Zach Levonian

Fortunately, I think it’s a false dilemma!

She’s just a great writer, right? Her dry, slightly sneering prose is a delight

Interesting argument, worth reading. I respect Togelius for biting the bullet and explicitly arguing that "expanding humanity's collective knowledge" is more morally important than acquiring life-saving technology developments, although I think this is a (very) hard view to support.

I feel compelled to add that I do like Stoppard and also didn’t realize people were talking about him because he recently passed…

:D Have you seen The Hard Problem? Truly the height of Stoppard philosophizing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Har...

This is particularly impressive to me because Arcadia sucks! Proof you can find value in anything 🤗

This has been a challenge for cs.HC: we need folks to step up and support that category. Please contact me if you are interested in moderating either DH or HC! Thanks!

Good response. I would add, however: (a) utm_source=chatgpt is an extremely strong negative signal about writing quality in the contexts I encounter it, and so (b) the "unfairness" OP mentions is understandable frustration. Formatting cues no longer indicate due diligence, which makes trust hard.

I regularly see critiques of pleasing-but-false ideas, but I've also had to work quite hard to shape my information feed to include that kind of information. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit here: human–computer interaction researchers should build tools that make feed-shaping easier for people.

Worth reading. Some nice reflections here.

“look how much better my favorite model is compared compared to these other TRASH MODELS😒😒😒 when I specifically chose a DGP that matches my models assumptions and not the others’😌”

Spurned fan arc?

Worth reading for the journalism business context, but it does no substantive engagement with Zitron’s core claims about LLMs or the surrounding market.

Wow, strong endorsement. I assume I should start with “Is Water H2O?”?

Really excellent explanation and visualization!

Feeling major #CSCW2025 FOMO this week! But I enjoyed virtual participation and I'm honored to share that I won a Best Paper Award. Here's a blog post about my study: levon003.github.io/2025/10/22/c...

Wow this is huge, congrats!

Love this story about how Wikipedia fends off censorship and disinformation: "Wikipedia’s first and best line of defense is to explain how Wikipedia works." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Zotero Slack Connector: a Slack bot for notifications about new papers I created a small open-source tool for notifying a Slack channel when new papers are added to a Zotero group.

Created a small tool for updating a Slack channel when new papers are added to a Zotero library. Totally free using Google Cloud Run's basic tier. levon003.github.io/2025/09/19/z...

Info cards for 10 books checked out from the Internet Archive. The collection of books is eclectic, and consists of mostly 20th century reference works.

A quick love letter to the Internet Archive's free online book loans: it makes it so easy to verify extremely obscure facts! I'm constantly using it to verify info on Wikipedia.

Very nice set of material, thanks for sharing

Thinking again about AI as tarmac. (Here's Fred Turner, writing in 2017.) levon003.github.io/2024/05/19/m...

YouTube video by Howtown Can we really blame social media? A research showdown.

Did you see this podcast from last week? Probably not acceptable as a primary reading, but may be a good supplement youtu.be/WTbpdzMC20I?...

Begging for a review of the Uncrusta-burger

@opinionhaver.bsky.social is it reasonable to blame qualtrics at least a little bit for the wide-spread misinterpretation of their horrible heat map visualization of click data?

This genuinely shocked me. A Qualtrics heatmap included in a 2019 Nature Comms paper, turned into a far-right meme by the Department of Homeland Security. levon003.github.io/2024/07/27/m...

Starting to get excited for #CSCW2025! I have a paper on peer support via recommender systems in the virtual session. Recommender systems should treat people matching as a serious design goal! levon003.github.io/2025/02/25/c...

Great photo and congrats!!

Thanks for putting this together! Throw me in there too 🦑

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