Easter messages from the two major presidential candidates.

A service fee of nearly *40%* the cost of the ticket is just disgusting and all ticket vendor platforms should be regulated into the ground. DOJ get on this if you’re gonna go after iMessage

Two exciting announcements for people who love design systems and want to learn more about them:

Hey Safeway I’m giving you a last chance to respond before we dig in: Your entire system of “discounts” and “specials” requires apps, taking photos, scanning and so many other things that people like my blind mother can’t possibly participate in. By your own advertisements, 1/

The audio in this video of hecklers yelling profanities at Biden during a visit to Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been manipulated. bit.ly/3wmL73J

Dear Marjorie Taylor Greene,

Go fuck yourself, you insurrectionist piece of shit!

Credit: Acyn

WTF.? Can’t get past ad on Google Tv home page.

Saul Bass, poster for Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder, 1959.

See more original Saul Bass prints in our collection: letterformarchive.org/news/saul-bass/

Seventy years ago Henry Wischmeyer, an amateur Bay Village naval architect,  drew plans for a 10 ft. utility pram.  It got launched on his 151th birthday, September 27, 2023

cabbs.org/wischmeyer-pra…

Steve Jobs had his best ideas while walking—this Stanford study explains why...

In 2014, a team of Stanford researchers examined how creativity levels were impacted by walking.

They conducted experiments with 176 participants that placed them in different situations:

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This talk is the most complete version of my thinking around Large Language Models to date, including thoughts on personal AI ethics, practical applications and the enormous impact we are already feeling from Llama 2

Video, slides, transcript & links: simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/27/wo…

If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Adobe cofounder John Warnock. He changed all our lives, and those of millions more, for the better. God bless and godspeed, sir. 🙏

👉🏼 „Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion — Adrian Roselli”
🔗 adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progre…
💬 Does what it says on the tin. Uses <details> and <summary> with a bit of ARIA to create an accordion that works without JavaScript while working better with JavaScript. Mostly.

Always kind and generous. Rest in peace, Robbie Robertson.
Robbie Robertson

BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) crews at Marvel Studios have filed for a unionization election with the National Labor Relations Board.

This signals a major shift in the VFX industry, which has been largely non-union since the 70s.

VFX WORKERS ASSEMBLE!! vfxunion.org

Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts?

zeldman.com/2023/08/04/the…

To address extreme levels of library checkouts, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified cardholders are limited to borrowing 6000 books/day
- Unverified cardholders to 600 books/day
- New unverified cardholders to 300 books/day

RIP National Geographic — a publication that with visionary leadership and ownership would’ve been an institution like the NYTimes. Disney is a disease.