# Guess Who’s at the Table Now?

**URL:** <https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199>\
**Category:** Aligning your team\
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199 "2025-08-22T16:50:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/bryan/32/448_2.png) [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199/1 "2025-08-22T16:51:00Z")

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[https://x.com/askperplexity/status/1958699254949527596](https://x.com/askperplexity/status/1958699254949527596)

Now that’s some good Friday humor. AI is poking the design community.

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**Author:** ![EricZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ericz/32/692_2.png) [@EricZ](https://forum.zurb.com/u/EricZ)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199/2 "2025-08-28T20:32:20Z")

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Unfortunately, it’s a case of government destroying something (to save money), then taking credit for establishing something new when they basically re-instate what was dismantled.

> **[Trump's design purge: A costly mistake for US government | Matthew Bernius...](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7365782860378685445/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7365782860378685445%2C7365986274534445056%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287365986274534445056%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7365782860378685445%29)**
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> It is all but journalistic malpractice that this article on the newly announced national design studio and US Chief Design Officer does not contain any mention of the Trump Administration's recent purge of hundreds of exceptionally talented design...

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**Author:** ![ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ben/32/442_2.png) [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199/3 "2025-08-28T22:10:14Z")

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Pretty interesting- didn’t even know Perplexity had their own bot on there!

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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/bryan/32/448_2.png) [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/guess-who-s-at-the-table-now/199/4 "2025-08-29T00:24:07Z")

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What most designers fail to understand, and part of what holds them back, is that these politics are played in every other established government organization.

Why should it work different for designers?