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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 18/09/2026

“What if we could use AI to make the UX and UI custom for the user” What if we made a UX that actually supports people rather than making them figure everything out? What if our UI actually just respected system defaults so people don’t have to tell every site to do the same thing?

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 18/09/2026

there's an oldish saying, "do you want to be right, or do you want to be effective?" and i think it needs an update "do you want to FEEL right, or do you want to be effective?" bc really there aren't any points at all for "being" right. only being effective matters.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

"If you think it is bad that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and a handful of their billionaire buddies are effectively unconstrained, then the most effective thing you can do is pick a fight over data center siting in your area." by @davekarpf.bsky.social

davekarpf.beehiiv.com

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

men — and it is almost always men — don't do this. 1. i didn't ask for recommendations 2. those are NOT management theory books 3. i already own the book, trying to sell it to me like i've never heard of it is insulting 4. on no planet do i need a man to tell me what to read next

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 04/08/2026

i read management theory stuff for fun and if you think it's boring, you're wrong there's SO much tea. "Physicists, unlike accountants such as Deloitte, are educated to ask fundamental questions to understand the nature of things and to understand them in terms of energy and speed"

intelligentmanagement.ws

Why the Network of Projects is a Real and Operational Alternative to Deloitte’s ‘Adaptable Organization’

the Network of Projects organization design is a real and operational alternative to Deloitte’s ‘Adaptable Organization’, based on systems science.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 30/06/2026

a product taking up space (in the abstract) nudges us to consider how much we need, or want, it. SaaS products are a perfect evasion of any sense of taking up space.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 24/06/2026

this is really true and it's really upsetting. software is getting less powerful, less service-oriented, and just generally worse.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 23/06/2026

we have a rare window of availability at @codetv.dev, so if you're looking to make something special that helps your company connect with devs, now is a very good time to get in touch. I love working with teams that have the courage to experiment & take big swings — if that's you, get into my inbox!

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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is so dystopian. 💀 54 % of Americans read at or below a grade 6 level. Which means they can’t read for context, subtext, authorial intent or bias.

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Josephus Brown @josephusbrown.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Systems that function are invisible, unfortunately

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 20/05/2026

got to use my “do you want to eat shit or shovel shit?”* line on a friend today who was talking about how much shit it’s taking to set up her first real business vs just freelancing * about being an employee or an entrepreneur

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 06/05/2026

No one is ever completely “ready” for something difficult that they’ve never done before. So: Just start. But also: You know you’ll run into gaps, so realize that along the way, back off, get help, then get back to it.

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

we often use "medieval peasant" as a metaphor for superstitious, magical thinking, born out of ignorance, but the wooeyist wooey wooer in a rural town that's been cursed to stay in 1634 forever has less magical thinking than a modern billionaire

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 06/05/2026

it's super interesting when The Algorithm™ grabs something of yours and then lets go

youtu.be

2026-04-30 “our product lets you…”

YouTube video by dorian taylor

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 02/05/2026

the worst part about the github outages is that the engineers will probably take the blame when it’s more likely the managers’ faults it’s hard for me to imagine an engineer asking their manager to do a shittier job; these outages are usually downstream of management pressure to punt on quality

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 01/05/2026

i have been violently allergic to "product LETS users" since the first time i heard it like bitch. YOU are a TOOL. you don't "let" me do anything.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

discord. guys. it's time for you to visualize a chat app that actually works irc did it in the 90s. you can manage it. come on now. pull your socks up.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

i’m worried about all the people taking this as if it were true and not obvious satire

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

this isn't cheating, and it's not "absolutely bizarre"! this is just how LLMs work. they are improv machines. they do not have any sense of truth or fiction bc they don't "know" anything. they can't even "know" if they "looked" at an "image." this is totally unsurprising

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 30/04/2026

i lol'd at this the way i lol'd when i first understood gödel's incompleteness theorem

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's not that difficult or expensive to understand people if you really want to understand them. Many organizations prefer to spend huge amounts of money to keep that confirmation bias high going.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 29/04/2026

