“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

you're telling me there's a SECOND semester???

front splits progress!

I'm excited to share a complete draft syllabus for my new special topics class at CU Boulder, INFO 4871 Design for Accessibility. data-and-design.org/classes/4871/

Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort? Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain: www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

the @data-and-design.org and information visions (@peck.phd) labs celebrated the end of the semester together yesterday! thanks for a great 2025!

HCI accessibility folks: what are your favorite systems/design papers in accessibility? I'm looking for examples that: - meaningfully involve disabled co-designers - produce artifacts informed by disability studies (either implicitly or explicitly) - have an impact, whatever that might mean to you

Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Did you know that Slices of Life is generally available for purchase now?? It is and boy will it make a great gift for the holidays! Get your orders in now! Book: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic... Book & Print Bundle: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...

this week, i was so fortunate to have @kayserifserif.place as a guest speaker in my user-centered design class! in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

Hiding participant identities is standard research ethics practice. But is it always the best fit for HCI accessibility work? For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice data-and-design.org/publications...

hello #ASSETS2025! 1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams. 2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers. Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025 vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

I will be speaking next week at CU Boulder's Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium on @data-and-design.org's work co-designing accessible data visualization tools with blind and low-vision people. Free and open to the public www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...

This short paper by @jonathanzong.com has been brought up in more discussions in my day to day than any other piece. I love it immensely and it's something that anybody who is doing work with people (disabled, marginalized, or not) should at least read and consider.

be my colleague! information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

I'm a speaker this year for @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social, a free 24-hour online livestream event on inclusive design and accessibility. Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC) inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/

last night i got to attend @loriemerson.net's amazing book launch lecture-performance event at boulder public library. here's my recap. so excited to read my new copy of the book! data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...

rip haru urara. i'll keep trying my best

A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Haptics stuff: historically, haptics development & coding has gotten kind of black boxed, so people don't understand what's going on underneath the hood. This piece from Razer on haptics implementation in Marvel Rivals attempts to undo that a bit. www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...

One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com: "Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility" This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.

the thing about using a university email to log into things is sometimes you leave the university but still need to log into those things

time to rawdog my mental health until i have a mon mothma-style crashout set to the niamos chandrilan club mix

I hesitate to post this but since I’m not running for anything or trying to get you to subscribe to a Substack I’ll use this as a chance to say 1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it.

Our Kickstarter campaign for Slice of Life by Qu is now officially in it's final week! We've creeping up to 70% funded and know we'll get there! Thank you so much for the support thus far! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Wrote about how CITY The Animation came to be: a lasting friendship between author and studio, Keiichi Arawi's direct involvement, and director Taiichi Ishidate's strong belief that creators mustn't only make new things, but specifically do so in new ways blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/07/07/c...

there is some really savvy data storytelling happening in this video

Honestly, I have listened to this several times and it's great. It was the lead track to the Queen of Katwe official movie soundtrack, which Zohran Mamdani curated and produced as the film's co-music supervisor: www.teenvogue.com/story/queen-...

“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

So honored to have been able to translate "Circular Universe" by @chitawei.bsky.social ! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 You can find this piece and many other incredible stories of trans and queer futurity in AMPLITUDES, ed. @leemandelo.bsky.social and published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...

hi folks! I'm teaching tech ethics this summer, and part of the course is having students read news articles about ongoing tech issues. can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?

This is easily one of the best magazine features I have ever read. It is funny, educational, comprehensive and detailed about multiple technical topics while staying accessible to a general reader. I wish I could nominate it for a National Magazine Award. It is well worth your time.

The history of ergodic literature is kind of a trip because half the time you end up looking at something you didn't know you could DO with the written word, and the other half of the time it's just a guy who clearly wants to be writing hypertext fiction but has the misfortune of being born in 1899.

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

My interview with Expedition 33's team: This is lead writer Jennifer Svedburg-Yen's debut as a writer. She is a former private equity investor. Regarding how much the team put themselves into the game: "We are emptied out." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

applying for jobs again

This story hits so hard on so many levels. Inside the “life” of a 24/7 Twitch streamer who has been streaming nonstop for three years. She’s both a success story and a nightmare cautionary tale for the attention age. Gift link: wapo.st/4jGA60O by @drewharwell.com

Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design. Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen news.mit.edu/2025/making-...

shout out to the guys yesterday who stopped me, pointed at the sky and said "sir, there's a rainbow" ... there was a rainbow

Computer scientists - who's going to be at CHI? While I can't be there this year, do say hello to Cornell gradstudent Beatrys Rodrigues, who will be presenting her work on anti-colonial approaches to HCI. citizensandtech.org/2025/04/embo...

Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design. Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen news.mit.edu/2025/making-...

Massive turnout in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student who was abducted from a Somerville street by Trump’s government - Somerville stands with Rumeysa

i would add that if one of your faculty gets kidnapped by the government & your comment is "please know that we are closely monitoring the situation," you have completely lost the plot as an educational institution