Jonathan Stephens

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Portland kids will need a new accessory to swim in city pools this summer: an adult

May 24·1 min read·97 words

Trump, Defiant After Bad Week, Pushes Ahead on Politically Unpopular Ideas

May 23·1 min read·127 words

Ad Infinitum

May 23·2 min read·258 words

France to return bodies of Indigenous people exhibited in colonial ‘human zoos’

May 20·2 min read·230 words

Leave Me Behind

May 18·1 min read·151 words

What, then, are we paying for?

May 18·1 min read·132 words

Tick that causes meat allergy, other rare virus is spreading: What symptoms to watch for

May 17·1 min read·98 words

2ality blog: temporarily offline

May 16·1 min read·138 words

What COVID Taught Us About Managing Hantavirus Anxiety

May 16·1 min read·86 words

The Colorado River Is on the Brink of Disaster

May 16·1 min read·49 words

‘Very demure, very mindful’: how Jools Lebron went viral – and her life fell apart

May 14·1 min read·102 words

Japanese snack packages turning black-and-white

May 13·1 min read·5 words

It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick

May 13·1 min read·20 words

Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

May 11·1 min read·8 words

UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report

May 10·1 min read·14 words

Tourist Beat Up in Hawaii After Attacking Monk Seal (Video)

May 10·1 min read·10 words

Join the Inclusive Front

May 8·1 min read·4 words

Calvin Duncan Won an Election In New Orleans. Republicans Are Trying to Abolish His Position Altogether

May 6·1 min read·16 words

Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data

May 5·1 min read·9 words

What Your Sleep Preferences Say About You: 4 Human Chronotypes Explained

May 5·1 min read·11 words

German Police Chief Suggests Women Avoid Dating Men If They Want to Stay Safe

May 3·1 min read·14 words

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media

May 3·1 min read·6 words

Neuro-Affirming Practice Is Not a Framework. It's a Way of Being.

May 2·1 min read·11 words

The data center rebellion is only the beginning

May 1·1 min read·8 words

Dangerous Animals of Product Management

Apr 29·1 min read·5 words

Quantity queries using has() selector

Apr 29·1 min read·5 words

Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women

Apr 29·1 min read·9 words

Oddkin

Apr 29·1 min read·1 words

Dedicated to exploring the impacts of technology, particularly digital technologies

Apr 29·1 min read·10 words

Make kin not nets

Apr 29·1 min read·4 words

Design System Documentation Standard 0.1

Apr 29·1 min read·5 words

Design was never the bottleneck

Apr 29·1 min read·5 words

Craft is Untouchable

Apr 28·1 min read·3 words

Pike Place Market Pedestrianization Pilot Boosts Sales and Visits

Apr 28·1 min read·9 words

Historical Tech Tree

Apr 25·1 min read·3 words

Do I belong in tech anymore?

Apr 25·1 min read·6 words

For AI to work for us, it will have to stop pretending to be us

Apr 24·1 min read·15 words

‘Tis the season: Sharing resources sustains ocean microbial biodiversity

Apr 24·1 min read·9 words

AI is coming for the wrong half of your design system

Apr 23·1 min read·11 words

Rosie Day's Portfolio

Apr 20·1 min read·3 words

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay

Apr 20·1 min read·9 words

About Calibre

Apr 19·1 min read·2 words

The Courage to Stop

Apr 18·1 min read·4 words

How to eat pizza

Apr 18·1 min read·4 words

Tildes

Apr 15·1 min read·1 words

How to do the work

Apr 14·1 min read·5 words

Is this really needed?

Apr 13·1 min read·4 words

Help! Is There a Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the Room?

Apr 13·1 min read·9 words

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger.

Apr 12·1 min read·6 words

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.

