Anna E. Cook
annaecook@mastodon.social
<p>Award winning bog hag, platform and systems designer in tech (derogatory), accessibility advocate, happily neurodivergent 💙</p>
Posts
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Post #4495148
The moment you talk with someone not working on tech, it becomes pretty clear how low tech fluency is. Which is one of many many reasons we need more tech policy advisors to protect people from companies taking advantage of citizens lack of fluency
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Post #4402356
Company: we want you all using AI as much as possible to improve your productivity Me: hey AI, can you check that meeting and see if I was being annoying
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Post #4365882
LinkedIn is always offering me this type of content now: “Over the last few months, I've personally shipped 36 PRs and contributed 43K+ lines of code.“ - designer The question I would like to ask but won’t ask: Is the code actually any good though? Otherwise you’re just adding noise and slop
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Post #4223333
The last 4 years have led to less accessibility and less meaningful systemic support for disabled people. I’m still figuring out how to feel about it, but one things for sure, I refuse to stop talking about this or making work accessible To hell to the ableists skyboxcritics.com/2026/07/28/t... https://skyboxcritics.com/2026/07/28/the-vanishing-art-of-disability-reporting/
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Post #4206511
I think I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t super care what people think. Everyone’s got an opinion about who you should be or how you should be. None of them are right for you, and all people have agendas. Figure out your own agenda and focus on what you want ya know?
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Post #4206103
It only took 4 years for investors to actually pay attention www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972119/ai-stock-fall-google-capex
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Post #4145089
“Approximately a trillion dollars taken from the care of poor and disabled people, and roughly a trillion handed to the richest households in the country. “ time.com/article/2026... https://time.com/article/2026/07/27/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of-disability-in-america/
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Post #4029133
Hot take but I’m pretty sure a lot AI models are designed to push opinions to the right politically and dismiss valid concerns
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Post #4002345
Every day my to do list generates ten more to dos like the heads of hydra How tf does anyone keep up with anything these days
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Post #3869158
Hot diarrhea summer with federally supported murder and deeply corrupt people increasing their excessive wealth is about how I expected things to be going at this point.
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Post #3867970
If I took a shot every time I heard the word “AI” every single day I’d be dead by now.
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Post #3850836
In my journey to figure out what I’m feeling related to my work lately, I realized I still love design, coding, building What I don’t like is this era of it. The culture and harm So I guess I realized I’m mourning It would be safer not to talk about it but I’ve never been good at hiding feelings
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Post #3844894
Companies are using AI to create podcast style summaries of emails and meetings. All I can think of is a room full of tech bros like “Joe Rogan but for your meetings” Which makes my soul decays within me
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Post #3811843
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/xbox-layoffs-hit-accessibility-leadership-calling-into-question-microsofts-continued-commitment-to-accessibility-initiatives/
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Post #3811842
Watching men try to justify the SA another man did while watching a bunch of accessibility work get cut while dealing with the general fascism that’s just there all of the time …god I’m tired
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Post #3811841
We have some low res home cameras for checking on the cats Sometimes I think the best pictures are the crappy ones.
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Post #3811840
Remember me too? How about the Epstein files? Remember these before you give some BS argument about Platners innocence and the justice system ever actually helping the victims of SA.
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Post #3811839
AI buttons on every website (Credit u/Ok_Instruction_9437 on Reddit)
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Post #3811838
Every time fascism increases my hair is just gonna get more blue and I’m gonna talk more about my queer childless cat lady life and how much it rocks
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Post #3811837
Every time I see people in tech say “AGI is just around the corner, the singularity is inevitable” I ask myself how deep in the k-hole they are.
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Post #3811836
A subcategory of girl dinner for neurodivergent ladies. It’s a chocolate bar and a protein shake today
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Post #3811835
Anytime a special interest rant of mine queues up I look at my partner and I’m like I’m sorry you’re gonna have to sit down for a min. And my partner sits and listens patiently while I rant. Today’s rant was about the extreme inaccuracy and racial/gender bias of BMI as a health measurement.
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Post #3811834
Regularly I’ll go out to a nice place, a restaurant or store, and someone will see me with my bright blue hair and tattoos and make a very grumpy face. It makes me wanna ham it up and be like “boo!” I’m so scary clearly lol
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Post #3811833
I wasn’t expecting Lindsey Graham to be the old, southern, establishment republican to die this week.
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Post #3811832
An amuse bouche as it were
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Post #3811831
Partner: the Seattle light rail is relying on color alone in these lights to indicate its end point which isn’t accessible Me: ACTUALLY they are paring that with labels so it would pass compliance however I agree that they should maybe have one dashed and another solid to be more clear.
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Post #3796606
The horrors are too constant and too overwhelming. 🫠
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Post #3766485
I don’t think I realized exactly how much of my love of making art was sapped from me with AI. It’s not like I intentionally made that choice, it just felt like I couldn’t share my work anymore. I didn’t want it to be fed into AI to train it. So I stopped sharing, but then I stopped making too.
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Post #3661285
I think it was reasonable to always be skeptical of someone who has Nazi tattoos, even if he’s “reformed.” Once again: why was he our only option? What about the many not ex Nazis who are also likely more qualified and progressive?
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Post #3634322
A lot of folks at XBOX are impacted by layoffs today, some of whom I know are majorly involved in accessible gaming. Hire them.