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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Literally about to cry at work for the first time in years because of the new figma prototyping. Not in a good way. I have not been this frustrated at my work tools since fucking adobe illustrator

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I find chatgpt extremely useful for copy writing - but in a few very specific ways only. Basically, if I'm already sure what I want to say, and I've drafted a version of it, but it's not feeling super clear - I'll ask chatgpt to rewrite it 10 times

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thousand Islands Dressing is the perfect example of consensus driven design. After each island of the thousand issued their veto, the remaining ingredients were ketchup and mayonnaise.

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

absolutely fascinated by this! in the recent hiring we have been doing, I was totally shocked to hear at least 3 of the first set of candidates were some kind of deep fake / totally fake candidate / phishing scam. www.pindrop.com/article/targ...

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Think You Won’t Be Targeted by Deepfake Candidates? | Pindrop

Deepfake job candidates are real—and they're targeting your hiring process. Learn how to spot them before they infiltrate your organization.

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Does anyone else feel like the trend over the last few years is towards less and less deep thought? Specifically driven by ai and short form social media

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 05/05/2025

My latest piece in @wired.com is about the dangers of driver distraction. Motorists in most new cars are almost forced to use touchscreens when in motion. This is finally coming to an end. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

wired.com

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is an interesting thread. It's not the original poster's point, but it makes me think about exam questions in general.

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I think it could be #ai that finally kills off the supremacy social media has had over the last decade. With the amount of bots, AI slop and unreliable content, I'm already seeing a lot of people shifting to more local / personal / longform channels: Substack, groups on messaging apps, audiobooks

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I feel like the rise of AI generated content is going to push human language in really interesting directions. How do you prove you're human? By using some kind of "in-group" language (grammar, words, style) that sounds obviously non-AI?

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

we need more formal gatekeeping in tech, in the same way structural engineers or lawyers or doctors need to pass serious exams to be certified

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I suspect sometimes "data driven" is also a way of saying "nah fuck your user interviews"

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Where are designers/tech people publishing long form content these days? #uxdesign #productdesign #tech

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 03/05/2025

This can happen with any AI agent… or human developer! A BIG difference w AI agents: they will write more code, faster than before, and ship a LOT more code to prod! So ship more bugs as well. Software engineers (not AI engineers) will build o11y solutions to solve for this!

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

How are you all using AI design tools like v0, Lovable, etc? As a designer I've found v0 kind of useful in limited situations, but not particularly better than doing basic competitor/UI research. Essentially it's a quick way to figure out what the obvious UI pattern is that I should be using.

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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · 02/05/2025

I'm excited to share Rembrandt Editor, a new tool I've created to make digital content more inclusive and trauma-informed. 🧵 #Technology #ContentDesign #UX #Accessibility #TraumaAwareness

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

timeshighereducation.com

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

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nicola rushton 🌞 @nicolarushton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I have a grand unifying theory of Elon Musk. I think it's a pretty common experience for a certain kind of smart person to enter a new organisation, look around them, see a bunch of broken things, and think, "well, the obvious solution would be ..."

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We need to scrutinize Big Tech firms as foreign policy actors, writes Gordon LaForge. It reveals a “yawning divide between public and private power”, he writes, “the imbalance at the heart of so many of the ills in American political, economic, and social life today.”

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Big Tech's Foreign Policy Takeover | TechPolicy.Press

To understand their power, we need to scrutinize Big Tech firms as foreign policy actors, writes Gordon LaForge.

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