Michael Muller (he/him)
@michaelmuller.bsky.social
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.
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
"memories have teeth that become fangs"
--Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social
--Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social
It’s the oldest story in the world. The Epstein Files reminded me of this piece I wrote on a devastating anniversary.
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 AM
"memories have teeth that become fangs"
--Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social
--Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social
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Good discussion about the Willow Project & caribou from an Inupiaq leader. 2nd half of the show is about an Indigenous Russian activist who is facing jail time. The hesitancy of the guests to speak out against Russia, even tho they don't live there, is what I am worried will happen in the US.
Thursday, February 5, 2026 – Can caribou slow the drive for oil and mineral development in Alaska? » Native America Calling
An Iñupiaq village on Alaska’s North Slope is suing after the Trump administration removed protections for an area important to subsistence hunting. The suit by Nuiqsut Trilateral Inc. says the action...
www.nativeamericacalling.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Good discussion about the Willow Project & caribou from an Inupiaq leader. 2nd half of the show is about an Indigenous Russian activist who is facing jail time. The hesitancy of the guests to speak out against Russia, even tho they don't live there, is what I am worried will happen in the US.
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I'm a very proud Puerto Rican today 🇵🇷💙
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I'm a very proud Puerto Rican today 🇵🇷💙
"Right now, Justice is down, but she’s not out. She needs help from people like Alex [Pretti], who are willing to risk their lives to lift her up because they believe in her.”
--Topsy, quoted in an article by Sara Barnes
mymodernmet.com/topsy-alex-p...
--Topsy, quoted in an article by Sara Barnes
mymodernmet.com/topsy-alex-p...
Street Artist’s Tribute to Alex Pretti, Nurse Killed by ICE, Becomes Public Vigil Near Seattle Hospitals
“Painting Alex as an ICU nurse, using his strength to uplift a downtrodden justice, felt both sad and hopeful to me.”
mymodernmet.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
"Right now, Justice is down, but she’s not out. She needs help from people like Alex [Pretti], who are willing to risk their lives to lift her up because they believe in her.”
--Topsy, quoted in an article by Sara Barnes
mymodernmet.com/topsy-alex-p...
--Topsy, quoted in an article by Sara Barnes
mymodernmet.com/topsy-alex-p...
Cornelius Eady quotes James Baldwin:
"The place in which I’ll fit
Will not exist
Until I make it.”.
and also writes, in his own voice:
"Who tried to change your name
To invisible?"
poets.org/poem/proof-2
"The place in which I’ll fit
Will not exist
Until I make it.”.
and also writes, in his own voice:
"Who tried to change your name
To invisible?"
poets.org/poem/proof-2
Proof
You have to imagine it:Who said you were too dark/tooLarge? Too queer/too loud?Who said you were too poor/Too strange? Too fat?You have to imagine it:Who said you must keep quiet?Who heard your story,...
poets.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Cornelius Eady quotes James Baldwin:
"The place in which I’ll fit
Will not exist
Until I make it.”.
and also writes, in his own voice:
"Who tried to change your name
To invisible?"
poets.org/poem/proof-2
"The place in which I’ll fit
Will not exist
Until I make it.”.
and also writes, in his own voice:
"Who tried to change your name
To invisible?"
poets.org/poem/proof-2
"You got to harrow deep within to free the deadly hope from your gut"
--Mahogany L. Browne
poets.org/poem/my-face...
--Mahogany L. Browne
poets.org/poem/my-face...
My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral
The Slave Castle in Elmina isn’t as beautiful
poets.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"You got to harrow deep within to free the deadly hope from your gut"
--Mahogany L. Browne
poets.org/poem/my-face...
--Mahogany L. Browne
poets.org/poem/my-face...
"Both hands empty
my right hand grabs a pen, the left holds memories
Although memories now yield to the pen
tears run ceaseless between the lines
a trampled dignity"
--Tsering Woeser (Fiona Sze-Lorrain, trans.)
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
my right hand grabs a pen, the left holds memories
Although memories now yield to the pen
tears run ceaseless between the lines
a trampled dignity"
--Tsering Woeser (Fiona Sze-Lorrain, trans.)
