@christof Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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In Sweden we're in a period of a fair number of squeeze days.
"Squeeze day? What is Per on about now?"
A squeeze day (directly translated from "klämdag") is a day that falls between a public holiday and the weekend.
In many organisations this will then also count as a holiday. But not in all of them. This can in a few cases depend upon union agreements, or on an HR decision. Usually it's local labor agreements that will decide. And they can apply to some squeeze days but not all of them. Yup, it gets confusing quite fast.
So it's not uncommon to be invited to meetings on squeeze days, accept, and then later realise you actually have a day off work. Because we all use digital calendars which certainly don't bring squeeze days to your attention.
In families of course it can be that one person has a squeeze day and another may have to use a vacation day to be off on the same day.
Being self-employed I have to double-check this a lot. Because I can decide based on what clients I have at the moment.
Anyway, Ascension Day tomorrow is always on a Thursday and thus the day after is always a squeeze day.
And another way of expressing that would be: "Yay, it's a long weekend!"
So if you ever hear a swede talk about squeeze days, now you know.
@edendestroyer
Totally. Interestingly we saw this on a huge scale with that open letter on pausing the development of AI. The first source in that letter was to the Stochastic Parrots paper by Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender, Margaret Mitchell et al. The paper concludes the complete opposite of what the letter used it as a support for expressing.
So yes, I would definitely agree that source linking doesn't confirm any support for the claims made in a text, but it does provide me with an opportunity to go deeper and draw my own conclusions. Granted, very few people will unfortunately do that. Many won't even check if the source even exists.
@edendestroyer
His book (The subtle art...) did receive accolades for challenging what a self-help book can be, but some of this older content has certainly been questionable, now that I research him a bit more. It's always good to go into any of these types of readings with a healthy dose of skepticism and source checking. I do appreciate linking to sources, though I'm a bit more wary now that I realise there is no date on the post.
That study though is from 2018: https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
When it comes to the overarching message of the content (a small number ruining the experience for many) I tend to agree - and as such I did think it was a good reminder. Would love to hear your impression. These conversations are always more interesting than any source that may trigger them.
Något som det skrivs om väldigt lite men som är ett växande problem med allt billigare AI-verktyg är deepfake-porr. Utseendet på deltagare i en porrfilm kan nu ändras till i princip vem som helst. Det är inte svårt att förstå vem som drabbas mest av den här tekniken.
https://axbom.se/deepfake-porr/
Good reminder of how it's often a small number of people who manage to ruin the wellbeing of many others.
"Data scientists at Stanford recently found that 74% of the conflicts on Reddit were instigated by only 1% of the users. And worse than that, the researchers found that most of these online conflicts were not fought by those who started them. They were fought by the innocent bystanders that got sucked into them."
https://markmanson.net/most-people-are-good
Update: Do note that, as pointed out to me by @BjornToftMadsen, this quote from the article misinterprets the study it is quoting. The study refers to 1% of communities instigating 74% of the conflicts, NOT 1% of users.
https://social.coop/@BjornToftMadsen/110402767455433759
AI will save the world. Yet the glorified chatbot can’t even live up to the most basic accessibility standards. Come on people, it’s a text-based tool and OpenAI still managed to make mess of it! 🤪
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2023/05/08/shatgpt/
#accessibility #a11y
I subscribe to a photo/image assets library, and I’m starting to recognise that a lot of hits on searches now are AI-generated images.
This really emphasises how important it is to disclose AI-generation and to allow search filters to exclude these from the results.
@ScotHomestead
Your last sentence resonates with me a lot. I think I've imagined my work life would look a bit different right by now. Been struggling with my self-worth in ways I did not expect over the last 3-4 months. But am slowly landing in the perspective of redefining happiness and appreciating what I have and what I have accomplished.
The idea of my dream (work-wise) pulling me away from other things that are important to me is something I realised I need to keep a better eye on.
Follow your dreams, they say. But what if you can benefit from giving up on your dream?
This article triggered a lot of reflection for me.
https://every.to/no-small-plans/dream-bankruptcy-why-you-should-give-up-on-your-holy-grail
#inspiration
@kashhill So bizarre to see this happening all around. My latest post is about exactly this, misattribution of authors and non-existent books.
https://axbom.com/ux-authors-wonderland/
What is lost in the race to efficiency.
Making only one cog in your machine more efficient will put unexpected pressure on the rest of the organisation.
Unattended, other parts of the organisation will suddenly wear out and break. People will burn out and the end product will be worse than before.
Real efficiency is not about going faster. It’s about going together.
@joacim Fantastiskt! 🙌
@joacim
All styrka åt dig!
Fick feeling och satte på Robert Brobergs Målarock och skriker nu "Om kärleken var statsminister, ja, det vore väl braaaa? Om krigsministern hette Puss och Kram, hur skulle det vaaaa'?"
Hur går er morgon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsu0dAPaLBU
James @Beantin and I have been going to UXLx somewhat regularly since 2011. First time in a long time this year we'll be heading over to Lisbon to record some @uxpodcast interviews.
I remember early days when the Twitter backchannel was very lively. And then that died out. It would be really fun to see if there are enough people in attendance to warrant a Fediverse backchannel.
https://www.ux-lx.com/speakers.html
I'll be keeping an eye on the #UXLX hashtag 😊
@LeoR1010
Ja! Det är lika förvånande varje år (av någon anledning) hur mycket bättre jag kan må bara av förändringarna i temperatur och ljus.
Gäller att vara mer tålmodig med sig själv och sitt mående andra halvan av året.
@mviktoro Thank you for saying so, Monika. Always makes happy. 🙏
@cfiesler
Here is my finished blog post. I added a link to the output you got at the end :)
https://axbom.com/ux-authors-wonderland/