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Advanced Tech is *not* a Substitute for Policy/Regulation Case study on what causes tech companies to act faster: 5 years of warnings about escalating genocide vs. threat of significant fine? (A: the fine) Many AI ethics issues are Human Rights issues
I forgot I wrote this 18 years ago for the Wall Street Journal: "The Web runs on love, not greed."
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Quick review: ‘ ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’, edited by @roryhyde @HarrietHarriss and @marcarobe
Ah, I forgot that some of the people who get permanently stuck at the Senior Engineer level get very offended when told there’s a whole level of understanding they simply lack because there are no quantitative benchmarks. :)
Elements of User Experience
I recommend that organizations sever their efforts at deep understanding from any design or dev cycle and let it run separately. Slowly. In small increments. With a cadence that makes sense for what you want to know and when you need to know it.
Cool project! → The idea is to provide README badges to indicate your current/desired project type, based the ontology of OSS projects that @nayafia lays out in her book.
only lengthy trip outside Virginia. Many clauses in the Constitution bear his stamp, as he was active in the convention for months before deciding that he could not sign it. He cited the lack of a bill of rights most prominently in his Objections, but also wanted an immediate end to the slave trade and a supermajority for navigation acts, which mig
@CAldenJacobs @louisrosenfeld Thanks @CAldenJacobs! Happy to explore. On my inspiration list: the work of @Ideas_4_Change, #WeLiveHere community initiative in @Iamsterdam, the work of @myhelsinki - incl. #OmaStadi: participatory public budgeting and the new #helsinkifreedom campaign
He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says
It’s about shifting your mindset from distant outcomes to present outputs. YES, I finally have a term this! I hate setting SMART goals or distant goals of any kind. They're deflating. I set PACTs instead. Thanks for the article @anthilemoon!
Crypto yes, but here is why it will not take over the world:
Link here: My own industry-politics guiding question for 2021 is: how can we create the context and conditions that make designers and cleaning/service staff feel it’s normal to see each other as coworkers?
"Information Architecture is about making meaning out of piles of facts." - @cwodtke
Random light recommendation for folks in Japan — these z-lights are fantastic; reasonably priced, well built, super super super precise and easy movement, I love 'em (but they don't seem to be available abroad?):
The Turing Test is an example of Goodhart’s Law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Turing assumed holding a conversation meant an AI as smart as a human, what we got instead is dumb AI being good at mimicking conversations
Note that this piece 'Architects without architecture' is quite separate to the previous review of 'Architects after architecture' They share similar themes (+ names) but are different takes, different times, different authors.
Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence
I reworked my site a bit over the holiday: I wanted to add a bit more color/excitement, focus more on plain-english descriptions and less on tons-of-mockups, and be a bit more explanatory/descriptive about the type of work I do. 👀🔗 ✌️
so why aren't more people buying from ? (I can't buy from it in Japan …)
Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence
Final post arriving tomorrow... 52: Real Teams (Not Groups of 1 -Person Team) 51: Coherence > Shallow Autonomy 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics 49: Signals and Confidence
@craigmod It is truly a mystical button. Related: I have really enjoyed SoundSource for wrangling volume control & output control. It is a delight, and the only software I've found which enables volume control of multi-output or aggregate speaker setups in macos
This resonated with me on a personal level. We don’t often talk about alcoholism in Syrian society and growing up with it as a child was a bewildering and frightening experience
I've been on the Acorn train (macOS image editing software) ever since reading @meyerweb's mention of it. I like how it's just FAST and simple, so for my cropping/arranging/exporting stuff, it's a winner.
I've been on the Acorn train (macOS image editing software) ever since reading @meyerweb's mention of it. I like how it's just FAST and simple, so for my cropping/arranging/exporting stuff, it's a winner.
Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating
Inspired by @hyumankind I'm moving a couple years of bookmarks to (I should be done by the end of the day!) I feel like when I bookmark something in the browser my journey with that resource ends.
I'll never be done "updating" my website so I might as well share it now:
In the US alone, data centres are expected to use 660 billion litres of water per year. Water is used for two separate purposes in data centres: generating electricity and cooling the facility.
The Reality of Brands: Toward an Ontology of Marketing by Wolfgang Grassl is perhaps the most important piece I've read supporting the business value of research, design (service, experience, product, etc.), and undiluted marketing strategy.
Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition
I’d like to spend this year building out resources like @SelfDefinedApp. Unfortunately I still have to live under capitalism. Working independently means I rely on one-off contracts and unsteady cash flow. If you’re able, please sponsor my work:
"My stack will outlive yours" — "The best tool is no tool, the best build step is no build step, the best update is no update. HTML gives us all that, and more."
Teams improve their capability through small baby steps. Even if it is for only a few minutes, implementing small daily rituals that put design at the top of everyone’s agenda is a step in the right direction.
The tactical work of user experience design has the benefit of always being urgent and important. However, it doesn’t leave any room for our non-urgent, but equally important strategy needs.
@johncutlefish We are in a moment in which many service/product/bizprocess developers are pressured with single-pointed conceptions of success, which creates perverse incentives with bad results for both the org and the world
Do Ads Work? An Inquiry. In March 2017, @sapna reported that @chase was running ads across 400k sites when they were alerted they were running on hate speech. So they hand-picked 5k sites & deleted the other 395k. They found NO change in performance.
Hey all - I'm about to be on Minnesota Public Radio to talk about algorithmic bias and why it matters to all of us:
The CIA is now a tech company.
★ Here’s a scrolling story ~thing~ I made about newsletters, writing on the web, and where we go from here
If you are in an online dev class or maybe a dev bootcamp and it teaches inaccessible practices, I think it is fair to demand a refund. And warn others away. It may be harming your longer-term skills and career growth, too.
"If behavioural ads aren’t more effective than contextual ads, what is all of that data collected for? "If websites opted for a context ads and privacy-focused analytics approach, cookie banners could become obsolete…"
No one in Hollywood will release a film about the murder of #Khashoggi--really @reedhastings, @JeffBezos, @tim_cook, @RobertIger, @hbomax? None of you want to stream a Doc with 97% on @RottenTomatoes?! Idea: you all pay 20% & stream together on same day
This annual list by @rokwon is always incredible. Buy some books, learn some things, change your world:
Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.
Two recent examples from the world of espresso… and - nothing else out there like either of them, both made by enthusiasts who just had to have them.
Power. Money. Lies. Are you ready for justice? Watch #TheDissident, from the Academy Award winning director of Icarus, on @appletv today:
RT @s_DesignTools: A walkthrough in what Design Research means nowadays - touching upon distancing, practice maturity and data abundance - and what to stand for in our work. Thanks @serota for finding the perfect words
I don’t get it, can he not just stick a Wordpress instance on and blog on his own website to reach hundreds of millions of people using RSS?!
Oh hey, yesterday I wrote about some good practices for embedding tweets in articles / posts, particularly geared toward making them accessible. Or available when a certain autocrat gets banned.
As white supremacists continue coups/militia actions & Tr_mp is banned from social media, folks are worried about the internet as an alleged free speech zone. This is a crucial time to engage the work of Dr. @JessieNYC — especially her book Cyber Racism.