#FirstAndFifteenth

Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

19 minutes ago

Four Forbes business magazines, each with celebrated tech CEOs who have in different ways disgraced their companies.

Fifteenth no. 16: On the Men (and sometimes Women) Who Corrupted Hadleyburg.

Shady CEOs, Sianne Ngai's Theory of the Gimmick, why gimmicks are natural accessories of the tech industry, and a short story by Mark Twain.

Link below. 👇🏾

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

2 weeks ago

First #16: The AI Con The AI Con, as its name misleadingly suggests, is not solely about AI; rather, it is an assiduous exercise in excoriating the runaway hype engulfing the technology industry. Co-written by computatio...

New review! First no. 16: The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

www.first-and-fifteenth.co/first-16-the...

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

3 weeks ago

Photo of the book” The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create The Future We Want”, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The cover a plain white cover with the word “The” in giant black letters, “AI” in giant red letters, and “Con” in giant black letters, and the book is shot close up and top down on a light green textured wool covered sofa material.

First #16 on The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — “a wonderful riposte to the magical thinking propelling the indiscriminate deployment of generative AI.”

S/O @hypestudies.bsky.social for capturing its spirit. Link below 👇🏾

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

2 months ago

First and Fifteenth Essays from a critical technologist, told through the interpretative lens of Black Studies and conceptual art.

First and Fifteenth returns in 2026. New website, new schedule. 💁🏾‍♂️

www.first-and-fifteenth.co

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

3 months ago

First & Fifteenth 2025 roundup What I've said and read since summer

First & Fifteenth, 2025 wrapped.

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

5 months ago

Human decentred design | Michael Kibedi YouTube video by Wilsome LLP

Human Decentred Design (2025 edition): A trilogy in four parts, presented at @contentrising.bsky.social earlier this year at @rbgkew.bsky.social in Wakehurst. 🍃 💚

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlz...

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Michael Kibedi

@uxmichael.co

5 months ago

Top-down photo of a critical technology non-fiction book published in French by éditions divergences, on plain white table, called APOCALYPSE NERDS by Nastasia Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet. The book has plain bright yellow cover with both the title and authors in large text and the rest of the cover taken up with a blurb in French.

nouvelle arrivée dans ma bibliothèque: APOCALYPSE NERDS écrite par @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social et @oliviertesquet.bsky.social publié par @divergences.bsky.social

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