Today I’m excited about our 30 new wordplay.dev contributors, learning how to self-direct open source contributions to design, development, localization, research, verification, and more! It’s not easy to scale alone, but we’ll definitely do it together.
I feel like you answered the same one I did (also 6% total for me, with 50% on disruption): sometimes destruction of existing things is necessary to build something better. I'm not a pure incrementalist, some structures and systems are legitimately bad and need to be torn down.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design.
AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships.
So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.
now that sora is being shut down i’ve never been so sure that the ai fruit love island type of content is bot created and gives money to people by ai companies to post about it. unless this shit gets mass adoption and becomes profitable, generative ai is destined to be shut down
It's real.
archive.nytimes.com/wheels.blogs...
Can't spell "malaise" without the "ai," it seems.
We as software practitioners (professionals who design/make software) need to learn from adjacent fields like medicine and engineering and consider potential harm to other humans as a basic criteria for our decision making. Hiding it behind abstractions like “customer impact” is cowardly.
(Lucky does big bonk if you spec into pure crit)
These all, to some degree, are capable of "big bonk," it seems.
Top 10 video game weapons (really real):
1. Darkmoon GS (Elden Ring)
2. Holy moonlight sword (Bloodborne)
3. Moonlight GS (DS 1-3)
4. Lucky (Fallout: NV)
5. M72 Gauss rifle (Fallout 2)
6. Gauss Rifle (Fallout 4)
7. Fyr'alath (WoW)
8. Geti'ikku (WoW)
9. Tinkaton (Pokemon)
10. Ruins GS (Elden Ring)
You love to see it.
Totally!
It's so interesting how much big money affects the non-local perception of local politics. I didn't know Biss showed up at all (not surprised, just didn't know). But the AIPAC stuff was all over. Tiktokers to wannabe pundits wanted to talk about it. And yet, only local perception makes the vote.
Accessibility needs to learn from this, because the nearly-malicious level of apathetic compliance that happens in accessibility is a solvable problem... with healthier laws and regulation!
We don't have to live in a world of accessibility overlays! We can change how the law works!
But there is hope! The European Commission is currently undergoing a review of the laws that gave us cookie banners. We can get rid of them!
And we have the ability to not make the same mistakes in the future as we regulate AI, a place where _actual_ protections are more important than ever.
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Thrilled to publish my latest article
BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION
with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech!
A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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"There’s something about reckless AI use, and vibe coding in particular, that’s bothered me for reasons I’ve never quite been able to put my finger on until now. Indulge me as I rant about our total disregard for constraints and the good ideas that come from them." #ai
matthogg.fyi/vibe-coding-...
This is closely related to my latest tyrade against llms in regards to prototyping.
I legitimately believe that friction, scoping, and finite-ness are all good things. An infinite, frictionless, pan-scopic space of design isn't design at all. Goodness is borne out of wrestling with constraints.
Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.
AIPAC spent 99 bazilly dollars against both the progressive and the other progressive and after all is said and done, the progressive won
so they just dumped a ton of money for literally nothing
One good thing from the fight: Kat (and Biss) helped drain AIPAC of boatloads of money. Unless Biss is secretly super pro-Israel and anti-Gaza despite what he says, AIPAC paid a bunch of money for a reasonable dude that they don't like to win lmao. (Maybe I'm misreading this all though?)
Wild to run against Biss. Hard fight to win. (I voted for Biss for governor back in '18!) Kat is great, of course, and I would have voted Kat if I was there. But Biss is super experienced and a solid candidate.
But give it a few years and some more political experience, and Kat will be a champion.
😭
This piece claims a 23-89% increase in publishing and an increase in citation count and diversity of citations.
However, I've seen some authors easily triple or quadruple their paper output though (and this doesn't feel uncommon, either). Hmm...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I worry about expectations on early career faculty. Are assistant profs expected to put out a minimum of 15-20 papers per year now? Is anyone out there even closely reading 15-20 papers per year? But also: what is the baseline and/or trend from the last couple decades? Has it changed much?
Has anyone done a study on research paper output and/or citations of early-career faculty pre-and post-2023/2024?
I see some researchers nearly triple their paper counts and spike massively in citations in 2024 and 2025. Clearly, this has to be LLM-driven, yeah?
(this is a great honor)
