get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

nothing quite like teaching cyber incident case studies to students right as Canvas gets taken down (to fix the cyber incident)... and also, before assignments are due, and a midterm!!!!!

the penne opticon

The European Commission's new age verification app has already been found to have structural security flaws, reports Joana Soares. For critics, the tool is a symptom of a wider problem: EU policymakers are focused on who can access the internet, not on how platforms are built.

ACM #chi2026 authors: ACM is doing slopcasts for your papers. Just because they don't offer an opt-out doesn't mean you shouldn't protest this surrender to wasteful mediocrity. Feel free to repurpose what I wrote about the slop 'summaries' codeberg.org/mdingemanse/... >

I had heard people at #CHI2026 say that they didn't want AI-generated podcasts to be made on top of their work. While this perspective is totally understandable, I thought the podcasts could potentially be useful. But after looking up one of mine, I can't believe this feature was allowed to launch.

EPIC is proud to join 70+ organizations in calling on Meta to halt and publicly disavow its plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. We don't consent to this profound invasion of privacy, and you shouldn't either.

big Inflection point EFF leaving X cuz crap platform for comms, separate and apart from whatever morality stance www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

my nails are ready for #CHI2026! looking forward to presenting a Best Paper Honorable Mention study, workshop paper, and co-run a dark patterns workshop this week. come say hi if you see me and lets chat HCI+law!

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Austin’s Unofficial Rules for Not Dying (or Being Boring) at Conferences, particularly #chi2025 A short thread of practical survival tips for the conference grind:

The CHI Papers Explorer is back for #CHI2026! As every year, you can explore all 2,769 papers using semantic search. Type any topic, see papers ranked by relevance, and build your schedule. Try it and please share with everyone heading to Barcelona: johnguerra.co/viz/chi2026P... @chi.acm.org #HCI

Not to screech from the rooftops, but Go Huskies!!! Excited to reunite with some NU folks at CHI this year :)

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?