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1 week ago | 
stribs.medium.com | Robert Stribley
What a fake image of a new OpenAI product tells us about misinformation onlineJust over a week ago, Jony Ive and OpenAI announced their partnership in a release featuring a photo of Jony and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with an accompanying cuddly photo possibly calculated to resemble a classic Simon and Garfunkel album cover.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
stribs.medium.com | Robert Stribley
Trump isn’t the only politician to ever encourage the mistreatment of immigrants but he put the lies and policies encouraging their mistreatment into overdriveRobert Stribley·Follow10 min read·--Original photo by Gage Skidmore | Photoshop by Robert StribleySorry for the three-dollar word: Hypernormalisation. I’m alluding to the provocative and somewhat depressing documentary of the same name, which Adam Curtis directed for the BBC in 2016.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
stribs.medium.com | Robert Stribley
It all started with the borderAnd that’s still where it is todaySomeone killed Ramón CasianoAnd the killer got away— “Ramon Casiano,” Drive-By TruckersIf you’ve never heard the name Ramón Casiano, you may more likely have heard the name of the man who murdered him. There’s no photo of Casiano to include with this piece, either, since, near as anyone can tell, no such photo exists. And there’s precious little I could find to tell his life story either. Harlon Bronson Carter, though?
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Robert Stribley
AI is undermining our privacy. What can we do about it?
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Robert Stribley
Book Review: The Bible Code by Michael DrosninOriginally published in Creative Loafing in August 1997. I am reprinting some of my early writing here, which is no longer available online. We’re forever looking for signs.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Robert Stribley
Caucasia by Danzy SennaOriginally published in Creative Loafing. I am reprinting some of my early writing here, which is no longer available online. “I disappeared into America, the easiest place to get lost.”Danzy Senna’s first novel Caucasia is the story of a disappearance, not just the disappearance of Birdie and her mother, Sandy, but of Birdie’s identity.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
stribs.medium.com | Robert Stribley
Book Review: The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island by Oliver SacksOriginally published in Creative Loafing. I am reprinting some of my early writing here, which is no longer available online. “There is a grandeur in this view of life.” — Charles Darwin, Origin of the SpeciesIn The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks embarks upon an adventure that must have been nearly as exciting for him as Darwin’s enlightening journey to the Galapagos Islands.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
uxmag.com | Robert Stribley
DUMBO neighborhood street corner in Brooklyn — Photo by Robert StribleyA watershed privacy moment in the United StatesIn July of 2023, a Nebraska court convicted a teenage girl and her mother after the mother assisted her daughter in procuring an illegal abortion. the previous year in June—the same month that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
uxdesign.cc | Robert Stribley
Cultivating a design cultureHow can you nurture an inspiring design culture within an organization for UXers—and any group of designers, really?
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
stribs.medium.com | Robert Stribley
I’ve been thinking about the importance of cultivating a genuine design culture within an organization, which both educates and inspires but also supports UX designers, ensuring they don’t merely feel siloed into their project work, heads-down on deliverables all the time. I’d like to articulate some of those characteristics of a good internal design culture here. I’m sure you have your own thoughts, too: I’d love to see them in the comments.
