Joyce Seitzinger
@catspyjamas.bsky.social
experience designer - innovation manager - product manager - livable cities - dutch in Australia (currently Director Digital Innovation)
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
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Not sure this tell me much one way or the other abt the larger political/societal debates about AI. But this fascinating science. Working of scientists believes they're now able to decode or understand the language of sperm whales using AI/LLMs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Not sure this tell me much one way or the other abt the larger political/societal debates about AI. But this fascinating science. Working of scientists believes they're now able to decode or understand the language of sperm whales using AI/LLMs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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This is my favourite anti-cybertruck:
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is my favourite anti-cybertruck:
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Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.
Advertising is Coming to AI. It’s Going to Be a Disaster. | TechPolicy.Press
Daniel Barcay sounds the alarm on AI chatbots hiding advertising in conversations—and why this threatens autonomy and demands new rules.
www.techpolicy.press
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.
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also this happened a few hours ago.
if my people are going to insist on using chatbots to do their job i unfortunately can't stop them, but i will shame them for trusting the bot output and not bothering to check if it's even slightly accurate.
if my people are going to insist on using chatbots to do their job i unfortunately can't stop them, but i will shame them for trusting the bot output and not bothering to check if it's even slightly accurate.
more fun with that chatgpt translation: turns out the bot invented a table entry in translation. that my coworkers added to our database and went ahead and published. i just discovered this now while doing human translation.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
i'd be so embarrased if i'd been involved in letting this happen.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
also this happened a few hours ago.
if my people are going to insist on using chatbots to do their job i unfortunately can't stop them, but i will shame them for trusting the bot output and not bothering to check if it's even slightly accurate.
if my people are going to insist on using chatbots to do their job i unfortunately can't stop them, but i will shame them for trusting the bot output and not bothering to check if it's even slightly accurate.
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I’m writing something about AI and collecting the worst examples of workslop — and AI slop, in general. If you have any particularly appalling and / or hilarious suggestions, send ‘em to me!
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I’m writing something about AI and collecting the worst examples of workslop — and AI slop, in general. If you have any particularly appalling and / or hilarious suggestions, send ‘em to me!
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Due to the holiday, this week's Apple shows, Pluribus included, will drop two days earlier than usual.
("Wednesday" technically means "9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday." I have no idea why Apple sticks to this fiction regarding when episodes are released.)
("Wednesday" technically means "9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday." I have no idea why Apple sticks to this fiction regarding when episodes are released.)
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Due to the holiday, this week's Apple shows, Pluribus included, will drop two days earlier than usual.
("Wednesday" technically means "9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday." I have no idea why Apple sticks to this fiction regarding when episodes are released.)
("Wednesday" technically means "9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday." I have no idea why Apple sticks to this fiction regarding when episodes are released.)
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We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
When teams don't understand their own product
A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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Strategic UX research can create a powerful flywheel.
Transforming poor experiences into industry-leading innovations.
💬 Learn how employing strategic UX research becomes a desirable flywheel:
https://articles.centercentre.com/defeat-your-feature-factory-by-discovering-strategic-value/
Transforming poor experiences into industry-leading innovations.
💬 Learn how employing strategic UX research becomes a desirable flywheel:
https://articles.centercentre.com/defeat-your-feature-factory-by-discovering-strategic-value/
Defeat Your Feature Factory by Discovering Strategic Value - UX Articles by Center Centre
Far too many of us work at a Feature Factory, and it’s miserable. The worst part is we unintentionally did this to ourselves. The endless pressure on shipping something, regardless of its quality, is demoralizing. So much so that we see our...
articles.centercentre.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Strategic UX research can create a powerful flywheel.
Transforming poor experiences into industry-leading innovations.
💬 Learn how employing strategic UX research becomes a desirable flywheel:
https://articles.centercentre.com/defeat-your-feature-factory-by-discovering-strategic-value/
Transforming poor experiences into industry-leading innovations.
💬 Learn how employing strategic UX research becomes a desirable flywheel:
https://articles.centercentre.com/defeat-your-feature-factory-by-discovering-strategic-value/
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Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it
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Service co-design practice and research week-notes 134. The one where I finished my #phd round 2 focus groups. Now I’m planning for the interviews. Have a good week ahead everyone and don’t forget to ‘feed the birds’ 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #design #research #psychology #servicedesign #weeknotes
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Service co-design practice and research week-notes 134. The one where I finished my #phd round 2 focus groups. Now I’m planning for the interviews. Have a good week ahead everyone and don’t forget to ‘feed the birds’ 😊💎 @ougradsch.bsky.social #design #research #psychology #servicedesign #weeknotes
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“Sell the innovation, not the product.
The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.”
Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, exemplifies delivering fantastic UX.
https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d
The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.”
Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, exemplifies delivering fantastic UX.
https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Sell the innovation, not the product.
The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.”
Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, exemplifies delivering fantastic UX.
https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d
The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour.”
