@michaelmuller
I do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI. My posts do not reflect the views of my employer.
with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself.
tools to do *more* hard thinking.
it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.
Oh Ann
We all have the shame of our many mistakes. All of us.
How will we turn that shame into motivation to listen better, to do better, to care better?
(I am working intensely on my version of this perhaps-universal story.)
How lovely, Susan.
We were delayed by a long day of travel.
day break water's edge--
suddenly from winter's fog
geese break the silence
as a #kenning (maybe)
cloud trumpets
Dear Amy
the swell of feeling‐-
waves almost filling this bay
if birds return why
#haiku #haikusaturday
Re-identification is becoming more and more feasible as the surveillors combine datasets. The safest way to protect personal data is not to collect it.
#ArtificialIntelligence and #automation aren't just transforming the technology we use at work, but also how we collaborate, lead, and grow careers.
Examine how AI is driving #WorkforceTransformation and the #FutureOfWork at our March 4 webinar: https://ow.ly/Bs0R50Ym70b
Years ago, Andre Schwarz-Bart wrote about an unintentional hero lost to genocide, "Our eyes register the light of dead stars." (Stephen Becker's translation)
in
The Last of the Just
Beautiful! thank you
May I offer -
Robert Desnos:
"I have dreamed of you so much, have walked so much, talked so much, slept so much with your phantom, that perhaps the only thing left for me is to become a phantom among phantoms..."
www.poemist.com/robert-desno...
Your estuary of words, with its stones and grasses, is very beautiful - thank you!
If we live in an estuary of words,
what tides' rhythms
move and nourish us?
I also loved the middle stanza, which could, by itself, be a tanka.
While I've appreciatively quote-posted the last line of Kevin's poem, I wonder if witness might also recall or even proclaim witness?
Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & Kevin, I'm trying to understand the eating & the feeding. The eating consumes the plants. The feeding preserves the witness. Similarly to the depth charge that cleans the quiet harbor, I'm confused by destruction/consumption as preservation/proclamation?
"witness feeds on witness to survive."
--Kevin Craft
#poetry #slowdown #theslowdown
Great piece!
It's very beautiful, Laura!
Omg Matthew, we don't know each other, but I hope that somehow you will feel the love I am sending you tonight
Yes!
See also Ehsan et al. (2024), Seamful XAI: Operationalizing Seamful Design in Explainable AI, dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
“I was raised in Detroit, baptized in Black history. Entering a Texas prison was a cultural collision. The ignorance wasn’t accidental. It was manufactured, systemic, deliberate... Writing became my resistance.“ @kwanetaharris.bsky.social
Minnesota’s flags will fly at half-staff in honor and remembrance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
He spent his life pushing America to live up to its highest ideals and his fight for civil rights, dignity, and fairness will inspire generations to come.
THIS. AI might work for a lit review if you are testing some tired, obvious relationships. It is not going to build theory for you, especially drawing upon disparate literatures and epistemologies.
And there's a sibling piece led by @drnikko.bsky.social about trans specific data epistemologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New work that I got to present at #CSCW2025 (that got an honorable mention + DEI recognition) with @drnikko.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social "Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Please join us at the Feminist Stitch 'n B*tch session at the #CHI2026 conference - details at sites.google.com/view/feminis...
"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."
📣New paper !
Designing collaborative generative AI is difficult precisely because most generative AI systems are built around efficiency, speed, and individual productivity.
In our conditionally accepted #CHI26 paper, we ask: what happens when those assumptions break down?
Grateful to my co-authors @michaelmuller.bsky.social and Claudia Flores-Saviaga, PhD, and to my advisor Dr. Saiph Savage, for their collaboration that shaped this work. ❤️
Amanda Gorman pays tribute to Alex Pretti, a patriotic American murdered by fascist ICE on January 24th 2026
“Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.”
“Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience.”
as the facct rebuttal period is in session, let me repeat what i've always said: critique is service! identifying & mapping the problem space is in & of itself a legitimate scientific contribution. we can’t proceed to “solve” a problem if we don't have a clear & comprehensive understanding of it
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Barbara Jordan was born #OTD in 1936. The second Black woman elected to Congress, she delivered a historic statement during President Richard Nixon's impeachment and later became the first woman and first Black keynote speaker at a Democratic National Convention. #TheMarchContinues
Please also remember Jackson State, 11 days after Kent State.