i feel like it's somehow a very controversial take to say one generally supports immigration enforcement but not shooting unarmed women in the face

once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions

kind of amazing to me that half the HCI community (and SIGCHI itself) is still on X. didn't we nearly cancel all of ACM last week because they dared to use genAI to summarize papers? lol.

i've had more dangerous encounters in the walmart parking lot… fuck ICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...

Completely crazy-making to watch the Trump admin and their MAGA sycophants rewrite history in realtime - and reach millions with it - despite crystal clear video evidence that directly contradicts their narrative:

folks should watch this video, … these ICE folks are goons, and the murderer here needs to be held to justice

i liked @odannyboy.bsky.social 's breakdown of the four visions of AI futures -- odannyboy.medium.com/the-four-hor...

hard to compete for dumbest part of this whole thing, but one of them is Rubio saying not to listen to Trump's words about running Venezuela … www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...

Again I find it baffling to compare the coverage to when Gemini generated implausibly many Black hockey players etc. That was apparently a societal emergency. But the mass harassment campaign taking place in public barely warrants a mention.

kind of amazing how trump is just a normal republican after all, perhaps turned up a couple notches, but he's just like tax cuts for rich people and starting wars over oil

And how everyone in Congress with the power to end it simply did…nothing

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

let thou who hath not paid, not be able to play -- thus is the word of trump www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...

tired: AI slop wired: let's push back against AI slop inspired: maybe we should try to make ourselves into pigs 🐷 (who like slop!)

LLM-pilled 😂

it is amazing to me that it seems like we will actually get self-driving cars before traffic lights that adapt to traffic

Why Are We Doing Dry January?

LLMs aren't super useful in writing things you care about, but they are super good at giving feedback. I have very much appreciated the feedback on the recommendation letters i've written over the last month or so.

a possible analogy for building with LLMs -- it's like when you go from being a phd student, building stuff and writing papers about stuff, to being a professor where you just edit other people's papers. tedium goes up, agency goes down, someone else gets to be creative … orib.dev/nofun.html

The U.S. government bans 5 people from the country, alleging “Murthy-style speech suppression.” Masnick: “So the State Department is citing a case that disproved government censorship as evidence of government censorship. That’s not even creative lying — it’s just citing your own loss as precedent.”

there's evidence that the CS job market is tighter than it used to be, there's little evidence it's because of AI … it would be really surprising, since you need CS people to babysit AI, and more importantly you need more ppl to oversee AI deployment www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Uncle Put More Thought Than Usual Into This Year’s Gift Cards https://theonion.com/uncle-put-more-thought-than-usual-into-this-year-s-gift-1819577308/

“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

i got one of those talking "what would jesus do bracelets", and it just keeps telling me buy trump coin and make golden statues of the president

department of government shittiness, DOGS -- less government for more cost!

i'm not sure these AI summaries are useful, but i also find it super weird that people are so uniformly against them. very unclear to me if folks complaining have even read any of them, or if they've fully thought through their critiques. they are different than abstracts in what they support.

in a couple of days, we remember jesus's birth, in a manger because there was no room in the inn. to commemorate this day, trump has decided that our current warships are shit and names a new class of them after himself. www.bbc.com/news/article...

it's kind of amazing that the main function of the faculty pages at every university is to link to the faculty's actual web page.

all i want for christmas is enough trump coin to buy myself out of whatever trouble i'm going to get into

up next, "The Donald J. Trump and Vietnam Veterans Memorial", lol www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

it'd be pretty cool if i had chatgpt but nobody else knew what it was

if you are thinking about putting some function under the three dots or in a hamburger menu, put yourself in the shoes of your users, will they be thinking "i bet this is a random function that the developer couldn't think of a meaningful place to put it" … if not, don't put it in these places.

how come the 'do your own research' people don't value education into how to research a topic well? 🫠

tired: too much email wired: too much slack inspired: too many slack channels, workspaces, DMs, oh my

believable: lots of workers spend time doing things that AI could probably do questionable: once you factor in all all the random preparation and error handling that humans do, AI will still be beneficial unbelievable: leaders announcing worker layoffs b/c of AI have any idea about any of this

voicemail transcription, any idea what it originally said?

all i want for christmas is an end to the internet of shit 😂

Anyone who can help my friend Randy out? Let’s make this a Christmas miracle.

i've awarded trump the Bigham Peace Prize. unrelatedly, i submitted my first NSF grant proposal in a while.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

no one is as confident in their misunderstanding of a research area than an anonymous reviewer

6-7 is like “waaazzzuuuuup” from my youth, is how I explained it to someone. it’s just an in-group nonsense, you’re overthinking it if you think it means something in particular 🤣

ugh, inflation is relentless. have you even seen how much trump coin it costs for a pardon these days? biden really screwed us.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration lets massive convicted drug dealers go free www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

pretty wild -- we definitely worked hard to address the (valid) concerns of reviewers, and a couple of them had raised their scores

when you call console.log() this is what happens

In 2015, @jheer.org and #UWAllen @idl.uw.edu colleagues unveiled Voyager, a tool that automatically recommends visualizations to aid users exploring datasets. They received the @ieeevis.bsky.social InfoVis 10-Year Test of Time Award for that work. #UWInnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/11/19/a...

people forget that the primary reason to keep your CV up to date is to keep yourself reminded of what you've done. i am now feeling the pain of not having done this regularly for a couple of years. LOL

oh yeah, democrats, well what if bill clinton who was president 30 years ago was also associated with jeff epstein. huh, that'll change your tune.

"lockerroom talk"