I’ve written about this a few times, like this one from https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/ but I think you’ve summed it up perfectly

Nothing could make this more evident than the crypto/web3 community’s obsession with “mass adoption” which they generally resolve to being a UX problem. They know that the complexity of crypto is intimidating to non-technical people (crimes and scams aside) so they relentlessly try to remove as much of the complexity as possible.

The unfortunate thing about removing complexity is that you never remove it, but rather, you move it to another place. The other place is always what crypto people like to call a “trusted third party” the very thing that Bitcoin, was created to eliminate.

There is a thing in crypto called “ux/acc” which, from what I can fathom, is a new way to avoid thinking about why it isn’t being adopted

death of another gateway drug to digital creativity

FYI this led to me watching the movie last night

sounds bad! hope all is ok

The project, internally named Cosmos (but different from the company’s existing Cosmos deep learning product)

these people are a creativity vacuum

the keymasters

can we pin this one?

can it be both?

I love how the time factor is always ignored when tech companies eventually comply with regulation or just do the right thing. “at least they did it” isn’t an argument, it’s a consolation.

It took airbnb over a year(!) to show all the fees up front on the search results page instead of waiting to show them on the checkout page. That’s over a year after their asshat CEO announced on twitter that they would be doing it (to quell the social media uproar about how deceptive it was)

you’ve got to say more than that

if my product was labelled “general purpose” I’d consider that a slur

that’s a linkedin-level take

It’s like how can we make a depressing tamagotchi?

Thing that sucks about this, despite how stupid a “forever” mouse concept is (that isn’t a project with titanium and replaceable parts) is that this is normal in the software realm. But the grift is so easily observable and absurd when it’s applied to hardware. It’s normal operations for SaaS. It’s what SaaS is.

I might use this in the future (with credit, of course)

SAP seems to have implemented the AI functionality by just sloppily bolting it on the side

“the side” here really gives the rest of SAP too much credit

endorsed by Proton’s llm guy - on his alt with 38 followers but not on his proton-linked account with 660 followers.

they are fun to read, too. Also clearly helpful for the high tempo you’re getting them out

I appreciate you guize’s abilities to write such short snappy reports that are full of references and snark.

Also, fuck upwork.