Glad @k_deux_v & I met you at #chi2024 @jackjamieson!

Had a great time at #MyFirstCHI & loved Hawai'i!

@k_deux_v & I presented:
"Leveraging technology for post-abuse peer support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities"

https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650993

#chi2024

🎉 Our recent paper just came out. It's based on Brittany Lewis's PhD work.

A3C: An Image-Association-Based Computing Device Authentication Framework for People with Upper Extremity Impairments

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652522

Congrats, Brittany Lewis, @priyankan, @k_deux_v !

Am I the only one who keeps typing
*pug bet*
instead of
*pub get*
and thinks of dogs playing poker?

Good.

Now if only the Times would start reporting on AI with a bit more critical skepticism as well.

Headline: “The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Born 99 years ago today, Shirley Chisholm knew she wasn’t going to win when she ran for president 48 years later in 1972. America wasn’t ready for her. But she was going to get it ready! The fiery former teacher wanted to redefine the realm of the possible and give a voice to those who were traditionally marginalized in the political process.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/if-they-dont-give-you-a-seat-at-the?r=1pv9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Image: Mural, Shirley Chisholm State Park, Brooklyn NY

#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

Helping someone debug something, said they asked chatgpt about what a series of bit shift operations were doing. He thought it was actually evaluating the code, yno like it presents itself as doing. Instead its example was a) not the code he put in, with b) incorrect annotations, and c) even more incorrect sample outputs. Has been doing this all day and had just started considering maybe chatGPT was wrong.

I was like first of all never do that again, and explained how chatGPT wasnt doing anything like what he thought it was doing. We spent 2 minutes isolating that code, printing out the bit string after each operation, and he immediately understood what was going on.

I fucking hate these LLMs. Empowerment is learning how to figure things out, how to make tools for yourself and how to debug problems. These things are worse than disempowering, teaching people to be dependent on something that teaches them bullshit.

Edit: too many ppl reading this as "this person bad at programming" - not what I meant. Criticism is of deceptive presentation of LLMs.

I got to meet my very first fox sparrow today! E quietly bunny-hopped eir way out from under some brambles along the reservoir by which I was walking, scratching up lots of nibbles while I held still as still and watched.

I have a friend who works up north on the Slope and he takes amazing pics of polar bears. His name is Melvin Kayotuk.
#Alaska #AlaskaWildlife #AlaskaPolarBears

Full Text Search is coming in a future Mastodon patch. Here's what you can do to opt out, if you don't want your posts or profile to be indexed and included in full text search results;

https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/full-text-search-coming

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Apple has rolled out a rapid response patch for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS to fix a 0-day in WebKit that "may be actively exploited." Go patch your stuff.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213823

If you know any adults with an intellectual or developmental disability, please let them know about the R3 app!

@k_deux_v

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/r3-recognize-report-respond/id6446331248

The app my research group and I have been working on for a few years now is now out on Apple in the US! (Android will be soon.) It teaches adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities about abuse so they are empowered to protect themselves and others. We co-designed the app with members of this population and it is designed for them to use by themselves - including people who are nonverbal, etc. I was heavily involved in the design and development.

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I'd love it if image editing programs by default included a tag that an image had been altered in its metadata. Obviously not perfect but at least it would raise the effort level for people who wanted to intentionally fake something https://www.theverge.com/23721763/google-magic-editor-ai-photos-pixel-fakery

I really hate password/PIN code expiration. It WORSENS security, because you're forced to remember a new password/PIN and after forgetting it a few times will probably write it down. Or you might be tempted to use an easier to remember and less secure password.

NIST no longer recommends expiring credentials regularly. PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.

this is one of the Tweets of All Time but it's missing the part where some Guy on GitHub makes a repository named "awesome-tormentnexus"

Texas Singer and songwriterJames McMurtry was wearing a dress at his Nashville show last night because the state of Tennessee just made drag shows illegal

4 Stunden Himmel über der Ostsee in einem Bild. Der Mond „folgt“ fast den Sternenspuren, aber halt nicht ganz … ich muss mal ein ähnliches Bild Richtung Südwest machen, um zu sehen, wie das da aussieht.

I wonder if "early leavers" is a category of users we should pay as much attention to as "early adopters." What is a tool or service you left early? #UX #UXdesign

`Can't wait for my drum mat to get here. My drums bounce around each time I wail on them & I have to keep dragging them back into place 😆