I recently finished The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by @pluralistic@mamot.fr and then I just got in the mail the #enshittification 💩sticker I forgot I had ordered with the book.
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@blaubeer@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr also “play has no limits” but I guess movies do…
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I think this is what @pluralistic@mamot.fr calls reverse centaurs.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr well, this unexpectedly blew up, and here I am without a Soundcloud.
If you're a designer or researcher, though, you can check out my Monster List of UX Books on Airtable: https://colvr.co/uxbks
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@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io @chefx@defcon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr we need laws that allow consumers to transfer all their DRM-laden digital media from one platform to another and makes digital purchases irrevocable.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr You can listen to the first hour of the audiobook here: https://archive.org/details/reverse-centaur-audio-sample
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@csstrowbridge@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr sadly, but consumers should be giving the right to have their digital purchases be irrevocable and to freely move digital media between platforms.
“Putting an early-career researcher on a low [research]-adoption product is not a development opportunity. It is a setup for burnout that leadership will eventually misread as a performance problem. Matching researcher profile to team maturity is how you prevent that, and how you protect research credibility at the same time.”
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ras-research-resource-allocation/
Wow. I beat my record again.
This is way too accurate.
Promo for Lou Downe's new book, Bad Services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=padhecMK3ck
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@johnnythan@tuebingen.network @Katika@chaos.social Bluesky is probably boring if you end up on a lot of blocklists.
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Edit: I just saw your other post about running out of funds to pay people (I had gotten the impression you were a team of one and didn’t realize you were paying people to work on these projects) and started donating.
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I’ve said this before, but you need to get some people to help you with both projects, so that development of one isn’t stalled while you’re working on the other.
@newsmast@backend.newsmast.org please remove my account and posts from your feed
These are some of the worst-written choices for a survey question I’ve ever seen. It seems like the person who wrote this doesn’t know how to write survey questions but also wanted to be deliberately misleading so they can get the kind of answers they want.
The Recommendation-Adoption Score for tracking the adoption of user research recommendations:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/recommendation-adoption-score/
“We hope stakeholders will act. We hope they will prioritize the right things. We hope the evidence will be enough. But if you are relying on hope, you are setting yourself up to be fooled.”
#UserResearch #DesignResearch #UXDesign #design
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/research-recommendation-breakage/
“employees’ email accounts and Microsoft files included deeply sensitive personal and medical information shared with the airline as part of their employment and insurance agreements”
#privacy #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/spirit-airlines-wants-to-sell-its-data-to-google-former-flight-attendants-are-freaked-out/
“you can’t collaborate with #AI in the same way you can’t collaborate with a bus.”
“when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the head of civilization.”
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@RealGene@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.fr cutting costs has no limits. They’re just trying to keep their business “sustainable” /s
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Is this hosted on AWS? I can’t get the link to open.