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Sean Munson

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Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com

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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 3h
Just over a month until the priority deadline for our Assistant Professor search at @hcde.uw.edu
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UW ALACRITY Center @uwalacrity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Is the innovation you're testing "the thing," or "the stuff we do to help people and places do the thing"? New in @implementsci.bsky.social, from center researchers: a method for telling clinical interventions apart from implementation strategies — and why the answer reshapes your trial.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is AI convincing seniors to stop taking their meds? Worrying deep dive by Cody Sumter, who monitored a slopiverse of 150 medical advice YouTube channels for months as they put out daily videos of dangerous advice, with millions of views. cc @mantzarlis.com codysumter.substack.com/p/this-is-me...
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This is Medical Advice*
The AI slop doctors of YouTube, and the prompts instructing them to lie
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 13/08/2026
Ah but we have a system by which you email someone who sends back instructions to fill out a semi-usable form, and then, after you fill that out, someone else copies it into the unusable form (Workday), and then you get emailed another form, followed by 2-4 more inscrutable steps.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 05/08/2026
Heard on this morning’s walk to the train, contractor to home owner: “I have to apologize for something, we’ve been using AI but…”, while gesturing at the ladder to the roof.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 26/07/2026
Disappointed to see @sound-transit.bsky.social proposing cuts to service hours in their 2027 service plan - we should be expanding, not reducing, service hours. www.soundtransit.org/system-expan...
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Annual Service Plan | 2027 Service Plan | Sound Transit
Recent Link light rail openings mean there will be changes to existing ST Express bus service. Learn what these changes could look like for you.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 03/07/2026
We are hiring an assistant professor to join @hcde.uw.edu in Autumn 2027. We welcome applications in all areas, with a focus on: (1) Environment and sustainability; (2) Civic infrastructure and society; (3) Labor and the future of work. Learn more & apply: apply.interfolio.com/188238
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 12/06/2026
New paper for @acm-cscw.bsky.social, led by @cal-liang.bsky.social: "A Scoping Review of Queer Health and Well-Being Technology Research," just in time for pride month. We argue for structural approaches and four commitments for designing tech-enabled interventions. www.smunson.com/portfolio/pr...
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Disastrous.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In Seattle this Saturday? It’s probably going to rain. Scrap your outdoor plans and come to Rough and Tumble to hear journalist Michelle Smith (and me) discuss Tara Vanderveer, Stanford, and the history of women’s basketball, especially around the turn of the millennium. 12:30-2pm.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 11/05/2026
Members of the @acm-cscw.bsky.social community: under a week left to nominate papers for the 2026 Lasting Impact Award! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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CSCW 2026 Lasting Impact Nominations
The annual CSCW Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and a selection is made by a comm...
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 30/04/2026
This past January, we spent a 3-day weekend hiking it Death Valley National Park. It was perfect hiking weather, with many excellent sunrises and sunsets.
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Death Valley in January: A 3-Day Weekend of Hiking - Shoulder Season
January is one of the best times to visit Death Valley. Here's how we filled three days with sunrise hikes, desert peaks, and unexpected water in the driest place in North America.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 23/04/2026
HCDE students at the University of Washington are designing products, services, and organizations that put people first. It's Husky Giving Day — support them with a gift of $10, $50, or $100. Every contribution makes a difference. 🎉 @hcde.uw.edu
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Human Centered Design & Engineering
Human Centered Design & Engineering prepares students to design technologies, systems, and services that improve people’s lives.
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Shoulder Season @shoulderseason.net · 20/04/2026
Just posted: our August and September hike of the Tour of the Écrins (GR54) - www.shoulderseason.net/2026/04/19/t...
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Tour of the Écrins (GR54) Overview & Planning - Shoulder Season
One of the finest hut-to-hut routes in the Alps: our 12-day GR54 traverse through Écrins National Park, with planning notes, refuge recommendations, and itinerary details.
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
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ACM Interactive Health Conference @interactive-health.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Deadline Extended! The Birds of a Feather (BoF) proposal deadline has been extended by one week! More details about BoF and submission information: ih.acm.org/birds-of-a-f... New deadline: 12 March 2026 (AOE) 🔗 ih.acm.org/birds-of-a-f... @acmtochi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org @acm-cscw.bsky.social
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Birds of a Feather - ACM Interactive Health 2026
Birds of a Feather enable conference attendees sharing a common interest to meet informally for 60–90 minutes of facilitated discussion during a scheduled session at the conference, without requiring ...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.
This graphic is labeled “Rigged Election” Strategy. It features a circle with six labels around the outside, arrows pointing from one label to the next, featuring the following: (1) “Repeatedly say elections are “rigged”; (2) Change laws to make it harder to vote; (3) Muddy the waters: confuse voters & suppress votes; (4) Seed & amplify rumors that echo “rigged election” refrain; (5) Contest results (you don’t like); (6) Sow distrust in democracy.
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ACM Interactive Health Conference @interactive-health.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙄𝙃 ‘26 The Related Contributions track is a great way to bring your work to the Interactive Health community, break disciplinary silos, and spark new cross-disciplinary discussion. 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙚: 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 12𝙩𝙝, 2026 – 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚. @acm-dis.bsky.social
graphic saying submit your related contributions work at the IH 20. 
submission date March 12th 2026, April 2nd notification
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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers" I ❤️ when the titles write themselves But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
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Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers | Statistical Modeli...
