David Karger

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Professor at MIT CSAIL/EECS, interested in building systems that help people manage their information the way they want. And dancing.
HCI colleagues:
Next semester I teach intro HCI/web design for sophomores. Because it's good practice and because it's robust to student use of LLMs, I want to increase the part of the grade earned via in-class/studio participation. But this can be stressful if "participation" is assessed with vaguely defined, potentially subjective criteria. So I'm looking for good rubrics that I can use to give the students a more concrete sense of what is expected of them. Please share what you have!
@chema This has me reflecting on "the old days" before platforms, and before moderation was so central. Why? Because the content we encountered was content we explicitly fetched from sources we followed, instead of content that was recommended to us from the total production by all of humanity including all its worst actors. Perhaps that old way was better? Is it really important for us to be hit by random drops from the firehose?

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.

"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."

"Right on."

It's going to be ironic if forcing Google to divest Chrome ends up killing firefox. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/let-google-keep-chrome/680747/?
The Case Against Spinning Off Chrome

There are better ways to address Google’s dominance.

The Atlantic
@nazaninandalibi @andresmh because of features or just who is on each platform?
@cassolotl I think a better option might be "ignore replies" which could by implemented in clients without touching the server and allow every individual to make their own decisions about whether they are interested in following additional discussion of the post.

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

For those who've thought about it more, what exactly would the government's proposed antitrust remedy of Google "selling chrome" mean? Given the existence of the chromium open source version, Google could place chromium on android phones, chromebooks, etc. What exactly would change?
@astro_jcm I'm currently in a one woman war with my university because I asked for my ñ to be display on my surname on their Web and they had the balls to tell me it was not "technically possible". I've never written such an outraged email faster in my life.
@marcua congrats!