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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Every major software project should appoint a UX Czar who has the authority to kill a feature if they have reason to believe it will royally piss off any more than a mere fraction of the userbase of the product.

New features should always benefit *a reasonable subset* of the total users of the product.

Either that, or release the possibly-hated feature as a totally optional add-on and make it clear that it's optional.

This feels like it shouldn't be rocket science… 🙃

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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@jaredwhite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

AI slop is being imposed on an unwilling user base for reasons other than feature development.

AI slop is spyware.
AI slop is fossil fuel funded fascism.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2025/11/26/saudi-arabias-push-for-ai-remains-a-challenge/

Petrostate despots and #PrinceBonesaw assure us that AI isn't malign.

https://www.arabnews.jp/en/saudi-arabia/article_162676/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/tech/saudi-arabia-ai-powerhouse

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-saudi-deals-expected-defense-nuclear-energy-ai-senior-us-administration-2025-11-18/

The worst vulture capitalists...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackstone-saudi-ai-firm-humain-ink-3-billion-data-center-deal

Doesn't everyone want a AI automated nuclear war?

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