Slack's founder, Stewart Butterfield, exemplifies delivering fantastic UX.
https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d
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Nice short read: highlights the importance of thinking about audiences (senior leaders and stakeholders) when presenting the outputs of mapping work #servicedesign
medium.com/@katie.dicke...
medium.com/@katie.dicke...
How we can map services better
For service designers, maps are the things that we can point to and say, “Look, I contributed this to the project.” But here’s the thing…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Nice short read: highlights the importance of thinking about audiences (senior leaders and stakeholders) when presenting the outputs of mapping work #servicedesign
medium.com/@katie.dicke...
medium.com/@katie.dicke...
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@producttalk.bsky.social sits down with product teams building AI products:
1️⃣ They start with real customer problems
2️⃣ They build evaluation into the process from the start, even if it's just spreadsheets
3️⃣ Domain expertise shapes what AI can do
buff.ly/mV6djat
1️⃣ They start with real customer problems
2️⃣ They build evaluation into the process from the start, even if it's just spreadsheets
3️⃣ Domain expertise shapes what AI can do
buff.ly/mV6djat
Lessons from 9 AI Product Teams: Emerging Themes from Just Now Possible
Audio Version ($) Stack Overflow built four versions of their AI-powered search, then killed it. Arize's team started building when "agent frameworks" didn't even exist. eSpark's former teachers are…
www.producttalk.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
@producttalk.bsky.social sits down with product teams building AI products:
1️⃣ They start with real customer problems
2️⃣ They build evaluation into the process from the start, even if it's just spreadsheets
3️⃣ Domain expertise shapes what AI can do
buff.ly/mV6djat
1️⃣ They start with real customer problems
2️⃣ They build evaluation into the process from the start, even if it's just spreadsheets
3️⃣ Domain expertise shapes what AI can do
buff.ly/mV6djat
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Government digital product organizations that master strategic positioning across competing constituencies don’t just survive budget cuts and reorganizations—they become essential strategic assets that transform how government serves its citizens.
open.substack.com/pub/theedpro...
open.substack.com/pub/theedpro...
The Strategic Trap: Why Government Digital Product Organizations Fail Despite Perfect Agile Execution
Government digital product organizations that master strategic positioning across competing constituencies don’t just survive budget cuts and reorganizations—they become essential strategic assets.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Government digital product organizations that master strategic positioning across competing constituencies don’t just survive budget cuts and reorganizations—they become essential strategic assets that transform how government serves its citizens.
open.substack.com/pub/theedpro...
open.substack.com/pub/theedpro...
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I’ve been scribbling notes while I’m listening. This truth has stuck with me all day today: “We all need technology that at least supports us to take care of ourselves"
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’ve been scribbling notes while I’m listening. This truth has stuck with me all day today: “We all need technology that at least supports us to take care of ourselves"
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I’ve been listening to @naomialderman.bsky.social’s new book this week - about living through an information crisis. It asks lots of important questions, which I’ve found really thought provoking #books
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’ve been listening to @naomialderman.bsky.social’s new book this week - about living through an information crisis. It asks lots of important questions, which I’ve found really thought provoking #books
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This makes sense. We have lots of room with lots of sun in Australia. But nationalise it (fully or partly) w profits to a sovereign fund for healthcare, climate change preparation, education and pensions. Which we should have done with gas. @albomp.bsky.social
This makes sense. We have lots of room with lots of sun in Australia. But nationalise it (fully or partly) w profits to a sovereign fund for healthcare, climate change preparation, education and pensions. Which we should have done with gas. @albomp.bsky.social
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI data centres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader, but critics are concerned about scale
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This makes sense. We have lots of room with lots of sun in Australia. But nationalise it (fully or partly) w profits to a sovereign fund for healthcare, climate change preparation, education and pensions. Which we should have done with gas. @albomp.bsky.social
This makes sense. We have lots of room with lots of sun in Australia. But nationalise it (fully or partly) w profits to a sovereign fund for healthcare, climate change preparation, education and pensions. Which we should have done with gas. @albomp.bsky.social
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025... “AI-based tools employers may use to review resumes may give older men an advantage while putting older women and younger job seekers at a disadvantage”
Researchers uncover AI bias against older working women
AI is perpetuating inaccurate gender and age stereotypes, influencing everything from hiring practices to workplace perceptions.
news.stanford.edu
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025... “AI-based tools employers may use to review resumes may give older men an advantage while putting older women and younger job seekers at a disadvantage”
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We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
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There are three types of people in the world: those who are numerate and those who are not.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There are three types of people in the world: those who are numerate and those who are not.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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Creating a long-term design vision can seem daunting, but breaking it into smaller parts called 'visionettes' makes it manageable. Some teams have successfully used this approach:
https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
Building an Experience Vision From a Journey Map - UX Articles by Center Centre
The task of coming up with a long-term vision of your design can be a daunting one. It’s a lot of responsibility to imagine what an ideal experience can be, then render a possible design to achieve that experience. However, there’s a way to...
articles.centercentre.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Creating a long-term design vision can seem daunting, but breaking it into smaller parts called 'visionettes' makes it manageable. Some teams have successfully used this approach:
https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/