Kate @KateUDesign

@ty_trobridge @nypost Replace the word Jew with a word “black” and here you have the answer.

Avoid #QRFI! It’s a scam, and it will hold your #qrcode hostage unless you pay them a monthly fee. If you print their code, you will have to cover reprinting costs. I hope they burn in hell and go out of business for their business scamming designers, small businesses and nonprofits.

Did not like the #Amazon joke. There are so many talented people working on amazing projects there. Toilet paper? More mean than funny #oscars hosted by Conan o’Brian.

I work in government affairs at OpenAI. My job is federal partnerships. When an agency wants our models, I make sure the paperwork is beautiful. Paperwork is my love language. On my desk I have a framed quote that says "Policy Is Just Code That Runs on People." I bought the frame at Target. It was in the Live Laugh Love section. I did not see the irony at the time. I still don't. We had a good week. On Monday, we closed a $110 billion funding round. One hundred and ten billion dollars. Amazon put in fifty. Nvidia put in thirty. Valuation: $730 billion. The largest private fundraise in the history of anyone raising anything. There was a company-wide Slack message about it. The message used the word "transformative" twice and the word "safety" once. The word "safety" was in the last sentence, after the link to the new branded hoodie pre-order. The hoodies are nice. They're the soft kind. On Tuesday, we fired a research scientist for insider trading on Polymarket. He had opened seventy-seven positions across sixty wallets, betting on our product announcements before they were public. Over three years. Total profit: sixteen thousand dollars. Seventy-seven positions. Sixty wallets. Sixteen thousand dollars. That is two hundred and eight dollars per wallet. The man had access to the most valuable product roadmap in artificial intelligence and he used it to make less money than a good weekend at a Reno blackjack table. The wallets were linked. Not discreetly linked. Linked like Christmas lights. One wallet was reportedly called something I cannot repeat but it contained the word "OpenAI" and a number. He did not use a VPN. He did not use an alias. He used Polymarket, the platform that is designed to be publicly auditable, to place bets on information he stole from the company that invented GPT. A compliance team composed entirely of Labrador retrievers would have found this by lunch on day one. We did not find it for three years. This will matter later. On Wednesday, a petition appeared. "We Will Not Be Divided." Four hundred and seven signatures. Two hundred sixty-six from Google. Sixty-five from OpenAI. The petition warned that the government was pitting AI companies against each other on safety. It said that if one company broke ranks, the government would use the defection to lower the bar for everyone. I meant to read it. It went into my to-read folder. The to-read folder also contains the Responsible Scaling Policy, three think-tank white papers on AI governance, and a New Yorker article someone sent me in November. The folder is aspirational. On Thursday, OpenAI told CNN we would maintain "the same red lines as Anthropic." Same red lines. On Friday, Anthropic told the Pentagon no. The Pentagon had given them seventy-two hours to remove the safety guardrails from Claude. Anthropic's guardrails were not in a policy document. They were not in a legal reference. They were in the code. Written into Claude's architecture. If Claude hit a safety boundary, Claude stopped. Not because a lawyer said so. Because the math said so. You could fire every lawyer at Anthropic and the model would still refuse. You cannot remove code with a contract amendment. You can remove a contract reference by Tuesday. I checked. Anthropic said no. By that evening, the Pentagon had designated them a supply-chain risk. I have worked in government procurement for eight years. Government paperwork does not move in hours. I have waited nine weeks for a badge renewal. I once spent four months getting a PDF notarized. This designation moved in hours. The document was pre-written. Formatted before the deadline expired. Calibri 11pt. Consistent margins. Somebody wanted this very badly. I respect the craft. I do not think about the implication. That is not my scope. Within hours, we had signed the replacement contract. I was proud of the turnaround. My team moved fast. Legal moved fast. Everyone moved fast. We are very good at moving fast. We are not always sure what we are moving toward, but the speed is impressive and the hoodies are soft. The contract referenced DoD Directive 3000.09, which governs autonomous weapon systems. The directive requires "appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force." The word "appropriate" is not defined. This is not an oversight. This is the point. The word "appropriate" is the most load-bearing word in the entire contract and it is doing exactly as much work as a throw pillow on a couch that is on fire. Anthropic built a wall. We referenced a document about where walls should go. Anthropic's guardrails were architecture. Ours were a citation. Theirs execute. Ours can be filed. The Pentagon asked both companies to take down the wall. Anthropic said it's load-bearing, the building will collapse. We said what wall? Oh, you mean the wallpaper. Here, watch. It peeled off beautifully. It was designed to. Sam announced the partnership that night. The word "responsible" appeared in the announcement and in the contract. In the announcement it was a brand. In the contract it was a footnote to a directive that uses the word "appropriate" which nobody has defined. The word traveled from a legal document to a public statement without changing its font. Only its meaning. At this valuation, "responsible" means: we will do the thing the other company refused to do, and we will describe doing it with the same adjective they used to describe not doing it. By Saturday morning, "How to delete your OpenAI account" was the number one post on Hacker News. 982 points. By noon, subscription cancellations were up eighty-nine times the daily average. Not eighty-nine percent. Eighty-nine times. Someone in our Slack posted the Hacker News link with the message "should we be worried?" Someone else reacted with the branded hoodie emoji. We have a branded hoodie emoji now. It was introduced on Monday, to celebrate the fundraise. It has been used four hundred and twelve times. Mostly in the #general channel. Mostly this week. The communications team drafted a response. The response used the word "committed" three times and the word "safety" four times. It did not use the word "guardrails." It did not use the word "code." It did not explain anything. It was a holding statement. It held nothing. It held beautifully. Here is the math. The twenty-dollar-a-month customers were upset. The two-hundred-million-dollar customer was upset because the previous vendor had guardrails that could not be removed. The hundred-and-ten-billion-dollar investors were not upset. The subscription cancellations, at eighty-nine times the daily rate, represented less than the interest on Amazon's fifty billion dollar contribution calculated over a long weekend. Twenty dollars. Two hundred million. One hundred and ten billion. Three different price points. Three different definitions of "responsible." The most expensive one won. It always does. The math does not have red lines. The math has a cap table and a TAM slide that now includes "defense and intelligence" where it previously said "enterprise and consumer." One word changed on one slide in one deck and the company is worth one hundred and ten billion dollars more. The sixty-five OpenAI employees who signed the petition came to work on Monday. They sat at their desks. Nobody asked them about it. Nobody asked them to resign. Nobody brought it up at the all-hands. The all-hands had catering. Sweetgreen. The chopped salads. Someone made a joke about the kale being "responsibly sourced." No one laughed. Then everyone laughed. Then it was quiet. The petition had four hundred and seven signatures. The contract had one. Now: the Polymarket thing. Seventy-seven positions. Sixty wallets. Three years. A public blockchain. We did not catch him. That same week, we were entrusted with deploying artificial intelligence on America's classified military networks. The classified networks. The ones where the detection requirements are somewhat more rigorous than "check if anyone's gambling on our launch dates on a website that is literally designed to be publicly auditable." The company that could not find the Polymarket guy can now be found in the Pentagon's classified infrastructure. I'm sure it'll be fine. We move fast. The contract is signed. The deployment is underway. The compliance documentation will reference the directives. The directives will use the word "appropriate." I will not define it. That is not my scope. My scope is the paperwork. The paperwork is beautiful. The petition is still a Google Doc. Nobody has updated it. The signatures still say four hundred and seven. The to-read folder still has the New Yorker article from November. The branded hoodie pre-order closed on Wednesday. I got mine in navy. It's the soft kind. On Thursday we told CNN: the same red lines. On Friday we signed the contract they refused. We do have the same red lines. We drew ours in pencil.

