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Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/895183
#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting
#HCI #USEC #UsableSecurity people: Would you be interested in tutorial papers or conference workshops about scale/item development and validation with CTT and IRT Methods?
Seeing as a lot of you use scales, but very few of you do psychometric work, it might be a beneficial thing to do (if publishable). Thoughts/comments?
I would like 2026 to be many things and one of them is that it's the year sci-fi directors finally let go of the leaky, visual-cortex taxing absurdity of mostly transparent displays.
Way back when I first started to UNIX I really, really, wanted to like my ~80% transparent terminal application too. I think I lasted about a week before the 1337 lost out to the fatigue.
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A screenshot from the sf series Bodies, depicting a largely transparent computer display with a graphical user interface whose elements are barely visible against the scene background.
The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants
We’re hiring! PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language
Jobs! If you are interested in fundamental research at the intersection of language, interaction and technology, have a look at the PhD and postdoc positions we are advertising. We look forward to growing the Futures of Language team.
https://ideophone.org/were-hiring-phd-and-postdoc-positions-in-futures-of-language/
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Drone picture of Radboud Universiteit campus in the golden hour. A large tower in front is the Erasmus building, hosting the Centre for Language Studies and the Futures of Language team.
These technologies are none of those things. They are, instead, an attempt to enclose the psyche, one of the last large wellsprings of unexploited value left. See, for instance, https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche
Think through what that'd look like: in order to be paid a living wage--in other words, in order to live--you would be forced to surrender all your private thought to a corporation, and by extension one or more governments. At that point you'd cease to be an individual person: psychologically, private space is necessary to develop fully as a human being. You would instead become some sort of appendage, as independent of your company and government as your fingernail is from you. Is that really worth having cooler video games or whatever kind of cookies such tech might bring?