The WI helped me remember who I am. It showed me what women can do when we come together. Now I want us to bring that collective power to AI so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of technology’s past.
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Deleted by Russell: Dazzled by myself
What I am seeing more and more, is that any given system may seem to work well enough from the institution’s perspective while leaving the person, in this case me, with no idea what has happened to them.
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What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research
A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life.
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Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026
I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.
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Smoggie Queen (3): Stereotypes, Representation, and Lossy Compression in old and GenAI
We must ask in our increasingly AI world:
Who gets to decide what survives the data compression? Who gets to say, “That’s not me”? And most importantly: who gets to build the representation in the first place?