Joshua Kinal

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I used to be prolific. Now I'm more of a digital hermit.
Sitehttps://sealfur.com/me
3rd person pronounshe • him • his
At last night's #Superchunk gig I experienced a new kind of connection with my fellow punters.
I'm very pleased with this. I call it "Well Photographed Badly Drawn Boy"
Badly Drawn Boy sets a cheery mood for a Friday night with stories of loss and despair.
Seeing all these articles about human-centred AI development started me on a path to understand all the ways “human-centred” is being misused in technology creation.
https://sealfur.com/blog/human-centred-design-might-destroy-us/
Human-centred design might destroy us — Sealfur

Human-centred design seems wonderful on paper. It’s helped lots of people and its benefits are so easy to see. Unfortunately, its popularity and wide-spread practice might lead to our extinction.

Sealfur
It not only makes it more fun; it’s also sometimes more accurate:
TechCrunch helps play this game all day
15 years ago today i started my current Twitter account. They told me to celebrate with something they created, but i wasn't really sure celebrating set the right tone.

I regularly despair at the general lack of heading levels in formatted Word documents.

People have no idea how much time they could save if they just learnt about information hierarchy and their word-processor.

This screenshot is the style of something that should be the page title (I would make it “Heading 1”).

Earlier today we voted and it was unreasonably stressful, but the sausages and Solo at the other end reminded me of the true meaning of democracy. #vicpol #democracysausage