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Thanks for sharing, just ordered a copy :)

Hadn't had my coffee yet. You got me 😅

I do have the internal burr set to it's lowest (finest) setting - and I cranked up the brew temp a few C.

Then it's just grind, brew, taste, grind, brew, taste...etc

Expensively & experimentally brew until I like the taste of the shot. It's not ideal hah

The weight and ratios etc, I find you can have an 'empirically correct' brew, or can have something that you might say is over-dosed and under extracted but tastes great. So... That's probably no help haha

After market components or...? Asking as I have one and have it dialled in perfect for one set of beans but every time I want to change it's agony

Design is not coming to save you (This is my ‘yes but/yes and’ to Edwin Heathcote’s column in the Financial Times last month. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) All you have to do is open the pages of a da…

‘Design is not coming to save you’

— on point piece by @designswarm.bsky.social

If you only read one thing today, you won't regret reading this:

frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...

Congrats folks! Keep up the great work :)

Cooking with Dog (TV Series 2007– ) ⭐ 8.3 | Documentary Cooking with Dog: With Mark Chinnery, Francis. Cooking with Dog is a YouTube cooking show featured by a canine host Francis and a mysterious Japanese Chef whose real name is not disclosed. While Chef ...

I have been going old school for all my recipes and haven't looked back. Julia Childs, Jacques Pépin etc. They don't miss.

Cooking with Dog was also a gem m.imdb.com/title/tt4771...

Awesome! Best of luck! 🍀

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

@andybudd.bsky.social would love to meet while you're at uxcon :) Looking forward to your Q&A

Bryce on stage at uxcon in Vienna in front of a large projector, speaking to the conference audience

Second talk at #uxcon is @brycej.bsky.social who I was so excited to hear, and his talk was so good he had me crying in th second row 😅

Cannot wait for the workshop! People talk about inspirational talks, well here is the real deal.

Day one of #uxcon Vienna! 🎉

Drop by the Pulse of UX booth and say hello :)

We're also going to use data from the Pulse of UX survey we're running concurrently with the conference (sent out via the uxcon newsletter) and pull out some of the quant & qual from that to inform the workshop themes.

Busy day of thematic coding ahead :)

Ah, I now see why haha. It's the Pulse of UX one, with myself and Kathy: www.uxcon.io/sessions/pul...

We're taking some challenges I identified from my master's thesis where I interviewed a number of UX pros, as well as from a lit review, etc, and hoping to co-ideate on potential solutions

I remember attending 'Build' conference in Belfast back in 2012(?), when Twitter was still useful. You could just follow the conference hashtag and go have pints, coffee, etc with random conference attendees throughout the day.

Hashtags at conferences used to be so useful. I miss those days.

I'll be hosting a workshop on Day 3 at uxcon Vienna

It's almost full (delightedly so) so this is not so much a promo but more of a shout out that if you're there lets connect :)

#uxdesign #ux #uxvienna #uxcon

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

This is so nice! #webdev

Senior Innovation Service Designer Big ideas. Lifelong connections. One objective. SENIOR INNOVATION SERVICE DESIGNER Salary: £55,000 - £59,000 per annum Reports to: Director of Innovation Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Enga...

Senior Innovation Service Designer - Cancer Research UK - London - £59k
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One Battle After Another is fantastic. Go see it. #movies

Haven't moved anywhere but I would say I've been a lot less active because the timeline has just been miserable. I'm reluctant to open many apps anymore...

We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

New feature in iOS: “ Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected on live FaceTime calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos”

I wonder how long it is before someone makes AR goggles for kids that they can’t remove themselves that blur out reality according to their parents whims

Upon re-reading, this sounds like an advertisement 😅

I have no idea if the companies listed are actually good or not, but it's a useful starting point and better than depending on the dire state of Google search these days...

It aims to cover ways of working, professional training, salary information, education, areas of work, tools, as well as general trends, and ultimately aims to provide insights which will benefit the UX community.

Been a long time since I needed to host a Wordpress site, but I want to move stateofux.com over to WP and I thought oh no time to trudge through reddit threads...

But then I remembered european-alternatives.eu/category/wor... exists. This site is actually so convenient! Deffo worth a bookmark.

Yup

I did one with an org in Vienna last summer and it was such a horrid experience. It left me deeply unsettled for days afterwards in a way still can't quite articulate. Saying this to reinforce that you 100% made the right decision

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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