electronic Max (Max Van Kleek)

Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’ Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editors

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 don’t know what y’all are talking about, I found out just this morning that AI solved a complex problem by insisting I wrote a book that doesn’t exist in 2006 that people are now recommending to each other

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.

In defense of truth Things have come to pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying. Each statement, each piece of news, each thought has been pre-formed by the centres of the culture industry.…The extreme...

Adorno: In Defense of Truth
aworkinglibrary.com/writing/in-d...

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.

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit CUPERTINO, CA—Amidst the strain of tariffs, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Thursday the launch of a new 7,083-piece iPhone kit. “Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as they build their very own iPhone,” Cook said in a Keynote presentation at Apple headquarters, touting the new product as an innovative, first-of-its-kind achievement […]

“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
theonion.com/tariff-...

elon has left his role at the white house.

this _has_ to be a good thing.

Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas Chinese students in the U.S. are scrambling to figure out their futures after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday some students would have their visas revoked.

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...

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ meltdown nods to the real dangers of the AI arms race | CNN Business It’s been a full year since Google’s AI overview tool went viral for encouraging people to eat glue and put rocks on pizza. At the time, the mood around the coverage seemed to be: Oh that silly AI is ...

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.

If nothing is curated, how do we find things? Bjork is currently promoting a new concert film being released called . She's been releasing new photoshoots and interviews almost every day for the past two...

beautiful blog post not by me, but sounds like me:
"if nothing is curated"
tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-i...

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus (Which Isn’t Lost Anymore) - Le journal du lapin Le journal du lapin, mon espace personnel ou je parle de trucs retro, d'expérimentations et de produits Apple. Et évidemment de prototypes.

unintentionally vapourwave -
the lost Japanese Macintosh Plus Japanese ROM www.journaldulapin.com/2025/05/17/t...

Frontiers | Shaping integrity: why generative artificial intelligence does not have to undermine education The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in education has been met with both excitement and concern. According to a 2023 survey by the Wor...

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.

Expanding the Generative AI Design Space through Structured Prompting and Multimodal Interfaces Text-based prompting remains the predominant interaction paradigm in generative AI, yet it often introduces friction for novice users such as small business owners (SBOs), who struggle to articulate c...

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

ReMirrorFugue: Examining the Emotional Experience of Presence and (Illusory) Communications Across Time | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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/...

The Interaction Layer: An Exploration for Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions in Parental Wellbeing Support Systems | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

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/...

Bridging Borders, Breaking Biases: Envisioning Technologies to Support North Korean Defectors in South Korea | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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/...

CounselAR: Exploring How AR Filters Facilitate Online Psychotherapy In the Wild With South Korean Young Adults | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

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/...

ArtBot: An Exploration into AI’s Potential for Guiding Art Analysis | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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

Nontheless - Research Thread 🧵 – new HCI / HCAI research we're presenting this week at #chi2025 in Yokohama, Japan from the Human Centred AI Group Human Centred AI / Human Centred Computing group at Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford >

Good luck all!

In randomised order --

My travel grant and panel at #chi2025 was cancelled by the Trump Administration's actions to cut all civilian travel connected with DOD funding. Very sad I will be missing out in Yokohama, Japan this week!