Andrew Hinton 😷🧡
@andrewhinton.bsky.social
“Lacks self control”
- Mrs Duncan (2nd grade)
Product Design + IA + UX etc etc
Love your neighbor as you want to be loved.
Everyone is your neighbor.
Web: andrewhinton.com
Book: contextbook.com
Mastodon: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton
#ND #ADHD
- Mrs Duncan (2nd grade)
Product Design + IA + UX etc etc
Love your neighbor as you want to be loved.
Everyone is your neighbor.
Web: andrewhinton.com
Book: contextbook.com
Mastodon: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton
#ND #ADHD
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Of course it’s airborne.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Of course it’s airborne.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
This rejection of airborne pathogens reads like reactionary, emotional objections to the concept of miasma. That because miasma said infections were airborne, and miasma was wrong, infections must definitionally be not airborne. Which is not true.
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I read those articles too. Unfortunately, the embedded droplet theory steamrolled right over them as soon as they were printed. It feels like we witnessed industrial scale gaslighting in real time.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I read those articles too. Unfortunately, the embedded droplet theory steamrolled right over them as soon as they were printed. It feels like we witnessed industrial scale gaslighting in real time.
If you ever facilitate any sort of workshop or collaboration or hope to, read Austin’s book.
(This is the one where I spelled workshop as “worship” which I’m sure Austin could do just fine as well)
(This is the one where I spelled workshop as “worship” which I’m sure Austin could do just fine as well)
I got some nice workshop feedback: "...Everyone talked about how impressed they were by how much we had accomplished. Thank you for all of the thoughtfulness and creativity you put into designing our session and creating the right conditions for our team to have such a positive experience."
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you ever facilitate any sort of workshop or collaboration or hope to, read Austin’s book.
(This is the one where I spelled workshop as “worship” which I’m sure Austin could do just fine as well)
(This is the one where I spelled workshop as “worship” which I’m sure Austin could do just fine as well)
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The Lab Battery’s Tale~ more concept designs for @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN! In early 2022 before production started I worked with Guillermo on keyframes & designs including the lab and battery towers! The approved designs stuck from the early phase and would carry over to the final film.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Lab Battery’s Tale~ more concept designs for @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN! In early 2022 before production started I worked with Guillermo on keyframes & designs including the lab and battery towers! The approved designs stuck from the early phase and would carry over to the final film.
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The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
www.mulebooks.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
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This 1908 extravaganza simply could not earn back its budget and L. Frank Baum was forced to sell rights to the stories to the Selig company, which produced the first true standalone Oz film, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, in 1910. Bebe Daniels likely played Dorothy.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This 1908 extravaganza simply could not earn back its budget and L. Frank Baum was forced to sell rights to the stories to the Selig company, which produced the first true standalone Oz film, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, in 1910. Bebe Daniels likely played Dorothy.
“When enabled, Windows will create local user accounts for different Al agents, which will have access to your personal user folder.”
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This is fine.
“…the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications," …”
- means that if it causes harm it’s on you and they absolve themselves of responsibility.
To quote the year 1998:
“All your base are belong to us”
“…the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications," …”
- means that if it causes harm it’s on you and they absolve themselves of responsibility.
To quote the year 1998:
“All your base are belong to us”
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“When enabled, Windows will create local user accounts for different Al agents, which will have access to your personal user folder.”
😳
😳
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AI summaries at the top of—or in place of—search results are just a total mess. Useless summaries clouding access to the links I'm looking for.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
AI summaries at the top of—or in place of—search results are just a total mess. Useless summaries clouding access to the links I'm looking for.
