Working on pluralistic alignment? Our newest Substack post dives into Jeff Basoah’s research on whether and how AI should culturally adapt. globeai.substack.com/p/how-cultur...

Nova made a nice writeup of our recent hotnets paper on human methods in Networking for the ISOC blog: pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026...

NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us. 1/2

With the recent news of the pullback, I am troubled a bit that it seems that Alex Pretti simply bringing his gun, not using, pulling, or brandishing, was really impactful in this change. If he had been killed without it, the uproar seemingly would have been a lot smaller.

I find myself increasingly frustrated with the "artifacts have politics" line of reasoning; it's correct and good to understand (we now teach it in our intro) but the degree and intention of the politics is way more important than the binary nature of it.

Really delightful book fwiw.

Can smart technologies help people experiencing homelessness? #UWAllen prof @kurti.sh and postdoc Esther Jang worked with tiny house villages in Seattle to explore their potential for managing infrastructure and other community needs. #ThisIsUW #CSCW #HCI #IoT news.cs.washington.edu/2025/12/04/a...

I don't think it's well understood that Google lost the SEO wars. LLMs/AI let them fight back by controlling the content but there's no going back to a world where Google can correctly identify good human content. It's just not possible.

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I once again implore technologists to stop saying they "democratize" things. You're not doing "one person one vote", you're just selling to new people that didn't get sold to before.

I'm going to assume this is less ominous if you can speak the language.

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Whenever these things happen, I am reminded that solo shooter from a rooftop is just not a leftist way of doing things. It's not communal. Instead a big group of friends station themselves around town with grenades. That's communal.

In an update on my own AI negativity, I learned that AI girlfriends are not the most impactful AI product at the moment, it's actually AI boyfriends.

On June 13, and 14, several volunteers from the Seattle Community Network installed networking equipment including routers, access points, and cabling to enable broadband internet access for the residents at the Y K Building at 110 14th Ave., in Seattle. #seattlecommunitynetwork #seattle

Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA. Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

It's interesting to me that the last two major tech hype cycles (LLMs and VR) both are amazing tech demos that seem full of potential but manifest as shallow "solutions-in-search-of-problems".

My favorite thing about Hans is how he was drafted into WW1 and died. If life was a book this would be a bit of a heavy handed metaphor.

Proud #UW alum @armon.bsky.social, co-founder of high-flying @hashicorp.com, stays grounded by lifting up the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. He and Joshua Kalla recently gave $3M to support #UWAllen research and student success. #UWinnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/05/14/d...

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

What's funny is I talk about this a lot in my networks class; it wasn't just the NSF, the DoD built the Internet. It goes to show how much an ideology (decentralization) can have massive repercussions on designs and how technology isn't wedded to its funders in the way lots of people presuppose.

key to the healthiness of many hunter gatherer pops of antiquity was VARIETY. one major area where the carnivore bro guys go wrong is imagining these ancient humans as eating just meat. in fact the majority of their calories came from vegetarian sources ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

Nice article linked by my student Innocent on equating monocultures and the Internet: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable speaking to the "thin waist" of the Internet. I guess it's least accurate to its time?

Andor has so far made the very intelligent decision to make the Emperor a character in absence. this is because you can't see that big goofus laugh and not love the sonovabitch

What sort of crazy situation would someone need to be in to only need to print the "even" pages of a document?

Wavely Diagnostics is a #UWAllen startup from the lab of the amazing #ShyamGollakota - www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVNQ7P41

As ostensibly a networking professor doing computer things, I want to sadly note the passing of Dave Taht, an absolutely amazing engineer and person. These are the people who make the world go around and it's sad there's one less today (libreqos.io/2025/04/01/i...)

I don't think people quite understand how much of current US electoral politics is simple outlandish contrarianism. Like a whole country of oppositional defiant disorders.

I think an underappreciated element of the current electorate (both sides) is that they literally just want someone to do something, anything. Democrats being the party of staid management is a losing play. I do think this a quintessentially American perspective though.

Allen School’s Shangbin Feng and Rock Yuren Pang earn IBM Ph.D. Fellowships for seeking to change the narrative around AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/27/a...

ACM HotMobile workshop registration rates are unbelievable... just for a two-day workshop. I don't understand why they do this. What;s wrong with these people? It's the academics :(

Catching up on the news during my lunch break is my new least favorite daily activity

While the look is great, I don't understand how these guys aren't too warm all the time. It's like the opposite of how women always look like they are cold.

A voice of america post has to be like being on an icebreaker in Alaska right? That doesn't seem like a place to put a mover and shaker.

Mountain's out!

We're doing degrowth in class today which always brings the question of "why are you doing science right now?". This post (dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/conf...) sorta exemplifies this question. I've found a lot of value in thinking about my work as art. I use science to show alternative realities.

I like this insight. Like with everything through this era, even the fascist esthetic is a literally cartoonish facsimile of an ideal. Like, it just has to be and look stupid.

SPD Sweeps Homeless Encampment: bit.ly/41gRanR

This is truly one of the things I love about the US; it's like when "personal jesus" was playing in the local Fred Meyer. Just a constant delight how our culture doesn't give a fuck.

I sorta want a way to quote someone without quoting them as I'm seeing some awful takes that I want to talk about but I don't really want to call anyone in particular out. They're just saying culturally normative (for their community) things for clout like everyone else.

I love decentralization arguments as it is a largely political choice that has concrete technical affordances. We federalized the US government not because it was more efficient (quite the contrary) but because we didn't trust large centralized systems. Then, at scale, it became more efficient.

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I assume the elementary school gets a cut of the school photos costs right? There's no other way this business could operate.

I saw a "'No politics' rules reward conservative ideologies" post on here today; I think this rationale is actually one of the big failures of modern activism. Activists think everyone is a secret socialist, but lots of people are actually secret fascists. It platformed them.

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Jokes aside, these two are the most likely to meaningfully do anything other than grift in the future administration and them collaborating like this (instead of the two heads fighting) is a sign they might have their shit together.

Greetings, #academicbluesky! 😎

A bunch of people "yes and"ing us to the current political situation actually makes a lot of sense.

ngl I think the Gaetz nomination is mostly cover to let Tulsi slide in without as much noise