@emax
Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC. lover of robot music 🤖⚡️ https://hip.cat/emax https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
Ditto lists and starter packes: you should be able to remove yourself from those. Yes, there are useful lists and starter packs, but some of them are clearly hostile and in bad faith. It's a failure of safeguarding that you can't remove yourself.
i love excalidraw so much.
UK Online Safety Act seems like such a catastrophically misinformed piece of legislation.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
let's make bsky the un-linkedin
and the anti-X
it would be nice if this place was not about 'networking' or selling SaaS products. or boasting about your personal successes for 'tips for personal growth'
or about hate, scams, and porn (x).
"I used emdashes before ChatGPT-and they didn't make me any less human."
I have also found that basically none of my posts on X get any views anymore; it must be the fact that I mostly write about science, critical tech, and high education – things that MAGA doesn't believe in.
Adorno: In Defense of Truth
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The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power [...] has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false, which the hirelings of logic were in any case diligently working to abolish.
“Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as they build their very own iPhone,” Tim Cook said in a Keynote presentation at Apple headquarters
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elon has left his role at the white house.
this _has_ to be a good thing.
The students calling this "Chinese Exclusion Act" redux are right. Trump is trying to do a "greatest hits" of the most shameful parts of US history.
apnews.com/article/chin...
this article is missing the giant elephant in the room – that grok is made by a company that manufactures and amplifies racist/transphobic/horrific propaganda for its owner's personal gain.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/b...
"Cathedral of tech debt" should be my callsign
or maybe ... revise and resubmit for peer review
(stole from reviewer 2 must be stopped)
Plaything is definitely my favourite, absolute silliness but the hidden easter egg is far more innovative than the episode
once again i am the target audience of Black Mirror. incredible season
beautiful machine! i have one as well; going to try to get it back running when i'm back in the US this summer
"Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile."
TS / modern web development is surprisingly awkward and inelegant, layered technologies with unreliable and complex toolchains. the only benefit is the speed with which it changes.
Another computer scientist here; definitely agree with historical context from Judah. Another point: where have all the great end-user-programming and data management tools like hypercard and filemaker gone? why are we forcing non-devs to write _typescript_ ffs?
Even I shouldn't.
beautiful blog post not by me, but sounds like me:
"if nothing is curated"
tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-i...
unintentionally vapourwave -
the lost Japanese Macintosh Plus Japanese ROM www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/t...
Hi Max, my colleague and I wrote this article on why GenAI does not have to undermine education. Please help us share it by reposting to promote dialog.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
AI is a growing issue for moderators on Reddit and Travis has been on it (I co-authored). This qualitative work provides some context on what problems and challenges mods (at CMV and other subreddits) see and how they resist.
6) How can we improve the usability of generative AI for novice users in creative applications, such as advertising?
Nimisha Kartanak et. al "Expanding the Generative AI Design Space through Structured Prompting and Multimodal Interfaces" > #chi2025 arxiv.org/abs/2504.14320
5) Can telepresence make us feel connected across time? A new study using a player piano and life-sized projections shows it can — evoking memory, emotion, and even two-way illusions
X. Xiao and Hayoun Noh et al. "ReMirrorFugue" - #chi2025 hon. mention! 🏆 > dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
4) How can we responsibly co-design LLM-driven chatbots to provide emotional support to parents so they are predictable, helpful, safe? –
Sruthi Viswantathan et al. - "The Interaction Layer: An Exploration for Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
3) What challenges do North Korean Defectors (NKDs) face starting new lives, and how could this inform tech to support other life changes? >
Hayoun Noh et al., "Bridging Borders, Breaking Biases: Envisioning Technologies to Support NKDs" #CHI2025 paper
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
2) Can AI-powered Augmented Reality filters improve the efficacy of online psychotherapy by supporting greater self-disclosure control by clients and therapists?
Hayoun Noh - "CounselAR: Exploring How AR Filters Facilitate Online Psychotherapy"
#CHI2025
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
1) Can AI make art analysis, education, and appreciation more accessible? 🎨🤖 ArtBot, a Socratic LLM guide that helps users think deeper about art—showing promise beyond passive scrolling.
Thomas Serban von Davier et al. > dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#chi2025