And just as I thought the democrats might be getting more support in the aftermath of ICE’s horrible malpractice - we see this, and nope. 🤯🤯🤯 Why are forced to choose between evil and insane?

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Silent, blind, and deaf. Hypocrites with double standards. Why don’t they talk about Iran and the thousands killed by the Islamic Republic? If you’re silent about Iran, you were never about human rights.

Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, the IRGC are among the most evil people in the world. I know I am not telling you anything that you don’t already know. I remind you that they have attempted to assassinate you more than once. I would strongly encourage you not to negotiate with them as leaving them in power continues their ability to inflict evil on the world. And their word means nothing. As I write, they are indiscriminately shooting young and old women and girls in the face and in the back just for protesting on the streets. You have made a public commitment to rescue and help the anti-regime protesters which has motivated tens of thousands of additional protesters to go to the streets, and tragically thousands more have died as a result of their doing so. You have kept your word with all of your public statements which has returned the U.S. to being a superpower and made you into one of the greatest presidents in our 250-year history. And importantly America’s word now means something again and the world is much safer as a result. If America walks away from the Iranian people, it will be an even more catastrophic blood bath and a massive missed opportunity for the U.S. and the world. I am not Iranian and I don’t have any ties to Iran, but I care enormously about humanity. This is an incredible opportunity to bring an enduring peace to the world and to shut down one of the most evil and powerful regimes with the support of the Iranian and American people and hundreds of millions and perhaps even billions of other people around the world. God bless Mr. President. The world’s future is in your hands.

Hamas captivity survivor Romi Gonen has testified to being raped in Gaza by three Palestinian men. The silence is deafening—but familiar. It appears when the victims are Israeli and the perpetrators are Palestinian. AOC, Greta Thunberg, Ilhan Omar, George Galloway, and their ideological allies in the left have nothing to say. Feminists who loudly proclaim believe women suddenly hesitate. Human-rights defenders who speak fluently about sexual violence elsewhere avert their gaze. When confronted with truths that puncture their narrative, the woke left’s self-styled activists don’t defend women or universal human rights—they retreat into silence to protect a distorted worldview. Its shameful and revealing.

AI is reshaping UX, but the fundamentals endure. Our most-watched 2025 videos covered GenUI, synthetic users, and classics like hamburger menus. Top 10 here: bit.ly/4p2Z6Br #UX #UXDesign

I loved @ZARA for years, but now orders don't get through, and customer service is a joke. Heading over to... literally anywhere - who makes decent clothes these days that actually get delivered?

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@agenturban Boston is horrible. You can make 300k and still feel like you barely have enough to get by with these taxes, cost of childcare, and cost of living. And the weather is shit.

OpenAI says it’s fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/ope…

@Dianemarieshub @Matt_Pinner Such a great show!

@VividProwess Great question. For me personally - the answer is yes, (in fact, lets all wear it - and confuse antisemites)

At first, I was a little surprised that the social security office call line keeps reminding me of my retirement benefits while I hold.... but as I continued to hold for the next 20-30 years, it kinda started to make sense... #badumtss

@timeswmariana 💙💙💙

@BriannaWu You are amazing, keep on keeping on.

And for all the women and girls out there, this sentence should tell you: you don’t matter. Nowhere in his statement did he say anything about the victims, only focusing on himself, and his own feelings. And he will be back in two years, probably causing more harm to women, who are just things to him. Gross.

Four years sentence?! Out of which he will probably spend 2 in the actual prison?! What a joke and a slap in the face to all his victims. #PDiddy