Joseph Kohlmann
He / him · #Manhattan #NYC · Staff software engineer · Design+eng, #HCI, #DesignSystems, listening, empathy, #house #music, video #games, #photography, #cats, Black feminism, trans rights, Palestinian liberation, antiwhiteness, broken systems, #union labor
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- Hell yeah, very well done by this brave student from my hometown. Pedantic Mainer point (no shade to Alex)--Laurel Libby is not even the rep for Yarmouth, the district of Feldman, the letter writer, making Libby's effort to exploit Feldman's experiences for political gain even lamer and weirder.
- this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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- “Let’s just assume you’re dead wrong“ about the order’s constitutionality, Justice Elena Kagan told Solicitor General John Sauer.
- The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
- The people: what if tech made like, cheaper phones Tech: what if we gentrified the bus?
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- Literally the only thing I want from my students is that they want to learn. That's it. That's the entire thing. Everything else is details
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- If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
- Also not beating the “CEOs are the jobs most replaceable by AI” allegations
- If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
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- Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
- On May 7th, NYT leadership celebrated another successful earnings report and consistent growth, touting its business strategy and its employees, saying they were “well prepared to meet the moment.” On May 9th, they abruptly laid off 22 tech workers.
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View full threadManagement also failed to offer voluntary buyouts, refused to consider cutting contracting expenses, and is applying an overly narrow definition of seniority.
- Management wants us afraid. Disempowered. But we know our value and we will stand together. We will hold management accountable, and fight their contract violations. We will fight for our members and everything they deserve.
- Management claims that “cost discipline remains key,” but they already approved $350 million in stock buybacks this year. For comparison, less than 3% of that would cover the salaries cut.
- They claim the layoffs will help us “operate more efficiently,” but they cut from already understaffed departments, removing senior and leadership roles and discarding employees with decades of institutional knowledge.
- We're taking a pause until the June issue. Rather than provide coverage of a new game we had scheduled, we're donating the amount we'd spend on contributors to the current issue to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
- We'd urge any readers with the ability to do so to donate what they can to the PCRF as well. t.co/FnOYsAAReO
- if you contributed in any way to the making of this video i think you should have every bone in your hands smashed by a lead pipe
- this is so so embarrassing I can't believe they showed this in public as if it's a good example of what generative AI can do www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...
- you work at ILM! ralph macquarrie and joe johnston worked on star wars with just their brains and their hands and created some of the most beloved/fucked up creatures you've ever seen! and you're getting up on stage to show a fucking possum owl? made by computer? get in the bin you ghouls
- I for one am old enough to remember when people holding peaceful protests near judges' homes was a national crisis demanding immediate bipartisan congressional action.
- i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally
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- cool new development, the cat has started lying like this. Stupid little loaf. I gasp every time
- Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...
- Please sir just one drop of seratonin my family is starving
- sgf is now a strand game
- strand game fest...
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- This mf so cool he smokes Newports underwater.
- I described most "photoreal" GenAI output today as "Some Real Black Hole Sun Shit" and the person I was talking to went "holy shit that's IT" because look at Black Hole Sun and tell me I’m wrong.
- The answer is wall-to-wall industry unionization, IMO! United Video Game workers is a direct-to-join union for both the USA and Canada. Check us out or DM me if you want to chat about it: uvw-cwa.org
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JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.- Can we get one fucking normal thing like a teeny tiny normal fucking thing www.cbsnews.com/news/pizza-d...
