jamie !!!!!!
@jazzyjams.bsky.social
product design, tech + such // banner art by Schim Schimmel
Instead of listening to new music I've been playing this over and over
Bloc Party - Talons (Video)
YouTube video by Atlantic Records
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Instead of listening to new music I've been playing this over and over
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Really enjoyed this post by @gerireid.com
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
Can AI write accessibility specs?
I wrote a prompt to help me write accessibility specs for components. Then had an existential crisis.
gerireid.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Really enjoyed this post by @gerireid.com
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
It felt accurate for what I've experienced from designers coming to me with specs written by AI.
Designers may learn what they should include, but the specs tend to lack the contextual awareness or accuracy required.
gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...
Keep thinking about how the HR person and my manager smiled at me after delivering the news that I was being made redundant
And just as I was literally getting ready to take my first "real" vacation in years
And just as I was literally getting ready to take my first "real" vacation in years
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Keep thinking about how the HR person and my manager smiled at me after delivering the news that I was being made redundant
And just as I was literally getting ready to take my first "real" vacation in years
And just as I was literally getting ready to take my first "real" vacation in years
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Ten or twenty years ago, if an executive came out and said "actually our products can't be trusted" the stock would take a nosedive rather than go up.
The casual way this techbro talks about the "error-prone" products they are throwing out into the world, the necessity for the consumer to accept, train for, and correct for these, and the impending economic chaos wrought by the frenzy they are creating as though it's normal and natural: holy hell.
Don’t blindly trust everything AI tools say, warns Alphabet boss
Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence models are ‘prone to some errors’ and warns of impact if AI bubble bursts
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Ten or twenty years ago, if an executive came out and said "actually our products can't be trusted" the stock would take a nosedive rather than go up.
Summer Wars (2009) warned us about this
Fascinating watching Cloudflare go down this morning, taking half of the internet with it. People have no idea how fragile and vulnerable the world's IT nervous system really is.
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Summer Wars (2009) warned us about this
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you can't make me learn what "cloudflare" is. I shouldn't have to know these things. I have a sensitive artistic spirit
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
you can't make me learn what "cloudflare" is. I shouldn't have to know these things. I have a sensitive artistic spirit
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gonna always pronounce AI like ayyyyyyyyyy now
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
gonna always pronounce AI like ayyyyyyyyyy now
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So if the goal is photo realistic, why not use, well, photos? Why burn 2 acres of the Amazon to produce something that you claim will be indistinguishable from a photo?
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
So if the goal is photo realistic, why not use, well, photos? Why burn 2 acres of the Amazon to produce something that you claim will be indistinguishable from a photo?
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lol, lmao
anyway all the rich assholes hang out — and none of them understand their own businesses or the economy either. none of them know how to sell things to people any more, only scams to investors and blinkers to shareholders.
that’s it, that’s the secret.
anyway all the rich assholes hang out — and none of them understand their own businesses or the economy either. none of them know how to sell things to people any more, only scams to investors and blinkers to shareholders.
that’s it, that’s the secret.
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
lol, lmao
anyway all the rich assholes hang out — and none of them understand their own businesses or the economy either. none of them know how to sell things to people any more, only scams to investors and blinkers to shareholders.
that’s it, that’s the secret.
anyway all the rich assholes hang out — and none of them understand their own businesses or the economy either. none of them know how to sell things to people any more, only scams to investors and blinkers to shareholders.
that’s it, that’s the secret.
Could've used these outages when I was still working
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Could've used these outages when I was still working
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I've been thinking about this all day, because so much of my career has been spent being not truly "one of us," and I'm only beginning to come to some kind of terms with how painful it has been.
If you're always an inspector at the end/external to/outside of the "core group" you're seen as not truly belonging, not truly "one of us," especially in organizations that are doing a bad job of protecting their dissenters and divergent thinkers (many tech orgs, ofc)
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I've been thinking about this all day, because so much of my career has been spent being not truly "one of us," and I'm only beginning to come to some kind of terms with how painful it has been.
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Security, privacy, accessibility, UX, anything that an org sees as being bolted on at the end hits this problem.
