Eric A. Meyer'tis the season for us to hold this timeless message close to our hearts.
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UX Sherpa, scientist/engineer wrangler, dystopian romantic, web since 1994
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Melissa"mutual hostage taking" - great description of the switching costs and more (Facebook) - @pluralistic rn on channel 3 #Defcon stream https://www.twitch.tv/defcon_dctv_three
The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculusThe man himself, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, giving a talk about stopping the enshittification of the internet at #defcon31. This man radicalized me in too many ways, all of which were good ways.
Corinna 🦕Bat counting: it’s happening tonight! This is my first time leading a group https://nhm.org/research-collections/backyard-bats
Nick TuneWhat if other companies started acting like #Zoom (showing a complete lack of confidence in their own product) ?
- AWS: employees must deploy their code on Oracle Cloud
- Apple: all employees must use Windows
- McDonalds: employees must eat KFC while working
Quinn Comendant@[email protected] @briankrebs @kurtseifried Avoiding Grammarly is simple: just don’t use it. Avoiding #Zoom is harder, because clients and colleagues use it by default and opting out may require abstaining from a call. Network effects are powerful.
dana 
It should maybe be illegal for a company to change the Privacy Policy on a product you already own/are using.
The policy changes are worded like "you agree to it if you keep using our product", but this is coersion.
If I bought a watch from you and you decide you want to sell my biometrics now, my choices are to throw away the money I spent or agree.
If I have all my digital life in your services and you change your policy like that, I have to somehow uproot all my data and possibly my business or how I connect with family or friends before the time expires, or you get to go mine all my data now because you said so?
This feels all very wrong.
I've seen a steady stream of "We've updated our Privacy Policy" emails landing in my inbox over the last week or two and maybe I should go read all those new policies but it feels bad and just makes me want to stop using tech services owned by (American?) corporations.
ProductTalk.orgWorthy Read: The 9 Rules of Design Research by Erika Hall (@mulegirl)
https://medium.com/mule-design/the-9-rules-of-design-research-1a273fdd1d3b