Apr 11·1 min read·15 words

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Apr 11·1 min read·11 words

The Charga-Plate, Precursor of the Credit Card

Apr 11·1 min read·7 words

winston hearn

Apr 10·1 min read·2 words

AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Apr 8·1 min read·8 words

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

Apr 8·1 min read·20 words

The Story of Name Sans

Apr 7·1 min read·5 words

The Top 5 Misconceptions About AI Right Now

Apr 6·1 min read·8 words

Skylight - Digital government consulting

Apr 6·1 min read·5 words

NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover listens to 'Whitey on the Moon' every Monday. This is why.

Apr 5·1 min read·17 words

Liminal Creations

Apr 4·1 min read·2 words

Typst Documentation

Apr 2·1 min read·2 words

View Transitions Toolkit Demos

Apr 2·1 min read·4 words

New habitat will allow humans to stay underwater for weeks at a time

Apr 2·1 min read·13 words

BrowserGate

Apr 2·1 min read·1 words

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

Apr 2·1 min read·8 words

Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours

Apr 1·1 min read·9 words

Swearing as a catalyst of technological development

Mar 31·1 min read·7 words

Understanding friction in software engineering

Mar 29·1 min read·5 words

The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.

Mar 28·1 min read·7 words

Two More Giant Ls for Trump

Mar 28·1 min read·6 words

Ominous Surveillance "Scarecrows" Appearing Across America

Mar 28·1 min read·6 words

IXI’s autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

Mar 28·1 min read·10 words

Fragmented phone use—not total screen time—is the main driver of information overload, study finds

Mar 28·1 min read·14 words

Why It's Good to Jack Off Frequently, According to Science

Mar 27·1 min read·10 words

Beyond “Neurodiversity Lite”: Why Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice Matters

Mar 27·1 min read·7 words

Federal AI Index

Mar 26·1 min read·3 words

Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why

Mar 26·1 min read·11 words

United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: "It stops here"

Mar 25·1 min read·12 words

We Have Learned Nothing

Mar 23·1 min read·4 words

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Mar 23·1 min read·8 words

Isometric exercise: The most efficient fitness regime?

Mar 22·1 min read·7 words

The self-directives

Mar 22·1 min read·2 words

MelonLand Project

Mar 22·1 min read·2 words

Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I

Mar 22·1 min read·10 words

Thousands of executives aren't seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox

Mar 21·1 min read·13 words

Jargon-lovers are worse at their jobs, say boffins

Mar 21·1 min read·8 words

Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

Mar 21·1 min read·7 words

Mediaeval tower collapses at historic Escalona Castle in Toledo – Visitors escape with their lives

Mar 21·1 min read·15 words

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books

Mar 21·1 min read·16 words

Defending Abundance Everywhere

Mar 20·1 min read·3 words

Waterloo researchers turning plastic waste into vinegar

Mar 20·1 min read·7 words

OpenType Feature Freezer: Make Advanced Typography Accessible Everywhere

Mar 20·1 min read·8 words

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study

Mar 20·1 min read·12 words

Look into the future of the web platform

Mar 20·1 min read·8 words

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

Pricing for Email Marketing Tool

Mar 19·1 min read·5 words

Abusing Customizable Selects

Mar 19·1 min read·3 words

One Cool Trick to Increase Your Workload: AI "Literacy" for Faculty

Mar 19·1 min read·11 words

Nonsense masquerading as insight

Mar 18·1 min read·4 words

California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes

Mar 18·1 min read·13 words

Reformed

Mar 18·1 min read·1 words

Digital Gardening: the gentle experiment that reignited my curiosity

Mar 17·1 min read·9 words

Worker Mobilizations around AI in Arts, Culture, and Media

Mar 17·1 min read·9 words

Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

Mar 17·1 min read·17 words

Full article: How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top

Mar 17·1 min read·13 words

Brontosaurus: A faded star rises again

Mar 17·1 min read·6 words

@vtbag: Overview

Mar 16·1 min read·2 words

An alt Decision Tree

Mar 16·1 min read·4 words

Ron Bronson

Mar 16·1 min read·2 words

Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro

Mar 16·1 min read·7 words

Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion

Mar 16·1 min read·12 words

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Mar 15·1 min read·12 words

Tiny House, Gardening & Carpentry School

Mar 14·1 min read·6 words

Aphantasia and visual working memory: No direct evidence of impaired visual working memory in aphantasics, either in behavioral performance or the accuracy of a multivoxel pattern classifier

