hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374... This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...

Good buttons are not easy to design. It’s crucial to communicate to the user how a button works and where it’ll lead them. Domas Markevičius has written a nice summary of how they approach button design at Wix. https://wix-ux.com/designing-the-perfect-button-e77ec1f32ee5

AI will take our jobs.

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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Looking forward to being a co-presenter with Yonah Levenson at Taxonomy Boot Camp discussing the relationship between taxonomists and information architects! #taxobc #taxonomy #informationarchitecture lnkd.in/g4_iUUFD

We’re back! In the first episode of season 4, @brownorama.bsky.social joins Design Downtime to talk about his love of board games. (I’m shocked it took me this long to get to this topic…)

Taxonomists! Board gamers! Come join me, @brownorama.bsky.social, @cacheblaster.bsky.social and Chantal Schweizer at #taxonomybootcamp www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2025/Agenda.... for our panel on Taxonomies, Data Models, and Board Games focused on the brilliant game #Wingspan - Monday 17 November

Mark your calendars! #IAC26 returns to Philly, April 14–18, 2026. Theme: Navigating Complexity—Clarity & Understanding with IA. Speaker proposals open TOMORROW! Submit by Oct 5, 2025, to share how you cut through complexity + build human-centered systems.

I’m just a scholar standing in front of a library asking it not to replace the catalogue with a google-like everything interface that fails to index actual collection items.

#Albuquerque Southbound I-25 S. of ABQ, all lanes closed due to rollover. Check your route before leaving home.

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This is all true. Trust me; I'm a #taxonomist

Hey #IA practitioners attending the #IAC25, or any of our fans in Philly, join me and @taxobob.bsky.social for a workshop on Knowledge Graphs - what they are, and why you should care about them! @cacheblaster.bsky.social @hapax001.bsky.social

I'm trying to replace a vintage Deagan glockenspiel bar and was just told that a newly-made replacement will sound similar, but that "the original Deagan steel was made using a process that is now illegal to use" — anyone know what that's about??

If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.

inaccuracy should be the ultimate embarrassment in computing

No. This is nonsense. Generative AI isn't artificial intelligence, it's a theft machine, built on theft, sipping the lifeblood of our planet, vomiting out simulacrum of creativity and talent that is most striking its its uncanny valley hollowness. It is the corporate murder of creativity. A plague.

Merry Christmas to investors who have sank billions of dollars into AI products. This is truly world-changing stuff.

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This thread lol

Love to see positive coverage of ABQ

hi, I'm hiring a new right-hand person at work! are you great at administration, a web & data advocate with practical experience, a strong mentor & manager & all around wonderful teammate with a desire to make SF's digital ~things~ better for people? come work with me! careers.sf.gov/role?id=3743...

What are some of your fave self-learning data science and adjacent resources? What’s holding your attention and keeping you motivated? #databs

At @drfarls.bsky.social's prodding, thinking about giving this place a closer look and maybe shifting twitter/X activity over here. Relative to X, I want to focus more narrowly on poli sci/theory/philosophy and related academic content+ my interests in urbanism/transit/land-use. Who should I follow?

Here's a starter pack of folks who are either focused on information architecture or are IA-adjacent. Anyone else who should be on this list? go.bsky.app/GuDoxo3

"But surely some AI implementations are actually useful!" is a common refrain in tech. Sometimes it's used in earnest and sometimes in the service of shitty grifting. Fortunately there's an easy way to tell which one you're dealing with. What's the first thing they tell you about their product?

this is like the tobacco industry providing "a tobacco explainer"

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

Interested in #taxonomy and/or the weird variances in clothing sizes across countries? Come to the November 12th Taxonomy Talk talk by three taxonomists from Vinted! Register at lu.ma/iv876v3s

reminds me to reread bates (web.archive.org/web/20240916... — original site appears to be down)

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords Google, Microsoft and Meta are shoving A.I. chatbots into our faces. Sometimes, there’s a way out. (gift link 🎁)

I'm going to be hiring a freelance community & social media manager for a women-owned brewery–if you know anyone with platform expertise in IG & TikTok, please tell them to shoot me an email with work samples to [email protected]

If ChatGPT were a paid employee, it would be on a final warning and performance review by now.

there should be a website you can use to search the internet

Newsletter: OpenAI is a bad, unprofitable business, with most of its revenue coming from premium subscriptions, and only 27% ($1bn) coming from people licensing its technology, suggesting that the generative AI industry is much smaller than we thought. www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

One of my first priorities this fall is hiring a full-time Director of Development to head up Apple Hill's fundraising/donor relations! Is that you? Do you know someone with the skills who might want to work on a gorgeous 100-acre campus in New Hampshire? Please share! applehill.org/ah/wp-conten...

if you’re a baseball fan, i encourage you to check out mlb

Newsletter: The tech industry has its own growing commercial real estate bubble - the Software As A Service market is in decline, over-leveraging unprofitable generative AI in a desperate - and failing - attempt to restart growth...but it isn't working. www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalypse-now/

good for them

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New Music bluesky people: where do you look for jobs? Ideally, I’d like something administrative and remote, though jobs in Oregon are also appreciated.

Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.” Not only does Generative AI pollute the environment but it also pollutes the data. www.404media.co/project-anal...

This thread

Anyway I need a new job! Looking for UX design or product manager roles at the Lead+ level, in New York or remote. B2B is my focus but I'm down for any domain. Portfolio at pavelsamsonov.com