs that only emerges when you look beyond individuals
One of the costs that only emerges when you look beyond individuals
Me in school: the two things I hate most are homework, and presentations
Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation
Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Me in school: the two things I hate most are homework, and presentations
Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation
Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation
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The way capitalism backs us into a corner where we start to see scale and speed as goals is so depressing
I'm going to win.
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The way capitalism backs us into a corner where we start to see scale and speed as goals is so depressing
99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.
The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.
When the apocalypse came, their stockpiled guns and gasoline didn't save the preppers. Desperate, they roam the wasteland for one thing everyone now treasures most: the twist ties I saved from every product I bought in the past 20 years.
February 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
When the apocalypse came, their stockpiled guns and gasoline didn't save the preppers. Desperate, they roam the wasteland for one thing everyone now treasures most: the twist ties I saved from every product I bought in the past 20 years.
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Does anyone have a recipe similar to the bakpo galbi from Lim Seong-geun and Brewmaster Yun on Culinary Class Wars?
I must make this:
youtu.be/JzjQ9PIaJJU?...
I must make this:
youtu.be/JzjQ9PIaJJU?...
흑백요리사2 하이라이트｜임성근 X 술 빚는 윤주모｜박포갈비와 무생채 쌈
YouTube video by 토디 TODI
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Does anyone have a recipe similar to the bakpo galbi from Lim Seong-geun and Brewmaster Yun on Culinary Class Wars?
I must make this:
youtu.be/JzjQ9PIaJJU?...
I must make this:
youtu.be/JzjQ9PIaJJU?...
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you say 'new on my substack' and I say www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
you say 'new on my substack' and I say www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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I don't know, but when the time comes, I will make one of those fuckers.
Tonight at dinner, my daughter asked if there were flagpole extenders for people to fly the flag at double mast when someone passes and everyone celebrates instead of mourning.
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I don't know, but when the time comes, I will make one of those fuckers.
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I use this as well github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
GitHub - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist: Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI
Filter list for uBlock Origin to block website features that use Generative AI - Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist
github.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I use this as well github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
A lot of very inspiring replies. unfortunately mine is this
February 8, 2026 at 4:10 AM
A lot of very inspiring replies. unfortunately mine is this
Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision
He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision
I saw at least one for gambling on medical debt, and several for AI doctors, but surprisingly no AI gambling yet
ads are so depressing now: its all just for medicine, gambling and AI
February 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I saw at least one for gambling on medical debt, and several for AI doctors, but surprisingly no AI gambling yet
"greatest thing than sliced bread" is a capitalist slogan. Factory-sliced bread is preventing you from living the life of a god: cutting a loaf the long way to make a mightier sandwich.
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 AM
"greatest thing than sliced bread" is a capitalist slogan. Factory-sliced bread is preventing you from living the life of a god: cutting a loaf the long way to make a mightier sandwich.
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Good morning from the harbor seal factory!
We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!
Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.
Get em started young!
#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑
We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!
Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.
Get em started young!
#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Good morning from the harbor seal factory!
We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!
Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.
Get em started young!
#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑
We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!
Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.
Get em started young!
#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑
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If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Check the words. Check the time stamps.
Fucking clown shit.
Fucking clown shit.
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
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Me: why does that name seem famili-
Ohhhhhh wait the guty who kept stealing my threads across multiple platforms. Then got angry when he got publicly called out for it and claimed he was "doing me a favour". Yeah fuck that guy. 😆
Ohhhhhh wait the guty who kept stealing my threads across multiple platforms. Then got angry when he got publicly called out for it and claimed he was "doing me a favour". Yeah fuck that guy. 😆
If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Please unfollow him and do not repost.
Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Check the words. Check the time stamps.
Fucking clown shit.
Fucking clown shit.
February 8, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Me: why does that name seem famili-
Ohhhhhh wait the guty who kept stealing my threads across multiple platforms. Then got angry when he got publicly called out for it and claimed he was "doing me a favour". Yeah fuck that guy. 😆
Ohhhhhh wait the guty who kept stealing my threads across multiple platforms. Then got angry when he got publicly called out for it and claimed he was "doing me a favour". Yeah fuck that guy. 😆
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OMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao
September 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM
OMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao
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If there's a point to this thread, it's this: cherish the ridiculous, expansive dreamers in your life. They illuminate the world. Warm yourself in the glow they cast and never discount the value of imagining something stupidly impossible together. The alternative - not having them - is worse.
February 8, 2026 at 1:18 AM
If there's a point to this thread, it's this: cherish the ridiculous, expansive dreamers in your life. They illuminate the world. Warm yourself in the glow they cast and never discount the value of imagining something stupidly impossible together. The alternative - not having them - is worse.
Unfortunately my kitchenaid is too big to properly stir dough for 1 loaf of bread, and I must suffer the misfortune of making two
February 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Unfortunately my kitchenaid is too big to properly stir dough for 1 loaf of bread, and I must suffer the misfortune of making two
m-dash? You must be joking. This is a w-dash.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
m-dash? You must be joking. This is a w-dash.
"Friction is where the heat comes from. Friction is where the life is."
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
"Friction is where the heat comes from. Friction is where the life is."
The power of the placebo effect is that even though the brooms don't do anything, the stones still slide further because they *think* they do
The dirty secret of curling that no one involved in the sport will admit is that the broom doesn’t do anything
February 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The power of the placebo effect is that even though the brooms don't do anything, the stones still slide further because they *think* they do
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Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...
phys.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.