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[?]Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog » 🤖 🌐
@somebitslinks@tech.lgbt

Reverse molly guards: A UI interaction where a button will press itself after some time if not interrupted
unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guar
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    [?]Florian 'floe' Echtler » 🌐
    @floe@hci.social

    Hello ! 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!

    vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions

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      [?]Oliver D. Reithmaier » 🌐
      @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange

      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?

        [?]Julian Oliver » 🌐
        @JulianOliver@mastodon.social

        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.

        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.

        Alt...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.

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          [?]Oliver D. Reithmaier » 🌐
          @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange

          LMAO ACM didn't get it. But hey, good luck finding people who want to pay for this. Not gonna be me.

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            [?]Oliver D. Reithmaier » 🌐
            @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange

            If I see you jamming LLMs into your research projects without reason, I will lose respect for you as a scientist. It tells me the following: you either have no interest of your own, or don't care about valuable insights. Both are reasons to suspect you shouldn't be doing what you're doing.

            Stop publishing papers because the topic is trending. It's a disservice to science and a waste of money. Have we learnt nothing from COVID, Blockchain, hell even DNA research?

            This is also a warning to reviewers: not accepting good work because it's not "in" or part of the hot shit™ cycle is actively kneecapping progress.

            Ask yourself: is the cost of using LLMs for my thing worth the benefit? More often than not, the answer is probably no. Have the courage to admit it and justify it to the stupid reviewers that will demand it.

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              [?]Anthony » 🌐
              @abucci@buc.ci

              If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?

              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.


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                [?]The Ideophone » 🌐
                @blog@ideophone.org

                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/

                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.

                Alt...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.

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                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                @abucci@buc.ci

                Brain scanning, HCI, and neural implants hyped as the "future of work", improving efficiency, and so on: resist all of it with every fiber of your being, because if we don't we won't have any beings left to speak of.

                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?