if I find the time soon, I may write more about my experience with the SEAP program. but what I can say now: it has helped make a very tumultuous situation turn into a great opportunity and space for me to do something I’ve been talking about for years.

today will need to be Class Day. Not my class, but the class I’m taking as a part of a program I’m in. Other than emails, I just need to buckle down and dedicate time to this before my deadline. how am i so busy

maybe along with talking about ethics, we need to start talking about accountability in design. Because I don’t think enough people expect to actually be held to task for their work & decisions in a substantial way. Meanwhile, people in other professions work with that as an assumption.

for all of the times I’ve talked about research/design ethics and why they matter, THIS is why. the potential for harm is high, and so is your responsibility. And you’ll be asked to account for it. www.linkedin.com/posts/michal...

Hi all! I'm excited to announce that I've put together service packages for my freelance consulting work 🎉 AND I've created a mailing list for updates 🎉🎉🎉 If you are looking to hire a designer that is a data nerd, you can find out more info and sign up here: list.slawrencedesign.com/signup

Fantastic write up.

bumping this one more time, for visibility’s sake. It takes a few minutes to do and helps me a ton. And thank you to everyone that has taken the survey so far, I appreciate it so much 🙌🏿

before I teach, I must learn, so I’ve been jumping back into brushing up on my stats knowledge i even looked up my old stats textbook! i remember these penguins fondly

Just yesterday The Crimson had a piece about the criminal choice to close the Harvard Women’s Center, among other important spaces That’s not capitulation though, just Harvard agreeing with Trump. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

They closed the DEI spaces, the women’s center and let their Black president out to dry It’s telling you think this is “standing up” after they already harmed all those people

i really enjoy chiikawa. it’s so cute. but also…what the FUCK be happening in this show

for anyone that’s not a designer: don’t worry, i will have more surveys 😘 this is where I’m starting, but lots of people want to understand statistics and data analysis. Small business owners would want to better understand their customers, I’m sure. (this may be a hint to reach out to me)

bumping this for the morning, post-long-weekend crowd. I want to make sure what I come up with is useful for people! so taking this little 5 minute survey would help me a ton as I start planning content.

Designer friends: I'm working on some content around using statistics and data analysis for design work, but I need to get some more information and out of my own brain. So I've made a survey, I'd be grateful if you took it: forms.fillout.com/t/iW9aNFoLrTus

i am not advocating for ghost, bc i am still trying it myself. But I WILL advocate for understanding how payments work for your business, and having as much control over it as possible, even if it’s a pita. getting more hands-on with your setup allows you to customize, bc THIS is the alternative

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

anyone into keyboards, indie nail polish, and other niche online shops have seen this going on ever since the tariffs were announced. That it’s now hitting the beauty industry shows how bad this snowball-turned-avalanche has gotten

“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”

so many people do not realize how fucked up applying for jobs is right now. the amount of effort, and the process itself, is beyond FUCKED. And AI is making it worse, bc it creates an invisible hurdle without clear rules, and no relation to actual skills or *humanity*.

a reminder for those using browsers bully on top pf Firefox (Floorp, etc.) to still check these settings, ideally it should be turned off already.

Hey Firefox users.

I’m working on a little somethin…iykyk I’m preparing and taking notes, but also would like some feedback. Expect to see me on here asking for some info and help in the coming days.

is there an app that turns post threads into essay *drafts*? i know about longtweets and the like, but something where you just have a microblog interface that just…tricks you into writing an essay, then hands it to you at the end to clean up and post for real.

i am learning some lessons and licking my wounds today. on the plus side, I took a nice walk this morning and had the best kouign amann i’ve ever had in my LIFE. no picture because it is gone, no crumbs.

a little shining light in these dark times

as an aside, entrepreneurship is not for the weak. I always knew that, but it’s been hitting home lately. lots of writing up big plans and setting up little pages. break over, back to being busy busy busy again

It’s strategic and targeted.

good morning from a sunny roof if i have to work on a weekend, then i’m gonna be chill about it lol the wind ruined the shot, but there’s a homemade cinnamon roll on that parchment paper

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

if you think this thread was partially inspired by the tiktok lady that fell in love with her therapist, then you win! spoiler: she named her two AI hypemen, one is called Henry. The other Claudeai-based one has another name I forget.

one thing i am realizing: there’s the AI that is making horrible content, being used unethically as a source of information, and is fucking up the planet, and THEN there’s just LLM/automation calling itself “AI” to ride the wave and get buzz and funding (but also creeping out their customer base)

the new viral tiktok story is a whole bingo ticket of modern drama. Grifter offering “alternative” mental health treatment, unethical use of AI to claim to treat people, and lying in a whole multi part story but not even keeping track of the lies within individual parts i am amused AND incensed

How to Migrate Your Bluesky Account to Another PDS (Personal Data Server) - Do you even need an invite code to use the new @blackskyweb.xyz app - Difference between a PDS and an app - For nerds and nerd-adjacent: How to migrate your data to another PDS (goat automated and manual)

last year’s exploration to find a platform for my content continues. Especially now, I really need someplace to send out content that I host and curate myself. once it’s ready, I’ll sound the rallying call

he like me fr seriously tho, we truly are on the same journey. i am rooting for tiny chef so much. (i will be putting up my own sign and announcing Big Tings soon)

all of the people talking about how AI is helping them to design: how do you know that, when these tools have not even existed long enough for you to get enough feedback on the actual effectiveness of the designs? it’s nice that you het help making something cute, but to what end? 🌚

i had to take a social media break for a while, but now i’m back. looks like everything is shit and the world is still on fire cool cool cool

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK

jesus.

I pray for the downfall of these GenAI companies and theirsocially inept and emotionally stunted CEOs. The harm their programs have done to the environment and society in this the past year alone is unquantifiable.

wait wait wait i'm cool, too, i swear

this is a great time to remind people that Affinity Apps work great, and do not have a monthly fee. I paid for my apps once, that’s it. I’ve used them, and they work great. You can try them and see if they fit your use case.

“Five Essential Books on Overlooked Black Artists and Designers”

Excited to announce that @blacksky.app received a $30K dev grant from @skyseed.fund to further Blacksky’s mission of fostering safe, self-governable spaces on atproto Funds will be used to hire a part-time #rustlang dev, build our own relay implementation, get rsky to v0.1.0 + cover server costs

…ok Harvard, go on ahead and lose my number and address and never ask me for donations again. because what in the ever loving FUCK.

i have created over 40 dev containers in the last 30 hours

i —and i cannot stress this enough— cannot overstate how much the troubles of working with any dev tool comes down to lacking documentation. days and days of my sleep and sanity, lost to READMEs that don’t contain the one piece of info that could solve my problems.

As someone that has done work with government clients, i do have a lot of feelings about these current layoffs. Those laid off were doing important work. It’s easy to take it for granted, but government digital services and resources have come a LOOOONG way over the past decade, and it’s due to them