Forgot to mention: I’m running a 40% launch sale! But only for the first week. ⏰

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 29/04/2026

great thread, and also this is just the way things go: a variety of small, indie biz pave the way -> megacorps acquire and fuck em up -> users tolerate -> gets worse -> users revolt -> a variety of small, indie biz pave the way market concentration is bad, & it's also fragile

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 28/04/2026

people will need to embrace small biz to afford these services, which they’ll need more than ever thanks to ai, which opens the door to (hopefully) more independently owned alternatives. you will just need to get used to paying for software like you do patreons/newsletter— but for a mutual vs adobe

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 29/04/2026

for the last 3 years Microsoft has basically been covering their products knee-deep in shit and now we customers have to ladle out the shit with tiny spoons that Microsoft sells us and we have to read whiny blog posts about how they could not have foreseen this and also spoons will triple in price

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 29/04/2026

we have empirical proof that posting is one of the only human endeavors you can approach with both infinite time and money and never get any better at. the last truly expert domain

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 29/04/2026

i knew the github guys well before they made github. this whole arc has been wild to watch.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

this is, frankly, the best argument that llms are actually sentient* the intro is weird but the magic starts at 0:17 *THIS IS A JOKE. ALERT: THIS IS A JOKE.

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

i recently thought i finally landed on a solution to my "which camera do i get for deep infrared??" dilemma and bought a pre-converted ~830nm oly e-m5 mk ii from mpb but it was weirdly heavy, off-balance, & the evf was smeared. so back it went. now i am back where i started, but more annoyed

high contrast black & white photo of the desert. two saguaros glow white against a black sky. black silhouette of leggy palo verde branches frame the scene.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/04/2024

I'm looking back at this paper written 2019 & published 2021 with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science (pdf: oliviaguest.com/doc/guest_ma...) We presented a positive view and kind, if I do say so myself, compatibilist stance. 1/

fig 2 in Guest, O., & Martin, A. E. (2021). How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(4), 789-802. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620970585

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/04/2026

Thank you! The published version is basically unchanged but you might prefer it if you need to cite it (if not ignore) doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

i really like this chart from @olivia.science's paper "What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean?" arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

two tables, one "Discern relationship: does the artefact relate to cognitive labor?" (three entries: machine, human, and AI in the middle)

2: characterize relationship: How does the artefact relate to cognitive labor? the 3 columns are replacement, enhancement, displacement, with rows about valence, efect on cognition, labor obfuscation, human equivalence, etc.

more in the linked paper

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/04/2026

my favorite part about this "how the heck" series I've been working on is that people clearly have an appetite for the web being a clean and beautiful place where you can just learn things

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

To repeat the obvious, it really does feel like the internet/being online took a big turn from making us all more connected to creating huge barriers, while all the traditional publications and channels have been replaced by online. Everything is so fragmented, and not into comprehensible grouping.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 28/04/2026

take your mechanized pep talks back to linkedin

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

everybody is absolutely drowning in content these days. and so everybody you actually want to reach is using an elaborate system of mental filters to decide what to click on, watch, read, and internalize shipping ai "art" or "writing" is giving them a reason to filter you out, potentially forever

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/04/2026

This is a scorcher, and well worth the read. It starts with “you’ve got a hammer and are going looking for things that you can call nails”, but then plugs that into the profoundly antisocial nature of those in charge in Silicon Valley. Pair this up with…

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

this is a great way to reset doom-levels hehe

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Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com · 28/04/2026

same. “if you didn’t take the time to make it, why should i take the time to look at it?” life is too short to give everything the benefit of the doubt

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

When you hit an article that smells like AI, do you immediately click away? Hold your nose and keep reading if the topic is interesting? Take note of the author and never read their work again? Please share! forms.gle/UcpUPzZjaV8W...

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Reading LLM-Assisted Tech Blogs

Lots of people are using LLMs to draft and polish their articles. What's your response to it as a reader? This survey is in direct response to some rather ... passionate ... comments shared in the "...

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