Elizabeth Ayer

@elizayer
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Hi! I do civic tech, product, and org design, currently in government.

My happy place is down a rabbithole, occasionally ejecting content as a proof of life. Posts usually about software, with some politics, history and philosophy thrown in, but secretly still about software.

Based in #Tacoma, superfan of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and #infrastructure in general.

Pronouns: she/her
Countries: UK/US

#productmanagement #ProductLeadership #Leadership #SystemsThinking #TeamTopologies

Bloghttps://medium.com/@ElizAyer
Websitehttps://elizabeth-ayer.com/
Elizabeth Ayer6h ago
Mignon Fogarty20h ago

Heads-up for published authors:

The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.

I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.

Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It […]

The Authors Guild
Elizabeth Ayer4d ago

I'm a proud Marshmallow Test Failer now.

Under current levels of chaos, should I really trust your marshmallow inventory predictions? Your choice of me to receive potentially scarce marshmallows? Your enthusiasm to subsidize the corn syrup industry?

It's not personal. But I'd like the marshmallow, please.

Elizabeth Ayer4d ago
Dan Phiffer4d ago
With 99% member participation, we authorized a strike with 92% support. I’m so proud of the solidarity we have in @propublicaguild. Our work is important enough to fight for a strong contract.
https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/unionized-staff-at-propublica-vote-to-strike
Unionized Staff at ProPublica Vote to Strike — ProPublica Guild

The NewsGuild of New York-represented workers at the nonprofit newsroom take action after management’s persistent refusal to agree to a fair contract that includes industry-standard “just cause” job security protections and guardrails around the use of AI. NEW YORK – Unionized staff at on

ProPublica Guild
Elizabeth Ayer5d ago

"We are in danger of educating second-class robots, not first-class humans."
- Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills

Shleicher wrote this in 2022 about exams, not even AI.

More evidence that LLMs are just accelerating societal trends and putting more strain on structural deficiencies, rather than ushering in something truly new.

From https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/envision/andreas-schleicher-the-assessment-regime-of-the-future-envision.pdf

Elizabeth Ayer5d ago
Ethan Marcotte6d ago

I’m winding down with two excellent clients I’ve been working with since January, which means I’ve got some availability for new work coming up soon.

If you need a designer who thinks deeply about systems and teams, and who will ooh and/or ahh over an especially pretty serif, I’d love to chat with you!

Here’s more about me, how I work, and some work I’ve done: https://ethanmarcotte.com/work/

Let’s work together. — ethanmarcotte.com

Hi, I’m Ethan. I’m a web designer who helps companies make beautiful sites and services that work everywhere.

Elizabeth Ayer6d ago
Show threadEnola Knezevic6d ago

@elizayer Not stopping search results from appearing, but you can import this blocklist into ublock origin: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Edit: Wait, perhaps it does work with search engines, but it seems only for images.

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub
Elizabeth Ayer6d ago
Julia Racsko6d ago
Great talk from @imanijoy about being a first and solo designer at #mastodon at @fossdesign #fossbackstage #opensourcedesign #visualnotes @Mastodon
Elizabeth Ayer6d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adrianh/116250593498172845

Balanced Team in the Ether is a lovely, thoughtful group of people that is (still!) working through the real issues of modern software teams.

It's US timezone friendly and a really pleasant refuge from <waves arms>.

If you go, be prepared to participate - ie don't drop in just to see what it's about!

Recommended for team-oriented people in any role.

And if you have any other questions, @adrianh 's cool and approachable. :-)

Elizabeth Ayer6d ago
Are there any search engines that penalize LLM-generated content?
Show threadElizabeth Ayer6d ago

...And this is why I like the story Colonozation of Confidence by @WeirdWriter

It helps us see the LLM marketing chipping away at us, creating "problems" with our writing and thinking, out of things that are actually strengths.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.