Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026Does anyone at Apple actually use macOS as their OS? There are painfully obvious UX bugs that happen in the most common apps. Messages: resizing the open chat list is wonky as hell. Sometime the drag widget interaction to collapse the list from Icon+Name+Summary to just Icon does not work at all. 000
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/09/2026There’s way too much music released each week for me to have heard of or know what Choosin’ Texas is. This isn’t a flex, it is an acknowledgment that there are entirely genres of music I know diddly about because the genres I’m into have an overwhelming amount of music in them already. 250
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/09/2026The ice coffee discourse is really making me re-reflect on @dansinker.com's dansinker.com/posts/2026-0... I think that "everyone/everything social media as a product" has run its course. It is not functioning or working well for anyone anymore.dansinker.com What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 23/09/2026@schweigbskysocial.bsky.social probably crossed your radar but wargames as... human resources promotion management tool (?) are now a thing: www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...militarytimes.comPentagon adds new ‘warfighter’ evaluation for officers seeking first starSecretary Hegseth announced Tuesday that colonels and captains seeking promotions will undergo a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation. 122
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 22/09/2026Your local city officials need to try walking around the schools in their district at arrival and dismissal time. Have them explain to you why the behaviors people driving cars around kids walking, cycling, and scooting are ok. Every time I do this I see adults making the most batshit decisions. 130
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 21/09/2026@lastweektonight.com just wanted to say i'm going to miss this show when the Paramount merger is complete. 000
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 15/09/2026What the heck are these Messages replies in macOS 27? I have Siri disabled and something is still reading my Messages conversations and suggesting things I should reply to folks. This is not like word-level autocomplete, it is chatbot nonsense. I guess I have to revoke Siri privileges per-app now? 100
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 09/09/2026My middle schooler was given an assignment to talk to an OpenAI chatbot about “its science experiment.” She was furious and wrote an email to her teacher asking to be given an alternative assignment on ethical grounds. Are school districts ready for kids to nope out of GenAI? 121
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 07/09/2026I'm not quote posting this because I'm not really interested in the AI coding conversation. What caught my interest was the car-centric viewpoint. 140
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 03/09/2026@voxparlour.bsky.social have you ever thought about doing a livestream about designing games? Example: I'd love to hear your thoughts about working on USR 3rd edition, Wolves, and revisiting USR 15th. Talking through design decisions that "just worked", things that were more challenging, etc. 110
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 31/08/2026I’ve known I needed to get our family off 1password for a while now as the product quality has gone down over the last few years. Time to accelerate my planning though. 020
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 29/08/2026Professors & researchers’ performance are heavily measured on publishing output. A key data bit is citations - authorship (including position in the hierarchy) and bibliography mentions. Getting this stuff wrong is career ending and it is dangerous we are placing LLMs anywhere in the chain. 081
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/08/2026Me and my kids are now proud owners of the coolest library card in Los Angeles County. 020
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/08/2026Was looking at one of my high schooler's AP Language & Composition assignments and it says “Students may use AI as a thought partner only.” 1. Gen/Chatbot AIs are not thinking. 2. Ignoring #1 - what are the boundaries of "thought partner"? Imagine you are 16-17 years old. What does this mean? 010
Reposted by Shawn Mederoashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/08/2026does anyone have any climate adaptation/clean energy friends doing/who know about cool adaptation/decarb stuff in germany, belgium, or the netherlands? we are looking for places for our MN delegation to go on our trip at the end of the month 103730
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 06/08/2026@srpyle.bsky.social saw this announcement and thought of you! www.openculture.com/2026/08/read...openculture.comRead 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and MoreFor generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week's allowance fresh in hand. 1114
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 06/08/2026I have learned not to crap on graphical user interfaces that seem out of date without first watching someone actually use the thing. You’d be surprised at how well a lot of “outdated” UIs work in practice. 020
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 02/08/2026This was always going to be the problem with the generative content machine - everything is misinfo now if you disagree with the substance, the author, the publication, etc. When everything has the potential to be faked then nothing has the presumption of authenticity. 120
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 31/07/2026Film you've watched more than six times with a GIFstatic.klipy.comSean Connery: One Ping Only PleaseAlt: Sean Connery in the film Hunt For Red October saying “One Ping Only Please” 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 31/07/2026Found myself with a little free time so I'm doing world buiding for a Classic Traveller game & I love how lightly sketched things can be. What's a Scout Base for example? 1977 Traveller says very little. The Traveller Book says "Port facility for the support and maintenance of Scout Service vessels" 140
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/07/2026i would watch the heck out of blade runner musical tho 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 23/07/2026I have spent the week following this advice (and all other social media) and every day has been 1000% better. I take a look at Bluesky around lunch, find some links that look interesting and move on with my day. 120
