Profile avatar
jovo.design
Product Design at Descript, cofounder of @queerdesign.club. Queering design, ethical tech, and dogs. Husband of @seldo.com. I write and speak, no matter how much people beg me to stop 🌎 jovo.design 📍SF / Sea Ranch
519 posts 1,444 followers 341 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

Wild time in my life to find myself pro-bullying.

One of my least favorite parts of international travel is having to pay the Catholic Church to visit sites that were sacred to the people who where in that place before them.

stop right there, don't need to know more, already looking forward to it 🙏

it is chilling that it is now official state dogma that race is a biological reality and not a human invention or social construct

Why am I seeing so much commentary about OpenAI's theft of Studio Ghibli's creative work illustrated with synthetic Studio Ghibli style images? Just because you're talking about the harm doesn't give you a free pass to do more of the harm....

Logging on

I dreamt I found a refill of my ADHD meds I’d forgot while I had a new order ready for pickup, and I knew I’d always have a month’s cushion. It was a nice dream.

The FDA has apparently raided a company that sells poppers. A reminder that RFK Jr. believes the anti-LGBT conspiracy theory that poppers cause AIDS. www.them.us/story/rfk-jr...

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Incredible reporting from Erin Reed. Support trans journalists.

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

Doing some learning on Futurism for a talk I booked at the end of the year, starting with *the* (Italian) Futurists, and wow did I stumble onto a more relevant topic for the moment than I imagined.

The news man. Something’s gotta give, and I’m just praying it’s one of Musk’s vital organs.

Alright let’s do a painting auction! This little buddy is 8x10. Painted with bees wax. Reply with a bid. Highest bid gets it. Bid will be donated to @translifeline.bsky.social. Shipping is extra. (Int’l bidders beware.) If you’re in the Bay Area bonus studio visit. Let’s GIVE TRANS PEOPLE MONEY!

🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

Has your experience as a Grindr user gone downhill? You’re not alone. I was one of the folks @mathewrodriguez.bsky.social talked to about the enshittification of Grindr and its causes from a UX perspective. www.them.us/grindr-user-...

I wrote about how free Grindr is basically unusable — by design — for them! www.them.us/grindr-user-... Thanks for @jovo.design @pezzulich.bsky.social @falconwizard.bsky.social @thejaimewoo.bsky.social for chatting with me!

how you lose a halftime show?

Chappell Roan at the Grammy’s—like all night, red carpet, performance, acceptance speech—is giving me my dopamine this morning.

The store is now selling "I will de-Nazify shit but I will not re-Nazify shit" tshirts and I hope they sell a million of them, lol

T4T ream with anti-topping device

lol ok CiZi

So what I’m gathering from this DeepSeek news is that legislative constraints spur AI efficiency innovations but unfortunately we’re only willing to regulate China.

Hi queers! Thanks for following us here. ❤️

I would love automated space communism, personally. And Altman’s right it would require a renegotiation of the social contract (assuming technology could ever get us close). Thankfully Andreessen is eager to remind us, the powerful have no interest in negotiation.

We’ve really got to remember the role that plausible deniability and the cover provided by edgelord culture has played in getting us to where we are today.

I just had to scrape ice off my car. What the fuck is this, California.

We should be much more conscious of how often we use rich as a heuristic for successful and successful as a heuristic for smart.

If you don’t want to give Trump attention, you can give me attention instead. It’s my birthday.

My life has become a never ending parade of one-time 6-digit codes.

Ah yes, Zuck going back to his made up "free speech roots" by... blocking links to a decentralized competitor.

damn mark zuckerberg really said “faggots get out”

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

🥹

“Nothing important on this sign,” say the monkeys.

Bad pun caiman.

I booked a tour to Harrison Caves today and everyone there said they knew you.