I’m struggling to celebrate, just holding my breath

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

AI is not your therapist. Speaking to your AI tools in confidence does not mean that it will keep your words in confidence. It has no obligation to protect your privacy because it is an unregulated tool. Everything you say is being monitored. Your data then becomes everyone’s business.

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

As soon as I spot AI writing my brain shuts off 😭 I can’t do it anymore

I wonder how many accounts on LinkedIn are bots…

People in Gaza are ‘walking corpses’, says Unrwa, as agency says it has 6,000 aid trucks ready to enter – Middle East crisis live

The fact that we are about to design for AI and robots instead of people in the current / near future is freaking me out a lil

The only thing that lowers my heart rate in an open office (where some decide to have loud remote meetings without headphones) is this playlist lol

Fear based decision making tends to create a culture of intense risk aversion, dim on creativity, and overall fatigue. We all suffer when data, experts and advise are not taken into account in decision making, and are made to fit into the order top down.

"Be kind to yourself and hard on the system."

All we can do is alarm: AI will not save us. AI has limitations. AI cannot replace us.

Three things in life are certain; death, taxes and ads

That time of week when I am desperate, hoping and praying for some relief. Thank you for all the support from #Astros and #UX community. The struggle and panic attacks are real, but so are you www.gofundme.com/f/zqgzdt-hel...

usually I am a ‘need for speed’ type of researcher , but I was also a heavy proponent of manual analysis the work is excruciating, tedious, etc… but the outcome is extraordinary. the trend of researchers offloading qualitative research to AI is freaking me out (beyond the automation bias)

Just got this email nudge, never seen a call to action that just pissed me off & impressed me as much as this one hahaha Like let me sign up and think about it in peace, but also, yeah why should you keep my data if I’m not fully invested in your product?

The sun is super red and it’s slightly freaking me out!

Though (I feel) my skills are difficult to replace, I feel like my learning trajectory with AI is now so steep that I can no longer catch up with the industry, I’m 10 steps behind on what’s new. It’s either I spend my whole life catching up, or I become irrelevant. The stakes feel so high.

We grieve the past and what could have been

Pope Francis was one of the few leaders in the world who always cared. He cared. He spoke up. May he rest in peace.

Went on a cruise for 2 weeks, and because I had little to no access to the internet, I genuinely felt like I was healing my brain.

I think our parents were right to blame everything on the damn phone. If you’re the type to feel frozen and trapped in fear, go outside, touch grass, leave that phone at home 😂

With the era of AI artistic theft, artists are going to rethink their relationship to and methods of exposure using social media, and maybe even refocus to in-person, no cameras, community-first events. We need to get creative.

What a wonderful chat today @derekalton.bsky.social. - We talked Rekindling GC Communities & Networks. - The positivity these networks brought to the table. @supergovernance.bsky.social, Camille B, @natalyarar.bsky.social, Thom K, Hillary H, Robyn P, Stephanie G, Alexa I, James C and more!

The most radical thing any of us can do right now is disconnect and be a part of a community. In the real world. Get to know your neighbours. We need each other more than ever.

I still find it wild that despite all the warnings, conversations about tech ethics (impact on society systematically and individually), we still fell into techno fascism

Annual stuffed mussels gatherings ✨

End of an era

How do you expect to be a part of a community if you’ve only showed up once? If you never speak? Never volunteer? Only take? The art of community is almost lost. The reciprocity of relationships are disappearing in real time and must be reignited, and retaught.

This is a quote from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT that was made into a protest sign, seen below, by Indivisible St Louis in 2019.

The future of everything is at risk, unless we choose to hold on to it tight.

So many of us do amazing work hidden by NDAs & excessively risk averse culture - I miss when technology and innovation was a group project and not only a competition

Are any of us okay after all the tragic events of these last 5 years?

The Honourable Jean Augustine spoke to us about her legacy this morning and I’ve never been more inspired by a politician. What an incredible person.

The delulu state of mind must be put to the side. focus.

all this convenience turned us into mush time to make everything 10x harder just so I can use my brain again

Really interesting seeing people suddenly alert to the state of the world right after Trump sworn in.

Really interesting results from the AI accent detectors. I’m a third culture kid, have an international school accent that morphed into a Canadian one. The AI could not pin point my accent really. Had to take a few tries. I tried 2 different tools & none were right.

I love that I’ve only just started using TikTok consistently and now there’s a threat of this app shutting down soon ✨foresight✨

NEW: WIRED obtains docs showing DHS privately warned police in August that US cities are woefully underprepared for hostile drones, expressing doubt in US tracking capabilities. Cops were encouraged to conduct exercises to test their response.

One of the things I struggle with the most is ‘selling’ myself. I know the work doesn’t (can’t) speak for itself when it is hidden by layers of bureaucracy, and the fact that research is not a “visible” skill (especially if it takes years to adopt research findings), but in the interim, I’m stuck

Happy with how my painting turned out 🫶

I looked for it, couldn't find it, so there it is: a Starter pack for Service Design practicioners. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/7ksuZN

"The conversation no one wants to have is that it’s still impossible to calculate how many resources infrastructure of AI needs to run at scale—including water, a resource Spain is rapidly running out of with 78% of its landmass threatened by desertification." www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-...

Data bias, training data poisoning, "hallucinations", indirect prompt injection... the thought of someone consulting an LLM for advice on who to blow up and how should make everyone very nervous.

From THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY:

Today something magical happened, and it happened through the cursed space (LinkedIn). Someone viewed my profile, they sounded so cool, so I just sent a ‘Connect’ request. We chatted soon after, and almost immediately hopped on a call…

Plenty fantasize and stay in theory, but can’t manage in practice