A prerequisite of hoarding 99% of global wealth is being an utterly miserable, untreated human being

If I’m reading these assembly instructions right a ghost is going to come to my home and make my bed frame

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

Anyone who doesn’t already know is going to learn very quickly how tech-fascists are actually not that good with tech

Give us this day our daily sandwich guy

In digital accessibility, we have focused a lot on being "compliant" to legal standards. This model of accessibility is valuable as a lever to make organizations do more than nothing But in the United States, I think some companies are taking this regime's actions as excuse to do nothing or little

Mamdani is the mayor of all of us now, sorry I don't make the rules

My god, I never thought a sandwich could be so dangerous. Even "America's finest" can't handle it. (sarcasm)

I feel like I'm watching accessibility maturity at companies actively regressing. It's a wildly sharp contrast between now and 2020, when many companies were so openly pro accessibility and DEI. The short term is rough, but I think the long term remains hopeful. Most people want accessibility 🤷‍♀️

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

"The AI Con reminds us that the fight over AI is not only about technology. It’s also about language, labor, and the stories we choose to tell about the future, which we can humanize rather than surrender to the myriad ways mass automation dehumanizes." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

I know we are all keenly aware of what is happening politically, but if you're in a place of privilege, this is a very good time to donate money to food banks and mutual aid groups.

Some designers think accessibility compliance criterion (WCAG) make designs worse. This is untrue, and in fact, as a designer, having WCAG knowledge in your tool belt is a great way to make a case for your better designs to be made!

Me slapping my computer: Mommmmm the internet isn't working again

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

A press and hold button is to prove I'm not a robot isn't a security fix, it's an accessibility bug

"SEO hacks have been keyword-stuffing alt text in images for literal decades. There is no way ARIA will get away unscathed. Every button, link, and div will be roled up to redundancy at best, and the wrong thing at worst. " adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

From a purely business perspective (I know I'm sorry), companies that recognize that customers want security, privacy, accessibility and overall autonomy are going to do well.

Advice for getting an MRI: + Keep eyes closed + Don’t move + Box breathing + For every weird noise you hear imagine the character that makes it

I could have sworn less than a month ago Eric Adams said he would never endorse Cuomo But hey, I guess the "enemy of an actually helpful potential mayor is my friend"

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

If it took so little to create a mod that lets you override Meta's (likely minimal) privacy protections, you gotta wonder what other half baked non-secure stuff are in those glasses That and something something surviellience state etc. www.404media.co

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

As I start doing more speaking about accessibility and inclusive design, I am reminded of something I think is worth sharing. A lot of folks think they are bad public speakers, I think everyone can be a great speaker (but they don't have to be ofc) Its just about nailing down your style

We should always ask ourselves why something we buy would require wifi and what actual benefit is involved in that. Besides the obvious "bed stopped working" issue here, its weird that companies create products that can access data that is so deeply personal

If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

But he’s going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.

AI writing anything: "X doesn't just do Y — It also does Z"

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Smashing Magazine sent out another good newsletter. This time they talk about how measuring traffic to a site is a vanity metric, particularly in this era of people using AI to find what they need instead of going to source materials. sparktoro.com/blog/in-a-ze...

I'd like to see design spaces create "accommodation by default" work so as to assume that every person deserves to be accomodated for their disability rather than making them ask for it. I think it's particularly relevant in systems design, but also valuable in other design contexts.

Riddle me this, if AI is truly "nearly" at "AGI" why make me select photos of bicycles to make sure I'm not a robot. Curious that 🤔

I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

Today's a good day to find out if websites you use are hosted in AWS (Amazon)

I am certain we could design an accessible cash register system so people could sit and do their job. It's ridiculous not to have this already

I think there are apps that are afraid to have "no AI" filtering added because they think adding that will land them some kind of heat. But as is, there are too many digital platforms that have become unusable because they are littered with slop. Somethings gotta give.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I can only imagine how much better our world would be if we taught kids about the social model of disability and normalized accessibility.

I would desperately like to not feel the need to multi-task in every waking moment to complete enough tasks every day

I have a talk on neurodivergent inclusive design coming up, in which I am intentionally going to mention that neurodivergence is not a thing to be "cured." It's weird that I have to state that at all.

i only use openai for the articles

I like to imagine a board meeting where Open AI was panicking about how to make a profit and someone in the room, head in hands said "our only option is to make it a porn bot"

The casual ableism is so gross. There is not a single person on this planet without "mental health" problems. Like all disabilities, it's just a part of human existence. Sometimes we have more or less. To restrict interactions based on a perceived mental health "issue" is gonna go bad quickly.

I have been asked to speak at a couple events in the next months. While I have some ideas for topics, I'd be curious to hear from you all. Are there any topics in particular you'd like me to cover regarding product design, design systems, accessibility, and inclusive design?

Alright, here we go, this should hopefully capture what I'm looking to do and how I'm planning to go about it. annaecook.com/writing/2025...