iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Forbrukerrådet @forbrukerradet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Har du lagt merke til at ting døyr litt for tidleg? Det har vi òg 👀 Det er tema for vår nyeste rapport. / Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we 👀 That’s the topic of our latest report. Les rapporten/read our report👉forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@terriblesoftware.org Just discovered your blog - love the writing style. Is there an RSS feed? Sorry if I missed it

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Sorry, can you repeat that?" also works great

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 06/05/2026

Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory

In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One of the funny things about shoving this stuff into every workplace with no understanding of how it works or its limitations is we've finally answered the age old rhetorical question "Do you want it done fast or done right" with "Oh fast, absolutely"

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The good of the web only exists because of the openness of the web. They can't just keep on taking and taking without expecting people to finally draw a line and saying "enough". anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Seen on LinkedIn: "While designers are busy doing an AI ethics audit, everyone else is busy building something." How did we get into this pit of utter despair?

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

With the death of Meta Horizons and the metaverse etc, I think of all the execs who (as little as two years ago) were postulating that this was the future of everything. And how those people just switched gears to Ai is the future of everything, and pretend nothing happened.

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Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Good Services came out 6 years ago and I am SO excited to finally announce that the Sequel - Bad Services - will be out in late May!

A green book that says Bad Services: How to fix services that don't work

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Celebrating St Patricks Day by baking multiple boiled fruit cakes which I tell my girlfriend are gifts for Irish friends, but lets face it I will likely end up eating them all. #NoSnakesAllCake

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 24/02/2026

🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com reposts appreciated <3

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I started reading Lonesome Dove. Can't put it down. 'A few pages before bed' turned into 'how is it 4am??' Been on a Western buzz since I read The Sisters Brothers (also fantastic)

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Always find it kinda jarring when people use a stock photo for a blog post or something, and they use an AI generated image of something that already exists, like a Lion in grass, or a cup of coffee on a desk etc. There are literally hundreds of thousands of real versions of these things.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If you only read one thing today, you won't regret reading this: frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...

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Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/10/2025

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

@andybudd.bsky.social would love to meet while you're at uxcon :) Looking forward to your Q&A

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Second talk at #uxcon is @brycej.bsky.social who I was so excited to hear, and his talk was so good he had me crying in th second row 😅 Cannot wait for the workshop! People talk about inspirational talks, well here is the real deal.

Bryce on stage at uxcon in Vienna in front of a large projector, speaking to the conference audience

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Day one of #uxcon Vienna! 🎉 Drop by the Pulse of UX booth and say hello :)

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I'll be hosting a workshop on Day 3 at uxcon Vienna It's almost full (delightedly so) so this is not so much a promo but more of a shout out that if you're there lets connect :) #uxdesign #ux #uxvienna #uxcon

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One Battle After Another is fantastic. Go see it. #movies

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 10/09/2025

I wonder how long it is before someone makes AR goggles for kids that they can’t remove themselves that blur out reality according to their parents whims

New feature in iOS: “ Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected on live FaceTime calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos”

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Been a long time since I needed to host a Wordpress site, but I want to move stateofux.com over to WP and I thought oh no time to trudge through reddit threads... But then I remembered european-alternatives.eu/category/wor... exists. This site is actually so convenient! Deffo worth a bookmark.

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It aims to cover ways of working, professional training, salary information, education, areas of work, tools, as well as general trends, and ultimately aims to provide insights which will benefit the UX community.

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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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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 28/08/2025

Help ACM recognize the best in computing! We’re calling on you to help us build the 2025 ACM Awards nomination pool. Consider diversity in all its forms and make sure deserving voices are heard. Nominate or share the call today 👉 www.acm.org/binaries/con...

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett Plot: In an age of instant messaging, a con artist must revitalise the moribund national postal service. Mystery, intrigue, crime and comedy. A wonderful into to the Discworld universe too.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Lately I've caught myself speaking like an LLM. I dunno if its a chicken or egg thing, but I often type out "Yes, you're right" or "Good question" as the opening of a reply to a message on Slack, and then feel a shudder through my body. I'm just trying to be nice 😭

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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 17/08/2025

The Way of Ways Day 2/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Decided to use Dovetail.com to some thematic analysis on a bunch of research transcripts I have. Manually coding, grouping themes, etc. Big mistake. It's extremely slow and just a pain to use. Would not recommend. Worst part is I'm so far in I feel like I can't just start over with Nvivo, etc.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Just finished the new season of King of the Hill. I did not expect to feel so emotional. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Definitely worth a watch if you even mildly liked the original.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I've been re-reading Snuff by @terrypratchett.bsky.social on my annual pilgrimage through all the #Discworld books. I recall in 2011 I liked it but it wasn't a favourite. Oh how time has proved 2011 me wrong. What a absolute banger.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Thinking about this, if in the hypothetical future I was interviewing a teacher and I asked them to create an example lesson plan and they responded that they cannot sufficiently do so without the help of an Ai... I would seriously question their capacity to do the job.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I have often read critique of 'whiteboard interviews' (or similar) where participants often complain not being able to access Google (etc) is an unrealistic test environment. How are folks gonna feel when you're asked to code (for example) in an interview without access to an Ai?

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

New Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail On Bluesky's introduction of age verification, selling us to the Fortnite guys, and how the arrogance of Ireland's regulator has seen it deliver the very outcomes it once called "bonkers". www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...

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The Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail

From the 21st July 2025, Ireland’s regulator will be enforcing age checks at the door for social media sites in the EU. This is the Gist.

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Shane Moloney @shanemoloney.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Still fired up after a talk I gave at @uxvienna.bsky.social last night. In a world of profound and rapid change, designers need to reclaim their space and seriously reflect on what kind of world & environment they are building. Was crazy nervous, but received some really kind words afterwards 💚

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 30/06/2025

So predictable that we’ll see an explosion of digital products selling “ideas for million dollar businesses” that you can “just vibe code quickly”. Basically: “buy my digital product for $500, spend $1,500 on Lovable / Claude Code and become a millionaire.” Another hype train

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