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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 28/05/2026

I’d say this passage from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is spot on about AI…but that gives too much credit to the Mr. Prossers of this space understanding either A or B (the starting point or the destination). But they are definitely sure they want to be at point D in all of this. >

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 30/01/2026

Many artistic skills — seeing, composing, making marks —transfer both ways across analog & digital (just ask @loish.bsky.social ) NOTE about gen AI: It can’t help you see unless you ask, it is limited and repetitive for composition, and won’t help you build skill in making marks at all.

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 29/01/2026

Oof, that hurts to see that called animated. That should remain a term for human skill. Generated. It’s generated.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

i gotta say one more thing having worked in animation for years now, calling this "animated" is a fucking mortal insult. completely get fucked. animation is a creator thoughtfully and painstakingly giving something life. this is fucking nothing compared to animation

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22/07/2025

anyway here's the post i wrote up a little while ago as something to share with people who don't get it yet. even if they don't read it, i'm still doing what i can to take away the "i didn't know better" excuse.

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A little chat about genAI - Alex Plante

This morning I had the pleasure of appearing on CBC Radio Manitoba and talking to the always-delightful Marcy Markusa about something that has been bothering me and the entire artist community for a l...

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So advice… When oblivious friends and loved ones send AI-generated shit for laughs and you kinda hate AI-generated shit (not because you’re out of touch but because it’s unethical technology mainly used for unethical behavior), what do you respond? Note: They don’t want a lecture or convo.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws. We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

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Public Comment Invited on Artificial Intelligence Action Plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

 You might know us from the guides we have put together, like the de-risking guide and the UX guide. Governments all around the world have used them to make services more accessible and add more value to the public — all while saving millions of dollars. You can still find them here: 18f.org/guides/

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18F Guides

A central resource for all 18F guides and methods

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 19/02/2025

UX thought of the day: The more a product or service challenges your users' convictions, or demands concessions to fit into their lives, the more open they become to alternatives...including ditching the fundamental "hook" that is at the root of their loyalty to it.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

saw this on twitter, Stephen Worth made some extremely good points about what originality is animation production design these days and how nostalgia sometimes passes this point of no return in terms of relatability... ...and what it means to be a consumer vs a creative as an animation artist

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/02/2025

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Am I too sensitive or is it that you have unlearned how to talk to strangers and fail to consider that you’re rudeness might not read as playful to someone who doesn’t know you?

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Keep using your voice, making your effort, enjoying the process, learning how to do it yourself. Resist using AI for creative things. The fact of it: Use it or lose it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

I’m a grantwriter and I recently had a client use ChatGPT to help write a first draft for me to review. We had to spend HOURS fixing it line by line 💀 By the end she was like “oh wow you’re even faster than the AI!!” yeah because I have 20 years of experience with this foundation and it doesn’t!!!

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 17/01/2024

I’m weary of this graphic design trend that uses abstract shapes (instead of illustrations or photos) and motion (just because they can). dovetail.com/insightout/

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Insight Out 2024

Join us on April 11, 2024 for an industry conference all about the power of creating, sharing, and leveraging customer insights to build better products.

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 12/01/2024

Using AI tools where judgment is needed is hiring someone who sounds good but can’t distinguish between correct results & making things up, lies about their expertise, and hides their sources so you can’t independently confirm what they say. I think about this every time I see an AI announcement.

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KariLikeSafari @karilikesafari.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Anyone ages 12 – 26 living in the United States can get a San Diego Public Library Books Unbanned card. With the card, the library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks are available for FREE, no matter where you live in the U.S. libraryfoundationsd.org/news/stories...

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San Diego's Books Unbanned protects the freedom to read

Library Foundation SD and library launch Books Unbanned in San Diego to resist book bans, promote intellectual freedom among young readers, and cement libraries as a place where everyone belongs.

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 06/01/2024

I'm on the cusp of a big art show (Feb) and a big milestone for my UX work (Apr). More details soon! The strong bond that I have between these opposites is that artists will *always* be my users. I am compelled to respond where there are intersections of art and technology.

Self-portrait, half vectors and half pixels

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Reluctantly crouched At the starting line Parsley Sage Rosemary and thyme

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 21/12/2023

These are necessary things for the health of a social network. I want Bluesky to succeed — which means prioritizing tools for people to protect themselves from the abusive behaviors of people who will do it as long as they get away with it.

