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Serge Egelman
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Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 23h
Welp, Jim Cramer makes it official: Nvidia is still overvalued!

Reposted by Serge Egelman

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 23h
Jim Cramer calls Nvidia's stock slide a buying opportunity — here's why
Jim Cramer calls Nvidia's stock slide a buying opportunity — here's why
"I think Nvidia has been slighted here," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday as shares of the chipmaker sank to near three-month lows.
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Reposted by Serge Egelman

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Brian Reed @brihreed.bsky.social · 1d
We submitted a ridiculous fake ad to Facebook for a free sub-orbital trip to space. They approved it and took our money. They're making billions of dollars this way, and they know it.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Was OpenAI required to add this as part of some sort of injunctive relief? 🙃

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
OpenAI’s design makes it clear that they want people to dismiss these warnings without taking any sort of action.

Most people are likely to only read the “Keep Chatting” button and nothing else.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Nearly every browser followed that recommendations (I spent some time at Microsoft Research and worked with the IE team to redesign the security warnings in IE7 based on my research).

It ended up being very effective (far fewer people clicked through phishing/malware warnings).

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Way back when, I wrote a PhD dissertation on design patterns for improving this sort of UI.

One key recommendation was to make the safer/recommended option more prominent after I did multiple studies showing how most people instinctively swat that without reading.
robin.berjon.com Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.

They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:

1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?

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kashhill.bsky.social Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Serge Egelman, Woodrow Hartzog

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.

They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:

1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?

🧵
kashhill.bsky.social Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
The message that OpenAI shows to people who have been using ChatGPT for many hours.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Definitely! Though, the pastrami recipe I use I took from the Michael Ruhlman/Brian Polcyn Charcuterie book, which I highly recommend generally!

(I suppose curing salumi is another thing the normies don’t do.)

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does, Charlie Brown?
vidiot.bsky.social S @vidiot.bsky.social · 2d
Do you expect me to talk?

No, Charlie Brown, I expect you to die!
bolianblue.bsky.social 🩵Bolian Blue Christmas without you🎅🏻 @bolianblue.bsky.social · 2d
I have been and always shall be your friend, Charlie Brown.

Reposted by Serge Egelman

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S @vidiot.bsky.social · 2d
Do you expect me to talk?

No, Charlie Brown, I expect you to die!
bolianblue.bsky.social 🩵Bolian Blue Christmas without you🎅🏻 @bolianblue.bsky.social · 2d
I have been and always shall be your friend, Charlie Brown.
sazeracla.bsky.social Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2d
We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown!

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Pastrami keeps pretty well too: vacuum seal it and freeze it in manageable chunks.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
I generally make two things with it: either proper BBQ or pastrami. A full brisket on the smoker for BBQ is going to take 12 hours (I usually get up to try to start it around 6am, so it has time to rest). Pastrami is much quicker and only needs a few hours to hit 150.

Cut it in half and do both?

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, they lost me at not smoking whole briskets.

Reposted by Serge Egelman

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d
right wing grifters getting angry about foreigners taking Americans jobs but the jobs they took were those of right wing grifters
a black spinning top is sitting on top of a white surface .
Alt: a black spinning top is sitting on top of a white surface . Inception.
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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 7d
I’m now really torn between not wanting the Maldives to continue sinking and now wanting the Maldives to continue sinking.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8d
It’s amazing how much potential corruption you can pack into one well-written lede.

www.wsj.com/business/a-n...
The Trump Organization is planning a Trump-branded resort in the island archipelago of the Maldives, partnering with a Saudi-owned developer and using a crypto-like funding vehicle to raise money from investors.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 7d
Having worked in the government, I think it’s uncontroversial to say that the government spends orders of magnitude more money trying to prevent the *appearance* of fraud/waste than if they just allowed a little fraud/waste.

Reposted by Serge Egelman

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8d
It’s amazing how much potential corruption you can pack into one well-written lede.

www.wsj.com/business/a-n...
The Trump Organization is planning a Trump-branded resort in the island archipelago of the Maldives, partnering with a Saudi-owned developer and using a crypto-like funding vehicle to raise money from investors.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Serge Egelman, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò , and 1 more

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 10d
Started watching Dark Matter, and this is really just Sliders: The Next Generation, right?

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 12d
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ — theonion.com/trump-denies...
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’
WASHINGTON—Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as “a total hoax” amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had ...
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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 13d
For too long, Americans have been oppressed by the tides…

(They’re going to blow up the moon.)
kimzetter.bsky.social Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 13d
The House will vote next week about releasing the Epstein files so what possible actions could the admin take to prevent the vote or distract lawmakers/media/public between now and then? Military action somewhere? Indict Clinton? Something else?

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 13d
Pretty sure that any farmer harvesting a trillion radishes is going to have more to show for it than losing tens of billions of dollars…
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 13d
An AI company estimated that producing a single page of text using their model uses about as much water as growing a small pink radish. Applied to OpenAI's ChatGPT, that calculation would make Sam Altman the equivalent of a farmer harvesting a trillion radishes, argues Henry Throp.
buff.ly/BjNHvN8

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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 13d
The House will vote next week about releasing the Epstein files so what possible actions could the admin take to prevent the vote or distract lawmakers/media/public between now and then? Military action somewhere? Indict Clinton? Something else?

Reposted by Serge Egelman

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 13d
An AI company estimated that producing a single page of text using their model uses about as much water as growing a small pink radish. Applied to OpenAI's ChatGPT, that calculation would make Sam Altman the equivalent of a farmer harvesting a trillion radishes, argues Henry Throp.
buff.ly/BjNHvN8

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 13d
All the News That's Fit to Print*

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iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13d
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Daniel W. Drezner, Serge Egelman

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13d
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 17d
Wasn’t Cuomo supposed to move to Florida now? Is someone checking in on how that’s going?

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 18d
Yeah, sorry, was on my phone…wasn’t going to copy/paste all of the actual text.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 18d
Someone just sent me the PDF this morning…
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