aaaaaaaa this is one of my most favorite books and i am SO PSYCHED that there's a new edition!!!

Core idea: what if we had a mechanic, similar to "community notes" on twitter or editorialization on wikipedia, that enabled us to provide comments, edits, and even front-end repair anywhere on the web? What if we had our own social "layer" of interaction above the sewer of the modern-day internet?

“there have been 4.6M+ illnesses, 49k hospitalizations, & 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far. The bulk…are being linked to the new variant known as subclade K….Of just over 900 flu samples, ~90% were A(H3N2). Of those that had further genetic testing, nearly 90% belonged to subclade K.”🛟🧪

This year's students are amazing. They've already lined up great internships and projects, too! Co-instructing was a blast. I'm really proud of this cohort and they helped to remind me why academia isn't so bad, after all.

This year's students are amazing. They've already lined up great internships and projects, too! Co-instructing was a blast. I'm really proud of this cohort and they helped to remind me why academia isn't so bad, after all.

it's not even saying someone is crazy, it's so much more nuanced than that. it's conveying someone who is legitimately on to something, who has descended into a world of madness to find it. it's an affirmation of charlie as something tenacious but misunderstood in all of us. in this essay i will-

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Read the book itself if you want something longer too! www.wiley.com/en-us/Anothe...

Going on a holiday break soon, looking for some reading? Not a bad piece to bookmark for whenever you can find free time over the next couple weeks. Slow science contains, in particular, an important set of ideas to reconcile with the failures of applying "move fast and break things" to research.

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

Hell yeah

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

It's me!!

Already getting some laughs. @kevlin.bsky.social is giving the perfect talk for this part of day. #YOW25

I'm at the combination

Giving the locknote at DDD Brisbane on the 5th of December titled "Tool-making, good and evil" - really looking forward to this one. If you happen to be in Brisbane for this, I hope to see you there.

I said it in conversation months ago, and I still think it is worth looking into, but I think if we did a study on people who don't know how to do their own laundry and people who use AI, the correlation would be strong.

AI is a great tool for people who assume anything they don’t understand or know how to do must be easy and can be easily replaced by bullshit.

Shit flows downhill. When you're an executive, your outputs become someone else's problem. When you're doing the implementation, the gap in every half-assed idea and slipshod assumption becomes visible & it's your responsibility to fix it.

See also quote from Rua Williams' Disabling Intelligences book - it's a distraction (as Birhane et al write, a "smoke screen") bsky.app/profile/cgsu...

Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.

Hard to put even into words how important Alice was to me, helping me to feel comfortable in my own skin. Alice was one of *my* great teachers.

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

This is only page 3 and I'm so invested in learning more from this author. Luddite as an insult certainly gets thrown around a lot these days, and I'm happy to have their concise clarification on what side of history that movement was on at the very start of the book.

This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week. I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style. 🧵

Oh my god

I was a barista for 9 years and still practice at home. I think a 12-month tour of duty should be mandatory for anyone before they gain citizenship and the ability to vote. The 3am to morning shift rush changes you as a person. Also: here's some of my latte art at home on my affordable Bambino+.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This little project is still something that I would hope to explore more someday. It delights me when folks find one of these more-obscure side projects of mine! I think that shared spaces should be co-repaired places.

This little project is still something that I would hope to explore more someday. It delights me when folks find one of these more-obscure side projects of mine! I think that shared spaces should be co-repaired places.

Ahhh, I have my first on-site interview for a tenure-track faculty job next week! 🎉 Please wish me luck, but also send any tips or advice you have, especially on questions I should ask and things I should look out for. Feels wild to have my first interview in so long, too.

i kind of like the idea of ghosts manifesting exclusively as white collar crime tied to specific buildings

I do not know how to explain to you how it feels to watch your savings go up in flames paying healthcare costs while fighting a medical system that gaslit you for years before finally giving you an accurate diagnosis and starting appropriate treatment that isn't covered by insurance... and now this

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

I'm uniquely positioned to chime in on the Funko situation. It isn't a matter of the hideousness of the toy (which is undeniable) or the brand-loyal, cheap-plastic-loving millennials and xillenials hitting economic hard times. It's their headquarters. It's haunted. Believe me.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Hell yeah

Tools use us and construct our being. Even a hammer requires us to mine iron, chop down trees, mill wood, and smelt the ore. Entire worlds come together for the hammer. We do these acts for our tools. And AI shapes our water, electricity, and policies on intellectual property. *We* are the tool.

Blessed

Some much needed nuance around that dumb chart. And “griftastructure” is just… chef’s kiss.

Teen Vogue produced some of the best political reporting in the nation and we’re not even a year into this cursed presidency

"Sensation does not equal causation" and beware of the AI "griftrastructure." New post! www.frank.computer/blog/2025/11...

This will be someone's dream position. Maybe yours?

I've gotten a few new connections/follows from VIS, Smashing Conf, and various talks recently (hello!! ❤️), so I thought I'd share my most-popular blog post (by a large margin): "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used."

One of the best resources of our field! I've used it often. And check it: you can even search for which PDFs are accessible too. How awesome is that? We've come leagues and leagues in recent years. I love the VIS community so much 🥹

I'm at VIS! Come say hi. And if you caught the AccessVis workshop, I hope you had a great time and learned a bunch.

Don't miss our @dig.cmu.edu authors and their work at IEEE VIS this week. Visit the link in the post below for details. @frank.computer, @perer.org, @domoritz.de #cmuhcii #ieeevis #VIS2025 #DataVisualization #AccessibleVisualization #a11y #DataViz #DataVis @ieeevis.bsky.social

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling