Midterm evaluation : youtu.be/W4mdKFtKqJk

Updated my ATProto blog posts and notes collection mackuba.eu/2025/11/18/atpro…

- What's Next at Bluesky
- Upcoming Relay Transition
- PLC Export API Update
- Adding content-disposition on getBlob

Last week we welcomed Nikhil Sharma to our lab seminar for a talk on Information Seeking, Consumption and Dissemination with LLM-powered Information Systems.

#NLProc #HCI

An annotated abstract of a CHI best paper award-winning paper. Reference: Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, and Madeline Balaam. 2021. Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 408, 1–16. DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445153 #highered #phdchat #academicchatter #researchsky #sciencesky

How to write a CHI best paper award-winning abstract

(I dissected it, #chi2025)
#academicsky

bluesky's brilliant developer community playing 5d chess by fighting as much ass possible to put pressure on atproto devs to implement permissioned data as fast as possible

If you're part of a LGBTQ discord that is afraid of community collapsing due to this,

please tell them about Northsky. We are building something durable for queer people, based in Canada, and we will have private data and an app soon™️

They can start by signing up here: northskysocial.com/join

Makeability Lab - How to Figures How to figures makeabilitylab.cs.uw.edu

With the CHI deadline fast approaching, I'm resharing our lab's resource on making figures for HCI papers: docs.google.com/presentation...

New content suggestions always appreciated. Don't be shy to promote your own work!

⚠️ "This report explores the systemic risks associated with algorithmic bias, digital colonialism, and cultural homogenization, while also highlighting promising interventions through inclusive design and policy." @saiphcita.bsky.social buff.ly/KisUu9R

What makes a standout software engineer?

Charles-Axel Dein was engineer #20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, and also shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today:

Crazy huh? 🤯 🤷🏽‍♂️

🎤 Drop!

#CharlieKirk #GeorgeFloyd #BlackSky

#ReeseWaters

"bluesky joins the fight on the side of the white nationalist" is not a round of headlines i personally would want to see as a CEO or investor but that's just me

A panel from that insipid Welcome to Bluesky Comic. A little girl with her arms spread excitedly says "That's amazing, I think I'll like it here!" While a cartoon version of Jay the Bluesky CEO, also with her arms spread, smiles and her original speech bubble has been replaced by the Bluesky Your Account Has Been Suspended message

The last week has made it very clear to me that Bluesky's model isn't one that promotes user safety or security.

When people start leaving, it'll be a trickle at first, which each mod or ToS misstep, and then everyone in a deluge when enough cracks give way.

hah not hard, basically unicode has a (kiiind of loose) concept of a "grapheme" and that's a cluster of codepoints that represents what we visually would consider a single character. that's what we count

so why doesn't twitter do that, it's because...

a photograph looking down upon a stream flowing through rocks and trees, with their fall colors on display.

we just deployed a fix to a long-standing issue with our image cdn: images within posts are no longer unnecessarily scaled-up. that means many images will load faster and use less data. we also took this as an opportunity to improve the quality of full-size images, as many have requested! 🌅

ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent and disturbing user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it A study on how to “calm down” chatbots could advance how AI is applied in mental health interventions, according to the authors.

Today’s entry in “ML research is a garden of perversions to sate the desires of any man, woman, child, pet, beast of burden, you name it”: fortune.com/2025/03/09/o...

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars' Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

the feminine urge to

AWS is first cloud service provider to offer DeepSeek-R1 as fully managed, generally available model AWS expands the ways that customers can get started with DeepSeek-R1 and its distilled variants in Amazon Bedrock.

OSS models offered as serverless products that are good enough are **absolutely** the death knell of OAI, Anthropic, etc.

What little utility these models offer to users — very little utility as the “revolution” turns out to be abortive — can easily be provided this way.

These cos. are cooked.

Great job explaining why the economy could contract

Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”) Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.)  NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…

🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉

socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

Luka Dončić, LeBron James and the biggest winners and losers of the Lakers-Mavericks trade Here's a first look at who appears to have been helped or hurt in one of the most shocking moves the NBA has ever seen.

At Y! Sports: I wrote about exceptionalism, dreams, nightmares, old-head wisdom, bold gambits, prime movers, half-court defense, half-court offense, the past, the future, and the absolute brain-melting stunner that is Luka Dončić for Anthony Davis: yhoo.it/4aF1Pvf

Since everyone wants to learn RL for language models now post DeepSeek, reminder that I've been working on this book quietly in the background for months.

Policy gradient chapter is coming together. Plugging away at the book every day now.

rlhfbook.com/c/11-policy-...

She/her

this is very good stuff - involving neighbours in the actual design of projects is important

A diagram showing how more warming results in extended drought conditions into nov, paired with peak winds Today, with t DERAS One or more images is missing alt text Extremely important new rapid study lust out, by Add alt text Flammable drought conditions are increasingly overlapping with peak Santa Ana winds Drought conditions Bet

Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>

www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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