Lucienne Kennedy

@LPKennedy29
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I am an archaeologist turned design ethnographer who loves experiencing different cultures & I have insatiable curiosity for learning what motivates people.
@jbcrawford πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ’€ I totally needed that sign when learning to drive stick shift. I can’t tell you how many times I stalled my parent s’ car trying to get out of the driveway. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
@SeanCasten Spot on. Insurance is about the outsourcing of potential financial risk to a third party. Essentially, you are paying someone to cover the costs (or percentage of) if and when something happens. Now, whether the insurance model is the best and most efficient way to cover healthcare expenses- that is an entirely separate question.

In the spirit of Making America Healthy Again, the CDC is no longer conducting active surveillance on 6 of 8 food borne pathogens, including Listeria and Y. pestis. Happy eating all!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-quietly-scaled-back-surveillance-program-foodborne-illnesses-rcna227089?internal=true

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago

NBC News
X-Men at 25 is more relevant than ever
"Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand." Plus: our seven favorite scenes
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/07/x-men-at-25-is-more-relevant-than-ever/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@misty well. The Japanese used to use gold to mend cracked ceramics in a practice called Kintsuki. While gold and the tree sap would make it a safe method to use, I am not sure how practical it would be given the price of gold: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
Kintsugi - Wikipedia

@rbreich As someone who has worked in User Experience Research for 10 years, I find this infuriating. The inability to simply click to cancel (especially when you signed up digitally) falls under a type of design dark patterns. The only glimmer of hope is the ruling was based on something procedural and not on the merit of click to cancel itself.
Anyway here's superman from 75 years ago, being woke a f
@OctaviaConAmore feed it flies. 😎