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 15/01/2026
Hard to believe whoever made this decision has tried their AI tools. Or maybe they don’t care.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm back at work! In this piece I analyze Governor Ferguson's proposed 2026 supplemental budget, which is balanced with cuts cuts cuts and a little help from the state's emergency fund and climate dollars.
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Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!
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Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Check out some of the incredible mentors you can work with and their research interests. Apps will be reviewed early December 2025! Interested? Learn more and apply: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 08/11/2025
Seattle folks: check your ballot!
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Never, ever gets old. Don't forget to put your ballot in a drop box by 8pm, Seattle (it's too late to trust your vote to the mail!).
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Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303
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Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Attention #Postdoc researchers and #PhDAward candidates: CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 with training in both mental health and human computer interaction Apps will be reviewed December 2025! Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Mental Health
The T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies offers interdisciplinary training in digital mental health, combining psychological science...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/10/2025
This should be the scandal that topples an administration, not business as usual on a slow Sunday.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/10/2025
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/10/2025
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
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Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 02/10/2025
New from HCDE: Announcing our new Graduate Certificate in Human Centered AI. Learn to build AI systems that are ethical, equitable, and human-first. Courses are in the evenings, in-person, from January through September. Priority application deadline: October 24, 2025. www.hcde.washington.edu/hcai
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Graduate Certificate in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence
Advance your expertise in responsible AI with HCDE’s newest program, starting January 2026.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 02/10/2025
@hcde.uw.edu is launching our new human-centered AI graduate certificate in January, with applications open now and a priority deadline of 24 October. Learn more at www.hcde.washington.edu/hcai
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Graduate Certificate in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence
Advance your expertise in responsible AI with HCDE’s newest program, starting January 2026.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.
Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”
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Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 16/09/2025
New paper, led by Shaan Chopra, examining how LLMs may–and may not–provide good support for personal health tracking: "Engagements with Generative AI and Personal Health Informatics: Opportunities for Planning, Tracking, Reflecting, and Acting around Personal Health Data"
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Engagements with Generative AI and Personal Health Informatics: Opportunities for Planning, Tracking, Reflecting, and Acting around Personal Health Data | Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile...
Personal informatics processes require navigating distinct challenges across stages of tracking, but the range of data, goals, expertise, and context that individuals bring to self-tracking often pres...
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 28/08/2025
At @hcde.uw.edu, we are hiring an assistant or associate teaching professor. If you are dedicated to advancing human centered design & engineering education and scholarship, and our interdisciplinary community might be the right next step in your career, I hope you will apply!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hi Seattle! Come see my talk on the history of human-computer interaction. I'll explain U.S. gov funding of science has led to many of the innovations that power our economy & shape our lives — and call out the short-sightedness & hypocrisy of efforts to defund science in this field & so many others
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Amir Caspi, Ph.D. @astronamir.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
An amazing story by my friend & colleague, @dbseaton.bsky.social, highlights the personal, professional, & societal value of NSF’s REU undergrad research program, & the irreplaceable losses if planned funding cuts are enacted. A must-read. 🔭⚛️🧪☀️ #scicomm #citsci www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Small, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them?
Like so much else, this small scientific programme is on the Trump administration’s hit list. This will hurt the United States, says Dan Seaton.
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Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online? We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome 2-6 page submissions, due August 8th. Cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
Beyond Information
A CSCW 2025 Workshop
Online on October 3 and/or in
Bergen, Norway on October 18
Deadline extended to August 8th
Connect with a global community of scholars working on all aspects of information disorder (mis/disinformation, scams, online hate, etc)

Website (link included in post body) for more details
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The thing is that full unfettered impoundment authority is effective authority to threaten and coerce a bunch of action you don’t have legal authority to compel. Unilateral impoundment authority is destruction of the rule of law.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Good grief, the US National Cancer Institute projects it will fund only one in 25 RO1 grant applications in 2026. This is massively defunding cancer research. Despicable vandalism. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
National Cancer Institute projection of a 4% pay line in FY2026.
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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We know what works, and it’s the opposite of this. This agenda can’t be enacted without the cooperation and compliance of local counties and cities. It is your responsibility to either make sure your mayors and councilmembers oppose this, or work to replace them with people who will.
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Sean Munson @smunson.com · 10/07/2025
"Layoffs, lost faith, and 'cruel optimism' in tech" - great interview with @uw-hcde.bsky.social PhD student Samuel So on @kuow.org. www.kuow.org/stories/layo...
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Layoffs, lost faith, and 'cruel optimism' in tech
Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs leaves even more tech workers in Washington without a job – and with a new worldview. What does it mean for an industry that was once seen as the last bastion of t...
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