you can't make a technical contribution in HCI by just connecting an LLM to something. we need to know how it works, beyond a user study with a few people. what are the ways that it fails? how fundamental are these problems, what does it reveal about the potential of this kind of use, etc.
24.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Because of the rise of pundits and influencers and the relative extinction of professional critics and public-facing experts, we have utterly lost the distinction between matters of opinion and matters of fact. (Yeah it's not a total dichotomy)
13.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Karpathy: "English is the hottest new programming language" Meanwhile me: "What xml structure should I use to get better llm eval results?"
05.09.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The U.S.’ Increasing State Involvement in the Tech Industry
The United States government has long had an interest in boosting its high technology sector, with manifold objectives: for soft power, espionage, and financial dominance, at least. It has accomplishe...
Good write up by Nick Heer at @pxlnv.bsky.social:
> We should also not lose sight of the increasing hostility of the U.S. government making these moves to reassert its dominance in [tech]. We can stop getting steamrolled if we want to, but we *really* need to want to.
pxlnv.com/blog/us-incr...
26.08.2025 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Getting creative with embeddings
Have only read the abstract and eval metrics (will read the rest once I have some time) so slightly unrelated but curious: Have you by any chance experimented with trying to correlate "suspense" through embeddings as well? Like in @wattenberger.com's work? wattenberger.com/thoughts/yay...
25.08.2025 20:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Product managers tell me that you don't need UX when you can just "build measure learn" your way to product market fit.
But if your sense-response mechanism is entirely built around trying new shit, and the new shit fails - what are you going to do? Continuing to tweak it only upsets users more.
16.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
05.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 2572 🔁 926 💬 31 📌 24
Is anyone using anything else but Arq for (cloud / s3 / glacier) backups on macOS these days?
31.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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23.07.2025 22:05 — 👍 59 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 2
chatbots für therapiezwecke ist nicht nur deswegen gefährlich, weil es einem quatsch rät (das passiert auch), sondern weil eine llm nicht "nein" sagen kann. ich mein, sie kann schon das token "nein" generieren, aber ein wirkliches "nein" muss letztendlich notwendig materiell sein. ein widerstand.
01.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Damn, how did I completely miss this... Hope this works out well enough for you to make another batch in the future. Super interesting work!
13.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
300.000 Tote bisher, die Mehrheit davon Kinder, dank Musks „Kürzungen“, Zahl steigend. Aber „Selbstheilungskräfte“, alles klar. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
06.06.2025 16:54 — 👍 904 🔁 210 💬 27 📌 3
Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites.
10.05.2025 22:16 — 👍 69 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 4
Rolf Mützenich und Stegner verteidigen das skandalöse Treffen. „Jeder Kontakt“ zu Russland sei sinnvoll. Das ist m.E. keine Naivität mehr, das ist das alte deutsche koloniale Denken, dass Moskau und Berlin gemeinsam Weltpolitik machen. Gerade jetzt brandgefährlich für die Ukraine und Europa.
1/2
10.05.2025 11:23 — 👍 394 🔁 143 💬 22 📌 8
Merz stellt den Koalitionsvertrag vor und spricht von jungen Menschen & ihren Zukunftsängsten - um dann exakt kein Wort zum Klima zu sagen.
Die nächste Legislatur wird die heißeste in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Aber das ist offensichtlich noch nicht bei allen angekommen.
09.04.2025 14:20 — 👍 3013 🔁 694 💬 85 📌 8
Werbung mit Falschinformation über Balkonkraftwerke bei Zeit-Online, die suggeriert ein regulärer, seriöser Artikel zu sein
Werbung mit Falschinformation über Balkonkraftwerke bei Zeit-Online, die suggeriert ein regulärer, seriöser Artikel zu sein
Werbung mit Falschinformation über Balkonkraftwerke bei Zeit-Online, die suggeriert ein regulärer, seriöser Artikel zu sein
Werbung mit Falschinformation über Balkonkraftwerke bei Zeit-Online, die suggeriert ein regulärer, seriöser Artikel zu sein
Ist es eigentlich irgendjemandem bei @zeit.de wenigstens unangenehm oder ist es allen einfach egal, dass die solche Anzeigen ausspielen?
09.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something, something, local p2p networks
28.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Does anyone still believe that open source software (or “Free Software”, not making that distinction here) can be a “force for social good” or whatever other nonsense we’ve been saying about it for a decade?
17.03.2025 14:38 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 15 📌 6
If you read one article today, make it this one.
16.03.2025 08:23 — 👍 28 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Kevin Munger on echo chambers, algorithms, research-lag.
worth noting that some people are currently quite busy building the society they want. How do we democratise those levers?
14.03.2025 06:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind.
🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds
wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
11.03.2025 16:12 — 👍 302 🔁 61 💬 27 📌 22
Habe die letzten Wochen einige male Starlink benutzt. Muss zugeben, ich habe es unterschätzt und halte Iris² seit dem für eines der wichtigsten Infrastrukturprojekte der EU.
02.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hat schon jemand eine Liste mit all den Vereinen erstellt, die der CDU Angst machen und einen Spendenlink daneben gesetzt?
27.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
26.02.2025 22:40 — 👍 21669 🔁 8938 💬 460 📌 358
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