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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 22/09/2026

please explain why this image looks like it's from 2005

a photo of Apple CEO, John Ternus, holding an iphone

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 16/09/2026

“trustless economy” “no need for a trusted third-party” same guys:

OpenAI boss says world ‘right to be afraid’ but should trust AI firms. Sam Altman and other tech CEOs say there are incentives to limit advancements in AI, as fears grow over the threats it poses to humanity.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 07/09/2026

stop making more e-waste to make your current e-waste do less challenge

screenshot from a website for a smartphone-dumbing device: "The physical device that puts you back in control. Tap to disconnect from distractions and take back control of your time. No overrides or workarounds, just uninterrupted time until you’re ready to reconnect."

there is a photo of a smartphone with a square puck device on a surface underneath it

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 30/08/2026

I love when a software product can just say “here’s what it does, now fuck off and have fun”

Screenshot of top section of syncplay.pl website shows all the info you need to know about the software. “Syncplay keeps your media players in sync so you can watch videos with your friends” a list of compatible platforms, players, and supported languages. Done.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 30/07/2026

this is not what "Tell us why" means, youtube

screenshot of youtube dialog window:

Tell us why

- I've already watched this video
- I don't like the video

buttons: Cancel, Submit

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19/07/2026

🔗 🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/phil...

crop of andrew tate's bare ankles and loafers

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 14/07/2026

always blame the computer dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

One observation made during those tests later proved to be a key idea. A lay person trying a system for the first time is probably feeling pretty stupid and thinks that any mistake is his or her own. His inclination is not to tell you what is difficult because he thinks it is his problem. It is important to keep emphasizing that if he is hav~ng a problem, it is not his but the computer's. If you get into a car, turn the wheel, and it steers about twice as far as you expect, it is not that you are an incompetent driver, it's because the car has oversteer.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 23/06/2026

hot take (may be seasonal): The New Abnormal is The Strokes best album album. It's the most interesting lyrically, melodically, and percussionically

Cover art for The Strokes 2020 album The New Abnormal with Jean-Michel Basquiat art work Bird On Money

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 18/06/2026

why did tabs become detached from the page they represent?

screenshot of a firefox tab which looks like a self-contained button with text "New Tab" and underneath there is the search bar for the page it represents. They don't connect to each other.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 17/06/2026

such a good album, beginning to end

cover art for The Horrors album V. Shows an image of a silicon moulded ball of mushed together faces.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 08/06/2026

> we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community is a weird way to say you fucking hate nazis

Proton_Team posts on reddit: " You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance. "

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 25/05/2026

Mark Zuckerberg providing a great demonstration of anti-design here (from mastodon: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11663...)

@jonny@neuromatch.social posts on mastodon: "Zuck, 2026 Q1 earnings call: "our plan is to make an AI that's really good at shopping" with an image of text which reads "But I don’t hear any other labs out there talking about how they’re building an AI that’s really good at shopping. And I think that the reason for that is like not because shopping is the most important thing by itself, but because like empowering people to do the things that matter in their lives, whether that’s local or understanding social context, or shopping or personal health things or understanding what’s going on around them visually which is going to be really important on the glasses. These are all elements of the personal super intelligence vision."

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 22/05/2026

it's funny that they actually give it a min-height based on your viewport to ensure it pushes the useful results below the fold even if the ai summary is a null response like this

screenshot of google search results page on the "all" tab with "ignore" in the search box and a shit ai overview saying "Understood: disregard the previous input" followed by a dark void of nothing

firefox inspector open on same page showing the ai summary container element has been given a min-height of 633px, a javascript measured dimension based on the viewport height

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 06/05/2026

found a scrivener draft from 2019 and I've been banging on about the same shit for too long

The problem with potential is that there is no guarantee of anything to back it. The maker of a potentialful product benefits by avoiding any public assertion of a concrete purpose for it. We’re left with digital things that bombard us with properties that distract us from existing specialised products that do exactly what we need or from the fact that those specialised products don’t exist, despite their being a discernible need for them.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 01/05/2026

hi, i'm steve, welcome to my ted talk

photo of me with a microphone in hand talking to a sparse captive audience.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/04/2026

PSA if you are still holding off from liquid glass on your iphone, you have to scroll from outside of the liquid glass upgrade section to get to the hidden minor update below

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19/04/2026

All of the offered use cases (see bsky.app/profile/fast...) are uncompelling, unfocused, and inferior to existing devices that do not go on your face, while meta is not accountable for any use cases found by people using the device. 3/x

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19/04/2026

on macos sequoia spotlight still just does not work

screenshot of the macos spotlight dialog with "whatsapp" written fully into the search field and the only result is for a firefox web search

screenshot of the macos launchpad interface showing "whats" in the search input and the whatsapp app icon displayed below

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 18/04/2026

a while back, when React was growing its roots into the front-end web ecosystem, there was this seminal article "The Great Divide" which inadvertently illustrated the tension between those who cared about what they were making and those that didn't (archive.is/vliMl)

On one side, an army of developers whose interests, responsibilities, and skill sets are heavily revolved around JavaScript.
On the other, an army of developers whose interests, responsibilities, and skill sets are focused on other areas of the front end, like HTML, CSS, design, interaction, patterns, accessibility, etc.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 16/04/2026

Palmer Luckey's full name sounds like three different cigarette brands

Wikipedia entry screenshot for Palmer Luckey: Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992)

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 15/04/2026

it gives me Citroen C6 vibes.

front quarter photo of a black Citroen C6 with similar downward sweeping front-to-back lines

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