Luke Patton

Going back in time to kill the inventor of technology

Who you define as the "user" in UX is a significant political choice. Users are explicitly centered and valued in the design of a system. Think of all the people who make a "user experience" possible, but exist beneath the threshold of empathy. They are also human.

Neither design nor work culture should be driven by "What if the developers are sitting idle without anything to build!" Going into 2020 we shouldn't be talking about creating software and systems like it's an industrial assembly line.

Every year, we see radical activist who, toward the end of his life, was preaching that structures of imperialism and capitalist exploitation were inextricably tied to racism suddenly become an icon for color-blind American go-along-to-get-along-ism. #eventhedead

In his Theses, Walter Benjamin famously, if enigmatically, declares that "even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." Every year, I find that conservatives' tweets commemorating Martin Luther King really help to clarify his meaning.

Star Wars’ insistence that killing a fascist leader is unambiguously an evil act while killing his minions is morally good is part of the civility trap enforced by the elite that is more outraged by rudeness to the rich than it is the deaths of the poor. In this essay I will