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if you're the sort of person that tends to be aware of their surroundings and other people, while walking around, you really are doing an important civic duty

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 17h

oh cool, I actually didn't know you could still retrieve your data via API even from a nuked account!

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 22h

That feels difficult to communicate given that most people's accounts are hosted by Bluesky, who still have power over all your data and can take it away from you on a whim. If anything, atproto used wrong just puts all your eggs in a single basket with all the same issues as before.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 22h

If the general population had that kind of media literacy, engagement bait wouldn't be a thing in the first place

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 07/10/2026

Speaking as someone who uses AI for coding daily… models absolutely solve problems. That doesn’t imply models have any kind of actual thought or intelligence - they don’t. But they do solve problems, often very well and with very little human direction.

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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 06/10/2026

Claude give me the Vyvanse and estrogen make no mistakes do a breakthrough can u throw a little coke in too

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 05/10/2026

For me those 2 things are very different. CSS-in-JS is a terrible bodge for people who feel the need to have all their code for a component in a single file. CSS modules is just normal CSS compiled to a normal CSS file that gets its class names automatically scoped to a component.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 05/10/2026

It’s hard to comprehend how a professional platform like GitHub ever started using CSS-in-JS at scale in the first place

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 04/10/2026

The self-destruction of the RayBan brand is fascinating. Wayfarers are history's most iconic sunglasses and probably the easiest way for anyone to look a little cooler, in any context. Now you get to look like a dork and a sex pest AT THE SAME TIME. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns

One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ...

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 04/10/2026

I’m cautiously optimistic that Apple finally has a product guy in charge again!

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 01/10/2026

As a user I love having my Mac in light mode 24/7 but I also love that many apps and websites let me individually toggle them into dark mode, and I often do. Flexibility is great!

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, no shit. Several times daily at this point. Unprecedented time of productivity.

TechCrunch article called Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 20/09/2026

There's lots I haven't yet understood about atproto, but I simply won't do the standard.site thing whilst it offers a worse UX than… not doing it.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 10/09/2026

I’m calling it now: the iPhone Duo isn’t going to sell particularly well. It might even flop. I think the target market is less than an iPhone Mini tbh. That doesn’t necessarily mean day 1 pre-orders won’t be high though.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 10/09/2026

This icon is simultaneously very cool and clever, and a bit of an eyesore to have permanently on-screen

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 10/09/2026

This looks like developer hell. Good luck out there 🫡 #Apple #iPhoneDuo

A montage of all the different orientations and layouts available on the new folding iPhone Duo

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 09/09/2026

Ok, what is the point then? Mine is that AI produces whatever the most common patterns are in its training data, which is essentially whatever’s been trending in the recent past, and that instantly dismissing any website that simply follows recent trends is just a bit silly really.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 09/09/2026

This is true of many things tbh

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eliza hamilton @eliza.vg · 08/09/2026

i think the idea that there will be this market for "artisanal" hand-written code like that of like; hand-sculpted woodworking, is plainly laughable.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 28/08/2026

Damn, so now we’re not allowed to use purple, orange or beige? We’re gonna be running out of colours we can use soon 😢

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 27/08/2026

Where do you think Claude learnt to do that? UI design was converging on a pretty narrow set of standards and conventions that work and convert long before gen AI came along. Claude just does what’s most common amongst the real world data it was trained on.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 21/08/2026

Scrolling is janky with any non-Apple mouse, but when I used an MX 3 it turned out that installing and setting up the Logitech options app made it a lot better. I resent that I have to run a background app just to use a mouse though.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 21/08/2026

Looks great! I don’t love those kind of tabs though. You can never see all the options at once, and I end up rarely using things that I have to scroll through sideways. It would be nice to be able to open up something to see all the options at once, and to be able to reorder them.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 20/08/2026

People who passionately love AI and people who passionately hate AI are equally weird and deluded to me. Its just a tool, and a very diverse one at that.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 20/08/2026

I still have nightmares about when Figma had all those rounded floating tool palettes for a while

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 19/08/2026

it was cute when Arc did it but your app definitely shouldn't be adding cutesy rounded borders around the entire app.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 19/08/2026

Unless they're fixing a bug, any kind of downloaded app or extension should be restricted to 1 update a week max

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 16/08/2026

Also I’m both pro tech and pro regulation, so the split you mention doesn’t make much sense to me personally

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 16/08/2026

I always assumed a utopian world for most people is one where nobody ever needs to work again. I don’t think we achieve that without AI. But we do need to overcome the rapid concentration of wealth and power that AI is contributing towards.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

interesting and rare twitter post by dario amodei xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/...

I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it. I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is *actually curing cancer*. I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 14/08/2026

Main takeaway from this government alert is that we need both a loud alert system and a *silent* alert system

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

ft.com

How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 14/08/2026

For me it's Sonnet 5. It does everything I ask of it pretty much flawlessly. I barely touch the higher models now.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 13/08/2026

That implies there’s no such thing as good or bad design, which is objectively not true. It’s entirely possible for redesigns to be worse than their predecessors, or to make things worse for some people’s use cases even if they’re better for the majority.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 13/08/2026

Meta achieves roaring success by spamming their feeds with endless streams of inane brainrot drivel engagement bait. Bluesky shouldn’t be aspiring to that. Growth at all costs is a capitalist hellscape. It’s actually fine to just coast along.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 13/08/2026

Huh… this might be the first Bond casting rumour I could actually get behind 👏

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 13/08/2026

The author says they went to the hospital with flu because AI told them to. Whatever the healthy balance is between using AI and thinking for yourself, it isn't that 😅

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 13/08/2026

The Ricky Gervais subreddit is brilliant, because everyone there can (and does) quote from everything he’s ever done, but they also universally agree that he’s now a complete bellend, and probably always was.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 11/08/2026

Damn, we haven't even made it out of beta yet and Apple already replaced the cool new Siri icon with a grey blob 😢

Before and after of the Siri app icon in different iOS 27 betas

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 11/08/2026

If they are going to be there though, they at least need to open some sort of confirmation dialog that explains what you’re subscribing to, and to avoid accidentally subscribing to stuff

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 11/08/2026

Call me crazy but I don’t want to see subscribe buttons in my feed

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 10/08/2026

If nobody had to work any more, I expect we’d value things like health and fitness, sports, games, cooking, creative arts, music, travel, and just spending time with other people. All of the things people already do for hobbies and self care, just more of it without work getting in the way.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 10/08/2026

Maybe “significant new products” isn’t where we’re headed, and “more niche bespoke products tailored to their users” is the actual outcome? I largely agree with you BTW. I just think framing things from a traditional capitalist mindset is a narrow way of looking at the potential for change.

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P(D(aisy)) @her.toy.cybernetic.gay · 09/08/2026

This is why we don't send kids to school to train them on previous writing, images, audio, etc. It would be mathematically impossible for them to produce original information.

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Alex @chromaticnova.com · 09/08/2026

Nobody *wants* poor quality things. They want value for money. Today’s “free market” does not gravitate towards value for money, it gravitates towards the opposite - value for shareholders, and few companies left selling decent stuff for a decent price even if you want it.

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