Ditto lists and starter packes: you should be able to remove yourself from those. Yes, there are useful lists and starter packs, but some of them are clearly hostile and in bad faith. It's a failure of safeguarding that you can't remove yourself.

i love excalidraw so much.

UK Online Safety Act seems like such a catastrophically misinformed piece of legislation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

let's make bsky the un-linkedin and the anti-X it would be nice if this place was not about 'networking' or selling SaaS products. or boasting about your personal successes for 'tips for personal growth' or about hate, scams, and porn (x).

"I used emdashes before ChatGPT-and they didn't make me any less human."

I don’t know what y’all are talking about, I found out just this morning that AI solved a complex problem by insisting I wrote a book that doesn’t exist in 2006 that people are now recommending to each other

I have also found that basically none of my posts on X get any views anymore; it must be the fact that I mostly write about science, critical tech, and high education – things that MAGA doesn't believe in.

Adorno: In Defense of Truth aworkinglibrary.com/writing/in-d... The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power [...] has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false, which the hirelings of logic were in any case diligently working to abolish.

“Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as they build their very own iPhone,” Tim Cook said in a Keynote presentation at Apple headquarters theonion.com/tariff-...

elon has left his role at the white house. this _has_ to be a good thing.

The students calling this "Chinese Exclusion Act" redux are right. Trump is trying to do a "greatest hits" of the most shameful parts of US history. apnews.com/article/chin...

this article is missing the giant elephant in the room – that grok is made by a company that manufactures and amplifies racist/transphobic/horrific propaganda for its owner's personal gain. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/b...

"Cathedral of tech debt" should be my callsign

or maybe ... revise and resubmit for peer review (stole from reviewer 2 must be stopped)

once again i am the target audience of Black Mirror. incredible season

"Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile."

Another computer scientist here; definitely agree with historical context from Judah. Another point: where have all the great end-user-programming and data management tools like hypercard and filemaker gone? why are we forcing non-devs to write _typescript_ ffs? Even I shouldn't.

beautiful blog post not by me, but sounds like me: "if nothing is curated" tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-i...

unintentionally vapourwave - the lost Japanese Macintosh Plus Japanese ROM www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/t...

Hi Max, my colleague and I wrote this article on why GenAI does not have to undermine education. Please help us share it by reposting to promote dialog. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

AI is a growing issue for moderators on Reddit and Travis has been on it (I co-authored). This qualitative work provides some context on what problems and challenges mods (at CMV and other subreddits) see and how they resist.

Nontheless - Research Thread 🧵 – new HCI / HCAI research we're presenting this week at #chi2025 in Yokohama, Japan from the Human Centred AI Group Human Centred AI / Human Centred Computing group at Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford > Good luck all! In randomised order --

My travel grant and panel at #chi2025 was cancelled by the Trump Administration's actions to cut all civilian travel connected with DOD funding. Very sad I will be missing out in Yokohama, Japan this week!

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities. You can help! You can apply for help! Spread the word. ignite-us.team #igniteus

NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045

absolutely incredible scenes in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Those of us working in AI for long enough remember Cyc and all that it aspired to do. A cautionary tale somewhere hidden therein? yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Again, our 27 page open access paper on these, and the perils that ensue from using them. By me, @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net doi.org/10.1016/j.jr... #meta #ar #arglasses #raybanstories

if one actually cares about what experts think -- and not just follow AI hype, this is an interesting report that provides historical perspective the AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research > aaai.org/wp-content/u...

so very cool demonscene becomes recognised as UNESCO heritage in sweden > levandekulturarv.se/forteckninge...

interesting benchmark - but i would _really_ love to see a comparison of code quality in terms of architectural features, simplicity, code modularity, secure coding, privacy by design etc instead of just looking at the completed running result. composio.dev/blog/gemini-...

If you're in Wisconsin, please know that Judge Susan Crawford will protect YOUR rights and freedoms. Find your polling place and make a plan to vote tomorrow: vote.wisdems.org

UK partial solar eclipse now! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

gender and racial bias in language-vision foundation models propagates to medical vision applications very badly - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

while a cool analysis from anthropic, this is a reminder that you should assume (unless you have a specific zero-retention contract otherwise) that LLM providers save everything you input into them > www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

1. Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: www.dair-institute.org/blog/technof... 2. A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: www.dair-institute.org/blog/educati... 3. An Internet for Our Elders: www.dair-institute.org/blog/elders/

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

@rudyfraser.com describes the need to move beyond “horseless carriages” and how we need to use the open social web to build new things vs replicating the old. Skeuomophisms are the first step to developing something new. #ATmosphereConf

it seems that - insufficient resilience due to anaemic capital investment and too low a minimum standard - and relentless privatisation which pursues economic efficiency over risk resilience > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna break down all the science-fictional flights of fancy, and painstakingly reveal the troubling reality that lies beneath. The AI Con is required reading for anyone who wants to survive the twenty-first century." @charliejane.bsky.social Pre-order at thecon.ai

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Academics: if you are looking to leave the US for the UK, we welcome you: Be prepared for: -much lower salaries, +much better tenure process, -much higher taxes, -slightly depressing weather, +lovely academic environment, +civil rights, +decency and respect, +great culture and humour

absolutely love this - the benefit of an open platform is that you can build stuff like this: - top links shared across bsky every _hour_ / day / week - theblue.report/hour/

“You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy.” @meredithmeredith.bsky.social talks about how Signal resists authoritarian threats to privacy restofworld.org/2023/signal-...

We deserve to live free from persecution. Where this is lacking, many LGBTQIA+ people rely on encryption to find community, resources and support. Attempts to break #e2ee are not only damaging to privacy, but also a security threat. #PracticeSafeText 💬 www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/queercr...

have officially killed vscode with too many variables and too much output. switching back to a real editor emacs + rawdogging python at the terminal ahh, back to 1998

come on, @firefox.com - not you turning against us, too. www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/m...