Pinnedleesean·Apr 7Haunting Machines: Generative AI and My Monkey Mind Meet in the Uncanny ValleyA ChatGPT hallucination sent a stranger to ask me if I'd written a book, inspiring this meditation on generative AI, labor, and ghostsA response icon1A response icon1
leesean·2d agoLeaving AIGA After Eight YearsWhat We Built and What’s NextA response icon1A response icon1
leesean·Jul 20Why I Support Shawn Fain for Reelection as UAW PresidentI have been a UAW member since 2016, as part of Local 7902, which represents academic workers at The New School and NYU. I am supporting…
leesean·Jul 16On Design & Dialogue: “Before we can properly design ‘deliverables,’ we have to design…An excerpt from my essay in an upcoming book from members of the AIGA Design Educators Community
leesean·Jun 8The Algo-Cops Think I Stole From a 19th-Century GermanAutomated Enforcement vs. Home Recording
leesean·Jun 6The New School Has Become What It Was Designed to ResistThe New School is in the middle of an “identity crisis.”
leesean·Mar 13AI at Work: Intensification, Liberation, or Degradation?This week, I read the Wall Street Journal’s piece by Ray A. Smith on AI and workload, and the Harvard Business Review article it…A response icon1A response icon1
leesean·Mar 6Polycracy is the Point: Chaos by DesignTrump fired Kristi Noem. What looks like a MAGA Civil War is less a crisis and more the system working as designed.
leesean·Mar 3Monkeys, Movies, and Making Sense of Being in Over Our HeadsSince “people in over their heads” seems to be the defining theme of the Zeitgeist right now, I’ve been revisiting a few films that capture…