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 13/07/2026First comment on Manton’s announcement to have Micro.blog users subsidize X.com claims Bluesky is a “den of pedophiles”: www.manton.org/2026/07/13/r... Fascinating armchair analysis given that it was Grok that allowed X users to create CSAM on-demand.manton.orgReevaluating the Twitter / X API 000
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 30/06/2026@schiff.senate.gov I’m a constituent and I’m still waiting for your response to the Supreme Court ruling on trans kids’ access to play sports at the state level. I see you responded to the other rulings this morning so clearly you’ve had time to read them all. 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 30/06/2026Rather than try to pass legislation written by lobbyists from Meta why don't these states go after companies like Meta & X who are the ones causing the problems they are concerned about? Why are they eroding my privacy, my kids' privacy, and further enabling a surveillance state? 180
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 25/06/2026@capacle.bsky.social Triple-O print edition has arrived and it is lovely! I was just thinking about doing a little Traveller again via a solitaire game and it occured to me it would be fascinating to have Triple-O guide a couple of "players" through the lifepath character generation. 220
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 14/06/2026@voxparlour.bsky.social pivoting a bit from USR (which is hard cuz I love that game) - have you ever considered a full featured solo supplement for Romance of the Perilous Land? Osprey has dabbled a bit into solo territory and RoPL has such rich support outside of the core book. 110
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 08/06/2026Thomas Bangalter DJ'ing at The Lot Radio NYC booth right now (on till 5pm ET / 2pm ET, replay *should* be available on Lot's Youtube tomorrow.)youtube.comThomas Bangalter @TheLotRadio 06-08-2026YouTube video by The Lot Radio 000
Reposted by Shawn MederoClark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It must take _so much energy_ to be a terf or a transphobe. Know what's easy? And I mean, dead simple super easy for lazy bastards like me? When someone says "Hey, my gender is [this]" or "My pronouns are [that]" you just say "Okay, cool" And that's it. 49922
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 19/05/2026@hodagrpg.bsky.social so @jackno.bsky.social's list of inspiations for his game Untamed Worlds led me to Steve Gallacci's Erma Felna EDF and it is very good™ and you probably already know about it but just in case: www.stevegallacci.com/archive/edfstevegallacci.comAlbedo 120
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 18/05/2026@jackno.bsky.social wow, I've been sleeping on Untamed Worlds - it is very good. I was originally interested in it just for the setting but the whole thing is great: setting, rules, art, and writing. 110
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 09/05/2026Every bike is a cargo bike (if you want it to be): bsky.app/profile/cara... 030
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 29/04/2026@kottke.org possibly relevant to your linking interests - 108 hours of Fred Again's USB002 tour went live on YouTube an hour ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiXK... (Every show audio from USB002 but CDMX fwiw.)youtube.comFred again.. - USB002 EVERY SHOW (108 hours, 3 Oct 2025 - 27 Feb 2026)YouTube video by Fred again . . 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 24/04/2026Eventually software-as-a-service LLM coding agent tokens are going to cost as much as a senior dev and you can be locked into a platform you don’t control. bsky.app/profile/gold... 150
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 20/04/2026@alexhanna.bsky.social possibly one for the mystery AI hype “corporate AI research cruft” bucket: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med... Buried in the Discussion chapter: “noted that the model’s relatively inflexible adherence to pedagogical principles threatened to exasperate some students”storage.googleapis.com 010
Reposted by Shawn MederoCoté @cote.io · 20/04/2026A Commentary On GenAI Inspected Through Different Lenses brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/a-comm… 001
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 18/04/2026@hodagrpg.bsky.social saw this cover and immediately thought of you! bsky.app/profile/bron... 261
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 03/04/2026I would like to mysteriously teleport to somewhere that isn't this timeline. I would even settle for an alien Waffle House if Waffle House somehow has a monopoly on teleportation wormholes. 110
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 18/03/2026@malphaswats.bsky.social blast from the past! I recognized your avatar and it took me a minute to remember from where but it came back to me: I used the source code of your Static Dimension PHP blogging engine for a few years. 100
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 16/01/2026@isachandra.bsky.social hi Isa! Back in NYC and haven’t been here in ages (last time I was here Modern Love was still open, RIP) I can use Happy Cow of course but any (maybe new, women owned, or poc owned?) vegan restaurants you want to shine a light on while I’m here this weekend? 040
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 13/01/2026@shawntomkin.bsky.social I'm seeing a lot of movement of late with the datasworn fork... would probably be good for everyone (roll20, foundry, stargazer, etc) depending on rsek's "tomkin approved" version to have some clarity on whether they should switch their projects over to the fork or not. 010
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 09/01/2026@404media.co Seems like a good time for renewed media pressure on Apple to restore ICEBlock. 030
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 28/12/2025wackyweasel.github.io/UniversalCha... This is an interesting UI/UX model for a "virtual RPG canvas" that is different than the map-centered interaction model Roll20 and others have gone with. This works like a toybox of character sheet components to design your play space with.wackyweasel.github.ioUniversal Character Sheet 110
Shawn Medero @shawn.medero.net · 27/12/2025@shawntomkin.bsky.social does it still seem like Crucible will be on the 2026 roadmap? 110