Lisa Maria Marquis
@redsesame.bsky.social
UX consultant. Author of Everyday Information Architecture. I like Star Trek, bad movies, shitposting, and kindness.
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Lisa Maria Marquis
@redsesame.bsky.social
· Nov 19
welcome, new followers. this is a johnny mnemonic (1995) stan account now
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I've had a few questions from folks who want to know a little more about the course before snagging a seat, and a lot of this information is buried in newsletters and blog posts—I thought a video might be a quick way of getting it all in one easily-digested place:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt6...
JavaScript for Everyone Q&A
YouTube video by Mat “Wilto” Marquis
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've had a few questions from folks who want to know a little more about the course before snagging a seat, and a lot of this information is buried in newsletters and blog posts—I thought a video might be a quick way of getting it all in one easily-digested place:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt6...
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Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was
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This is an alarming escalation and spells out exactly why every organization working for justice needs to STOP HOARDING EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS.
Create a strict retention policy right now. If you get a censorious subpoena make sure you have nothing to hand over
Use signal with disappearing msgs
Create a strict retention policy right now. If you get a censorious subpoena make sure you have nothing to hand over
Use signal with disappearing msgs
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is an alarming escalation and spells out exactly why every organization working for justice needs to STOP HOARDING EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS.
Create a strict retention policy right now. If you get a censorious subpoena make sure you have nothing to hand over
Use signal with disappearing msgs
Create a strict retention policy right now. If you get a censorious subpoena make sure you have nothing to hand over
Use signal with disappearing msgs
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Her blood is on the hands of every single fucking law enforcement officer who wears a mask and refuses to show their credentials.
June 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Her blood is on the hands of every single fucking law enforcement officer who wears a mask and refuses to show their credentials.
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These are relatively low risk protests in a lot of places AND gentle reminder to everyone that it is the cops that decide whether protests will be safe and/or peaceful, not protesters
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
These are relatively low risk protests in a lot of places AND gentle reminder to everyone that it is the cops that decide whether protests will be safe and/or peaceful, not protesters
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Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too.
Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿♂️
Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿♂️
I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too.
Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿♂️
Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿♂️
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What's really hard to reckon with is not just that we inflict these horrific cruelties upon people for no reason, but that a sizeable chunk of people - your neighbors, our neighbors - actually wholeheartedly supports this cruelty.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
projects.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What's really hard to reckon with is not just that we inflict these horrific cruelties upon people for no reason, but that a sizeable chunk of people - your neighbors, our neighbors - actually wholeheartedly supports this cruelty.
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The reason you have to be inflexible on basic human rights is that if you are flexible about a thing then it is not a basic right
June 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The reason you have to be inflexible on basic human rights is that if you are flexible about a thing then it is not a basic right
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I am getting tired of saying this but I keep sporadically hearing from people things like your life has no substantively changed since trump retook power, bitch yes it has I have a conscience and I wake up mad every day fuck You lol.
June 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I am getting tired of saying this but I keep sporadically hearing from people things like your life has no substantively changed since trump retook power, bitch yes it has I have a conscience and I wake up mad every day fuck You lol.
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This is what is so, so baffling. It's not like it was a normal publisher which has to raise the finances from within to produce and market a book. WE DID IT ALL FOR THEM. Us, and our readers. Yet they STILL didn't pay us.
Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing.
Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust.
Unbound stole our money.
Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust.
Unbound stole our money.
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is what is so, so baffling. It's not like it was a normal publisher which has to raise the finances from within to produce and market a book. WE DID IT ALL FOR THEM. Us, and our readers. Yet they STILL didn't pay us.
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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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Fucking spineless Rainbow Capitalism strikes again. This fucking apology from the BarkBox CEO is worth exactly nothing.
I don’t buy their overpriced crap anyway. But you can bet your ass I never will now.
Fuck #BarkBox and #HappyPride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.businessinsider.com/barkbox-ceo-...
I don’t buy their overpriced crap anyway. But you can bet your ass I never will now.
Fuck #BarkBox and #HappyPride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.businessinsider.com/barkbox-ceo-...
BarkBox CEO apologizes for leaked message comparing a Pride collection to MAGA-themed products
BarkBox's CEO apologized after a leaked message compared Pride items to MAGA-themed products by calling both "politically charged."
www.businessinsider.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fucking spineless Rainbow Capitalism strikes again. This fucking apology from the BarkBox CEO is worth exactly nothing.
I don’t buy their overpriced crap anyway. But you can bet your ass I never will now.
Fuck #BarkBox and #HappyPride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.businessinsider.com/barkbox-ceo-...
I don’t buy their overpriced crap anyway. But you can bet your ass I never will now.
Fuck #BarkBox and #HappyPride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.businessinsider.com/barkbox-ceo-...
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Here is an interesting graphic display:
Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.)
theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.)
theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
June 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Here is an interesting graphic display:
Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.)
theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.)
theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
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This is the kind of thing that has historically led to great social stability and a complete absence of civil unrest.
Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.
Worked on novel antivirals.
Worked on novel antivirals.
June 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This is the kind of thing that has historically led to great social stability and a complete absence of civil unrest.
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No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.
“In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have shown for the 1st time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.”
The virus can no longer hide!
The virus can no longer hide!
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’
June 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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We need more interesting worms. What do we have, ring and flat? Stupid. I long to be infected by new worms.
June 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
We need more interesting worms. What do we have, ring and flat? Stupid. I long to be infected by new worms.
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Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.
So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards
So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards
June 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.
So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards
So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards
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A cleaned-up and expanded version of this thesis, in case you need to convince some AI-pilled manager that you can't just take these things at face value.
If you wanted to refer to this rant in a professional context, a cleaned up version is now up!
The design of LLM chatbots doesn't only make hallucination inevitable - it makes the user less likely to spot errors and react to them. The path of least resistance is drawn thru thoughtless copy-pasting.
The design of LLM chatbots doesn't only make hallucination inevitable - it makes the user less likely to spot errors and react to them. The path of least resistance is drawn thru thoughtless copy-pasting.
May 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A cleaned-up and expanded version of this thesis, in case you need to convince some AI-pilled manager that you can't just take these things at face value.
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Gift link: Cops in New Orleans have been using a private face surveillance network to track people across the city, which is prohibited by local law. Now the cops are trying to change the law. wapo.st/4ds19e7
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
wapo.st
May 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Gift link: Cops in New Orleans have been using a private face surveillance network to track people across the city, which is prohibited by local law. Now the cops are trying to change the law. wapo.st/4ds19e7
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These 350,000 will immediately be described as "illegal" by the administration — among other inevitable false descriptors.
Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to reinstate Sec. Kristi Noem's order ending Temporary Protected Status for many Venezuelans, but notes the decision does not address challenges to actions "purport[ing] to invalidate" related legal status, work authorization documents, etc., previously granted under TPS.
May 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
These 350,000 will immediately be described as "illegal" by the administration — among other inevitable false descriptors.
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👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.
May 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.