Jeffrey P. Bigham
@jeffreybigham.com
Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
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a real human adult person who I didn't think had dementia was just explaining how the liberal news (a sinclair station) is hiding something b/c they blurred the sides of a video they played -- what are they hiding??
(video was taken in portrait, … hidden parts are the sides where there is no video)
(video was taken in portrait, … hidden parts are the sides where there is no video)
January 12, 2026 at 1:05 AM
a real human adult person who I didn't think had dementia was just explaining how the liberal news (a sinclair station) is hiding something b/c they blurred the sides of a video they played -- what are they hiding??
(video was taken in portrait, … hidden parts are the sides where there is no video)
(video was taken in portrait, … hidden parts are the sides where there is no video)
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
i feel like it's somehow a very controversial take to say one generally supports immigration enforcement but not shooting unarmed women in the face
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
i feel like it's somehow a very controversial take to say one generally supports immigration enforcement but not shooting unarmed women in the face
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once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions
January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions
kind of amazing to me that half the HCI community (and SIGCHI itself) is still on X. didn't we nearly cancel all of ACM last week because they dared to use genAI to summarize papers? lol.
X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...
X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
kind of amazing to me that half the HCI community (and SIGCHI itself) is still on X. didn't we nearly cancel all of ACM last week because they dared to use genAI to summarize papers? lol.
i've had more dangerous encounters in the walmart parking lot… fuck ICE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
Good vs. Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 AM
i've had more dangerous encounters in the walmart parking lot… fuck ICE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
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Completely crazy-making to watch the Trump admin and their MAGA sycophants rewrite history in realtime - and reach millions with it - despite crystal clear video evidence that directly contradicts their narrative:
MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
The sanctioned government narrative of the Minneapolis shooting diverts wildly from video footage of the incident shared online.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Completely crazy-making to watch the Trump admin and their MAGA sycophants rewrite history in realtime - and reach millions with it - despite crystal clear video evidence that directly contradicts their narrative:
folks should watch this video, … these ICE folks are goons, and the murderer here needs to be held to justice
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
folks should watch this video, … these ICE folks are goons, and the murderer here needs to be held to justice
i liked @odannyboy.bsky.social 's breakdown of the four visions of AI futures --
odannyboy.medium.com/the-four-hor...
odannyboy.medium.com/the-four-hor...
The Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
AI is fracturing into at least four different visions of the future.
odannyboy.medium.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
i liked @odannyboy.bsky.social 's breakdown of the four visions of AI futures --
odannyboy.medium.com/the-four-hor...
odannyboy.medium.com/the-four-hor...
hard to compete for dumbest part of this whole thing, but one of them is Rubio saying not to listen to Trump's words about running Venezuela … www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
Rubio Stresses U.S. Plan to Coerce Venezuela Rather Than Govern It
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
hard to compete for dumbest part of this whole thing, but one of them is Rubio saying not to listen to Trump's words about running Venezuela … www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...
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Again I find it baffling to compare the coverage to when Gemini generated implausibly many Black hockey players etc. That was apparently a societal emergency. But the mass harassment campaign taking place in public barely warrants a mention.
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Again I find it baffling to compare the coverage to when Gemini generated implausibly many Black hockey players etc. That was apparently a societal emergency. But the mass harassment campaign taking place in public barely warrants a mention.
kind of amazing how trump is just a normal republican after all, perhaps turned up a couple notches, but he's just like tax cuts for rich people and starting wars over oil
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
kind of amazing how trump is just a normal republican after all, perhaps turned up a couple notches, but he's just like tax cuts for rich people and starting wars over oil
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And how everyone in Congress with the power to end it simply did…nothing
I know I’ve said this before it is truly going to be impossible to explain to people who didn’t live through it just how incredibly stupid all this is
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
And how everyone in Congress with the power to end it simply did…nothing
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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
let thou who hath not paid, not be able to play -- thus is the word of trump
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...
Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:25 AM
let thou who hath not paid, not be able to play -- thus is the word of trump
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...
tired: AI slop
wired: let's push back against AI slop
inspired: maybe we should try to make ourselves into pigs 🐷 (who like slop!)
wired: let's push back against AI slop
inspired: maybe we should try to make ourselves into pigs 🐷 (who like slop!)
January 2, 2026 at 7:10 PM
tired: AI slop
wired: let's push back against AI slop
inspired: maybe we should try to make ourselves into pigs 🐷 (who like slop!)
wired: let's push back against AI slop
inspired: maybe we should try to make ourselves into pigs 🐷 (who like slop!)
LLM-pilled 😂
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
LLM-pilled 😂
it is amazing to me that it seems like we will actually get self-driving cars before traffic lights that adapt to traffic
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
it is amazing to me that it seems like we will actually get self-driving cars before traffic lights that adapt to traffic
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Why Are We Doing Dry January?
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Why Are We Doing Dry January?
LLMs aren't super useful in writing things you care about, but they are super good at giving feedback. I have very much appreciated the feedback on the recommendation letters i've written over the last month or so.
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
LLMs aren't super useful in writing things you care about, but they are super good at giving feedback. I have very much appreciated the feedback on the recommendation letters i've written over the last month or so.
a possible analogy for building with LLMs -- it's like when you go from being a phd student, building stuff and writing papers about stuff, to being a professor where you just edit other people's papers. tedium goes up, agency goes down, someone else gets to be creative … orib.dev/nofun.html
LLMs Are Not Fun
orib.dev
December 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
a possible analogy for building with LLMs -- it's like when you go from being a phd student, building stuff and writing papers about stuff, to being a professor where you just edit other people's papers. tedium goes up, agency goes down, someone else gets to be creative … orib.dev/nofun.html
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The U.S. government bans 5 people from the country, alleging “Murthy-style speech suppression.” Masnick: “So the State Department is citing a case that disproved government censorship as evidence of government censorship. That’s not even creative lying — it’s just citing your own loss as precedent.”
Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship www.ms.now/opinion/marc...
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The U.S. government bans 5 people from the country, alleging “Murthy-style speech suppression.” Masnick: “So the State Department is citing a case that disproved government censorship as evidence of government censorship. That’s not even creative lying — it’s just citing your own loss as precedent.”
there's evidence that the CS job market is tighter than it used to be, there's little evidence it's because of AI … it would be really surprising, since you need CS people to babysit AI, and more importantly you need more ppl to oversee AI deployment
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can't find a job
A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket.
www.latimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
there's evidence that the CS job market is tighter than it used to be, there's little evidence it's because of AI … it would be really surprising, since you need CS people to babysit AI, and more importantly you need more ppl to oversee AI deployment
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Uncle Put More Thought Than Usual Into This Year’s Gift Cards https://theonion.com/uncle-put-more-thought-than-usual-into-this-year-s-gift-1819577308/
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Uncle Put More Thought Than Usual Into This Year’s Gift Cards https://theonion.com/uncle-put-more-thought-than-usual-into-this-year-s-gift-1819577308/