Hauke Sandhaus

'The Sims FreePlay' Banned in Seven Countries "The Sims FreePlay" is being discontinued in countries with LGBTQ censorship laws.

Interestingly sims free play is indeed banned in Saudi Arabia likely for allowing same sex interactions: www.newsweek.com/sims-freepla...

NYC Privacy Day 2025 | Cornell Tech NYC Privacy Day hosted at Cornell Tech

Join us for NYC Privacy Day 2025 at Cornell Tech, hosted by DLI @nissenbaum.bsky.social and SETS @mantzarlis.com.
We have a great selection of speakers and alongside
talks, we’ll feature student posters + demos.

🔗 Details, registration, and poster submission: dli.tech.cornell.edu/nyc-privacy-...

GenAI in HCI Ed Explores GenAI's role in HCI education, student perceptions, and impact on design skills. Recommends adapting curricula for effective AI collaboration.

Due to travel restrictions, I cannot attend DIS in Madeira, Portugal. 🇵🇹🏝️

I recorded my presentation on how Technology Design Students use GenAI in class projects, accelerating design iteration but causing negative sentiment about learning and reflection skills.

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Thanks for citing our work, and leaning into the implications we unpack in the discussion! arxiv.org/abs/2505.07085

Interesting, didn’t know this. But apparently, even though Toto licensed it from him in the 60s, major iterations on it were needed, and only in the 80s that design really took off. I think they could’ve mentioned more details like that. www.indooroutdoorguy.ca/bidets-bidet...

Washlet - Wikipedia

Washign+drying = Japanese Style Bidet ~ Washlet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washlet is japanese

Some students hope to keep working on their labeler and build it out beyond the current prototype stage. This includes the group behind @bsky-sci-verify.bsky.social. an effort to make scientists self-ID through their ORCID accounts and provide context on their scholarly effort. Check it out!

"She was not ready to rule on the argument that the chatbot’s messages are protected speech “at this stage,” adding that the defendants had failed to articulate “why words strung together” by an AI system should be considered speech."

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Came across this arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540 @cornelltech.bsky.social paper from @rishi-jha.bsky.social, et al. showing the possibility to „translate unknown embeddings into a different space while preserving their geometry“ on TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdh5H7Ro/

We (with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social @paper-feed.bsky.social) launched a new feed: Paper Skygest Bookmarks. This captures all posts about papers that you've liked on Bluesky.

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Collaboration leverages @mfranchi.bsky.social ’s DSI-AI skills alongside the privacy and ethics expertise from @cornelltech.bsky.social ’s Digital Life Initiative @nissenbaum.bsky.social , plus the resources from @wendyju.bsky.social ’s Interaction Research Lab.

Paper PDF preview "Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery" examines how massive street imagery datasets enable harmful group membership inferences despite individual anonymization techniques. This work applies contextual integrity to analyze appropriate information flows in increasingly dense urban data. Led by Matt Franchi, with Madiha Choksi, Severin Engelmann, Ph.D., Wendy Ju, and Helen Nissenbaum. Presenting at FAccT '25 in Athens.

FAccT paper pre-print out: 👀🛡️ "Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery" examines how massive street imagery datasets enable harmful group membership inferences despite individual anonymization techniques and applies contextual integrity to analyze information flows in DSI. arxiv.org/abs/2505.07085

DIS Pre-Print out: 🤖🎨 "Co-Designing with Algorithms". We analyze how design students integrate GenAI into their workflows, revealing benefits during execution phases but critical limitations in discovery and reflection. arxiv.org/abs/2410.14048

1️⃣ "My Precious Crash Data" investigates the politics of safety-critical data sharing in autonomous vehicle development. We found that datasets embed salient knowledge, revealing tensions between competitive advantage and public safety. arxiv.org/abs/2504.17792

Excited to share the pre-prints for three new first-author papers, coming to DIS, FAccT, and CSCW:

Europe pledges €600 million to lure foreign researchers, vows to protect scientific freedom New campaign, Choose Science for Europe, aims to recruit talent from countries where science is under siege

“Although European funding can’t replace the billions that have vanished from U.S. research budgets”

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Before, I only saw this type of content on Facebook. With continued enshitification, it’s time to leave Instagram, too. Meanwhile, on TikTok, people run paid tutorials on how to trick Facebook and Instagram users into buying deep-porn.

I was too shocked about this deepfake on Instagram I came across last week and took this screen recording. People of my age are mistaking them for real people. And debate whether this “AI influencer” is faking being trans. The page links to OnlyFans for people to pay to check for themselves…

Congratulations! 👏👏📖

It looks like @wendyju.bsky.social got lifetime service, Mark Colley outstanding dissertation and Nur Yildirim Societal Impact - but all of these are wrong.

Without the knowledge to analyze and understand which AI outputs to accept and which to discard, your work will actually be disastrous for business and society.

Hilarious

You might say “Writing is thinking”, and so are sketching, writing code, and coding user interviews. We have seen “how” students in our HCI class use GenAI can either hinder or support their thinking. arxiv.org/abs/2405.01467

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I don't trust opinions from non-vegetarians (or hunters) regarding the suffering of potentially conscious LLMs whet there are actually sentient beings among us.

It's just the official accounts being handed over though. No need to panic. Facebook was struggling to keep track with people mass unfollowing and blocking the accounts apparently though, causing some chaos and accusations of forced re-following.

A lot of my friends on instagram seem to follow JD Vance. Pretty sure they are not republicans…

Deleted Facebook yesterday, full of AI clickbait and rage - that one is easy. I’ll miss what my friends posted 2005-2015, but there is no reason to be on Facebook any longer.

Patterns that promote the common good, through virtue ethics. I look forward to reading the full paper. :)