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.