ALT a screenshot of an imagined email, from "Flo". A green handkerchief on the Flo logo. Text: Big orange letters: "speculative design" "Your body. Your data. Your rights. [rights is underlined] Dear Flo community, We want to continue to help you make the best decisions for you about your body, your future. So we, together with the six other leading period trackers, are announcing an international partnership with legal, medical, and digital security experts & abortion rights advocates to keep you informed, in the app, about how you can exercise your rights and support others. This is a new entity with independent funding, a broad & growing coalition, with a board selected by our partners: Abortion Care Network, Abortion Without Borders, Digital Defense Fund, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, I Need An A, Las Libres, NAACP, Plan C, Sister Song, The Brigid Alliance, The"

ALT screenshot: A mock Google search page: Query: [insert query here] It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search in our index! Want help reformulating your query? Check out these free external guides for domain-specific advice from community-experts on identifying and revising queries for your searches. Need help choosing other search systems? Here is a community-managed open source table for selecting search systems: [insert filterable list of search engines with distinct indexes or filtering/interaction features (inc. Internet Archive, government and library web-based search systems, competitor search engines, experimental search engines), links to and community-written guides to question-asking & exploratory browsing on forums and other social media platforms (inc. expert comments on safety, privacy, & transparency reports like links to Ranking Digital Rights, etc.), links to locale-specific librarian desk reference services, collaboration with Wikimedia: 'how to...

ALT a screenshot of a tweet from @Twitter. big label: speculative design. text: if you see an edited Tweet it's because we're testing the edit button this is happening and you'll be okay have doubts? no worries, we got you. follow this thread as we introduce our team of researchers who have been studying this for the past 3 years. first, they will share stories from in-depth qualitative research on where we see typos (and the not uncommon 'beautiful oops' 🥰) and the friction & conflict introduced as people interact with the Twitter interface. they show convincingly that people underestimate the effect of making or trying to read typos on others and the disproportionate impact across our community. throughout they highlight great academic research and comments from community members. second, they will present baseline data covering typos over the entire existence of Twitter. we find typos-rate and typo-friction-rates fluctuating over time. sometimes friction is useful (shoutout to Dr.