I had to create a list called, it's a private one, accounts Twitter doesn't show me anymore.

It's funny. This is a bit of a digression, but once I was in an Uber and the guy was playing a Spotify list, and I noticed on the list it said music for my ungrateful Uber passengers.

Welcome to Geekwire.

I'm Geekwire co-founder, Todd Bishop.

We're coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in technology,

business, and innovation.

What happens here matters everywhere, and every week on this show, we get to talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news.

This week, my guest is a University of Washington professor whose Twitter account was abruptly

suspended last week for reasons that seemed inexplicable at the time. We also get a reality check on generative artificial intelligence, and in the final segment,

we hear why the late David Bowie was right all along about the exhilarating and terrifying future

in which the rest of us are now living.

My guest is Kathy Gill, a tech industry veteran who is an adjunct

professor at the University of Washington and Bellevue College, focusing on communications

and user experience. Kathy Gill, thank you very much for joining me. Well, it's lovely to be with

you, Todd. Kathy, for people who don't know you, how do you describe what you do at the University of Washington and in other roles that you have right now?

Well, I'm an adjunct professor at the University of Washington where I used to teach full-time.

I am teaching engineering students, technical communication, undergraduate engineering students, which is so much fun.

And then I also teach a graduate level course in human-centered design and engineering

for students who don't have any background in web technologies.

That field is so general. It has architects and library science people

and tech people. Everybody needs to be able to talk to a developer. So that's what I helped

them do. Well, I can only imagine given that focus that artificial intelligence and generative

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