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August 23, 2026 Musings

What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research

A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life.

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August 18, 2026 Musings

Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.

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August 13, 2026 Musings

Smoggie Queen (3): Stereotypes, Representation, and Lossy Compression in old and GenAI

We must ask in our increasingly AI world:
Who gets to decide what survives the data compression? Who gets to say, “That’s not me”? And most importantly: who gets to build the representation in the first place?

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August 4, 2026 Musings

Smoggie Queen (2): Hairclips and WhatsApp Stickers

I arrived hoping to learn some tips and tricks of the trade that would make me think: Ah, that’s the secret. Perhaps a good, fresh-looking foundation that would make my skin glow, a clever way to dress my petite five-foot frame in colours other than black…

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August 3, 2026 Musings

Day 1047 Duolingo Dutch

Oh my goodness, what can I say? I have absolutely loved learning Dutch and tonight I’m slightly stunned to have reached the end and incredibly sorry that it’s over.

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