“One small thing designers and developers can do is to make accessibility and usability Job 1 on every project. And to take a broad view of what that means. It means taking people’s messy humanity into account and designing for extreme ends of the bell curve.” #BlueBeanieDay is 30 November.
Knowbility
Blue Beanie Day 2022 — Knowbility
A brief salute to the meaning of blue beanie day.
“If it was anybody else, we would arrest him tomorrow.”
MS NOW
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization ...
The party of Lincoln cheers as masked vigilantes who can’t pass an open-book test aim guns at pregnant women, an alcoholic TV host murders unarmed fishermen while lecturing the US military on “manhood,” and the GOP keeps the government shut down to keep the content of the Epstein files a delightful secret.
Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.
the Guardian
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittificati...
 #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software
See whose work tech companies are using to train their generative-AI models. Search for authors, YouTube channels and creators, or screenwriters. Here are nine books I worked on that were used to train LLMs:
The Atlantic
AI Watchdog - The Atlantic
The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update.

Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025
 #webstandards #html #css
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany.
the Guardian
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Abraham Lincoln image
Internet Explorer 3, released one day and 29 years ago, was the first browser to (however partially and imperfectly) support the then-new language of CSS. 

 Who else remembers the CSS showcase Microsoft published that year? For me, it changed everything.
Listen up, designers. Travel the globe across 5,000 years of history via 490,000+ high-res works of art — all of them free for you to use, courtesy of the NY Met.
The Met Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Travel around the world and across 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art.
 #highres #art #downloads #free