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Former UI Designer, new "I'd like to get out of tech" person. Seattleite, dog owner and lover
Riker Googlingwhy is everything in the galaxy terrible now
Quaap
j-r conlinTold to me by a UX person who I deeply admired:
New is not better.
Better is better.
Working with something a long time doesn't make it better, it makes it comfortable.
It's easy to confuse comfortable with better.
It's easy to confuse new with comfortable, particularly if you're the one making the new and have gotten comfortable with it.
It's critical to give the new thing to someone comfortable with the old, as well as new to it all and see if they think it's better than what they did before.
Dad Jokes
Anna E. CookThe biggest thing four years at Microsoft has taught me: if I wait for someone to tell me to make things more accessible and ethical, I’m basically guaranteeing they won’t be.
Sooo basically I’m asking for permission or forgiveness. I’m saying “this is what I think needs to happen” and doing it 🤷♀️
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
This is perhaps one of the most sinister developments in privacy invasion I’ve yet seen. In itself, it simply nestles into the list of tracking garbage that shouldn’t exist in the world. But in how wholly invasive it is, being deep and complete, is what makes it stand out.
I’m not suggesting that you should destroy every one of these that see. But, you know. You do you.
This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
stefanOne time I was talking about historical maps available via state and local archives and how cool it all is and my friend went "I've never heard you talk about any of your partners this passionately"
Suffice it to say I've given up on online dating and am now studying up on QGIS
Pavel A. Samsonov