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Julie Morgan (she/her)

@juliemstudios.bsky.social
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Designing for people and fair, innovative systems. Opinions my own. juliemorgan.studio 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
‘An LLM does not have agency. Full stop. But this does not mean that it is “just” a tool that’ll do exactly what you ask, and no more. Like any tool, LLMs are designed to behave in a particular way and do a particular thing.’
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“You should question whether there’s a sustainable business model for these labs. You should question those who argue that we have to build recklessly or lose to China. You should question those who don’t take seriously the prospect that China doesn’t want to slow down.”
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Making consent an agenda item”
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
September in San Diego
Image of the sandy beach with birds, rolling waves and distant palm trees.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“What if, instead of recentring the human, we expanded our sense of relating[?]” @xonorika.bsky.social globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/o...
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On centring the human
“Too often, conversations about AI remain trapped between denunciation and celebration, as if the only options are total refusal or uncritical embrace.”
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
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The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2026
Our liberation is all interconnected. We can't fight for gender justice without defending transgender people.
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Trans Rights Are Women's Rights | ACLU
Here’s why the rights of trans people are at the heart of gender justice for all.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
January #SanDiego
Sunny day at the beach, looking out over the Pacific Ocean.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“The difference between an AI's summary of War and Peace and the experience of reading it isn't about information—it's about transformation, about being changed by the encounter.”
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“What's at stake isn't our neurons but our habits of mind.”
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“IA is the skeleton of your system; the way components relate, how data flows, and how functionality is structured.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
To question code also means living by a personal code of values. Five essential practices: Create space for deep thinking. Build real community connections. Participate in technology governance. Make mindful technology choices. Build better alternatives where technology serves human wellbeing.
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Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you do not understand what your feature helps people accomplish: - you cannot test if it is complete - you cannot test if it is effective - you cannot tell whether or not new additions are core to the objective or distractions - you cannot defend against cuts that go too deep
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#April springtime
Green fields on the Pacific Coast with California poppies in the foreground, a farm mid-ground and the ocean in the background. It’s a clear, blue slay day.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“Humans have always been radically shaped by the designs they produce” - Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley
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Jonathon Colman @jonathoncolman.org · 17/03/2025
“We made painting feel like typing, but we should have made typing feel like painting.” Our interfaces have lost their senses: this multi-media essay is both lovely and haunting. wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
A figure made of yarn and fabrics happily reads a book, from which threads of light are emanating across a reddish landscape of fabrics.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Morning walk
Picture of a green field overlooking the clear ocean.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In the spirit of human agency, my readings this year reflected an embrace of human-centered books in the backdrop of dystopian milieu. Here’s the list of the books I’ve read in 2024. May the road rise with you in 2025.
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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy MLK Day.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Nice day for a walk on the beach. #SanDiego
On top of Del Mar cliff overlooking the shoreline. Beach is shown below with white caps breaking just off the shore.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“Artificial intelligence” as a term can be misleading as it doesn’t really fit the definition of “intelligence” as we know it: the skilled use of reason: “skilled,” as in “having acquired a mastery,” and “reason,” as in “a rational ground or motive.”
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The annoying truth is that principled entrepreneurship along with trade organizations and various forms of collectives is effective praxis and we need more of it. Running a business that doesn't take venture and actually has to make money is really hard, but society needs those.
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello world!
Spruce Street suspension bridge early in the morning.
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