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Jason Barrons

@jasondbarrons.bsky.social
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Product Designer and thoroughly fed up with the DNC. Will engage with right-wing folks in good faith only.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
@aoc.bsky.social, any insight as to why dems think doing the same thing as every previous year is the bold and brave thing to do at the SOTU?
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trumps feefees were hurt by both France and the UK correcting him in front of the press. So he did what any bully does - found someone smaller to punch down at. That's what this was about today. Removing the shame of being corrected by greater men than him. How small.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'm considering starting a change.org petition where the signers pledge not to donate one cent to Democrats until: 1. Super delegates are abolished. 2. Seniority rules are revoked wholesale. 3. Dark money and larger donors are banned from primaries.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 11/02/2025
We’re already living in the world cyberneticians feared: feedback loops too fast for us to critically process. The new epistemic battleground isn’t truth vs. falsehood; it’s statistical plausibility vs. interpretative meaning.
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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 01/02/2025
We need publicly owned systems on the internet. Publicly owned alternatives. I'm not content with my only option to post my work to youtube, where I have to code my words in what is the internet's equivalent to cockney rhyming slang to not upset the machine in charge. It's absurd.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Stargate is a tacit acknowledgment that the real money in AI is in infrastructure, not in software. Economies of scale don't work on neural nets, but they still work great in data centers and chip manufacturing.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh look, Trump is going to raise prescription drug prices. What a man of the people: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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Trump Rescinds Biden Order Aimed at Lowering Prescription Drug Prices | Common Dreams
"Trump is again proving that he lied to the American people and doesn't care about lowering costs—only what's best for himself and his ultra-rich friends."
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thinking more about conversations with @benjaminjriley.bsky.social , I think a big reason why people are being duped by AI is how we've conditioned users on computers for the past 40 years.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Kid Rock is aghast, AGHAST I SAY, at Michelle Obama having the temerity to not show up to Trump's inauguration! How dare she not respect the incoming incoming administration! Afterall, we all know that Trump...oh wait nevermind.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Nothing makes me cringe harder than hearing a data scientist say, "One of the things I love about neural networks is that I can use them for anything that's unstructured since they mimic the human brain."
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just read a designer on linkedin claiming that he replaced 12 engineers and 12 months worth of work with just himself and AI working over less than 30 days. How does he know how much was involved? He asked the LLM, and it told him! Folks, this is a high level of malpractice. #AI
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hypothetical - Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk come willing to band together with the Democrats to campaign against oligarchy in the US. This will be the only issue they will work on with you. Let's assume the success rate is high that it works to put in significant reforms. ... Do you do it?
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Nothing says "the greatest invention since fire," like "here are AI profiles that you aren't allowed to block even if you hate them." #AI
theverge.com
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
“Nobody asked for this or wants this.”
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I couldn't agree more.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I am still appalled at how everyone thinks Dark Mode has benefits when a)all of the research shows it has none, and b) even the original researcher in the 80s. said light mode only caused eye strain because of CRT technology. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
theatlantic.com
We’re All in ‘Dark Mode’ Now
How light-on-black became a way of life
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2 & 6 for days.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
One day I'll sleep just as well.
Picture of an adorable pomski sleeping away on a pillow.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
If the kind of user research that you do can be performed by an AI, then the kind of research you do wasn't worth doing in the first place. I'm disturbed by designers who use AI to do everything for them when it comes to research and it's frankly unethical. #ux #AI
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
When I find fascinating about open AI becoming a for-profit and still claiming to benefit humanity, Is that there was no reason why they simply couldn't become a public good company like Blue Sky. And yet they still chose to go fulll for-profit.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai...
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Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?
OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can you be house speaker and thus in line for the presidency if you weren't born in this country? I feel like if you aren't eligible for the presidency, then you can't become house speaker.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When people tell me that color is 'aesthetics' in interface design, I'm going to show them this. #UX #UI
image of a password form where various requirements are presented via color as being correct/incorrect.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I think gestures have gotten way out of hand in a lot of applications and OS's. But if you ever ask someone who's struggling with a gesture or has a misstap because of a gesture, They will tell you it's their fault.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Design itches that drive me bonkers: when you put a count of replies, reposts, and likes below a post, my brain wants to click on those to read said replies and reposts. Instead, you have to click on the post to see those things, because those buttons trigger the features. I f* this up EVERY TIME
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Me, employed: "I don't have time to write articles on UX and product design." Me, Laid Off: "I have too many articles I want to write on UX and product design."
