Now THERE is a set of authors that just says "must read"

Urban Dictionary: subtweeting subtweeting: Indirectly tweeting something about someone without mentioning their name. Even though their name is not mentioned, it is clear who [the...

A practice from the Old Place

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Gary Larson Far Side cartoon: No More Mr. Nice Guy

"No more Mr. Nice Guy." Am I still subtweeting if it's on Bluesky?

Most outstanding use of POV by a municipality

More details in this thread from Advait

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Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Would have been totally possible without me. Great work!

This is algorithmic agenda-setting at the moment of ideation. As Bernard Cohen wrote of the press in 1963: it may not tell people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about. AI writing assistants may now do the same for writers.

Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/

Cherry blossoms and the East River

View from my @cornelltech.bsky.social desk rn

Reactive Writers: How Co-Writing with AI Changes How We Engage with Ideas | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The paper is available open-access here #chi2026

5/5

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Really proud of this paper, mostly because of the authors: two former PhDs in my group (now faculty members), and Advait who started working with us as a remote volunteer, one of the only ones who managed not only to shine but also to lead. Now (appropriately) PhD student at @uwcse.bsky.social 4/

In the paper, @advaitmb.bsky.social (with co-authors @mjakesch.bsky.social @mariannealq.bsky.social) used really cool methods to understand the co-writing process. He analyzed ~2000 co-writing sessions and talked to 19 participants, replaying their writing sessions for them during the interviews. 3/

Well, that's not what we called it in the paper. Instead, we called it Reactive Writing. It's when, instead of thinking, you react to what AI is suggesting, using it as a starting point. Here's a summary GIF. #chi2026 2/

Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/

Serious question: is there any downside to this tax? Decline in luxury property values? Prompting billionaires to sell their second homes? 😱

Meet the 'Petal Protectors' Guarding NYC’s Blossoms From Pic-Snapping Crowds Touching or shaking the fragile flowering trees can harm them. These volunteers on Roosevelt Island make sure that doesn’t happen.

Our local guardians -- I have not yet seen any tree abuse this season! Must be working (in previous years: plenty of branch-hanging kids and tree-shaking influencers)

www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/11/c...

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I think most indications are that we *can* still use online survey tools, but have to be thoughtful and careful. A recent example:

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New York Times and WSJ editors continue to trivialize massive pro-democracy demonstrations. Analysis of "No Kings 3" front pages. Local editors continue to shine. New York Times and Wall Street Journal leadership continue to downplay and minimize mass demonstrations while editors of smaller outlets do a better job communicating these vital pro-democracy events.

See our grades & analysis of 75 + front pages for #NoKings 3.0 coverage.

The influential @nytimes.com @wsj.com continue trivialize the pro-democracy movement & #NoKings mass demonstrations.

Good news: editors of local outlets continue to shine.

🧵 w/many front pages and link to blog post

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More frictionless AI lawyering

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Thanks Jay for sharing (Ironically, with auto-correct(?) typo).

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

I am not a Bitcoin buff (or owner). This account is dangerously flirting with confirmation bias, and I almost stopped reading at "they both used public-key encryption, what are the odds!". But overall a very compelling pitch and amazingly thorough investigation.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

I am not a Bitcoin buff (or owner). This account is dangerously flirting with confirmation bias, and I almost stopped reading at "they both used public-key encryption, what are the odds!". But overall a very compelling pitch and amazingly thorough investigation.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

Donald Trump blather.

The Lydians who were to bring these gifts to the temples were instructed by Croesus to inquire of the oracles whether he was to send an army against the Persians and whether he was to add an army of allies. [2] When the Lydians came to the places where they were sent, they presented the offerings, and inquired of the oracles, in these words: “Croesus, king of Lydia and other nations, believing that here are the only true places of divination among men, endows you with such gifts as your wisdom deserves. And now he asks you whether he is to send an army against the Persians, and whether he is to add an army of allies.” [3] Such was their inquiry; and the judgment given to Croesus by each of the two oracles was the same: namely, that if he should send an army against the Persians he would destroy a great empire. And they advised him to discover the mightiest of the Greeks and make them his friends. Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

Wealthy leader, threatening to attack Persia, announcing that a great empire will be destroyed if he does, and not realizing that the prophecy is ambigous about which empire.

I have many criticisms for the writers, but in particular could they stop plagiarizing from Herodotus?

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41...

-Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users
-3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached
-Exposed users older, more conservative

I Want To Be Here | By Lauren Betts No matter where I go from here, I know I’ve come a long way.

All championships are emotional, this one exceptionally so. Amazing game by UCLA WBB and incredible strength by Lauren Betts. As a tall person under scrutiny and pressure since middle school, fighting anxiety and depression -- and going public with it.

www.theplayerstribune.com/lauren-betts...

Definitely don't like this post ☝️

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Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Update, April 4.

Posting on Bluesky because I don't really want any more people to come over.