I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

This was a fun interview about research impact! I never achieve all I want, but I always try.

Always helpful to check in on my hometown’s “hellscape” status. isportlandburning.com

I’m off to a Dagstuhl workshop for the week, on creativity, programming, and generative AI. I’m excited to about charting this space with a great group for the week! Apologies in advance for all the slower email replies and other delays. www.dagstuhl.de/seminars/sem...

I had a lovely visit today at Lewis and Clark College, back in my home town. It was great to experience its lovely community, talk about justice work in CS, and connect with students and faculty around the future of CS!

Oh hi Texas, fuck you again. Love to all the kids and adults harassed and attacked in the coming years. Maybe I’ll join you next year in my trip to Austin. Pee on the capitol, anyone? www.axios.com/local/housto...

Once again, fuck Texas, and love and solidarity to all the Texans resisting its bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

In case you haven’t followed along, Erin’s got a nice catalog of recent escalations on trans rights and safety in the US. And I’m feeling it at home.

This city is at times the safest place to be, and at other times not safe at all. It is increasingly a destination for hate speech and hate crimes. Time to get strong, together. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

They were always going to be bullshit machines; it’s in the architecture. The question continues to be in what contexts a bullshit machine is valuable, rather than destructive, and whether net, those contexts justify the destructive uses. That is ultimately a moral question, not an engineering one.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

I think someone might have forgotten to send me my woke mob radical leftist trans terror cell membership card. Is there a meetup? Are there cookies? Can I bring my cat?

PSA from your neighbor youtu.be/JMuJcrolgUA?...

Lots of reasons to be skeptical about content like this (bothsidesism, platforming, and cringey terminology), but I like how it scaffolded perspective taking, organically centered love, and modeled openness to listening and learning. youtu.be/mQlarHFPoaM?...

It's getting cold in here. Let's turn up the heat. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

"Technocreep" book launch tonight at 7 p.m.! There will be a discussion with editors Neda Atanasoski and @nassimparvin.bsky.social and contributors Marjan Khatibi, Vernelle A. A. Noel, @hayri4.bsky.social, @erinmcel.bsky.social, and @drjessolivares.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47682

Any predictions on the 2028 Dem campaign slogans? I predict “open for business” and a smarmy white man with oily hair

I spent much of today trying to describe my research plans without alerting the thought police, communicating to my national research community through indirection and code. This is not science, nor is it America, and it is definitely not “great.”

What happens when post-op trans women lose access to HRT? • Rapid bone density loss, including fractures from basic falls • Menopause (hot flashes, fatigue, brain fog) • Forced detransition and depression The U.S. government just did this to its own employees and their family members, on purpose.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the US government just banned federal employee insurance policies that cover gender affirming care, and from listing providers that provide gender affirming care. This will cause death, chronic disease, and despair across the US. www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...

I had a fun detour this morning doing a 5-minute live segment on AI education classrooms on our local news. It was a nice chat with Washington state Superintendent Chris Reykdal @chrisreykdal.bsky.social. Thanks to reporter Abby Acone for the invite! youtu.be/0mBJAlL_Vxo?...

I spend a lot of my time thinking about the future of AI in education, and about the role of comedy in our public discourse. We are trying to bring both of these conversations to #SXSW2026. Would appreciate everyone's support! Please vote and share. sepehrvakil.substack.com/p/our-sxsw-2...

I spent my sunny Saturday afternoon imagining the future dystopia we’re barreling towards. I don’t know why I do this to myself, but here it is, in case you’re in to that sort of thing. amyjko.medium.com/will-the-u-s...

It's been obvious for a while that they were headed in this direction, & this attempt almost certainly won't go unchallenged, but you need to understand that this is & has been America's Lysenkoism moment knocking on the door, & it has to be resisted every way it can. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

“Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic” So I can’t possess a grant because I’m trans? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

how about we know nothing, except how to boss around robots, and they can live our lives, only worse, and we can pay for the privilege, while we stare off into space, wondering about the purpose of life, and productivity

The NSF CISE directorate now has a Computing Education Research program! nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Good news for every CER researcher who had to explain to their CS department head why they can't "just submit a Small"

I’m excited for Jayne, Rotem, and Megumi to share our work imagining futures of CS education with youth tomorrow at ICER! Youth have some radically different visions from the status quo of K-12 CS education: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Where did July go? Inflammatory responses! medium.com/bits-and-beh...

My bones, they’re a healin

Super random, but Seattle has the best water quality reports of any city’s I’ve seen, and I love getting it every year to see what’s new with our pristine watersheds. Check your city’s and tell me if it’s better! www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

I celebrated pride on Sunday by locking my bike wheel in a street car rail, falling, and breaking two ribs, a clavicle, and lacerating my right lung. I’m grateful for the great care at Harborview, my amazing partner DeAnn, and pain relievers. I’ll be okay with time.

Yessss, car ban until next year at Pike Place Market! Human power for the win.

A happy end to the day! • My lovely wife returned home • I snagged a Switch 2 on Walmart online • I ate delicious Coconut Joy ice cream at Frankie and Jo's

This is the summer where the US government crushes higher education, and we all are forced to acknowledge how essential it was to health, the economy, social progress, and meaning. There’s still time to stop it; call your reps and see what we can salvage before it’s too late.

I was sad for a few days, and now I'm just angry. A Saturday screed on our fucked up country and it's obsession with making trans lives worse: amyjko.medium.com/little-blue-...

I have 10 promotion letters I'll be writing this summer (so far). I'm so excited to learn about everyone's work and explicate its contributions to the world's institutions. It's one of the most important things I do each summer and I'm grateful for the opportunity to elevate.

The Supreme Court majority declared that 1) laws banning gender affirming care do not discriminate on the basis of sex, that 2) politicians have no obligation to listen to experts, families, or children. Hold your trans loved ones close today, and be warned: this has implications for cis folks too.

Rep Jayapal is awesome. I’m so proud to live in her district! She represents so well.

Bend, OR #nokings

The proportions on the front page of NYT this morning are a nice distillation of the moment: 80% AI, 15% branding, 5% engaging with the powder kegs exploding all around us.

The iSchool wrote a piece on my research, teaching, and advocacy and the impact of funding cuts. While it focuses on me, the real story is the teachers, gov't programs, volunteers, across the state who I join in collective action. I'm so grateful for great community! ischool.uw.edu/news/2025/06...

Three pieces of bullshit in the NYTimes "both sides" podcast on gender affirming care: • Transmedicalist framing, elevating doctors over the lived experiences of youth • Platforming of Christian nationalists ignorant of science • Elevating risk of regret of a few over quality of life of many 1/3

Does anyone know of a tool that can take a list of references as input and produce a subset of those references that don't appear to correspond to a published work in any digital library? Detecting reference hallucinations is becoming an important tool for peer review...

The administration’s vision of science in America is that we do 75% less of it. That means more death, less progress, more ignorance, fewer experts, fewer educated people, all to make billionaires wealthier.

what, you haven’t seen Pig, my favorite movie in the past decade? www.netflix.com/us/title/814...

f*ck it, i’m switching to horse browser gethorse.com

only the finest of 🍒 picking for this administration