A few days ago, I was chatting with two friends, who both work in art and technology, about the upsides and downsides to dall-e. One friend, an artist, shared that an illustrator she knew was worried. Would the ability for everyday folks to create whatever they wanted with the click…

That’s a headline I never thought I would write, but one has to give kudos when kudos are due. And also, in a time of people’s rights being continually eroded, we all deserve a bit of good news. So, wait, what happened? On July 6, Apple launched a new feature…

How to safely support pro-choice organizations, our communities, and our privacy in a post Roe v. Wade world — What did you feel on June 24, 2022? Grief. That’s what I felt, followed immediately by anger. I found out when I was on a zoom call with a client; my project manager texted me the news. I’m sure my face displayed my every emotion. I was in New Orleans…

Unpacking Dark Patterns versus Deceptive Design — Have you heard of a dark pattern before? If you use the Internet, you’ve probably encountered one. Have you ever unsubscribed from an email listserv just to get the same email the next week? You probably encountered a dark pattern. If you’ve ever seen countdown clocks on e-commerce platforms or…

Loving America is never easy work, but it feels particularly hard this week. It feels particularly hard as I write today, after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Texas and in advance of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade any day now. How do we love a…

Our reproductive freedoms and our devices are at risk — The last few weeks have been incredibly demoralizing, draining, and upsetting — particularly if you care at all about reproductive health and reproductive justice. The tumult kicked off with Politico publishing a leaked Supreme Court majority opinion draft earlier this month to dismantle Roe vs Wade. Within days of the…

Hulu’s “Pam and Tommy” re-opens the conversation around non-consensual pornography — I was born in the late 1980s, so a lot of mid-90s news and pop culture I was only peripherally tuned into. I knew who Pamela Anderson was, because of Home Improvement, and Baywatch, but I had never heard of Mötley Crüe or Tommy Lee. Full disclosure: I was nine…

I find office parks fascinating and creepy, and inherently off-putting; I feel the same about highways. Both of them go hand in hand as specific fabulations of capitalism. My interest in office parks and highways is equal parts intrigue and disgust, wrapped in a love of mid-century modern. It started…