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 04/12/2023

COMICS WON'T JUST BREAK YOUR HEART - Tynan Stewart "...the momentum generated by the strikes in Hollywood has caused a lot of people to ask, 'Can we do something like this in comics?'" roadmapmag.com/articles/com...

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Comics won't just break your heart

by Tynan Stewart on Dec 01, 2023 // On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

This is one of the most honorable way to approach making art, to believe in your ability to put something into the world that helps *somewhere, sometime* & that hypothetical audience is worth caring about

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

Reproduction of excerpt from Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY:

"1. Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 17/10/2023

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I gotta say: thank you, thank you for holding the quality bar firm for Sandman adaptations. The audiobooks & show are a decades-old held breath finally released. I enjoy both how the audiobooks honor orig. DC/horror origins, but also the show’s thoughtful updates.

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 17/10/2023

This is why I try to limit my (visual) exposure to AI art. It teaches me the wrong things about <insert any fundamental principle>. I’m using AI with a known safe source set for ideation only — the details lie.

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

A 4 page comic about drawing, made for the Portland Public Library's new exhibition, "Why We Make Comics: Reflections on Storytelling" If you live in Portland ME, you can see this comic, as well as 3 others by other cartoonists, on display starting October 6! www.portlandlibrary.com/lewis-gallery/

What do you see when you see a bird? Is it the grace of its flight? The intelligence in its gaze? The sharpness of its beak? The softness of its down? Each of us has been gifted a way of seeing birds, unique to our eye alone. When we are in the woods together, I can see my bird, but not yours.

But what if we draw our birds for each other? And the next time either of us is in the woods, we find our capacity to see has grown? Your drawing can teach me to notice strength, softness, swiftness, grace, I otherwise would miss. It does not need to be a "good" drawing. It has energy and life simply because it is yours.

What abundance, to be surrounded by the drawings of other people! Each overlapping in ways, but at their core, inherently unique. Each one, in its own small way, the gift of sight. Making our perception of the world a little sharper, brighter, deeper.

Ours is an age where, increasingly, capital would like to teach us how to see birds. Smooth, flat, digestible. But real nourishment will always come from each other. I want to see birds the way people do. I want to see birds the way you do.

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MILESMEELEZZ 🐻 @milesmeelezz.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

With all of us coming here to Bluesky, we are all essentially hitting a big reset button. Twitter promoted a lot of toxic unhealthy traits in the pursuit for clout thanks to its awful algorithm. Here, those toxic fucks don't have an algorithm to push their bullshit. This is a huge chance for us.

An info-board summarising the difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky, and the potential advantages that come with the latter.

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Why should I care enough to read or behold something no one cared enough to actually make?

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 27/09/2023

I feel the same way about this as I feel about people that are mad that they can’t copyright their generative AI results built from shady sources (which is nearly all of them today).

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 27/09/2023

The best way to ensure generative AI works for humanity is to not afford it the same privileges as human efforts. *applause* Read that with extra emphasis on “for”, plus the implicit understanding that “humanity”includes the hidden people who create the source and those who help it operate.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks. What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden. THREAD

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 25/07/2023

UX tip of the day: Putting an X in the top left corner of a page is a good cue to users that it’s meant to be dismissed.

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 21/07/2023

Tried Spotify’s AI DJ and it demonstrates how a human-alike cannot fix artificial content choices. A DJ monologue does NOT bridge how jarring it is to swap from a chill brunch-ish playlist (Air) to trap (Lil Yachty). *not that “trap brunch” can’t work as a thing via the skill of an actual DJ

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Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Well, looking increasingly like twitter is going belly up. For friends here, esp artists, this is my first "tweet" reminding folks to protect their art with Glaze so they can't be used to train a model to mimic & replace you. glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Screenshot of the front page of website for Glaze

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 12/07/2023

Making one concentrated thread people can bookmark to be aware of things that happened on BlueSky. Others are free to throw in things that can be left out. Just posting articles I know of but to not have things scattered anymore (regard antiblackness , moderation,etc)

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Julie Meridian @makeitlegit.com · 08/07/2023

The community designer in me is cautiously optimistic about Bluesky’s potential. But I gotta say…the artist & former Photoshop UX lead in me winces every time I see those yellow blotches on the splash screen. (there’s a joke somewhere in here about over-processing in the cloud)

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