Ivan Monteiro

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Product @ Meltwater ▪︎ posts on society, culture, politics, product management + the occasional memery ▪︎ views my own except where noted

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My latest article looks into how companies seem to be diversity-washing with DEIB while silencing dissenting voices. In 2022, Gallup said 87% of CHROs claimed to increase DEIB investment, but mass layoffs typically impacted the "diverse" first and harder.

The hidden costs of real diversity and inclusionuxdesign.cc Effective Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging requires robust worker support, or it becomes mere window dressing for inadequate…

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

"Ontogenetic Foraging Dynamics and Metamorphic Transformation in Lepidopteran Larvae", a thread 1/4

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damn, dude

If a skeet turns into a long thread, do we call it skittles?

Must read

Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsensedoctorow.medium.com We’re living through a revolution, but all we hear about is scams.

New article discussing what happens when workers are treated as expendable variables rather than contributors to the company’s success. #productmanagement #companyculture #business #productdevelopment

We’re All the New Pickers in The Farmproductcoalition.com What happens when workers are treated as expendable variables rather than valued contributors to the company’s success.

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People don’t want to work anymore

While everyone was concerned with 1984, a wild Brave New World came sneaking through the backdoor. And soma ate theur brains whole, it seems.

I swear to you this is real.

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Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostilitywww.theatlantic.com They don’t make ’em like they used to!

@why.bsky.team I'm looking to learn more about atprotocol. Could I bother you for reading recommendations?

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Google search operators are GOATed. Another thing you can add is "-inurl:" without the quotation marks (e.g. -inurl:openart.ai) and that will filter down further if your search is particularly AI heavy.

How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.

Bluesky is for interacting with people. (Ex)Twitter is for deadlettering.

Bluesky is for interacting with people. The bird app is for interacting with bots.

Language plays such a pivotal role in product management, and understanding how others use it is crucial to crafting delightful products. But if words are not followed by actions, we end up in a neverending chain of process and framework. #productmanagement

On understanding one’s real motivationsuxdesign.cc Do not try to walk on someone else’s shoes. Instead, try to understand their motives with empathy.

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i at least had the “good” fortune to not know this existed. i can’t imagine being a queer kid today and hearing, “there are books about you where you are loved and have a place in the world, but we keep them from you because they are dangerous & you deserve neither love nor a mirror.”

Yet another excellent examole of media enshittification

Biden didn't "quell the concerns" of the people *running against him* because the criticisms from your opponents are not "concerns" they are campaign strategies, you dumb mfers it's like saying the Knicks' three-point shooting is unlikely to persuade the Celtics to stop trying to score.

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you don’t actually have to ban ai, you just have to tax the shit out of excess utilities consumption

"The Financial Times recently reported academic projections showing that A.I. demand may use about half the amount of water consumed by the United Kingdom in a year." newrepublic.com/article/1795...

The Scariest Part About Artificial Intelligencenewrepublic.com Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future.

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Looks like the person who posted the black & white version of the comic blocked me. My point is - comic creators need to earn a living too and if you don’t credit their work you are taking away their ability to gain a following. It’s no different than expecting any other content for free.

It’s truly amazing to see this particular comic traveling around social media uncredited and apparently edited. Original from FB on left. Artist: eat the rich comedian / FB eattherich_comic / IG

@johncutle.fish @saeedwkhan.bsky.social @onejasonknight.bsky.social @lennysan.bsky.social @peterhilton.bsky.social

Bluesky is becoming a home for product minds. Here are top minds, active on Bluesky now. @cwodtke.bsky.social @mikalfm.bsky.social (me!) @ctodd.bsky.social @steveportigal.bsky.social @indiyoung.bsky.social @joe.mr @dolsen.bsky.social Who do you follow? Re-post & reply w/ recommendation

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Are you looking for a developmental edit for a novel or novella? I have immediate and future openings in my calendar. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing Reposts appreciated, thanks in advance.

Kat Howard — Editingwww.kathowardbooks.com Kat Howard's goal as a freelance editor is to help writers get closer to the book that they want to be writing. She works with writers at all career stages and in various genres and covers things li...

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Well, then. This'll truly be the test of how well we can keep alt-right types from taking over here. Remember: block on sight, and do not engage. Starve them of the oxygen of attention.

We are officially open to the world! Bye bye invites 👋 techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/b...

Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.

Company culture should not — cannot — be thought of as being divorced from business success. The social role a company chooses to have has a major impact on how its products are planned, developed, and maintained; on its product culture; & our impact as product teams. uxdesign.cc/company-cult...

Company culture is more than just office perksuxdesign.cc We should all feel a fiduciary duty to do the right thing

I see both the two people and the cow are very selective on their milking hours

Uh, I choose cow

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Can anyone tell me the names of the Chinese authors and their works who were removed from the Hugo ballots? I would really like to know their names and read their work.

So in further Hugo news—yes, it just keeps going—if you put the leaked spreadsheet next to the list of nominees, it looks like pretty much nobody in the big fiction categories should even have been on the ballot. They should almost all have been Chinese authors.

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I wasn't planning to comment more about the Hugos but the discussions about the "slate" really bug me. I don't think I have seen any translations of the blogpost from Science Fiction World (the publication that put out the list), so let me try to translate it very carefully here for context.

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Looks like I shouldn't have made it in Novelette either (maybe)? Instead "Upstart" (which I was shocked not to see, it's GREAT): clarkesworldmagazine.com/lu_12_22/ & "Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles": clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_11_22/ You can angry-read both at @clarkesworldmagazine.com

So. I looked at the hugo validation spreadsheet. 😭 If I am reading this right, none of the fiction winners, myself included (Short, Novelette, Novella, Novel, Series) would have been on the final ballot if there hadn't been a slew of Chinese nominees yanked off. drive.google.com/file/d/1rhCw...

Validation.pdfdrive.google.com

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com Upstart by Lu Ban, translated by Blake Stone-Banks

In product managenent, we talk about not assuming what your user wants. To which I personally add, do not purposefully enshittify your work. #product management

And the next heartbreak is that there are a number of Chinese writers who should have been nominated and would probably have taken home Hugo Awards.

But talk about pirating and everyone just loses their damned minds

Political graverobbing could really become a thing.