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“in more concrete terms, consumers dislike ‘AI’ when it shows up in products, and it makes them actively mistrust the brands that employ it”

Great piece (as usual) by Ethan Marcotte: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

Well shoot, I have a new astrological sign: Pisces. I thought I was an Aries this whole time. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/zodiac-signs.html

A hard rebuke against Trump’s attempt to create a national deaign studio, and their inaccessible and inconsiderate initial offering: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Ok, so I recently have used a combination of Github Copilot and Anthropic Claude to take on some longstanding items on my website todo lists. And… wow. Selecting an area and typing “Do this thing here” and having it do it (quite successfully, more so on Claude’s part, btw) is simply amazing. I’m not learning anything, but I’m accomplishing a lot?

My blog posts are now all intermingling, and will all be displayed in one column now. Yes, it took me 2 years to do this.

I added an archive of all of my Twitter posts from 2012-2022 at https://www.bradbice.com/library/twitter/.

Wow, definitely never moving to Florida. What an absolute sinkhole of progression or just decent human standards. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/ron-desantis-ap-african-american-studies/index.html

Twitter has ended API access for all 3rd-party apps that exceed 100k users. The latest in petty tactics by their new petulant dictator. Mastodon is a much better place to be.

Moving to change from Swarm to Day One for all location check-ins.

Testing cross posting from my blog to other services