Ruined by Design: How to build an atomic bomb

Let’s watch this

Questions to think about as you’re watching this

• How ‘bout them title cards?
• What did you agree with?
• What did you feel confused about?
• What did you vehemently disagree with?
  
• Is it reductive to think about design in such an expansive way (equating graphic designers, developers, and budget planners for example?)
  
• Is he “preaching to the choir”? Does this matter? 
• (This was before Trump got banned obvi) Should Twitter be allowed to ban Donald Trump? 

Further reading/viewing

• Mike Monteiro talk at Creative Mornings HQ (2012)︎Fuck You, Pay Me︎
• Jack Dorsey bro-ing the heck out with Kevin Rose on Foundation︎
• “Jack Dorsey can’t sell Twitter, but at least Square isn’t doing as poorly”︎Salon article by Matthew Rosza︎

Things we talked about in class

• The personal responsibility of recycling vs a corporation’s ability to change how they make their products. I just wrote the word “recycling” not sure if I meant something else by this.
• L7 having women at the front of their shows (In relation to Mike Monteiro asking “women” to come up and get free copies of his code of ethics for design)
• Jeb Bush, “please clap” clip︎ (in relation to Mike Monteiro basically asking for laughs and applause)
• Neanderthal DNA as a “genetic” defect︎ (forgot why this came up but I think we were talking about white privilege)
• Ecosia︎ (We were talking about alternatives to Google and Bing)
• Microsoft’s racists AI bot︎(I think we were talking about this in relationship to “removing” racism from services like Twitter)