Really getting the sense that the current "age of ai" is some rich people discovering that a very small, very squalid corner of non-linear optimization happens to yield to tons of money.

I got elected to the Academy. If "I Love Boosters" doesn't make the Best Picture noms this year, you can count on me to be the anonymous member complaining to Variety.

Me: Now if you steal a car you can't just sell it, you have to take it to a chop shop. Now a chop shop is -- Kid: I know what a chop shop is. Me: How do you know what a chop shop is?! From me talking about Grand Theft Auto? Kid: Yes.

Wow this paper's good. Kudos to @paytoncroskey.bsky.social, @ruha9.bsky.social and Jennifer Jacobs for writing it! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

BEST. MUSEUM DISPLAY. EVER.

For the first time in over 20 years, I was asked for ID before entering an R-rated movie. Ticket taker said "they have to check everybody" because the number of teens trying to sneak in to see OBSESSION "has been ridiculous". Who says the movies are dead? 1/2

This is mind-blowing... Amazing work :)

Things newly broken in Gmail: 1. Freezes if GCal (in a separate browser tab!) brings up an alert. 2. Outlook invites no longer get converted to GCal automatically, or the conversion gets all fucked up. Handing coding over to chatbots is going great!

The new Boots Riley movie opens today! Featuring: 1. U.S.-China / Black-Asian class solidarity and worker uprising 2. Bonkers sci-fi teleportation devices 3. Bonkers claymation fight scenes If any of this sounds good to you, I highly recommend. Best movie I've seen since Mad Max: Fury Road.

SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good. arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835 1/

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers

Is the purpose of science and 🧪 training to churn out papers or to create a healthy knowledge community? In a @nature.com comment, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I check in on how AI helps with the former while jeopardizing the latter 1/

Intersectional Feminist STS postdoc at Yale - please circulate! postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

reading about they thought they were free reminds me of that harper's "who goes nazi" piece, in that the best distillation of the fascist mindset is probably someone who is willing to do whatever it takes to never feel humiliation again

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Did you know you can subscribe to the paper edition of @theonion.com to help support their takeover of InfoWars? Hell Yes. Worth every penny. membership.theonion.com?campaign=701...

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Saw a preview of I LOVE BOOSTERS yesterday and it was *AMAZING*. Wildly imaginative, bonkers sci-fi in the present-day East Bay, in that one-of-a-kind @bootsriley.bsky.social way. It was *SO GOOD*. I don’t think I’ll see anything better this year. Opens nationwide May 22nd.

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”

UPDATE: Most students in the class hadn't heard of ILM! They knew of Lucasfilm, but just as the place that makes Star Wars, not as a VFX studio. Next year I'll probably instead assign Chapter 2: "Perfect Imperfection: ILM's Effects Aesthetics", about how ILM aesthetics now pervade everything.

Wow this is good.

📢 New England Symposium on Graphics 2026 returns April 12 at @mit.edu! Featuring talks by Profs Frédo Durand (MIT), @adrianaschulz.bsky.social (Brown), @theodore-kim.bsky.social (Yale), junior talks, posters, and networking. Free to attend!! Register: forms.gle/g5fWyLVqCfm8... Details: nesg.graphics

Hard to imagine now, but IRON MAN (2008) was about a weapons manufacturer who had a moral awakening after seeing the human toll of his products. He finally springs into action when he see news footage of refugee families being torn apart. At the time, people thought he was modeled after Elon Musk.

Remember that time Jesse Jackson showed up at a 2014 Google shareholder meeting demanding that the company publicly disclose their shitty diversity numbers? www.vox.com/2014/5/15/11...

(Slow exhale ...) yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

I’m struck by how many people (even in CS) are unfamiliar with the term “AI Winter”, and are treating the current hype as a once-in-human-civilization-level event. Nope. It’s a regular cycle of over-promising hucksters crashing the markets every few decades. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Reading “Hitler’s American Model.” It’s striking that the Nazis passed the anti-semitic 1935 Nuremberg Laws against a backdrop of nationwide “radical street violence” against Jews. They were legalizing what was already happening in the streets. 1/2 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.

Hello. I'm back on the socials after writing a book for the last year and a half.