Matt needs a UX gig 🐀

Matt needs a UX gig 🐀

@mattz-design.pro

Senior Product Designer and user advocate. I ask a lot of annoying questions. 🌐 http://mattz-design.pro/

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As of this week, Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights, JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab are blocking agents from touching customer accounts, Yelp has put its data behind a paywall for agents, and Amazon has blocked Grok’s shopping bots. I predicted this exact thing happening in May.

medium.comThe new digital arms raceGovernment is beginning to be overran by AI agents applying for permitting. Potentially this will start expanding into benefits, grants…

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Erika Hall
@erikahall.bsky.social

Alrighty. I have completed today's service to design. Here is a link to the text of The Decline of Industrial Designers, the article Victor Papanek alludes to in the preface to Design for the Real World, which is apparently otherwise unavailable. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comThe Decline of Industrial Designers | FORTUNE February 1968Note: This is the article Victor Papanek refers to in the preface to Design for the Real World. The images were taken from a photo of the original magazine, so they are a bit askew. Photos of the enti...
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Oh it means bold right? Ok that makes sense I'll just use this when I want to make text bold now "No don't do that use CSS instead" Ok, so I should use <em> or something? "No that's for emphasizing not just bolding"

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Bone apple tea 🧑‍🍳

Dewie@judgedewie.bsky.social

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Ignoring the fact that manufacturers aren't putting governors on cars so it's not a case of dealerships magically making car go faster like this, but it's quite a difference between a car going 120mph on a highway and an e bike going 75mph in a city Anyway both should be limited

How-Sen Chong@how-sen.com

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Growing up in the 80s I had a lot of 70s/80s sci-fi optimism books filled with illustrations of far off alien planets and space stations and sleek, modern cities. I like to think that future exists somewhere.

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tbabb
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We all have TUI stockholm syndrome, and this is all going to seem very silly in a year or so

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Let's ignore all that and confront the reality that "synthetic research" is unethical. It is indefensible to create a product, service, or policy that affects real people without once speaking with them

Hisham Zerriffi@hishamzerriffi.bsky.social

Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”

pewresearch.orgCan AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not ReallySynthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.
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"move fast and break things" has been a disaster for modern software development and humanity

WIRED@wired.com

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

wired.comA Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive DataWhile the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

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Gwen C. Katz
@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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One of the funny things about Art of War is that people who never read it think it's some brilliant treatise on strategy. Then you do read it and figure out that it's basically just keep morale high and logistics, essentially Math.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

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And it only makes sense that Sun Tzu wrote it was because at the time most Chinese officers were the inbred failsons of nobility who would forget to feed their soldiers if they weren't told. This unfortunately still happens.

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Yesterday I was trying to fill out a job application. Every single step had an annoying "select all the cars" captcha. I closed it after three. This is the future of online.

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I think the biggest shift in AI isn't going to be companies going public or hyperscaler buildouts. I think it's going to be the smaller, open models being developed that can run on a home machine.

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I want a vehicle that doesn't have screens or subscriptions or talks to my phone or the Internet or is full of infotainment or has cameras pointed at me. This future is stupid.

Electrek@electrek.co

Lucid brings Gravity’s UX to the Air, but older owners must pay $950

electrek.coLucid brings Gravity’s UX to the Air, but older owners must pay $950Lucid Air owners are finally getting the Gravity’s interface. Lucid started pushing Air UX 3.0 today as part of software version 2.11.0, its biggest Air software overhaul in years. Owners of 2025 and newer Airs get it for free over the air. But if you bought a 2022, 2023, or some 2024 Air, you’ll first need a $950 infotainment processor upgrade at a Lucid service center. more…
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Working on AI products and pushing trust and safety within them and going insane.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

karlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Me: ok so we need to show people that this is trustworthy and knows what it's doing so we're implementing guardrails and showing citations and also we're going to have humans review before it takes any concrete action. Meta: what if the ai doxxed you.

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Who would have thought Meta of all companies wouldn't care about privacy

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

appleinsider.comMeta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consentIn a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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There is no such thing as a "rogue ai". Stop falling for this. Ai behavior is the responsibility of the humans who made it. Machinery and bridges and buildings aren't "going rogue" when they fail. That's the fault of the people who never followed safety protocols or established practices.

kate conger@kateconger.com

The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Would you recommend Microsoft Teams to a colleague / friend? Rate on a scale of 0 to 10

Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁@djdynamic.ca

If you design an app and include an intrusive notification that asks me whether I want to do something and only offers me a choice between "yes" and "later", and then just keeps prompting me, please know that everyone hates you

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There is such a serious disconnect between what tech people think is useful and practical and what actual, normal people find useful and practical and it's such a seriously interesting problem to solve but it feels nobody on the tech side wants to

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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I'm sorry, but nobody who isn't already able to hire a bunch of servants to shop for them, clean for them, plan for them, doesn't live in the reality of offloading these tasks to an outside agent, human or electronic. It's just not how 95% of people interact with reality.

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And that's the thing about design. You build a product or service around how people interact with the world around them and do these tasks already. That's design thinking 101.

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There is such a serious disconnect between what tech people think is useful and practical and what actual, normal people find useful and practical and it's such a seriously interesting problem to solve but it feels nobody on the tech side wants to

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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"wow our ai assistant can help you make all these great decisions for dinner!" and a normal person just thinks cool so I can wrestle with a janky chatbot agent for an hour and maybe get a sort of output or I could talk to my spouse in a span of five minutes and get a real response.