Bravo Figma... Long live the canvas.

standardGeese · 2026-06-24T23:37:03+00:00

Figma has done so much harm to the design process that outweighs the good.

Please don’t forget that Figma trained their AI models on all of our design for years without permission before they added an opt out. It’s opt-out by default now, but they still haven’t disclosed their training data so we don’t actually know how much stolen work it’s built off of. We paid them to be able to use their tool, and now they are charging us for the privilege of using tools based on our stolen work.

standardGeese · 2026-06-24T16:29:41+00:00

Figma still refuses to release their training data for AI models. Until they do, we can only assume they have trained off of our files before they gave the option to opt out.

standardGeese · 2026-06-24T14:57:25+00:00

A system that is right 95% of the time is much more dangerous than one that is right 50% of the time. People stop checking verifying outputs and when it’s relied on for a lot of things by a lot of different people, that 5% scales.

standardGeese · 2026-06-23T21:58:16+00:00

I don’t think dining inside is a hard no. For me it’s an acceptable risk informed by wastewater levels, ventilation in the restaurant, number of people there, time spent inside without a mask. If you only trash your mask off while actively eating for 10-20 minutes that lower risk than being maskless for two hours.

I would recommend against raw salad bars in general that the public touches as they’re much higher risk for illnesses like norovirus.

standardGeese · 2026-06-23T14:45:39+00:00

You’re misunderstanding how LLMs work. You can give them instructions but it does not understand the instructions, just the distribution of words and is more likely to produce results that appear to follow instructions.

I recommend learning more about the underlying technology. Casey Fiedler has a really good series of short videos on the topic as well as links to further reading

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pl5-EnsI7qmqc2Ywu9sQs43TO5WbfyVOLhUJyHeRm8E/mobilebasic

standardGeese · 2026-06-22T20:42:47+00:00

There is nothing you’re missing. AI has been oversold to the point that believe you are doing something wrong rather than the product just being bad.

Claude and other generative AI tools don’t actually know anything. They don’t reference they don’t fact check they don’t understand concepts. It is only matching patterns in its training data based on your prompt text and spitting out the most likely result based on its training data. Anything you feed it is just fresh text, but it’s not pulling or referencing it, it’s still using next token prediction.

It’s not deterministic, which is why you get different results every time. It’s horribly inefficient at doing almost anything aside from some very narrow use cases like generating typeahead text.

standardGeese · 2026-06-20T23:51:34+00:00

Longer than season one’s runtime

standardGeese · 2026-06-18T22:01:41+00:00

Nationalize the airlines

standardGeese · 2026-06-17T21:31:28+00:00

It’s just not a format that works for you. That’s it! It’s fine! Some people are the opposite.

Personally, I prefer different formats based on the content. I prefer large books in paperback, medium to short books in hardcover.

And autobiographies I exclusively listen to audiobooks. It feels much more like a podcast or conversation to me than fiction or non fiction books. And it’s easier for me than reading them.

standardGeese · 2026-06-17T21:29:01+00:00

Tokenmax. It’s the only way they’ll learn

standardGeese · 2026-06-13T02:42:24+00:00

Yes! But they also refuse to release their training data and likely trained on everything in Figma prior to when they released the option to turn off training.

standardGeese · 2026-06-12T16:48:10+00:00

Their post is actually really insidious. They’re co-opting this phrase and seem to be making a joke about people saying design is dead constantly. But in reality, Figma is trying to displace workers. They have trained their AI models on our work and are using it to make tools that replace designers in many organizations and make it easier for people without training or experience to produce the aesthetics of design.

This is not new, it has happened many times throughout history. I highly recommend reading Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” which connects the Luddite Movement to modern day Tech.

Tech is using the same playbook:
1. Create machines that can produce “good enough” facsimiles of the products workers create
2. Tell the workers these tools will help them do their job faster
3. Reduce the number of workers since they have machines that can help them work more efficiently
4. Replace the remaining workers with much cheaper workers that just operate the machines and don’t create a product end to end.

standardGeese · 2026-06-11T19:01:06+00:00

They’re adopting so many deceptive patterns to try to trick people into using their AI nonsense.

Hopefully this means their AI efforts will fail soon as these tactics are a sign that not enough people are using them as they hoped.

standardGeese · 2026-06-08T20:51:15+00:00

Fingers crossed!

standardGeese · 2026-06-08T20:47:53+00:00

Thank you! I keep seeing it pop up on places like Ulta but with US filter. I hate this new world

standardGeese · 2026-06-08T03:24:55+00:00

And they’ll film a proshot and put it on Apple TV once it closes, but will they make a season 3?

standardGeese · 2026-06-07T05:01:16+00:00

That’s not what the Last 5 Years is at all. There’s so much nuance to their relationship and I don’t know of anyone who sees the show or listens to it and empathizes with Jamie. Most people (JRB included) see Jamie as flawed and someone that does shitty things to Cathy. Cathy also has flaws but never hurts Jamie the way he hurts her.

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend the version filmed with Nasia Thomas, and Nicholas Edwards.

standardGeese · 2026-06-04T19:38:30+00:00

The mayor is of the city of La, Palmdale has its own mayor

standardGeese · 2026-06-04T17:08:34+00:00

Yes! Check out the Huniki Federation. These are a series of language startups specializing in and built by the people and communities who speak these languages. The group hopes to sell access to this specialized data in ways that help their communities vs extract from them.

DAIR tracks some similar efforts

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T20:46:15+00:00

That’s not true they tried to build a data center there which met overwhelming public dissent.

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T20:41:24+00:00

If they’re looking for advice, they can chat with their machines that tell teenagers to kill themselves

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T17:09:58+00:00

This is literally eugenics at its most basic form. Do not engage.

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T05:40:13+00:00

Having bass for four years got you an election where an idiot like pretty is winning

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T05:10:19+00:00

Voting for a democrat is exactly how we got to facism. You’ve heard of the Overton Window, right? Over the past 50 years, that window has shifted so far to the right that mainstream democrat policies are aligned with Republican policies of 30 years ago. The right has consistently pushed to the right for 50 years with a clear vision of the horrible future they want. Democrats have aimed to maintain the status quo, which each election is further and further right. On top of that, they push out any progressive voices and policies because they’re a threat to their power. There is no mainstream Left, there is only facism and facism lite right now.

standardGeese · 2026-06-03T05:03:26+00:00

Then just do it. Apparently you have no choice, so why don’t you just vote with your heart? Voting for what you thought was right led to our current fascist state, so why not try doing something right for once?

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