i miss when we were all excited about twitter circles and that was the direction new features were going in

tired by the idea that i start my trip back to ann arbor tomorrow at 7:30am, and i won't be back to my apartment until 1:30am the next day. i guess high-speed rail would still take time but this just seems so inefficient given i'm flying

spotted at the san jose public library @ali-alkhatib.com @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social

idk why but the vibes today feel atrocious

i think when cs ed shifted from "cs can be cool and fun, regardless of identity" to "you're of a marginalized identity, you _need_ to learn to code for economic mobility" we lost something (and ended up serving corporate interests)

i don't like that my reaearch feels so far removed from reality but i also have to tell myself that part of my phd is learning how to even do research but i still kinda wish my research was more meaningful if that makes any sense

wait these are bars

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

sending appreciation in advance to the ppl reviewing 2 out of 3 of my dissertation papers/chapters that i sent out for publication, i'm quite happy with some of this work for once

semester starts this week and i haven't gotten my finalized teaching appointment yet, if you're wondering how that's been going lmao

what are some of y'all even talking about lmao

check in on your people, we gotta tend to ourselves too

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

ESPECIALLY since bluesky doesn't actually have privacy settings. anyone can see (or scrape) your messages (and technically, "DMs" too). this is not a platform built for organizing. (we need better digital spaces for it.)

fuck all this

what the fuck @ this country. we are the heart of today's imperialism and oppression in the world. this is unacceptable

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

lil publication called "starting over 30" that spotlights people who have started something new some time after 30 and are very ok at it

had a dream i met dave grohl but he was played by eric adams what does this mean

i can't believe it's 2026, it still feels like we're stuck in last year or something

working on some papers critiquing deepfakes but constantly worried some asshole will see it and do something terrible in return and this reality is so much worse for my colleagues and it makes me so sad

& of course equitable access to that medicine. A lot of people didn't make it, and in this country it often still takes being one of the greatest NBA players in history to afford life-saving care. I'm happy about the strides we've made in the past decades, but I'm also scared for the near future.

finally doing the drive through the south from ann arbor to california (i've done the drive through the north) what are some must-stop spots along this route? food, sights, points of interest included

real lack of happy new year buzz tonight lmao, i don't hear fireworks nor see any celebrations

2026 i'm so ready

Did some writing today, and came to the kinda nice summary of my doctoral dissertation: How have digital practices rooted in machine learning technologies come to shape the Asian face?

just a reminder that better social media systems are still possible, and this example of centering social media around affirmative consent is just one incredible idea that i hope we can pursue in practice dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

do y'all ever get to that phase where you wanna write but your writing feels really repulsive to you

looking back at old college papers i wrote from over a decade ago and kinda sad that no one at that time told me i should try submitting those essays to a journal. i think some of them could have gotten in back then, but a decade has now passed...

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

As towns and cities grapple with the challenge of data centers, there’s a growing call for a national moratorium. This conflict has pitted communities across the country against Silicon Valley.

build slowly and thoughtfully or not at all

here's a link to our zine on setting up a personal music server as an alternative to spotify! if you'd like a pdf version to print physically, let me know! happy listening~ www.instagram.com/p/DS4Yg-IlG9...

i don't know what this is a sign of, but it's sure an interesting sign that i'm so invested in my app idea that i'm starting to pick up react native once again in 2025 to make a mvp

trying really hard not to do work to pass the time, maybe i am a workaholic (now that i'm on adhd meds)

watching folks hunt down seats at a cafe in the bay area like it's the hunger games

No thanks to CNN for marginalizing Cantonese in this article about Chinese gender pronouns: 🙄 Set in Hong Kong but first mention of Cantonese is 25 paragraphs in 🙄 Dismisses it as "an informal and colloquial language" 🙄 Writes 他 five times but refuses to write 佢 (Canto) www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...

first-gen immigrant asian parents...

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

i need this so badly cause all the new models of a car i like are touchscreenslop and i realy really want tactile buttons back

trying to stay off twitter but it's like a bad addiction i can't seem to shake... haven't posted to it in a while but i feel myself wanting to scroll it again

i just want to make fun (and ethical and non-AI) things for a changeeee

my partner and i made a zine!! we'll post it on instagram and i'll link it once it's up, but it's exciting to see it physically printed. if you're anywhere near sour cherry comics in sf, they have lots of free copies there!

If you can make it to Bluestockings Books before 5 pm today, there are so many good and cheap books available!

if you can give away campaign hats you can give away campaign tampons

got a few new followers. a reminder it's always free palestine and abolish prisons and the military. we should be feeding folks not killing them

noting that the genAI edit button on the other site is getting a ton of artists onto this site, and while i'm so happy to see more people away from there, i wish this site was in a better place in terms of moderation and discovery