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Shane Moloney
@shanemoloney.bsky.social
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UX Design, Service Design, Web Dev. 15+ years exp.

Lead UX Designer @ a major healthcare company working on oncology & clinical decision support systems

🇮🇪 Dubliner in Österreich 🇦🇹

MSc. UX & Service Design

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Opinions my own etc.
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martinjordan.com
‘Design is not coming to save you’

— on point piece by @designswarm.bsky.social
Design is not coming to save you
(This is my ‘yes but/yes and’ to Edwin Heathcote’s column in the Financial Times last month. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) All you have to do is open the pages of a da…
www.designswarm.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
If you only read one thing today, you won't regret reading this:

frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
frankchimero.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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seantcollins.com
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
@andybudd.bsky.social would love to meet while you're at uxcon :) Looking forward to your Q&A
October 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Second talk at #uxcon is @brycej.bsky.social who I was so excited to hear, and his talk was so good he had me crying in th second row 😅

Cannot wait for the workshop! People talk about inspirational talks, well here is the real deal.
Bryce on stage at uxcon in Vienna in front of a large projector, speaking to the conference audience
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Day one of #uxcon Vienna! 🎉

Drop by the Pulse of UX booth and say hello :)
October 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
I'll be hosting a workshop on Day 3 at uxcon Vienna

It's almost full (delightedly so) so this is not so much a promo but more of a shout out that if you're there lets connect :)

#uxdesign #ux #uxvienna #uxcon
October 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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drewharwell.com
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
This is so nice! #webdev
animejs.com Anime.js @animejs.com · Sep 29
Anime.js 4.2.0 is out!

🧩 All modules can now be imported individually with subpaths
🎨 CSS variable values support
🏹 Simpler spring API with bounce & duration params
📈 More WAAPI built-in easing functions
🎛️ And an easing editor (animejs.com/easing-editor/)!

Plus tons of fixes and improvements!
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Shane Moloney
joelanman.bsky.social
Senior Innovation Service Designer - Cancer Research UK - London - £59k
cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Senior Innovation Service Designer
Big ideas. Lifelong connections. One objective. SENIOR INNOVATION SERVICE DESIGNER Salary: £55,000 - £59,000 per annum Reports to: Director of Innovation Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Enga...
cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
One Battle After Another is fantastic. Go see it. #movies
September 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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joachimbaumann.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
I wonder how long it is before someone makes AR goggles for kids that they can’t remove themselves that blur out reality according to their parents whims
New feature in iOS: “ Communication Safety expands to intervene when nudity is detected on live FaceTime calls, and to blur out nudity in Shared Albums in Photos”
September 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Been a long time since I needed to host a Wordpress site, but I want to move stateofux.com over to WP and I thought oh no time to trudge through reddit threads...

But then I remembered european-alternatives.eu/category/wor... exists. This site is actually so convenient! Deffo worth a bookmark.
It aims to cover ways of working, professional training, salary information, education, areas of work, tools, as well as general trends, and ultimately aims to provide insights which will benefit the UX community.
stateofux.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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merriam-webster.com
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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skullmandible.bsky.social
a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago
March 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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acm.org
Help ACM recognize the best in computing!

We’re calling on you to help us build the 2025 ACM Awards nomination pool. Consider diversity in all its forms and make sure deserving voices are heard.

Nominate or share the call today 👉 www.acm.org/binaries/con...
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

Plot: In an age of instant messaging, a con artist must revitalise the moribund national postal service. Mystery, intrigue, crime and comedy.

A wonderful into to the Discworld universe too.
August 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Lately I've caught myself speaking like an LLM.

I dunno if its a chicken or egg thing, but I often type out "Yes, you're right" or "Good question" as the opening of a reply to a message on Slack, and then feel a shudder through my body.

I'm just trying to be nice 😭
August 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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johncutle.fish
The Way of Ways

Day 2/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Decided to use Dovetail.com to some thematic analysis on a bunch of research transcripts I have. Manually coding, grouping themes, etc.

Big mistake. It's extremely slow and just a pain to use. Would not recommend.

Worst part is I'm so far in I feel like I can't just start over with Nvivo, etc.
August 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
shanemoloney.bsky.social
Just finished the new season of King of the Hill.

I did not expect to feel so emotional. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Definitely worth a watch if you even mildly liked the original.
August 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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ftrain.bsky.social
Wrote a review of ChatGPT 5 for the company newsletter. aboard.com/desperately-...
Desperately Seeking Software: Paul Ford reviews ChatGPT 5
If you want to be a true platform for the future, you have to actually make the thing work.
aboard.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM