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ben, to random
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“Human-centered design for engineers”: a book for engineers on small teams who want to be more effective with fewer resources and solve real, unmet problems for the people they’re building for more quickly than they otherwise might.

ben,
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@scottjenson That is a very apt quote!

ben, to random
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I see free speech like the free market. Without rules, the powerful will always benefit. Moderation enables new ideas and less powerful communities to truly be heard.

ben,
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@Downes Yeah, there was a second part I decided not to post, which is that we should be wary that every locus of control that can be abused will be abused.

ben, to random
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Politics is not sports. Principles are far more important than allegiance.

ben,
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Just so nobody gets it twisted: voting against fascism feels like a pretty good principle.

ben, to random
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I’m no longer posting pics of my kid online, but maybe posting descriptions will work.

A toddler stares dispassionately into the camera, an entire whole waffle scrunched in his left hand, an immaculately cut waffle with blueberries on his plate in front of him, his bib speckled with maple syrup, his long hair hair sticky; his belly, though he does not care to admit it, is full. A tiny fork is cast aside, unused and unnecessary.

ben,
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@muratk5n HIS EYES

ben, to random
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The biggest issue that’s turning up for me about AI is not the models, hallucinations, etc, but how leakily AI-enabled services share potentially sensitive data with third parties. Using AI to process or read aloud a confidential document? Guess what, a third party you have no control over has a copy of it now.

ben,
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@guacamayan This exact thing came up for me yesterday. That’s exactly correct. The “offline” and system voices are safe; the others, not.

ben,
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@davidpurdy yep, parsing and analyzing public data is a great use case!

ray, to random
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@ben Yer everywhere! My account on this instance will be mostly read only btw. My “real” account is over at @alongtheray

ben,
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@ray I! Am! Everywhere!

ben, to random
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Which newsrooms are doing a good job of in-house technical and product innovation? What makes them stand out in your mind?

ben,
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@guacamayan Awesome! What about its product / technology stands out for you?

ben,
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@simon @jpf I'm a member of it! I'm curious about perceptions outside of the conversations happening there - but I should probably ask there too!

ben, to random
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Why it’s usually better to work with a talented designer: here are some sketches I did for my own ShareOpenly icon. I, uh, do not have the touch.

ben,
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@wreimers The final one is a vectorized SVG!

ben, to journalism
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"The free version of Apple News is one of the biggest news platforms in the world. It’s the most widely used news application in the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia, and boasted over 125 million monthly users in 2020." And publications are becoming dependent on it. #Media https://werd.io/view/664b71ebb03e591ffd06b8d2

ben,
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@kumarvibe I bet that too!

jonhicks, to random
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I've added @ben's fediverse-friendly ShareOpenly to the Hicks.design Journal, and blogged a bit about the icon:

https://hicks.design/journal/share-openly

ben,
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@Luke @jonhicks I'll check on this! Thanks for the heads up.

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Pitch: Google Reader over ActivityPub

ben,
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@tylrfishr Ghost is building it. Someone else should too.

ben,
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@tylrfishr I had a great conversation with them a while back. They're really in this - but it's tightly integrated with Ghost. I want to see something very standalone, too.

ben, to random
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If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through buying ads.

ben,
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@Jonathanglick I think that's very true.

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