First and Fifteenth returns in 2026. New website, new schedule. 💁🏾‍♂️ www.first-and-fifteenth.co #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco

No & ...’: A Forum on Technological Refusal, Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February from the Critical Technoscience Platform at Maastricht University. Registration is now open! www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad

Day out thinking about #BrainRot #AiSlop #CriticalAI

First & Fifteenth, 2025 wrapped. #FirstAndFifteenth #uxmichaelco open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Inspired by @rude1.blacksky.team, I've made my own evergreen reading list — the titles I repeatedly return to and re-read — which are central to my thinking and practice. The service runs on #atproto, made by @cosmik.network 👌🏾 #CriticalAI semble.so/profile/uxmi...

How did my leisure time on the internet get turned into staring at a bunch of inboxes? 😩

#ffconf is the reason I created my @uxmichael.co BlueSky account. 1 year old! 💁🏾‍♂️ 🎂

Back again 🤗 #ffconf #uxmichaelco

Tune. 🎹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5WY...

Couple of weeks to go before I’ll be doing a guest lecture at the RCA for their Design Ethics class, part of the Design Futures masters MDes. 🤗 #RCADesignFutures #DesignFutures #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco

One week left to submit something! What's come in already is 🔥

New publication!🚨 Fungi As Your Futurist by @sporesight.bsky.social 12 fungi-inspired design principles, with contributions from 18 global voices across multidisciplinary design and research (inc. me!) sporesight.co/fungi-futures #FungiAsYourFuturist #RegenerativeDesign #uxmichaelco

Nuh-uh-uh, that’s a chalet. Duvet is the word that French people use when they want to go somewhere quickly or express encouragement.

@lurkmoophy.bsky.social will you be posting that amazing @webdevconf.com intro video online somewhere? I really want to show my ma! 🥲 #WDC2025

@webdevconf.com was so good! Amazing to meet and listen to such talented and lovely humans. Thanks to @lurkmoophy.bsky.social and @alexolder.com for putting such a great event together

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What a day @webdevconf.com #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco A thread 🧵

some fairly twisted examples of AI actors in the "grief tech" space electric talk so far from @uxmichael.co

Thank you @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for being a brilliant host, and to @alexolder.com for bringing us all together for this year's @webdevconf.com 💛🖤 Link to my deck in comments below. 👉🏽 📀 DVD extra: video of my talk at @ffconf.org last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs... #WDC2025 #ffconf

This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨 My talk? “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” webdevconf.com

Human Decentred Design (2025 edition): A trilogy in four parts, presented at @contentrising.bsky.social earlier this year at @rbgkew.bsky.social in Wakehurst. 🍃 💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlz... #FirstAndFifteenth #ContentRising #uxmichaelco

nouvelle arrivée dans ma bibliothèque: APOCALYPSE NERDS écrite par @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social et @oliviertesquet.bsky.social publié par @divergences.bsky.social #FirstAndFifteenth #PremierEtQuinzième #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI

Throwback and reminiscing The Conference, Malmö in 2024: Human Decentred Design, 15 minutes. #HumanDecentredDesign #uxmichaelco #CriticalAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdW...

Thank you @klingebeil.bsky.social for introducing me to HYPE: A Critical Field Guide. 🙌🏾 This will be a very useful pocket-sized reference as I begin to navigate @hypestudies.bsky.social johannesklingebiel.de/portfolio/a-...

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday

Friday 10 October, I will be speaking at @webdevconf.com in Bristol. Tickets and lineup: webdevconf.com My talk “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” explores digital existence, archival capture, and the fragility of our technological infrastructures. #WebDevConf #WDC2025 #uxmichaelco

Immerse yourself in “Meshwork” by Merve Mepa: a conceptual art installation exhibited at SALT Galata. The piece untangles the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures. Exclusively on First & Fifteenth. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

New essay. First & Fifteenth. 1 August 2025. In which I discuss Meshwork by Merve Mepa, an installation at Salt Galata, untangling the connections between ancient weaving practices and complex technological infrastructures. #DefyCategorisation #EthnoMathematicsMadeMeDoIt #uxmichaelco

One week to go until Future Days! ✅ Notebook ✅ Pen ✅ Mind open ✅ Laptop closed futuredays.io

Today's newsletter from First & Fifteenth takes a swerve, thanks to April Cools' Club! www.aprilcools.club Dries van Noten! Fashion! Read it now! Thanks to @hillelwayne.com uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/dries-van-...

It most certainly is a challenge building an entire OS for a conference but we're working on it! WDC OS 1.0 has launched, along with out early bird tickets for #WDC2025 webdevconf.com

🌱 Content Rising is a one-day conference for environment and climate creatives @contentrising.bsky.social 📍 It will be on Thursday, 12 June at the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Wakehurst. 🎤 I will be one of the speakers. My talk is called Human Decentred Design. www.contentrising.co.uk

💥 Newsflash for environment and climate creatives! I’ll be speaking at Content Rising on Thursday 12 June. contentrising.co.uk Follow their account as more details will follow! @contentrising.bsky.social

Fifteenth #15: On refusal It’s out now. open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Monday 17 March, I’m in an online panel on Future(s) of Masculinity, convened by Malmö’s When!When! Agency www.eventbrite.com/x/round-tabl...

What a day. My head is spinning from the ideas, insights and visions shared at #ResearchByTheSea (on and off-stage) — @clearleft.com and @benjamin.parry.is thank you for having me!

Watch my talk “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” from @ffconf.org where I address my growing concerns about digital existence, archival capture, exploitation of Black digital imagery and the fragility of our technological infrastructures. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs...

My most recent essay on the 15th saw me take a walk around Hard Graft at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social - if you are in or around London between now and April, go and see it! uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/fifteenth-...

Drawing from Black, Latinx, and queer histories; international feminisms, and artists who won't be bound by disciplinary orthodoxy, my talk at Research by the Sea explores refusal as design practice. Art: “Incantations to a Vague Borderland” by Gaia Ozwyn.

New review of Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia! uxmichaelco.substack.com/p/first-14-c...

My latest essay is … On FESTAC ‘77 open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Next week on First & Fifteenth… FESTAC

"What are the words and the forms with which to do and say and make what we need to live in, now?" Read Christina Sharpe’s “The Shapes of Grief,” one of our most-read pieces of the year.

New review of Imagination: A Manifesto by @ruha9.bsky.social Start the new year with hope! open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

My next book review is of Imagination: A Manifesto by @ruha9.bsky.social — arriving January 1st uxmichaelco.substack.com

New! ✉️ open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

15.XII.2024: undersea internet cables open.substack.com/pub/uxmichae...

Ever think about death, digital existence, or the fragility of the internet? Vote for my talk and I can tell you some things at SXSW London sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...