Nearing the end of my first year as a faculty member and it has taught me a lot! First and foremost:
"Beautiful, polished lecture slides are no more appreciated by students than ugly, boring lecture slides."
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by @cylab.bsky.social !
Endless thanks to my advisors @sauvik.me and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.
I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication!
This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD.
Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Data centers in space is such a bad idea, electronics don’t work the same way up there and just because it’s empty doesn’t mean it’s an infinite heat sink
Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/
Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...
Lots of reading to do!
"Silicon samples" should be grounds for a desk reject.
In other news, I will finally have my own place to live here in Lancaster this coming Friday! At times I think my life could be a Seinfeld-esque sitcom.
While I was unable to meet the CHI 2026 deadline this year, I am very excited and motivated by the work I will he publishing soon!
Officially published my first canvas page as faculty at F&M! Now I wait for a student email to notify me that “computer” is misspelled or something.
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.
A house that looks like a giant smoke alarm on an otherwise normal street. The text reads: They finally did it! Your dream home made entirely out of a smoke alarm. You can't live inside a smoke alarm, but you can make sure there are working ones in every bedroom, outside sleeping areas, and on every level of your (normal) home. Check to make sure your smoke alarm isn't expired.
Home sweet home
I am very excited to be getting settled and started at my new academic home. However the universe seems to be taking joy in throwing all obstacles it can in my way!
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.
Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Two yawning snakes 🐍🐍
Writes intro to article.
[Thinking: eh, this needs a bit more explanation before I jump in here]
Writes a new intro.
Realizes, I'm 1000 words in before I even get to the old intro.
This is now going to be two articles.
So many well-meaning Western people are oblivious to Palestine. Your systems don't work. Human rights don't apply. Countless evidence of war crimes so the ICC got sanctioned. Medics, journalists, executed. You can buy aid but it can't go in. Everything you built failed here.
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:
"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
It may not surprise folks that the modern process of sharing and validating scientific discoveries is fairly recent and formed to maximize profit for those who have no hand in the actual labor of research; making Robert Maxwell a billionaire on the back of scholars.
We interviewed all 28 children and they had much to say about Mr. Harbaugh’s mother
Ernest S. Harbaugh, a Cybertruck owner from Ohio, states that 28 children laughed at his Cybertruck after a minor problem resulted in it being towed on a flatbed.
Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me
