Greg Robbins

I long for the day that a user interface redesign adds more visible affordances, improves contrast, and decreases reliance on indecipherable icons.

When you visit someone's home, you can just go ahead and use their microwave, their washer and dryer, their tv.

But if you want to make coffee, expect a 20 minute instructional course with an exam before you have license to proceed on your own.

DOGE is, in a very literal sense, an operation to hand all sensitive data about the U.S. government and U.S. residents to the Russians.

https://bsky.app/profile/mattjay.com/post/3ln2dgoksce2e

My fear isn't a stock crash. That's been happening in slow motion for months.

My fear isn't a recession. Given the damage the Trump administration has done across industries and to the government workforce, that's a certainty.

The big, scary thing is the undermining of trust in U.S. debt. Beyond the reckless tariffs, the huge drop in income tax revenue will put in doubt America's ability to pay its obligations. Even the lowest risk savings will lose value. Economic life will grind to a halt.

This clarion essay by former Republican activist Chris Ladd points out what politically aware Americans are realizing:

We are at the point where genuinely resisting requires more than posting online and holding signs at protests, patiently waiting for a next election that will be neither free nor fair.

https://www.politicalorphans.com/waiting-for-john-brown/

The destruction of the United States government and American society won't stop without widespread and massive protests in the streets, especially in the home areas of Republican legislators.

Delaying the protests only increases the damage.

I'm curious to learn what are the actual threats being lobbed at wealthy corporate leaders that have convinced them to corruptly support and endorse Trump.

A few of those individuals are no doubt just finally letting their latent fascism fly.

But the sudden conversion of powerful people who previously spanned a spectrum of political and ethical positions is not just coincidence.

It is apparent that nontrivial coercion has been applied. The details of the intimidation should not remain hidden.

According to tv and movies, science and engineering jobs require no work, only epiphanies.

Holds up, sadly.

America can't get better until it stops pumping free, dishonest right wing media into its veins.

I’m not sure which is more annoying, Google’s offer to summarize web pages, or trying to read those ad-choked pages directly