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I'm watching people on LinkedIn be blown away by ChatGPTo1 being able to answer the trolley problem, and I just can't today. People really don't understand the relationship between training data and output. #AI.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I think one of the most toxic things that holds computer science back is not just the overreliance on benchmarks as evidence of a breakthrough but the subversion of what benchmarks are for.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
When you get automatically signed up for a company's newsletter after applying for a job, you both know that email marketing has entered a fresh new hell, and that it's a place you don't want to work.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fuck yes.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The US if it existed in the Middle Ages
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don't think there's a higher compliment than someone highlighting a phrase you wrote on medium.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I gave a talk a few years back at a conference about proving that Dark Mode is a load of horseshit for anything other than aesthetic reasons. I need to turn it into an article, but I'm really struggling to write it up. I already know how it ends! #ux
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Figma is so fucking shady, burying the lead that they're jacking prices by 30% in an email about their "new pricing experience." The lock in they have with design systems is very real, but it's time that designers start learning penpot. Figma has knives out for you. #UX #UXdesign #productdesign
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Kevin Zatloukal @kcz.at · 08/12/2024
Just tried it again now in Microsoft Copilot and it was similarly frustrating. After asking it what an ouroboros is, I asked it to draw one:
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ben Shapiro is Getting hammered by his own audience right now For his videos, attacking the left in regards to the UHC CEO. Top comment on his video:" I just now realize your entire business model depends on us hating one another." Lots more like it. Conservative Reddit is the same. Wild.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Atlantic article buying into openAI's legal strategy to get out from under Microsoft as a real tech advance in AI, and I want to fucking scream. This idea that nobody knows how an LLM works when it's commoditized is fucking rich. @emilymbender.bsky.social , I suspect they're misquoting you here.
text from an article that reads "on the surface, the startup's latest rhetorica sounds like hype the company has built its valuation on. Nobody on the outside knows exactly how openai makes its chatbot technology, and o1 is its most secretive release yet.  The mystique draws interest and investment. "it's a magic trick," Emily M Bender, a computational linguist tells me.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Tell me that the hinge CEO doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about without telling me he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. #ai
Image of a headline from the publication sumaphore that reads hinge CEO searching for a partner in real life won't hold a candle to meeting online with AI.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just remember that AI is like a paper tiger: it doesn't matter if it's a real tiger. What matters is that you believe the threat is.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I am conflicted about pre-emptive pardons. On one hand, protecting people who have already been called out as enemies of the state is a noble pursuit in the face of so many norms being obliterated.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Anthropomorphism is the curtain hiding the wizard.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My kingdom for a browser that lets me auto-reject requests for notifications and location from random websites.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
no no no, LLMs are not a black box. they use *transformer architectures*: a number of *attention heads* are fed vectors and then the outputs are added back to the *residual stream* in a feedforward manner. and each of *those* things is a completely opaque black box
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Q from a student: Has anyone looked into the history of how multilingual models came to be a thing? That is, what is the rationale around mushing data from many different languages into a single model and where did that idea originate? #NLProc
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For those who don't know, I do UX/Product design as my trade, and I also write articles on the subject. Here's one of my spicey takes: medium.com/@devolve/wir... #UX #userexperience #uxdesign #productdesign
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Wireframes Are Not Low-Fidelity
Wireframes miss the plot on nearly every perceived benefit. Here’s how to stop wasting your time and produce better designs faster.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Or...how my neurodivergent brain can't filter out background sounds so please stop fucking talking while I am.
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Stephen Chew @schewpsych.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
How We Filter Out Background Sounds When Speaking neurosciencenews.com/background-n...
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How We Filter Out Background Sounds When Speaking - Neuroscience News
Researchers have traced how the brain filters out background noise during speech using signals between the motor and auditory cortices.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
No. Multiple studies document the mining, environmental, & climate impacts of fossil fuels are far greater than for renewables. Less mining is needed b/c the batteries have long life, can be recycled & reused. Fossil fuel buring is a one way trip to pollution. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 theicct.org/clearing-the...
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Clearing the air: There are plenty of minerals for EVs, and they have far less environmental impact than fossil fuels - International Council on Clean Transportation
There are sufficient mineral resources for a global transition to electric vehicles, and battery recycling options will further reduce environmental impacts into the future.
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Jason Barrons @jasondbarrons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The whole echo chamber narrative about blue sky is so shallow. The more interesting narrative is the complete refutation of toxic algorithm manipulation. The engagement engine does not need to be fed. It's so cathartic.
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