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The Adults in the Room (2019, Deadspin)

> An ever-growing number of media owners, meanwhile, are so exceedingly unwilling to reckon with the particulars of their own business that they refuse to accept our eagerness to help them make money.

https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

How it's going …

These are not the pills you are looking for! #mrmcd23

@Keltounet @hywan I watched my mother progressively (and completely) lose the ability to use her iMac during her final decade because Apple kept f*cking around with the Mac OS X user interface, the way Mail worked, the colour of the window maximize/minimize buttons, and stuff that probably looked trivial to a 30-something UI designer but was deeply disruptive to an 80 something with impaired memory. And by losing that access, she lost touch with friends (via email).

@Keltounet @hywan There's a deeper point: the past 70 years of computing have focussed on a spurious vision of progress that forgets to consider the utility of a stable platform. Operating systems in particular are driven by commercial goals (sell more software! Get more Linux desktops out there!) that are actively inimical to the needs of their users. Forcing users to learn a new way of working every year—even if they don't need to—is crazy. And it renders computers inaccessible to the elderly.

Meow! 😿😿😿

Adding "lol" to the end of your sentence is an ancient ritual to ward off existential dread lol

So I saw some lament about the QuickTime Player icon in my feed last week and got inspired to have a go at it.

And here we have it – four new interpretations of the best QuickTime icon in the Big Sur roundrect: Retro, Aqua, Aurora and Noir.

Still thinking about this Tim Schaffer credit in Star Wars Racer thing.

it is simply impossible to say

why indeed

Untended, bureaucracy expands to fill available processing power?