While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...

#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

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WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

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'Doing being an average teenager: Deploying ordinariness as subversive disability performance in presentational media" by Xiaowei May Li
#NikkiLilly #Embodiment #Multimodality #PresentationalMedia #Disability #Ordinariness #Normativity
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

For fun, I asked an LLM to grade an undergrad dissertation (thesis). LLM gave a very high score and wrote 140 words of feedback about the excellent discussion of New Labour managerial reforms. Which is great, except the dissertation was about polarized content on social media.

The MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship competition is open for internal review at Cardiff University. Please do get in touch with me if you have an idea for a project involving #ethnography, #ethnomethodology, and/or #membershipcategorisation

#EMCA

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

More than 150 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education.

⬇️ Foreign Minister @radek-sikorski.bsky.social on the Russian attack on Sumy 🇺🇦

@rhiannagarrett.bsky.social Hello, I would like to read your thesis - is it accessible anywhere?

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language.
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