Episode 78: Delete Your Account

The Cambridge Analytica story got Jessica to put her Facebook account “on pause,” as she says — or, as Facebook puts it, her “content isn’t available right now.” Yet most people keep using Facebook despite this latest violation of privacy, Michael says, because humans are social animals. “Most people don’t want to live like hermits.”

Also mentioned this week:

Google Design, People and AI Research including The UX of AI
Kevin Roose, NYT, Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
Professor Buzzkill, The Hitler Jig
Jon Christian, The Outline, Experts fear face swapping tech could start an international showdown
From Russia With Love, Trump Edition
Jon Bruner, Optimized for Engagement: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entertainment
Doll Hacking
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Highland Park, MI house listing via @manda_like_wine.

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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer and writer and a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Communications Arts and Eye magazines. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a recent laureate of the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, Helfand received her B.A. and her M.F.A. from Yale University where she has taught since 1994.