Jofish

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today

"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"

Share widely #SaveNSF

To commemorate my induction into the CHI Academy, my grad-school bestie @jofish.bsky.social made me a Barbie of myself, replete with a robot trashbarrel sidekick, a smartphone with a robot on it, and a laptop that features my ACM DL page.

Canadian Universities: In light of all the foreign PhD students studying in the US and getting picked up and detained by ICE for no apparent reason… we need to offer some kind of PhD Completion Asylum program here in 🇨🇦. Think of all the students terrified that ICE is coming for them…

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy.

Third time’s the charm, I guess.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

I like to make marmalade. My sister hates marmalade. Sometimes I forget this and send her some anyway. So on the most recent package I sent her (which did not actually contain any marmalade) I made it clear how lucky she was to get so much marmalade. Good job, ChatGPT.

♥️ Valentine’s Day giveaway ♥️

I’m giving away one 6oz (170g) cups to a lucky winner!

To enter:
comment “love is love" on this post.

📦Open to the continental U.S. (I’ve got shipping covered!)

🎉 Winner will be drawn on Feb 14th

Love you. Mean it. 🎈

#Coffee #CoffeeSky #CoffeeNerds #CoffeeFeed

Two really good bits of media I’m enjoying right now. Both are smartly written and well paced. The Pitt on Max (fka HBO) is great medical drama, exciting, compelling watching. Natasha Pulley’s The Mars House (book!) is exciting, feels like it’s written by a smart friend. Great read.

things that I really don't need: an email from my financial institution telling me that in some number of days, my 1099 tax form will be available on their website. yes, i know. you are legally mandated to have it by the 31st. this is not news.

just shut up and tell me when it's available.

GitHub - mvuorre/pdf-direct: Bypass "fancy online reader" and just get the darn pdf Bypass "fancy online reader" and just get the darn pdf - mvuorre/pdf-direct

Reposting an actual working link to a Firefox add-on that skips publishers' "enhanced PDF readers" to directly download the article PDF: github.com/mvuorre/pdf-...

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

New summer institute for up-and-coming scholars across disciplines whose work investigates or intersects with disinformation: disinfoinstitute.org

The first iteration will be this June in San Diego. Applications are due January 31.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

This is why I support DEI. The existing system operates to exclude women and minorities. Period.

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

I’m fascinated by how Apple Intelligence is so enthusiastically getting it wrong. Like… there’s no mention of $100 in the email; it just hallucinates that. I suppose it’s better than telling me my priority message is the obviously bitcoin scam….

Our latest one we’re really enjoying is We Are Ladyparts.

You’ve done letterkenny, right?

Most popular emoji used on all of Bluesky 😭

Today I deleted all my tweets, dating back to 2006.

In the course of that I see all my old content float by. And I'm allowing myself a bit of wistfulness at that world that was lost, and the value of a suitably policed, publicly visible, community discussion forum.

Here's to the future.

Ten Tips for Newcomers at an Academic/Industry Conference

In time for #chi2024, I put up the annual repost (and re-edit) of the Newcomers advice that Daria Loi and I pulled together from the community when we were Newcomers Chairs a few years back:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have a swim towel we bought to support the next door neighbor's swim team when I was 7. For the last three years I've been taking it swimming 2-3 times a week, and it's in remarkable shape. It makes me very happy....

Just spent a week with the family somewhere off in the country in North Wales. All of my photos look roughly like this.

Hi @bossett.bsky.social ! Could you add me to the feed? I'm a research scientist in the field of human-computer interaction; more details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jofish_Kaye and the like. Thank you!