The perfect car doesn’t exi—-

is alanis morissette still writing songs? i need one that's like, "you're at stage 3/7 on 6 required reviews, but the paper you're 5th of 7 authors on was already rejected"

i've flown spirit a few times, it was better than you'd think, … the thing i never understood about them, the flights were packed, and yet the kept their prices really low. you'd think they'd have up'd their prices www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/b...

i have declared email bankruptcy -- if you need me, find me in person at five points bakery in squirrel hill, pittsburgh.

how much will we manage context, and how much will it manage us?

people are doing too many things.

sometimes i wonder if i'm actually the digital twin

daaammn, 2 hour barrier is gone, blazing fast many wow apnews.com/article/mara...

i'm starting to think maybe Trump isn't that good at being President

sometimes I think back fondly to when we were putting everything on blockchains, and I would laugh and laugh

exciting time to build tools -- there are so many things that have obvious gaps where a good tool would be helpful! e.g., i love Claude Code CLI, and i also love Google Docs. they don't work super well together, I don't like Claude's document editing and I don't think Gemini integration is as good

somewhat remarkable that 7% of microsoft employees meet this criteria -- "The one-time retirement program, announced in a memo on Thursday, will be available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher" www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/m...

is Pittsburgh’s draft nonsense a bust? Hotel prices are going down, not up, for this weekend, and seem like a pretty normal to below average cost

"Kennedy Says His Department Advises All Children to Get Measles Vaccine" … <wink>, <wink>

This is a very good article, worth reading. The consequences of being able to completely insulate yourself from the world are bad.

kind of weird that supposedly 700,000 people are coming to Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, and yet you can get a hotel for $180/night for Friday->Sunday

today in Trump bringing democrats down with him … www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

agency is now in defining context

nice of the Barcelona Airport to make me a sign

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who is really your God maga? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

there are 5,244 people at #chi2026 in person. my god. HCI has eaten the world.

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also, if you haven't arrived yet -- trick to fast passport control, assuming you're allowed to use the machine, 75% of the machines don't work, so just try one, then another, then another. eventually it works and you can go through the fast auto-check.

#chi2026 I have arrived in Barcelona, also 36 minutes from touchdown to my hotel, including a stop for a coffee at the airport, gotta be some sort of record even for me 😂

i'm kind of tired of all the winning www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

has anyone else noticed how everyone is saying, “I got you” all the time in response to requests?

You know that finding that disfluent fonts trigger analytic thinking (Alter et al. 2007)? We've known that it doesn't replicate more than 10 years. In fact, the original effect was driven by weirdly low accuracy for 1 problem IN THE CONTROL CONDITION. Wild that this paper is cited so often.

i'm surprised how many people are making sense of the current moment by thinking trump is temporary. maybe, the man is old, but he has done and can still do a lot of damage. and the movement may not go away.

just another taco tuesday. i'm glad for tacos, but sometimes the rhetoric is itself damaging, that even tacos cannot make it better.

too many people got the brain rot! and i don't blame AI, i blame YOU

sure, powerpoint AI can make my slides and, sure, notebookLM can give my talk for me but, i'm still needed to schmooze in the hallway! #chi2026

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

Everyone needs that one homie who will keep you from starting a war with Iran.

our commander-in-chief is unhinged, and the war is complicated. but, glad our airman is back, and the US military capabilities are wildly impressive.

i'm kind of surprised how many people, esp HCI folks, refer to AI as one singular thing, as if it can't be molded or shaped or built in different ways.

me too craig, "Patriotism has always been important to me, in the founding father sort of way." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

it's kind of wild how much better Preview is for viewing PDFs than Acrobat …

Claude, grant me the serenity to accept the things you cannot change; the prompt to change the things you can; and wisdom to know when you're totally gaslighting me.

colleagues at CMU HCII participated in 75 papers at CHI … 😱 … we could have our own normal-sized conference. can't decide if this is amazing or a sign of our impending doom, lol. hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-chi...

how do we prevent a gradual election attack creep… if he shut down elections, or clearly disenfranchised millions of voters all at once, I’m confident there would be a big reaction … but it’ll be more subtle, ICE showing up to a few key polling stations or what not www.wired.com/story/this-i...

you gotta know when to <insert yourself into the wiggum loop>, know when to let it run, know when to walk away, know when to run…

once again, South Park was right

so did Elon pay the tsa workers yet? 😂

for the first time in my life kind of jealous of those obsessive file organizer types, since that is so convenient for structuring your stuff to work well with AI agents, since all work is now context management.

big masculine energy

one thing that's clear -- gen UI is the big unlock, and it has huge potential even if it's (thus far) commandline.

nothing makes more clear that we haven't figured out the "interface to AI" better than claude code cli -- it is super useful, but wow does this take me back ;)

if trump can just send ICE to airports to "help out", seems pretty clear he can send ICE to polling stages under some pretense.

dear people measuring employees by how much AI they use, please ask your AI to explain goodhart's law to you 😂