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Only This Useless Poem—For Lobsang Tsepak - Words Without Borders
Tsering Woeser’s melancholic poem mourns the lives lost to the violence of an unfree Tibet.
wordswithoutborders.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
"Both hands empty
my right hand grabs a pen, the left holds memories
Although memories now yield to the pen
tears run ceaseless between the lines
a trampled dignity"
--Tsering Woeser (Fiona Sze-Lorrain, trans.)
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
my right hand grabs a pen, the left holds memories
Although memories now yield to the pen
tears run ceaseless between the lines
a trampled dignity"
--Tsering Woeser (Fiona Sze-Lorrain, trans.)
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.
My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.
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NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
"we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing."
--Rebecca Solnit
--Rebecca Solnit
February 5, 2026 at 8:05 AM
"we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing."
--Rebecca Solnit
--Rebecca Solnit
“the tyranny of the quantifiable”
--Rebecca Solnit
--Rebecca Solnit
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
“the tyranny of the quantifiable”
--Rebecca Solnit
--Rebecca Solnit
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"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise | LIBRARYSTACK∎
www.librarystack.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Government-supported racist death squads were operating here since before the US was a country upstanderproject.org/films/bounty . $12,000 (in today's money) for a dead Native man. $6000 for a dead Native woman. ICE continues the colonial crimes on this continent. We have to stop this. All of us.
Bounty — Upstander Project
upstanderproject.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Government-supported racist death squads were operating here since before the US was a country upstanderproject.org/films/bounty . $12,000 (in today's money) for a dead Native man. $6000 for a dead Native woman. ICE continues the colonial crimes on this continent. We have to stop this. All of us.
In case this is useful -
I write the intrusive idea onto a notecard or into a device, and I promise myself that I will think about it in the morning. Sometimes the idea is actually important, but often it is not.
Good luck
I write the intrusive idea onto a notecard or into a device, and I promise myself that I will think about it in the morning. Sometimes the idea is actually important, but often it is not.
Good luck
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
In case this is useful -
I write the intrusive idea onto a notecard or into a device, and I promise myself that I will think about it in the morning. Sometimes the idea is actually important, but often it is not.
Good luck
I write the intrusive idea onto a notecard or into a device, and I promise myself that I will think about it in the morning. Sometimes the idea is actually important, but often it is not.
Good luck
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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A Métis artist is taking her loom-weaving kit on the road to teach students about an iconic staple in her ancestors’ wardrobe and promote school spirit.
Sash projects weave together school spirit, Métis culture
A Métis artist is taking her loom-weaving kit on the road to teach students about an iconic staple in her ancestors’ wardrobe and promote school spirit.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
A Métis artist is taking her loom-weaving kit on the road to teach students about an iconic staple in her ancestors’ wardrobe and promote school spirit.
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1/x 🧵
ICE has booked at least 3,800 children +
(Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)
ICE has booked at least 3,800 children +
(Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)
February 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
1/x 🧵
ICE has booked at least 3,800 children +
(Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)
ICE has booked at least 3,800 children +
(Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)
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February is a time to honor the generations of Black Americans who fought, and continue to fight, against injustice to achieve equal rights.
May we reflect on our nation’s past as we continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals.
May we reflect on our nation’s past as we continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals.
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
February is a time to honor the generations of Black Americans who fought, and continue to fight, against injustice to achieve equal rights.
May we reflect on our nation’s past as we continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals.
May we reflect on our nation’s past as we continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals.
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A Spokane school is reviving an ancestral language to build a community of n̓səl̓xčin̓ speakers.
Read the article on our website to learn more about how the Salish School of Spokane is working to accomplish this goal. buff.ly/S4stnx5
Read the article on our website to learn more about how the Salish School of Spokane is working to accomplish this goal. buff.ly/S4stnx5
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A Spokane school is reviving an ancestral language to build a community of n̓səl̓xčin̓ speakers.
Read the article on our website to learn more about how the Salish School of Spokane is working to accomplish this goal. buff.ly/S4stnx5
Read the article on our website to learn more about how the Salish School of Spokane is working to accomplish this goal. buff.ly/S4stnx5