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now I want to turn this into a questionnaire and send it to my representatives.
- did you personally sign up?
- do you want to be surveilled
- we're you involved in this
Etc

2026-07-01 14:28:31 UTC

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congratulations! Are Kickstarter paperbacks shipping soon?

2026-06-02 14:33:37 UTC

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the machismo distilled into a feeling to be experienced through a rather dull form and color. Through a gesture. Fascinated me. Was it art? I don't think so. I think it was the engineering of feelings using empathy. It has the intent of selling you a product that originated from someone else, and investor who started a business, found marketing people to come up with target market, perfume designers that found the combination of smells that will evoke that same feeling and came to the designer for a bottle to convey it through the container. So intent doesn't explain it.
İn short, an artist will make their art without a demand or appreciation. A designer intends to solve a defined problem (which may just be selling an item).
I appreciate the conversation you started and hope you go deeper into this topic and turn it into a book.
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2026-06-02 14:24:13 UTC

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I heard about Design Semantics and started digging during school. My very vivid memory from 32 years ago is still how I measure the success of what I'm doing.
The professor walked in with a bottle of drakkar noir to the classroom. Asked us to take a look at it. The little bottle went through the classroom of 20+ people. He asked what it looks/feels like. The general response was "flashlight, remote, shaver, phone etc"
He asked us what the common theme is among those items. It obviously was the hand. He asked us to describe the hand (and its owner). A man. Because you grab it like it is an object that gives you power, makes you feel that manly man feeling. You wake up, grab it and splash some of it on yourself, get in your Maserati and go.
Then he said if you design a good product that already has the feeling (and purpose) in it the job of the advertiser is easy. if you don't THEY have to make it up. And he showed us the ad page he ripped from a magazine. I still get goosebumps remembering it.
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2026-06-02 14:10:19 UTC

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I'm delighted to see you get into this topic since it is something that I've been thinking about for the last 35 years since as an industrial design student at a fine arts school. Being there instead of engineering school was my first clue. And I always described the difference between design and art as intent BUT exactly the opposite of your view. As a designer I have the intent to fix a problem through an object (or service) by making it easier to understand and use. That's intentional. What I describe as art is something that flows out of you. Doesn't have an intended audience. It just needs to come out. It is not necessarily trying to fix something but it is a refined punch of the feeling that the artist is already feeling intensely and cannot refrain from putting into another medium maybe to have a little relief from the intensity of the feeling.
But to me, a designer, a feeling is a tool that I can use to communicate. You need the empathy to anticipate the impact it will have on the user.

2026-05-07 15:02:19 UTC

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to clarify; there was no gift/bribe to begin with. The gift recipient decided that it was a gift. Mafia style.
So he can keep it after his term
The repetition of "gift" narrative deletes the reality from common memory.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/did-qatar-really-gift-plane-to-us-president-donald-trump-reports-say-otherwise-8467955

2026-02-03 06:40:27 UTC

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I thought "he steals but he works" was a Turkish thing since I heard it so much growing up in the 70-80's. I looked it up now. It goes back to 50's Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mayor Adhemar de Barros' supporters(!) said this about him "rouba mas faz".

2026-01-30 02:34:56 UTC

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so? permission granted?
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2026-01-29 16:08:50 UTC

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Permission to steal this for the next No Kings day bill. I'll put it in the back of my Robber Barons board.
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2025-11-26 08:10:30 UTC

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Still, unfortunately we need these assholes to see the issue and act on it. They need to think they discovered it. Once they do we may have a shot. Sickening but I don't see any other way out.
It's like the US and WWII. Did everything wrong until finally something right for the wrong reasons but then claimed the highest moral position. I'd hate to be a historian. Watching this shit happen over and over again knowing where it will end up.

2025-11-26 03:10:44 UTC

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First thing first; very important analysis that needs to be turned into a policy by Dems (or an alternative real left party) and made into entertainment to be communicated to the public (since that's the only damned way in this country to get any message through). A must read.
Now...
I had to bite my cheeks to be able to continue reading after this paragraph that ends with "Let’s rectify it rather than cast blame"
White man who participated in and contributed to this shit show is blaming the ones who warned when he was breaking things. It's YOUR FAULT that he was an ignorant, heartless a-hole, OK?!?! Now move on, he'll tell us how to fix it so accept him as the savior he is. So frustrating.
I've been saying this for a while now, unfortunately, the way out of this mess is only through convincing the white men and getting them to (finally) do the right thing. Frustrating since we know they'll take all the credit at the end to mess up again and even worse

