The horrific disaster in Nepal, the loss, a region suddenly both unlivable and unrecognisable, hints at the scale of what we are doing to the planet as a function of climate destruction.
Sure, keep building more data centers
Families being swept away by glacial-melting-induced flash floods is an acceptable cost for more AI slop-- Just as long as it's not happening to the assholes promoting this insanity.
Hey @sigchi ! I've only now read about the new "Assisted Desk Rejects" for @chi 2027 (via @tonofcrates ), and I _really_ think this process needs some more transparency: would you please make public a) the "rubric" or prompt, and b) which specific LLM you're using for the process?
RE: https://hci.social/@sigchi/116659918936789469
SUBMIT!!! It is a great conference!
Dear every software company:
STOP offering to provide a crappy AI summary/ podcast / etc. of my documents. Instead, turn your attention to fixing basic usability problems in your interface that make my life significantly more difficult than reading comprehension, which I have been able to do for quite some time.
What's that? You fired all the people who know how to do UI design and actual coding, and now all I get is slop features I don't want?
Cool, really worth the monthly subscription.
time to break out the negative vspace, amirite?
Just finished (manually) writing the coding documentation for a new toolkit project. Had the depressing realization that I am probably writing something more likely to be ingested by a model than read by a human.
people are paying attention.
The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
Trump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/trump-admin-revokes-sevp/
And this isn't just a problem for researchers. To state what should be obvious, this is going to hurt our economy massively in the long term.
The NSF program that we have been preparing a proposal for past few months (and had a preliminary proposal in the submission platform) suddenly changed its status to "not accepting proposals".
This is just the next development in a seemingly endless sequence of grant cancellations, panel suspensions, and other crises that, put together, are making it increasingly difficult to run and sustain a research lab.
This is what we get when the federal government FUNDS SCIENCE. These kinds of amazing advances and lifesaving technologies are what we are at risk of losing under the current administration.
Tariffs just got real: our first $36K bill with 125% + 20% + 25% markup hits hard 💸. These are upfront costs - due before selling a single unit - causing serious cash flow strain, price increases, read more! 📦 http://adafruit.com/tariffbill
Posted today. Cap on indirect costs for all NSF grants at 15%. Paired with the NIH reductions, this is the death knell of research universities as we know them in the US.
If you are a researcher who depends on federal funding and you haven't called your congresspeople yet this week, CALL THEM NOW. (This also applies to anyone who cares about the health, safety, and competitiveness of our country as a whole)
📢 Only one month left until the abstract submission deadline for the Research Paper Track at VL/HCC 2024!
📝 Don't miss the opportunity to share your innovative ideas at the University of Liverpool, UK, from Sept 2-6, 2024.
🗓️ Important Dates:
Abstracts only: April 19, 2024
Submission deadline: April 26, 2024
ℹ️ For more information visit the official VL/HCC 2024 website: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2024/vlhcc-2024-research-papers
Let's make VL/HCC 2024 a platform for groundbreaking research! 🌟
#VLHCC2024 #CallForPapers
WHY IS TAPS ACM? Accurate figure placement is impossible—so many frustrations year after year.
Request to #CHI2024 papers chairs. When you are preparing the blog post on round 2 paper outcomes, please include data on the rate of RR for short papers in round 1 and the rate of acceptance in round 2.