Mar 13·1 min read·27 words

Neurodivergent Design as a Discipline

Mar 12·1 min read·5 words

Open Hub, the open source network

Mar 11·1 min read·6 words

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”

Mar 10·1 min read·13 words

Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

Mar 9·1 min read·10 words

Design Is Never Neutral

Mar 9·1 min read·4 words

Master list of #AutChat topics – autchat

Mar 9·1 min read·7 words

A to Z of Disabilities and Accommodations

Mar 9·1 min read·7 words

What will the AI Boom leave behind?

Mar 9·1 min read·7 words

What will the AI Boom leave behind?

Mar 9·1 min read·7 words

The Gut Check

Mar 9·1 min read·3 words

Slow Design as a Radical Act

Mar 9·1 min read·6 words

Resistance Infrastructure

Mar 9·1 min read·2 words

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

Mar 8·1 min read·10 words

Should I get a tattoo?

Mar 7·1 min read·5 words

Baskerville Punches

Mar 6·1 min read·2 words

To Make Japan's Original Sushi, First Age Fish for Several Months

Mar 5·1 min read·11 words

A Company Plans 4,000 Orbiting 'Sky Mirrors' to Shine Sunlight on Earth After Dark, Worrying Astronomers

Mar 5·1 min read·16 words

Words of Type — Encyclopedia

Mar 5·1 min read·5 words

Your newsletter's archives are more valuable than your list

Mar 3·1 min read·9 words

AI Automated License Plate Readers Map

Mar 2·1 min read·6 words

Do not give up your brain

Mar 1·1 min read·6 words

Psychology says people who don’t maintain many close friends often learned independence too early

Mar 1·1 min read·14 words

Stop generating, start thinking

Mar 1·1 min read·4 words

Powering News

Mar 1·1 min read·2 words

Gugusse et l'Automate

Feb 28·1 min read·3 words

Forget Me Not: The Human Cost of War

Feb 28·1 min read·8 words

The Irish Times view on Ireland Reads Day: embrace the silence

Feb 28·1 min read·11 words

‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely

Feb 27·1 min read·14 words

Humour as emotion regulation and resource in autism: a narrative review

Feb 27·1 min read·11 words

Iran and Ukraine: Narrow World

Feb 25·1 min read·5 words

Weird Pride in a Hostile World

Feb 25·1 min read·6 words

First I wrote the wrong book, then I wrote the right book

Feb 25·1 min read·12 words

Pin Traveler | Travel Map App

Feb 24·1 min read·6 words

Ghana takes transatlantic slavery case to UN

Feb 24·1 min read·7 words

TripIt: Travel Itinerary App + Trip Planner

Feb 24·1 min read·7 words

Polarsteps Travel App | Plan, Track & Relive Your Trips

Feb 24·1 min read·10 words

Game Progression and Progression Systems

Feb 24·1 min read·5 words

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI

Feb 23·1 min read·9 words

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender

Feb 23·1 min read·13 words

London Map - Medieval Murder Maps

Feb 23·1 min read·6 words

How to Be an Anticapitalist Today

Feb 22·1 min read·6 words

Boolean Font

Feb 21·1 min read·2 words

html energy

Feb 21·1 min read·2 words

Anrt – Fontes

Feb 21·1 min read·3 words

Inclusive Sans

Feb 21·1 min read·2 words

Economic Space Agency

Feb 21·1 min read·3 words

W. E. B. Du Bois Directory

Feb 21·1 min read·6 words

Between Data and Truth: W.E.B. Du Bois's “Data Portraits”

