Anna E. Cook
@annaecook.com
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Bog hag, product designer, accessibility advocate đ
https://annaecook.com/
A prerequisite of hoarding 99% of global wealth is being an utterly miserable, untreated human being
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If Iâm reading these assembly instructions right a ghost is going to come to my home and make my bed frame
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
ICYMI: Microsoftâs charge âimplies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.â That âwould mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.â
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$MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Marisa Kabas
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it does seem like thereâs a majorâthough potentially fleetingâopportunity 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.
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Anyone who doesnât already know is going to learn very quickly how tech-fascists are actually not that good with tech
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Give us this day our daily sandwich guy
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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
4 days ago
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Mamdani is the mayor of all of us now, sorry I don't make the rules
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My god, I never thought a sandwich could be so dangerous. Even "America's finest" can't handle it. (sarcasm)
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6 days ago
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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 đ¤ˇââď¸
7 days ago
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
7 days ago
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.
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Alex Hanna
10 days ago
"The AI Con reminds us that the fight over AI is not only about technology. Itâs 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-...
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The Return of the Luddites | Los Angeles Review of Books
Erik J. Larson considers âThe AI Con: How to Fight Big Techâs Hype and Create the Future We Wantâ by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/
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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.
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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!
11 days ago
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Me slapping my computer: Mommmmm the internet isn't working again
12 days ago
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Joseph Cox
12 days ago
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 âIâm an American citizen so leave me aloneâ âAlright, we just got to verify thatâ
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoplesâ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as âpure dystopian creep.â
https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/
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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-...
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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A press and hold button is to prove I'm not a robot isn't a security fix, it's an accessibility bug
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"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...
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OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
OpenAI has announced itâs launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing the tar...
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.html
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Katie Mack
5 months ago
Chatbots â LLMs â 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 theyâre ârightâ itâs because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. Thatâs all.
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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.
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Advice for getting an MRI: + Keep eyes closed + Donât move + Box breathing + For every weird noise you hear imagine the character that makes it
16 days ago
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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"
17 days ago
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Hypervisible
18 days ago
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.
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OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/openai-sora-2-celebrities-racial-slurs-1235452298/
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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
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404 Media
404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.
https://www.404media.co
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JA Westenberg
18 days ago
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag âLook how hard my team worksâ no dude youâre just bad at project management. Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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evacide
18 days ago
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...
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SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/
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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
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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
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Andy Bell
about 1 month ago
If youâre generating an image for your article with AI, you didnât need one in the first place
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The Oregonian
20 days ago
But heâs going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.
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Blind protester dragged, detained by feds says agents picked âthe weakest person they could findâ
But heâs going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/blind-protester-dragged-detained-by-feds-says-agents-picked-the-weakest-person-they-could-find.html
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AI writing anything: "X doesn't just do Y â It also does Z"
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The Flytrap
21 days ago
HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.
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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...
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In a Zero-Click World, Traffic is a Terrible Goal - SparkToro
60% of marketers say their top goal for the next 12 months is "increasing traffic." And 59% say their primary KPI is... also traffic. To all those folks,
https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-a-zero-click-world-traffic-is-a-terrible-goal/
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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.
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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 đ¤
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Daphne Keller
21 days ago
Iâm always surprised we donât talk more about AWS as a single point of failure â and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.
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Tech Policy Press
21 days ago
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applicationsâfrom Signal to Fortnite to key UK government servicesâreveals 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.
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Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
https://www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud-outage-reveals-democratic-deficit-in-relying-on-big-tech/
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Today's a good day to find out if websites you use are hosted in AWS (Amazon)
21 days ago
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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
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21 days ago
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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.
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Emanuel Maiberg
24 days ago
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...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
âWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.â
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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I can only imagine how much better our world would be if we taught kids about the social model of disability and normalized accessibility.
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I would desperately like to not feel the need to multi-task in every waking moment to complete enough tasks every day
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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.
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whet moser
26 days ago
i only use openai for the articles
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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"
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26 days ago
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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.
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27 days ago
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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?
27 days ago
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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...
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