Dan Liebling
@liebling.org
AI for science, HCI+AI research, #nlproc leading w/empathy @ Google Research https://liebling.org
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
Mostly science-related AI, with the occasional bike safety rant or contemporary cello post.
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
attach switchbot to smoke detector's hush button [Y/n]?
December 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
attach switchbot to smoke detector's hush button [Y/n]?
“The book identifies tech workers as a contradictory class formation, oscillating between a spirit of emancipation and yet another spirit of capitalism.”
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255353...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255353...
The Social Codes of Tech Workers
Digital technologies shape nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet little attention has been paid to the tech workers who design and program these technologies...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“The book identifies tech workers as a contradictory class formation, oscillating between a spirit of emancipation and yet another spirit of capitalism.”
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255353...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255353...
nowhere in the source text was anything about a birthday. surprised to see an error of this magnitude
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
nowhere in the source text was anything about a birthday. surprised to see an error of this magnitude
"Centering the body and its sonorous movements provides an opportunity to examine multiple cellistic corporealities as the cellist-body interacts with instruments, objects, technologies, virtual performers, and machinic partners." academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5425/
Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Johan Svensson
In Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Lachenmann, Steen-Andersen, and Svensson, I analyze three compositions that foreground the cellist-body, its physical gestures, and instrumen...
academicworks.cuny.edu
December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Centering the body and its sonorous movements provides an opportunity to examine multiple cellistic corporealities as the cellist-body interacts with instruments, objects, technologies, virtual performers, and machinic partners." academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5425/
paused before texting “gonna” to my linguistics phd neighbor hoping she’s a descriptivist
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
paused before texting “gonna” to my linguistics phd neighbor hoping she’s a descriptivist
another sequence of small pieces is Maple by Sally Beamish (2021). "start[ing] with a ‘seed’ of only five notes… grows into different configurations" – Wisemusic Classical youtu.be/A1LoRhwRSyQ?...
Trees for the Forest ~ solo cello livestream
YouTube video by Diane Chaplin, Cellist
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
another sequence of small pieces is Maple by Sally Beamish (2021). "start[ing] with a ‘seed’ of only five notes… grows into different configurations" – Wisemusic Classical youtu.be/A1LoRhwRSyQ?...
I was looking for a contemporary cello piece to work on harmonics. Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons is "seven miniatures, which each seem to be studies on a different aspect of fragile and ephemeral movement that has no beginning or end." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJE...
Kaija Saariaho: Sept Papillons (2000) played by Anssi Karttunen
YouTube video by anssivk
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I was looking for a contemporary cello piece to work on harmonics. Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons is "seven miniatures, which each seem to be studies on a different aspect of fragile and ephemeral movement that has no beginning or end." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJE...
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve bike lane enjoyers
December 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Merry Christmas Eve Eve bike lane enjoyers
meanwhile WA legislature still hasn’t passed a comprehensive online privacy bill
#OnThisDay in 1933, a "Jazz Intoxication" bill was introduced in the State Legislature. historylink.org/File/10332
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
meanwhile WA legislature still hasn’t passed a comprehensive online privacy bill
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Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
partner didn’t believe this was a CS paper: “You're in control: a urinary user interface” (CHI ‘03 EA)
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
You're in control | CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
dl.acm.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
partner didn’t believe this was a CS paper: “You're in control: a urinary user interface” (CHI ‘03 EA)
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Miller et al. document e.g., that *unrealistic productivity expectations* complete change how someone interprets the meaning of the tool, workplace, and role expectation interaction. This is exactly what I predicted too. We keep converging on this.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
"Maybe We Need Some More Examples:" Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
Despite the widespread availability of generative AI tools in software engineering, developer adoption remains uneven. This unevenness is problematic because it hampers productivity efforts, frustrate...
arxiv.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Miller et al. document e.g., that *unrealistic productivity expectations* complete change how someone interprets the meaning of the tool, workplace, and role expectation interaction. This is exactly what I predicted too. We keep converging on this.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
arxiv.org/abs/2507.21280
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Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...
Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing"
Job Offer from December 04, 2025
www.biblhertz.it
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...
interesting talk from Sucheta Ghoshal at UW www.hcde.washington.edu/research-ser...
“What alternative possibilities of computing are revealed when we attend to the computational cultures of social movements that refuse, resist, subvert, or exceed the state and market imaginaries of technology?”
“What alternative possibilities of computing are revealed when we attend to the computational cultures of social movements that refuse, resist, subvert, or exceed the state and market imaginaries of technology?”
Dec. 4: Sucheta Ghoshal
2025 Research Speaker SeriesSucheta GhoshalAssistant Professor, HCDE
www.hcde.washington.edu
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
interesting talk from Sucheta Ghoshal at UW www.hcde.washington.edu/research-ser...
“What alternative possibilities of computing are revealed when we attend to the computational cultures of social movements that refuse, resist, subvert, or exceed the state and market imaginaries of technology?”
“What alternative possibilities of computing are revealed when we attend to the computational cultures of social movements that refuse, resist, subvert, or exceed the state and market imaginaries of technology?”
since that AI architect post is going around here is the state of the art from 5 years ago so it still loves sinks
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
since that AI architect post is going around here is the state of the art from 5 years ago so it still loves sinks
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New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Monkeys have rhythm
Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New in Science, Macaques tap to the beat.
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
Very cool study for its main result and its null one: consistent with nearly every other comparative study of music, monkeys don't differentiate beats by their relative strength—which even young children do innately. Monkeys have rhythm but not meter!
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisor...
jamestown.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
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Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
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By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
acceptable response with weird RAG attributions -- "I can't tell jokes, but I'd be happy to assist with any licensing or vehicle-related questions you might have." source: "Eluding a police officer"
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
acceptable response with weird RAG attributions -- "I can't tell jokes, but I'd be happy to assist with any licensing or vehicle-related questions you might have." source: "Eluding a police officer"
apropos of emailing yourself, we looked at this behavior in several corpora of emails. < 1% of emails are self-mail but for heavy users it could be 8% of all their mail!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
apropos of emailing yourself, we looked at this behavior in several corpora of emails. < 1% of emails are self-mail but for heavy users it could be 8% of all their mail!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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The false historical narrative that progress — from women’s suffrage to civil rights — was 1) finished and 2) driven by singular, centralized movements is itself an impediment to progress today.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The false historical narrative that progress — from women’s suffrage to civil rights — was 1) finished and 2) driven by singular, centralized movements is itself an impediment to progress today.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Progress is grassroots, messy, full of internal disagreements — and even when successful, misunderstood.
Call for Papers - Workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval @ AAAI 2026 | ACL Member Portal
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
should be practicing Feulliard exercises
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
should be practicing Feulliard exercises