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This is an interesting proposal for a declarative way of triggering permission dialogs, although it seems to overlap with the work being done on invokers (command and commandfor).
What really disgusts me is to see Google referring to this element as though it’s a done deal. It’s not. It’s a proposal …a proposal that Apple rejects and Mozilla rejects.
Words matter. Call your proposal a proposal, Google.
The beauty ain’t in the necklace. It’s in the neck.
Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it’s all necklace, no neck.
— Adam Mastroianni
Monday session
Reading Folk by Zoe Gilbert.
Sunday session outside in the shadow of the cathedral
Saturday session in Belgium
Namur
Going to Namur. brb
I know I’m biased but I think the line-up for this year’s UX London is looking fantastic:
https://2025.uxlondon.com/speakers/
June 10th, 11th, and 12th—come for one day or come for all three!
Wednesday session
Why is the new pope being elected at a Figma event?
chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown
Great design isn’t defined by who knows your name, but by how well your work serves human needs. It’s measured in the problems solved, the frustrations eased, the moments of delight created, and the dignity preserved through thoughtful solutions. These metrics operate independently of fame or recognition.
Our obsession with visibility also creates a troubling dynamic: design that prioritizes being noticed over being useful. This leads to visual pollution, cognitive overload, and solutions that serve the designer’s portfolio more than the user’s needs.
Man, this resonates:
At one end, you prioritise your own interests. Slap on the SPF and enjoy the cricket; ignore the emails; nip to Paris for the day. But egocentrism erodes social goods. It harms other people. So perhaps you reject it and skew the other way, anchoring your wellbeing to the trajectory of the world. But that undertow will easily drown you. The beneficence of caring only about others seems noble, but in truth few of us can endure that level of self-sacrifice. Total empathy harms you. And so most of us stumble in the fog between these extremes, recoiling from either end when the shame or the sadness becomes too much to bear. I plug away at my pleasant life with heartache for what’s happening to us. Perhaps you feel similarly, smiling but seconds from tears.
An enjoyable guided tour of album artwork starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.
A good overview of how large language models work:
The words flow together because they’ve been seen together many times. But that doesn’t mean they’re right. It just means they’re coherent.
Tuesday session
Reading The Voyage Home by Pat Barker.
Thursday session
Scratch the skin of wild-eyed AI proponents, and a thick syrup oozes out, made up of the blendered remains of Roko’s Basilisk, barely sublimated Christian end-times thinking, and the mis-remembered plot of that one cool science-fiction story they read when they were twelve. This is the basis for the new order, just like the blockchain was a couple of years ago, and a dead-eyed, low-poly, pantsless rendering of Mark Zuckerberg was a couple of years before that.
“You’re going to be left behind” is only the latest version of “Have fun staying poor.” It’s got every ounce of the smug self-satisfaction that it shouldn’t need if the inevitability it promises were actually inevitable.
anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
AI is really good for helping you if you’re bad at something, or at least below average. But it’s probably not the right tool if you’re great at something. So why would these CEOs be saying, almost all using the exact same phrasing, that everyone at their companies should be using these tools? Do the think their employees are all bad at their jobs?
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
The point of AI isn’t to make workers more productive, it’s to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.
careful.industries/blog/2025-4-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai
Technically, AI is a field of computer science that uses advanced methods of computing.
Socially, AI is a set of extractive tools used to concentrate power and wealth.
Thoughtful analysis from Ben (as always).
In exactly six weeks time, UX London is happening!
I am ridiculously excited about this year’s line-up—I can’t wait to see the talks and get hands-on in the workshops.
If you haven’t yet got your ticket, now is the time. There’s a flash sale this week: use the discount code FLASH20 to get a whopping 20% of any ticket. Do it before the end of Friday!
Whether you’re coming for all three days or choosing one focused day, you’re in for a treat.
Head on over to the website to get all the details and then get your discounted ticket.
See you there!
Monday session