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
New open newsletter at Fight for the Human: Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?
In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions
www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...
In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions
www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...
Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?
There's a paper I recently came across by Mohammad Tahaei and colleagues called Privacy Champions in Sofware Teams: Understanding Their Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges. In it, they interview 1...
www.fightforthehuman.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Security, privacy, accessibility, UX, anything that an org sees as being bolted on at the end hits this problem.
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
"Champion sounds nice, but you don't have to become a Champion if everyone is already doing the thing you want. So taking on the mantle of Champion means taking on conflict."
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"The OSA is likely driving adults into a more fragmented, less regulated ecosystem, largely because people are uneasy about handing over ID. We’re probably not going to see less engagement with porn, we’ll see different routes to it — many of them far outside the spaces the law was written for.”
‘I watch more hardcore stuff on unregulated sites’: Men on their changing porn habits post-age verification
Three months since the UK introduced age checks for NSFW content online, some men are reporting unexpected (and some totally expected) changes in consumption
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"The OSA is likely driving adults into a more fragmented, less regulated ecosystem, largely because people are uneasy about handing over ID. We’re probably not going to see less engagement with porn, we’ll see different routes to it — many of them far outside the spaces the law was written for.”
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The Epstein emails are full of powerful people colluding to protect the most heinous behavior. They're also pretty pathetic at times — as when Epstein was complaining about the cost of hiring someone to do SEO to COVER UP RUNNING A PEDOPHILE RING.
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Epstein emails are full of powerful people colluding to protect the most heinous behavior. They're also pretty pathetic at times — as when Epstein was complaining about the cost of hiring someone to do SEO to COVER UP RUNNING A PEDOPHILE RING.
Question for peeps who hire designers: if you have conceptual designs for a project that weren't implemented but you think are more compelling, should you lead with that or what is implemented
Example: Designing the introductory thumbnail for a project
Example: Designing the introductory thumbnail for a project
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Question for peeps who hire designers: if you have conceptual designs for a project that weren't implemented but you think are more compelling, should you lead with that or what is implemented
Example: Designing the introductory thumbnail for a project
Example: Designing the introductory thumbnail for a project
I think I may officially be "don't talk to me before I've had my coffee" years old and I don't even drink coffee
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think I may officially be "don't talk to me before I've had my coffee" years old and I don't even drink coffee
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I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
It's a rolling layoff world
These silent layoffs are now just a part of doing business.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
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Even before AI, the lack of investment in growing up junior employees is a massive risk that we cannot keep ignoring. There have to be pathways and onramps to participating in the world fully.
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Even before AI, the lack of investment in growing up junior employees is a massive risk that we cannot keep ignoring. There have to be pathways and onramps to participating in the world fully.
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
Whenever I have another job, the first person to listen to me about something will be my new favorite person
The bar is low lol
The bar is low lol
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Whenever I have another job, the first person to listen to me about something will be my new favorite person
The bar is low lol
The bar is low lol
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I hope nondisabled people are listening to disabled people as we’ve discussed the mass hemorrhaging of accessible jobs, layoffs over accommodations and spike of tools used to screen out disabled employees in the past few years (which ends survival possibilities for us)
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I hope nondisabled people are listening to disabled people as we’ve discussed the mass hemorrhaging of accessible jobs, layoffs over accommodations and spike of tools used to screen out disabled employees in the past few years (which ends survival possibilities for us)
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Posting ghost jobs should be illegal. If companies do this to harvest consumer data or create the appearance that they are “always hiring” to appease investors, how is this just not fraud? Is there a meaningful legislative remedy for this?
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Posting ghost jobs should be illegal. If companies do this to harvest consumer data or create the appearance that they are “always hiring” to appease investors, how is this just not fraud? Is there a meaningful legislative remedy for this?
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Google is sitting there going "aha I've moved the shopping tab to where images normally is, this will definitely make people buy things instead of being annoying and wasting time"
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Google is sitting there going "aha I've moved the shopping tab to where images normally is, this will definitely make people buy things instead of being annoying and wasting time"