Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

“You can blow both engines on a jet, and the jet is still going to glide” https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/15/23683554/twitter-dying-elon-musk-x-company?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

On the one hand we have douchebag billionaires…

On the other, teachers who cannot afford to house themselves and are forced to leave teaching.

This is capitalism functioning exactly as designed.

https://m.independent.ie/videos/teacher-who-faces-eviction-may-have-to-leave-profession-42431212.html

#capitalism #ireland #housingCrisis

The crisis in the UK's #healthcare system is not just about immediate care, but also the lack of really good prevention strategies; a case in point being the ballooning incidence of #diabetes - #Tory defunding of the NHS is having real #health costs to millions.

This callous & damaging attempt to promote private health care (thought engineering a crisis in public provision) is killing us!

#SaveOurNHS
#GTTO

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/13/uk-in-rapidly-escalating-diabetes-crisis-as-cases-top-5m-report-says

Why is the Fed putting the onus of fighting inflation on workers and consumers rather than on the corporations largely responsible for driving up prices — and padding profit margins?

This is wrong. It’s ridiculous policy. And it’s profoundly unfair.

Stop raising rates.
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RT @ap
A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on inflation for more than a year and that more interest rate hikes are needed to g…
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1646910010964713473

A trick the BBC uses to distort:

Corruption gets called "sleaze"

Far-right thugs get called "right wing activists"

Wealthy sex offenders get called "disgraced"

And chums of Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson get called "chairman of the BBC"

https://willblack-53220.medium.com/this-stench-of-tory-corruption-must-never-be-forgotten-4b7ad76e554b

"Don't make me think" is only half of the story.

It's a #UX sin to assume that your app is the most important thing in your user's world, and add to their cognitive load unnecessarily. But sometimes the user *is* focused on your product. They don't want a low-touch, automagic experience. They want to be in control. Let them.

Don't *make* me think - but *let* me think.

This is part of why "reduce friction" is misleading. Friction is texture. Without it, there's nothing to grab on to

#UXDesign

Elon Musk's fortune, which ultimately enabled his takeover of Twitter, has been padded by billions in subsidies and contracts paid for by American taxpayers.

Just in case anyone needed that reminder.

capitalism will really take away every luxury it boasts in the name of profit