reporting from the field to say that Claude Design has reached CS conference poster designs which are now all becoming conspicuously beige and using suspiciously tasteful type combinations. we haven’t seen a seismic change in scientific aesthetics like this since the introduction of latex.

bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man... a) amazing investigation of something you won't have consciously noticed but immediately realise is true and b) brilliant example of how game design is interaction design is safety design

Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks: It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...

my (first!) article, “From the virtual community to ‘Trust and Safety’: eBay (1995–2007) and the rise of platform governance” is out on Big Data & Society! it is a history of content moderation at eBay, where they coined the term Trust and Safety 🌐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Everyone should read @tomasgna.bsky.social's brilliant article about eBay and its creation of centralized "trust and safety" efforts!!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

fantastic, from @kolahr.bsky.social 🤖 redux.wholeearth.info/index/gettin...

fantastic article by federico perelmuter (not here yet!) in @parapraxismag.bsky.social on the depoliticization of psychoanalysis in argentina

hello blueskiers! reporting here to say i’ll be in #aoir2025, presenting a paper on latin american startup entrepreneurs (which got the honorable mention for best paper award 🥳) and another one about the history of “trust and safety” at eBay (and everywhere!) 📦 excited about the panels, rio, all!