y'all, the moon program is back!!!! (right as i started watching For All Mankind -- perfection.)

Back after a wonderful Junior Scholars Workshop for the ACM CSLAW Symposium! Now to nurse my jet lag...

“The most extreme form of cognitive surrender is what the authors call “autopilot,” which is basically automating yourself.” A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-wharton-study-on-ai-warns-of via Instapaper

Missing from the headline: "using Claude Code." Vibe hacking is already a thing. I've been saying this for a while, but no model-level safeguards will prevent it entirely. What they can do is slow it down enough for us to put societal-level safeguards in place. www.popsci.com/technology/r...

Control one Internet connected thermostat – harass one household Control many thermostats – attack the electric grid Control one robot vacuum – harass one cat Control many robot vacuums – harass all the cats

Very nice review from MIT Technology Review "One might start by reminding the rationalists that any prediction [about human beings], computational or otherwise, is really just a wish—but one with a powerful tendency to self-fulfill... www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1...

this article in sum: love (and) death (of) robots we briefly touched upon this unintended or intended pulling of robots' proverbial plugs in our CHI'25 paper -- safer sunsetting of products that foster attachment is *seriously* needed www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

“Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity.” www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Dropping this here for anyone who needs it. I’m slightly too long in the tooth for this being my own experience but I said to my elder millennial bff that this for sure was in “the den.” What even is having “a den?”

social media bans are not the solution to toxic tech platforms and they hurt the most vulnerable kids lgbtqia kids are NOT acceptable collateral damage to stop these companies, kill their toxic business model at source (e.g. Netherlands just required non-algo feeds) everything else is theatre.

Thrilled to be in The Hague today on a panel regarding online choice architecture for consumers at the Dutch Digital Supervisors Collaboration Platform (SDT) Symposium! www.sdt-symposium.nl/programma-on...

happy #CHI26 submission szn, y'all! may the PCS gods smile upon you ✨️

“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps by Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni M Troiano, @johannagunawan.bsky.social @hermansaksono.bsky.social & Casper Harteveld doi.org/10.1145/3743...

i've been writing primarily in british english for the past year and now i fear i've lost the american english habit

I don't think people understand quite well enough that browsers are *hard*. If you want to get a sense of how hard, try Mary's excellent in-depth coverage of one small issue.

There are officially enough U.S. law schools here to make a starter pack: go.bsky.app/MFG2zZk Please let me know if I've missed anyone (and when others join). *If you're wondering why I'm in here, that's just how starter packs work. The creator is added automatically & you can't take yourself out.

Okay, updating my list: So far, I've seen the following law schools here: - @umichlaw.bsky.social - @umnlawschool.bsky.social - @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social - @dukelaw.bsky.social - @georgetownlaw.bsky.social - @emorylaw.bsky.social - @nyulaw.bsky.social Any others I've missed?