Feb 21·1 min read·9 words

The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition

Feb 21·1 min read·11 words

Web Design, Development, and Strategy

Feb 21·1 min read·5 words

Nashville comic’s fake ICE tip line exposes teachers reporting kids

Feb 21·1 min read·10 words

Learning Resources: Trump’s Plan to Nuke the Global Economy Prompts Conservative Justices to Remember That the Constitution Exists

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission

Feb 20·1 min read·20 words

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

Feb 20·1 min read·21 words

Terror In The White House

Feb 20·1 min read·5 words

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?

Feb 20·1 min read·13 words

Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator and Psychological Type

Feb 19·1 min read·6 words

Harmonic Design

Feb 19·1 min read·2 words

Dimensions of Brand Personality

Feb 19·1 min read·4 words

Curated Folksonomies: Three Implementations of Structure through Human Judgment

Feb 19·1 min read·9 words

Brand Archetypes: How to Apply Archetypal Psychology to Branding and Marketing

Feb 19·1 min read·11 words

Digital Sovereignty and Open Source: Europe’s Shifting Technology Foundationss

Feb 19·1 min read·9 words

As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don't Use Generative LLMs Often

Feb 19·1 min read·12 words

Blockbuster LA Times Investigation Shows Police Bias in Bike Stops

Feb 19·1 min read·10 words

Designed to be specialists

Feb 19·1 min read·4 words

The tyranny of category

Feb 19·1 min read·4 words

Indigenous Peoples and locals report a drastic decline in bird size across three continents

Feb 18·1 min read·14 words

Lauren Boebert Responds After Son Hit with Child Abuse Charge

Feb 18·1 min read·10 words

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

Feb 18·1 min read·14 words

Rethinking ADHD as ‘hypercuriosity’

Feb 17·1 min read·4 words

Readability Scoring System PLUS

Feb 17·1 min read·4 words

DWeb Principles

Feb 16·1 min read·2 words

Scale with Soul

Feb 16·1 min read·3 words

What the EU’s X Decision Reveals About How the DSA Is Enforced

Feb 15·1 min read·12 words

Dutch program using in-car alcohol lock cuts drunk driving long after end

Feb 14·1 min read·12 words

bookhive.buzz

Feb 14·1 min read·1 words

Convenience at Our Doorstep

Feb 12·1 min read·4 words

OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

Language may not be so hierarchical after all: A new study challenges 70 years of linguistic theory

Feb 11·1 min read·17 words

FAA closes airspace around El Paso International Airport for 10 days

Feb 11·1 min read·11 words

Long Letterpress

Feb 10·1 min read·2 words

Panic! at the conference

Feb 9·1 min read·4 words

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Feb 9·1 min read·15 words

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Feb 8·1 min read·9 words

Obsidian Kirby Sync

Feb 8·1 min read·3 words

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Feb 8·1 min read·5 words

Today's Puzzmo

Feb 7·1 min read·2 words

Trauma-Informed Design Resources

Feb 7·1 min read·3 words

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

Feb 7·1 min read·8 words

Jeff Bezos Gutted the Newsroom. He Kept the Megaphone.

Feb 7·1 min read·9 words

Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze

Feb 7·1 min read·10 words

Why Japan’s upcoming lower house election feels like a race to the bottom

Feb 7·1 min read·13 words

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

Feb 6·1 min read·16 words

The open source design stack

Feb 5·1 min read·5 words

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility

Feb 5·1 min read·17 words

You are not entirely powerless

Feb 5·1 min read·5 words

Introducing the Careful Consequence Check

Feb 5·1 min read·5 words

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Feb 5·1 min read·17 words

Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1

Feb 4·1 min read·8 words

Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1

Feb 4·1 min read·8 words

Toolkit for Gender Inclusive Mobility Planning

Feb 4·1 min read·6 words