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Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! fastcompany.com/90685137/3-c…
Remember when teachers panicked about Wikipedia?Now they're panicking about AI. But here's the thing: they figured out Wikipedia. Stopped banning it, started teaching it.
The same playbook could work for AI. medium.com/@gmugar/ai-is-hav…
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Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.
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Companies that thrive in the AI era won’t be the ones with the smallest teams. They’ll be the ones that figure out how to preserve cognitive diversity through deliberate human touchpoints and more intentional use of AI as a critical lens medium.com/p/03dec1137884?po…
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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
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Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! fastcompany.com/90685137/3-c…
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“Content moderation” was once industry jargon. Now it’s a front line in the culture war and the subject of multiple potential Supreme Court cases.
Here’s my attempt to trace the story of how that happened, from 1996 to today, in 3,000 words. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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His ideas were foundational to our understanding of the role technology plays in society. It might be that every social scientist has engaged with them at some point. "Nothing becomes real to the point of not needing a network in which to upkeep its existence”.
RIP Bruno Latour
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Medicalizing mental health doesn’t work very well if your goal is to address the underlying causes of distress, @_danielle_carr says. “It does, however, work really well if you’re trying to come up with a solution everybody in power can agree on.” nyti.ms/3R1OK3E
UX Magazine republished my article on reimagining expertise in design. So glad that this is resonating with so many people.
3 shifts for your design practice that can help you reimagine how you show up as an expert and decision maker from Gabriel Mugar, Ph.D., UX Research Lead at Meta, in @uxmag — bit.ly/3bp8n7f #ux #cx #decisionmaking
Quarterly user research reports don’t build empathy between designers and people who use their products …just saying…
Just like @marcrebillet says, you gotta show up if you want to get it done
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Jerome Powell: “You have two job vacancies essentially for every person actively seeking a job, and that has led to a real imbalance in wage negotiating," Well there you have it folks, logic of shareholder economics blatantly being anti-labor npr.org/2022/06/29/110810950…
Twitter has communities? No idea how to find or join but I love this. This is the future. Only real way to have meaningful moderation. So over these massive open and unregulated spaces.
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this being the culmination of a holy war that's been ongoing since the '70s, you should be aware they are coming for absolutely everything that isn't straight white christian fertile marriage with a submissive, economically dependent and fiscally constrained wife
