@felix.science
Postdoctoral Researcher in Design, HCI, Futures and Social Computing at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University Current: role of values and ideologies in the design of technologies. Active at the Research Professionals Union https://felix.science
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
MN has struck a real chord. I’ll add: I don’t think you can break echo chambers by trying to win debates or outshouting Fox. You break them through people. Keep sharing facts with those who already care, and let those conversations ripple through families and communities. Build organic resistance.
I think this article is important in part because it’s mostly NOT about AI. It’s a combination of things that have contributed to our absolute mess of an information ecosystem right now including people in power outright lying constantly. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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Today's decision in GEMA v. OpenAI by a German court holds that ChatGPT infringes copyright when it memorizes song lyrics. The opinion cites my paper with @afedercooper.bsky.social on memorization in generative models, and its analysis tracks ours.
drive.google.com/file/d/1dUaD...
Anticipation 2026
Are you working on the intersection of futures, design and plural ways of (un-)knowing?
Then you'll love the Anticipation Conference in 2026, as I did last year.
📍 Politecnico di Milano
📅 Jul 1–3, 2026
Submit an abstract by Nov 28
anticipationconference.net
🎓PhD summer school Jun 29–30
*surprised Pikachu face*
A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at all—it's mass surveillance. Here’s a guide to what all those terms mean: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period"
oilchange.org/publications...
I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it.
All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Welcome to forced obsolescence: “I found [a line…] The timestamp matched precisely with when it had stopped working… They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
This is such critical work! 👏🏻
Simulating participants with LLMs is the ultimate confirmation bias.
Genau das gleiche sehen wir in anderen Ländern: Wenige Reiche fliehen vor hohen Steuern, der Rest zahl, netto ein Plus
Mehr hier: krautreporter.de/geld-und-wir...
It’s the last day of #CSCW2025! Come by at 2:30pm at the Perspectives on Data Privacy session to watch me discuss the resistance tactics that workers use to circumvent surveillance and how they build towards collective action
A room lit up orange, with Speaker on the left with big presentation slide saying Right prefers Popularity based visibility on the right.
What a lovely #cscw2025 session of authors, papers and audience we had on "bipartisan discourse online". 😍
With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...
Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...
It's the final day of #cscw2025! I can't believe how quickly the last week has gone by, but I'm feeling very energized by this community, and I'm especially looking forward to Gina Neff (@ginasue.bsky.social) giving the closing keynote this afternoon.
This morning, I’m at the CSCW conference in a session on “Activism in a Time if Data.” Most of the papers seem to assume activism for “good,” ending with design recs for supporting activism. As far as I can tell, none of the papers center right wing activism. Seems like we have a massive blind spot.
I'm already in the lovely city of Bergen 🇳🇴 for #CSCW25
If you are interested and around I'll present our work this Wednesday at 9 am:
🗣️ -> programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/pr...
A table listing participant group's stance on four key social media affordances. The participant groups are Group 1 Right-leaning (RL), Group 2 Left-leaning (LL), Group 3 Left-leaning (LL) and Group 4 Mixed (M). For row Popularity-based Visibility: Group 1 RL: Encourage, Group 2 LL: Refuse, Group 3 LL: Discourage, Group 4 M: N.A.. For row Flexible Profile Work: Group 1 RL: Discourage, Group 2 LL: Allow, Group 3 LL: Encourage, Group 4 M: Allow. For row User Intervention: Group 1 RL: Allow, Group 2 LL: N.A., Group 3 LL: Encourage, Group 4 M: Encourage. For row Open Network Interactions: Group 1 RL: Refuse, Group 2 LL: Refuse, Group 3 LL: Encourage, Group 4 M: Refuse.
But we also found key affordances which don't map to the economic left and right spectrum. For example, left-leaning groups had different attitudes towards user intervention, and groups across the spectrum decided against a personalised newsfeed, instead opting for a classic web forum architecture.
An image split into left and right parts, with screenshots and titles below. On the left, a sketch showing descriptions of a social media profile, including "verified account", "parody account", and a list of political interests above the title "Left prefers flexible profile work". On the right, a sketch of a list of posts with stars in front and the annotation "timely topic, you can still impact" and the title below: "Right prefers popularity-based visibility".
We let politicians across the Finnish political spectrum sketch out a social media platform and examine the values their proposals embody.
Our findings suggest that,
📈 the political right prefers visibility based on popularity,
👨🏻🎤 while the left supports more flexible self-presentation.
Back from my hiatus on here to announce our first study on Digital Ideologies. With @jhaapj.bsky.social and @matnel.bsky.social we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies.
There are differences… 🧵
📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
New article out, just in time before #CSCW2025!
This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#hcisky #hci #CSCW
I bought this plumeria cutting at #CHI2024 and it has started to root and sprout leaves with some ongoing TLC. ❤️ If you’re in the heat of the #CHI2025 deadline, hang in there! Drink some water, take breaks, and be good to yourself. We all need nourishment to grow our dreams. 🪴
Imma keep it short this time:
Companies are using our work without compensation. That's the point of AI
The endless debates over whether this is "true art" or not, or whether it's gonna take over the world some day, are a distraction from the indisputable fact that this is pure exploitation