Robert Stribley
@stribs.bsky.social
UX Designer + Educator + Author + Photographer. Australian + American. UX consulting at thisistechnique.com. Teach at SVA. Brooklyn, NY. Interests: UX, digital/human rights, immigration, journalism, misinformation, privacy by design.
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Design for Privacy | Rosenfeld Media
Are your designs protecting—or exposing—your users? In Design for Privacy, you’ll uncover how shifting technologies threaten personal data and what that means for your work. This book offers practical...
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I’m excited to say that my book Design for Privacy is now officially out there in the world! It’s available directly from Rosenfeld Media and via other popular online booksellers, too. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...
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AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
AI is a very general term, you have to be more specific. Do you mean the AI that stole my copyright, the chatbot causing teen suicide and psychosis, the deepfake porn of women without their consent, the bots driving political division or the ones polluting communities and driving electric bills up?
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Sometimes people visit New York and conclude that we New Yorkers don’t care about one another because we’re brusque and abrupt on the street. I present to you profound evidence to the contrary. We’re still brusque and abrupt, but we’re that way in defending the safety of our fellow New Yorkers, too.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Sometimes people visit New York and conclude that we New Yorkers don’t care about one another because we’re brusque and abrupt on the street. I present to you profound evidence to the contrary. We’re still brusque and abrupt, but we’re that way in defending the safety of our fellow New Yorkers, too.
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
72 times he was arrested! That is awful.
Would you believe there's a guy in DC with 88 criminal counts against him, tho? 88! And he's still President!
Would you believe there's a guy in DC with 88 criminal counts against him, tho? 88! And he's still President!
There are little kids in the audience at today's White House turkey pardon, including JD Vance's three year old daughter in the front row - traditionally a light hearted, family-friendly event.
And here's what Trump chose to talk about.
And here's what Trump chose to talk about.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
72 times he was arrested! That is awful.
Would you believe there's a guy in DC with 88 criminal counts against him, tho? 88! And he's still President!
Would you believe there's a guy in DC with 88 criminal counts against him, tho? 88! And he's still President!
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Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
She probably thinks she means the opposite but also sounds like she’s really just trying to move the Overton window to the right. (The Overton Window seeks to avoid the left/right spectrum, but you know what I mean.)
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
She probably thinks she means the opposite but also sounds like she’s really just trying to move the Overton window to the right. (The Overton Window seeks to avoid the left/right spectrum, but you know what I mean.)
the Trump Administration has been deporting scores of people, including some who've lived here for decades, others with no criminal records, to countries where they have no connection––Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Panama, Ghana, and the small African nation of Eswatini
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
the Trump Administration has been deporting scores of people, including some who've lived here for decades, others with no criminal records, to countries where they have no connection––Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Panama, Ghana, and the small African nation of Eswatini
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
😭😭😭
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
😭😭😭
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Evergreen skeet.
Shut up, Carville.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Evergreen skeet.
Another reminder that the rich do not care about us: We merely exist to them as a source of potential income.
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Another reminder that the rich do not care about us: We merely exist to them as a source of potential income.
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Alabama’s voucher scheme is doing exactly what it was designed to do: drain public schools to subsidize religious indoctrination.
Alabama is funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools using textbooks that deny evolution, whitewash history, and attack LGBTQ people.
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys
Christian textbooks that deny evolution, downplay slavery, and avoid critical thinking are now being subsidized with public funds
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Alabama’s voucher scheme is doing exactly what it was designed to do: drain public schools to subsidize religious indoctrination.
Seems like medical malpractice and the guy should lose his job … forever?
"The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards." #purelawlessness apnews.com/article/utah...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Seems like medical malpractice and the guy should lose his job … forever?
Imagine all the solutions for healthcare, homelessness, affordable housing, cures for disease we could be funding with AI money
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Imagine all the solutions for healthcare, homelessness, affordable housing, cures for disease we could be funding with AI money
She wasn’t really asking about her book. She was testing to see how strictly they kept to telling the truth.
She realizes she can ask them anything and they can't lie, and her question is about her own book?
Man, I thought *I* was an egotistical author
Man, I thought *I* was an egotistical author
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
She wasn’t really asking about her book. She was testing to see how strictly they kept to telling the truth.
Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…
arstechnica.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com/security/202...
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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The CDC updated its vaccine–autism page to include scientifically false claims. Career scientists weren’t even told.
As we warned when RFK Jr. took over HHS, pseudoscience is creeping in.
A shameful dereliction of public health that will cost lives: https://ow.ly/TS8A50Xw536
As we warned when RFK Jr. took over HHS, pseudoscience is creeping in.
A shameful dereliction of public health that will cost lives: https://ow.ly/TS8A50Xw536
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The CDC updated its vaccine–autism page to include scientifically false claims. Career scientists weren’t even told.
As we warned when RFK Jr. took over HHS, pseudoscience is creeping in.
A shameful dereliction of public health that will cost lives: https://ow.ly/TS8A50Xw536
As we warned when RFK Jr. took over HHS, pseudoscience is creeping in.
A shameful dereliction of public health that will cost lives: https://ow.ly/TS8A50Xw536
I've joined the ranks of those who shamelessly self-promote their books in their LinkedIn headers.😔
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've joined the ranks of those who shamelessly self-promote their books in their LinkedIn headers.😔
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If you actually depicted today's villains as they are, nobody'd believe it. It'd resemble fascist Veep
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you actually depicted today's villains as they are, nobody'd believe it. It'd resemble fascist Veep