Depuis quand avons-nous commencé à dire "les personnels" au lieu de "les membres du personnel" ? Et est-ce que ça vient de ministres macronistes biberonnés chez McKinsey ?

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1/12 La récurrence obsessionnelle des signifiants " bien-pensance ", " wokisme ", " islamo-gauchisme" chez les droites radicales n’est pas un argument : c’est un symptôme de saturation argumentative et de régression du champ du débat d' IDEES vers la nomination strictement disqualifiante.

Domain-specific solutions require you to understand the problem, which requires domain expertise and/or user research. But that requires decision-makers to admit ignorance. Bolting an LLM onto every product doesn't require understanding the problem AND makes investors happy you're "innovating."

à chaque fois que j'aide mes proches âgés pour des formalités en ligne, je mesure combien le monde est devenu extraordinairement inhospitalier pour tant de gens, la violence sourde des injonctions souvent incompréhensibles : serveurs vocaux, identification à 2 facteurs, autoriser la localisation...

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

As someone very critical of AI, I'm pretty depressed that most critics don't seem to understand thar there's no experiance more perfectly personalized and targetable for ad tech than a chat box where you're telling a machine what you want.

It's amazing to have the book in my hand now, after several years of working on it with Kasper and Per Ola. In a nutshell, it's a new textbook for introductory-level HCI courses: ✅ 10 parts, covering the whole HCI process ✅ 864 pages and 1.9 kgs ✅ Open access (!)

Every designer and programmer you’ve ever met has had to turn down some fucking asshole’s “killer app” idea where they asked us to work for free, for the exposure, and we said no instantly because the idea was self evidently bad. That’s why there’s a demand for AI. To realize terrible ideas.

A big problem I have with all the AI boosters is when they say things like, "if you just use them right, they're great!" Buddy, after 30 years in tech I can tell you that the one thing people will NOT do is use anything right.

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

The most important UX skill in live meetings is not facilitation. It's elicitation. The ability to actively listen, allow people to participate in the way that's comfortable for them, and strategically ask questions that guide toward better understanding. That sometimes means ignoring the agenda.

'Support humane managers....As a sector, we have a habit of appointing narcissists & sociopaths to senior roles...When we do get humane managers...they deserve...support even if we don’t agree with every decision. Because if we don’t, the...leaders we’ll get are the narcissists and sociopaths.' 3/3

On a tous appris que "anticonstitutionnellement" était le mot le plus long de la langue française, on a lu la définition, des exemples de phrases en contexte. Et voilà que des années plus tard, enfin, on peut l'utiliser dans plein de conversations.

Open house today at Gobelins Paris - come and visit! www.gobelins-school.com/events/gobel...

Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Ne me demandez pas quels centres culturels sont installés autour de Montpellier a l'époque carolingienne. J'en sais rien, c'est au fond du pli.

sometimes I think social media is uniquely polarizing and then I read the Wikipedia article about "French Wars of Religion" and I'm like hoooooly shit

Has anyone seen an ASL video explaining the design thinking process? Looking for one to use with deaf high school students.

A Month in System Seeing: Journal Starter Kit (2025 edition) This pulls the #AdventOfSystemSeeing prompts together in one place, and adds several more to make it a month. PDF: www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...

... but... but i was told information architecture wasn't important? /s

I really think there’s too little attention being paid to the changes in usability — paid accounts getting pushed to the top, algorithm changes, MASSIVE ad load, the disappearance of verification. Like … it’s not that the political mix hasn’t changed, but many other things have changed too.

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it