Tal Benisty
@talbenisty.bsky.social
Product Designer at Riverside.fm. Formerly at Circles, Nexar, Cruise, Collective Health, Cooper, Designit, and IDEO. He/Him
@coachtony.bsky.social I say this with love: is there any chance you can stop enshittifying my free articles for everyone? ❤️
PS. I’ve been using Medium since 2008, this is the first time I‘m considering hosting my own blog 🫠
PS. I’ve been using Medium since 2008, this is the first time I‘m considering hosting my own blog 🫠
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@coachtony.bsky.social I say this with love: is there any chance you can stop enshittifying my free articles for everyone? ❤️
PS. I’ve been using Medium since 2008, this is the first time I‘m considering hosting my own blog 🫠
PS. I’ve been using Medium since 2008, this is the first time I‘m considering hosting my own blog 🫠
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"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years
My personal guidelines for dealing with people on social media:
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years
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Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
Seems Whatsapp (MacOS) doesn't support :emojis (a-la-Slack) anymore, but Rocket gets the job done 👌
matthewpalmer.net/rocket/
matthewpalmer.net/rocket/
Rocket – the best emoji app for Mac
Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.
matthewpalmer.net
October 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Seems Whatsapp (MacOS) doesn't support :emojis (a-la-Slack) anymore, but Rocket gets the job done 👌
matthewpalmer.net/rocket/
matthewpalmer.net/rocket/
“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net
October 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
If you liked Transparent, or Cooper Raiff's previous works, watch Hal & Harper asap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...
HAL & HARPER | Official Trailer | On MUBI Oct 19
YouTube video by MUBI
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If you liked Transparent, or Cooper Raiff's previous works, watch Hal & Harper asap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...
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Decoder is up for a Signal award for best business podcast! Vote vote vote please vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
vote.signalaward.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Decoder is up for a Signal award for best business podcast! Vote vote vote please vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.
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❝
The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
❞
The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
❞
The 5 Blows to the Human Ego
Donna Haraway, one of my favorite professors from my time at UCSC, came up with a list of the four major blows to the human ego: ideas which caught on, undermined our supposed central place in the uni...
www.dbreunig.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
❝
The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
❞
The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
❞
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Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Thought you'd enjoy this.
Paging @bomberstudios.com and @miniver.bsky.social
A collection of Thinking Things
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com/100-special-...
A collection of Thinking Things
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com/100-special-...
№ 100 | ✨Special Edition:✨ A Look Back at 99 Issues of Thinking Things
Welcome to a rare clip show edition of the Thinking Things newsletter. You can read my rambling preamble, or skip down to this special super-charged selection of thinking things!
One reason I maintai...
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Paging @bomberstudios.com and @miniver.bsky.social
A collection of Thinking Things
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com/100-special-...
A collection of Thinking Things
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com/100-special-...
They don’t post like this on Twitter anymore 👌
This thread gets me.
This thread gets me.
some 2fa codes just feel right and some just feel wrong
603868? right
544517? wrong
603868? right
544517? wrong
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
They don’t post like this on Twitter anymore 👌
This thread gets me.
This thread gets me.
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❝
Calmly point out that the statement seems counterproductive and explain why.
Ask for evidence of serious accusations.
Call them out. Establish a norm of not putting up with that shit.
Block them.
❞
Calmly point out that the statement seems counterproductive and explain why.
Ask for evidence of serious accusations.
Call them out. Establish a norm of not putting up with that shit.
Block them.
❞
Gonna unpaywall and repost this for no particular reason
COINTELPRO-Style Behavior
What It Is, How To Recognize It, What To Do When You See It
www.bannedinyourstate.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Calmly point out that the statement seems counterproductive and explain why.
Ask for evidence of serious accusations.
Call them out. Establish a norm of not putting up with that shit.
Block them.
❞
Calmly point out that the statement seems counterproductive and explain why.
Ask for evidence of serious accusations.
Call them out. Establish a norm of not putting up with that shit.
Block them.
❞
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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won’t somebody think of the childrennnn
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
won’t somebody think of the childrennnn
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NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza.
Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.
A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.
A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
July 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza.
Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.
A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.
A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
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As Israeli mainstream TV ignores Gazans’ suffering, these outlets expose surveillance, brutality and war crimes
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/israeli...
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/israeli...
As Israeli mainstream TV ignores Gazans’ suffering, these outlets expose surveillance, brutality and war crimes
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict for a reluctant audience.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As Israeli mainstream TV ignores Gazans’ suffering, these outlets expose surveillance, brutality and war crimes
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/israeli...
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/israeli...