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From 18F alum @matthenry.fyi: "If [sites like America By Design] are any indication of what was coming down the pike as the future of government websites, it's a bad sign for the people who have to build and maintain those sites, it's a bad sign for USWDS, and it's a bad sign for you as a user ... "
That’s a wrap on my federal service. I wrote about my time in gov, and how it ended. matthenry.fyi/posts/moving... 1/
Mischief & Craft - Moving On
Thoughts at the end of a really bad, horrible, no good year.
matthenry.fyi
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
From 18F alum @matthenry.fyi: "If [sites like America By Design] are any indication of what was coming down the pike as the future of government websites, it's a bad sign for the people who have to build and maintain those sites, it's a bad sign for USWDS, and it's a bad sign for you as a user ... "
Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
Rep. Clay Higgins’ racist tweet is only the tip of the iceberg
His record includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one his three ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
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A lot of people realizing that actually this won't be a thousand-year reich
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A lot of people realizing that actually this won't be a thousand-year reich
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I actually think it's really funny when transphobes tell me to kms because that's such a typical right-winger thing: immediately asking someone else to do all the actual work
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Post Editorial Board — not just one columnist.
Given Bezos’ heavy thumb, this feels like a turn of sorts too.
Given Bezos’ heavy thumb, this feels like a turn of sorts too.
Washington Post editorial about Trump's comments today: "These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president."
Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Post Editorial Board — not just one columnist.
Given Bezos’ heavy thumb, this feels like a turn of sorts too.
Given Bezos’ heavy thumb, this feels like a turn of sorts too.
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
I’m starting to think the dam might actually be breaking.
Not that it will stop Miller, Vought, Bondi, et al from escalating cruel havoc, but the stink seems like it isn’t going away anytime soon
Not that it will stop Miller, Vought, Bondi, et al from escalating cruel havoc, but the stink seems like it isn’t going away anytime soon
NEW: Court blocks Texas's mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame.
"DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Law Dork:
"DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Law Dork:
Court blocks Texas's mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame
"DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.
www.lawdork.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’m starting to think the dam might actually be breaking.
Not that it will stop Miller, Vought, Bondi, et al from escalating cruel havoc, but the stink seems like it isn’t going away anytime soon
Not that it will stop Miller, Vought, Bondi, et al from escalating cruel havoc, but the stink seems like it isn’t going away anytime soon
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I hope and will do my best to make the most ridiculous part of the Trump story was the first eleven months of 2025, when the biggest chickens alive were lining up to dump cash in Donald Trump's lap committing some of the most obvious bribery in the history of the planet.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I hope and will do my best to make the most ridiculous part of the Trump story was the first eleven months of 2025, when the biggest chickens alive were lining up to dump cash in Donald Trump's lap committing some of the most obvious bribery in the history of the planet.
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*Every single* institution, organization, and individual who caved into Trump already looks worse for having done so.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now!
Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.
Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.
Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
*Every single* institution, organization, and individual who caved into Trump already looks worse for having done so.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
And every one that stood up continues to look better.
The religion of “shareholder value through infinite growth” serves as a moral workaround — whatever means gets to that end is justified
/4 Anyway, the notion we should be surprised when big corporations do overtly corrupt things is quaint, because megacorps do not acknowledge or understand things like moral or civic responsibility or good citizenship.
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The religion of “shareholder value through infinite growth” serves as a moral workaround — whatever means gets to that end is justified
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A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats
Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
www.thenerdreich.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
screw this I'm switching to Floudclare
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
screw this I'm switching to Floudclare
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it's easy to say "ah, you didn't give your agents good feedback loops" or "you should've broken down tasks more granularly" but producing plausible communication artifacts IS what an llm does; constructing the meaning that underlies those communication artifacts is NOT what an llm does.
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
Carolina Migrant Network – Representing Immigrants in Removal Proceedings
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
Last night I spent over an hour trying to find where to turn off auto-brightness on my Windows 11 laptop.
Could not find it. Could not find an answer online that reflected my situation— and there are so many different answers!
Just one design failure after another in this craptastic OS.
Could not find it. Could not find an answer online that reflected my situation— and there are so many different answers!
Just one design failure after another in this craptastic OS.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Last night I spent over an hour trying to find where to turn off auto-brightness on my Windows 11 laptop.
Could not find it. Could not find an answer online that reflected my situation— and there are so many different answers!
Just one design failure after another in this craptastic OS.
Could not find it. Could not find an answer online that reflected my situation— and there are so many different answers!
Just one design failure after another in this craptastic OS.