Madrigal

And that’s their only “good” product.

The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.

“Influencer”

The real world.

Oh. Yay.

Good point. I’m so used to using unisex bathrooms at home…

Thanks, I guess. Shame I can’t compete in the olympics or read books to children any more though.

TIL I’m a transwoman.

The law: Do what we say, don’t challenge us, give us all your wealth, we can change the law at any time.

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

Top-level comments always get more votes than replies.

I increasingly feel like religious indoctrination in childhood creates a kind of mental illness or disability by disrupting the development of critical thinking skills.

This is not accidental. Many religious scholars have talked about the need to “instruct” children when they’re very young - by the age of three or four.

There are other forms of MGM too. Fortunately most of them are rare these days. Castration, subincision, penectomy.

And then there’s intersex people. That are routinely subject to “corrective surgery” in infancy. As adults they tend to be firmly of the opinion they should have been left alone and that the surgeries were harmful.

IMO bodily integrity and autonomy is a fundamental human right that should be absolutely respected for every human being.

We went back to a simple spreadsheet. 😆

Two? Colleague from our IT team reckons it’s more like six.

New Teams has more options for opening new windows, but it’s also more stubbornly determined to open docs in the web app (embedded within Teams of course).

Shifts is a straight no for my team. And don’t get me started on Planner…

MMA

Mexican Martial Arts?

Most modern UIs are shit, and not just for people with ADHD.

The biggest sins IMO:

• Everyone has to be unique, instead of sticking to established and successful design patterns. *Breaking existing UI elements (looking at you, infinite scroll).
• Trying to do everything, all at once.
• Not getting rid of old shit (hello Microsoft).

Cue every kid in Iowa telling teacher their pronouns are Fr/Fi/Fo/Fum for a laugh.

Career-wise, yes, in my experience.

When you start out in junior positions, you don’t tend to have a lot of autonomy in your work life. Other people are setting priorities, deadlines etc, and you’re just along for the ride.

As your career advances, you tend to take on more leadership duties. You’re more responsible for managing your own work, and then eventually other peoples’ as well. This is where executive functioning deficits tend to start to really hit home.

It’s not for nothing that a lot of people get diagnosed in middle age.

Don’t worry, the bigots who are backing him won’t let him forget.

Just give it a couple of years for the hype/boom/bust cycle to complete, then it’ll settle down and people will start using the tech appropriately.