Today I’m excited about our 30 new wordplay.dev contributors, learning how to self-direct open source contributions to design, development, localization, research, verification, and more! It’s not easy to scale alone, but we’ll definitely do it together.

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after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design. AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships. So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

now that sora is being shut down i’ve never been so sure that the ai fruit love island type of content is bot created and gives money to people by ai companies to post about it. unless this shit gets mass adoption and becomes profitable, generative ai is destined to be shut down

It's real. archive.nytimes.com/wheels.blogs...

Can't spell "malaise" without the "ai," it seems.

We as software practitioners (professionals who design/make software) need to learn from adjacent fields like medicine and engineering and consider potential harm to other humans as a basic criteria for our decision making. Hiding it behind abstractions like “customer impact” is cowardly.

Top 10 video game weapons (really real): 1. Darkmoon GS (Elden Ring) 2. Holy moonlight sword (Bloodborne) 3. Moonlight GS (DS 1-3) 4. Lucky (Fallout: NV) 5. M72 Gauss rifle (Fallout 2) 6. Gauss Rifle (Fallout 4) 7. Fyr'alath (WoW) 8. Geti'ikku (WoW) 9. Tinkaton (Pokemon) 10. Ruins GS (Elden Ring)

You love to see it.

Accessibility needs to learn from this, because the nearly-malicious level of apathetic compliance that happens in accessibility is a solvable problem... with healthier laws and regulation! We don't have to live in a world of accessibility overlays! We can change how the law works!

But there is hope! The European Commission is currently undergoing a review of the laws that gave us cookie banners. We can get rid of them! And we have the ability to not make the same mistakes in the future as we regulate AI, a place where _actual_ protections are more important than ever. 4/

Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

"There’s something about reckless AI use, and vibe coding in particular, that’s bothered me for reasons I’ve never quite been able to put my finger on until now. Indulge me as I rant about our total disregard for constraints and the good ideas that come from them." #ai matthogg.fyi/vibe-coding-...

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

AIPAC spent 99 bazilly dollars against both the progressive and the other progressive and after all is said and done, the progressive won so they just dumped a ton of money for literally nothing

Has anyone done a study on research paper output and/or citations of early-career faculty pre-and post-2023/2024? I see some researchers nearly triple their paper counts and spike massively in citations in 2024 and 2025. Clearly, this has to be LLM-driven, yeah?

AI hype needs the cult of "fast" to work. "We don’t want fast because fast is actually better or cheaper. We want fast because someone convinced us that fast feels more secure... feels stronger; feels productive. Fast makes the line go up and lines going up is a good thing." -- @frank.computer

New blog post! "On genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck?" What if the slow parts about prototyping are actually what makes it worth doing?

these are in fact the use cases

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

And another obscene fact: 20 years ago the median age of home ownership was 39. 20 years later? The median age is 59. Unbelievable. The older generations have their claws out and locked in to every scrap of power they've been given. They are refusing to build a better world for anyone else.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE. But I’ve moved on to prosecute ICE y’all. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.

My mantra is soon to become: "move SLO and repair things."

move slow and repair things

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

Congress has appropriated the funds to NSF but OMB is delaying the release. When funds are released, NSF, which has lost almost 1/5 of its staff, will struggle to evaluate proposals. Since they have to award the funds, big projects with established PIs will benefit. This is how US science dies.

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

I'd love for community members to initiate some grassroots "class times" where people go through a course together!! Learning new skills is always better with community.

today was the The Internet Is A Privately Owned Public Space lecture in my big undergrad class. a student came up afterwards and started by asking me if i had heard of cyberpunk and ended by asking me if violent insurrection was the only way forward

Big announcement! I have accepted a tenure-track faculty position as an "assistant professor of data science" at Cal Poly in SLO, starting this Fall!! 🎉

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

me in any conversation about anything lately:

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

A key insight in Albert Borgmann's 1980/1990's writings on tech: Technology's false promise to free us from the repetitive and the soul-crushing so we can devote more time to the enriching and the fulfilling; in reality, "technology frees us up for more technology". Period.

Every single penny spent, received, invested, or even touched by a US Senator should be documented on a permanent, public ledger instantly. Their entire financial portfolio should be accessible. They should show the American public everything they do with money if *they* have nothing to hide.

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

Looking for deeper expertise: I was re-reading this outstanding (seminal) piece by @gillianrh.bsky.social on action research in HCI, thanks to a convo with some recent non-academic collaborators. What is action research up to now in HCI? I'm interested in epistemologies of "knowing by doing."

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I wrote about some nuance involved with annotating focus order, following a conversation with @annaecook.com where we realized we'd both been running across the same well-intentioned behaviors. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/yo...