2025-10-23 05:54:52 UTC

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If you have enough money to buy the biggest megaphone you can pass or block anything you want in this country. This was the first measure I zoomed in to understand local politics when I first became a citizen. It took me 2 mins to see who is who and doing what and yet people saw ads and believed that it would cause "closures of clinics" and "unnecessary and costly". Because those two companies making billions put $130m into the campaign and newsom acted like it is all fair since people choose that instead of enforcing proper standards for this low quality and overpriced "care". Btw fuck newsom. They'll bring him as the candidate and make us support that asshole just like they did with Biden. Always the worst option will be pushed down our throats. Lol Only 4 years as a citizen and already this frustrated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_California_Proposition_29

2025-08-20 02:33:37 UTC

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Can we call him a bad faith hire?

2025-08-16 19:39:49 UTC

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Nice link text! :D

2025-08-16 15:10:11 UTC

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there are so many examples of this. Unfortunately the justification is always survival no matter what. See the case of Reuters I recently came across when I received a note from ThompsonReuters to use one of my photos from 10 years ago and looked them up.
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2025-08-04 15:20:39 UTC

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Absolutely. More accumulated wealth turns to rent assets eventually. Feudalism is the inevitable result of over concentration of wealth no matter who/where it starts from.

2025-07-31 19:15:43 UTC

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it's funny you published this on the day I experienced it.

2025-07-21 03:00:26 UTC

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I used to have grade school kids in my neighborhood yell "Cheater!" at me on my 15 mile ride to work over Golden Gate bridge into the city. I'm 50 with multiple stents in my arteries and t1d. I'm grateful that someone invented e-bikes so I can actually avoid driving and get exercise within my limits.

2025-07-20 20:33:05 UTC

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truth comes out when you flip the question.
Are we ready to give Palestinians defensive capabilities so there are no more deaths?

2025-06-29 17:11:59 UTC

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horner put it almost all on him at the post race interview. I think they'd rather try a new guy. Nothing (more) to lose

2025-03-16 17:40:15 UTC

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my first time (visit and volunteer) at a local repair fair was yesterday. I fixed 4 table and floor lamps in 3 hours, met wonderful people and hopefully made the lamps useful and safe if not saved them from landfill. Made MY day!

2025-03-05 20:08:16 UTC

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:) didn't want to upset you. Sorry. I must have misunderstood your side-eye meme.

2025-03-05 19:45:45 UTC

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I know. It's hard to think that there are people out there that we need to protect these parks/forests from. And believe it or not gigantic open spaces don't have one secured gate alone.

2025-03-05 18:14:13 UTC

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the opposite. Closed doesn't mean you can't visit. It means there won't be anyone around to enforce the protective rules, unfortunately.

2025-02-11 16:00:59 UTC

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link to that Ted talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_investor_risk_taker_innovator
And her later talks;
https://www.ted.com/speakers/mariana_mazzucato

2024-12-22 18:42:33 UTC

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And yet like you said, they are winning. So they are not only smart enough to win in this context but also enough to change the context to one they will crush who challenges them.

2024-12-22 16:08:55 UTC

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I discuss this with family and friends a lot. The problem with this argument is the context. Imagine a competition between the academics and the football team of a University. If the competition is intellectual most likely academics will win but if they play football or I don't know, run or lift weights then athletes will win. These fascists are changing the game we're playing. It doesn't matter how smart you are. It didn't matter in Hungary, Russia, Turkey or many other countries. I moved to the US 8 and became a citizen 3 years ago. I've been trying to help fellow Americans see beyond this exceptionalism. If we don't acknowledge the threat and our weaknesses we'll lose just like them.

2024-11-12 22:43:23 UTC

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Sure. Some end like that. Then there are some that got away. Also, millions of innocent people die in the process of getting rid of one.

2024-11-12 17:55:57 UTC

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The rule in history so far is that the good (for the people) presidents get assassinated, not the bad ones.

2024-11-04 15:40:05 UTC

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the headline could/should have been. "DONALD TRUMP REGRETS FAILING HIS COUP ATTEMPT
Says he could have done more to block the peaceful transfer of power"

2024-09-15 07:06:04 UTC

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I meant the opposite. If they're hijacking the real meaning what are we supposed to call the real social engineering now?

2024-09-15 03:54:14 UTC

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Wait. So what is social engineering called now then?

2024-08-07 20:29:58 UTC

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any links?

2024-05-23 22:49:31 UTC

The rich unionized.
And they called it lobbying
Why wouldn't you, too?
#haiku

2023-09-24 02:31:05 UTC

A black hole bending the fabric of the universe. #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday
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