been showing this one to the kids a lot, because it's funny, but also sub rosa cuz low pass filtering was also foundational to my career

assbutt@nasboat.org · 4w ago

Another excellent edition of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop getting underway at #IETF126 in Vienna www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/progra...

Internet Research Task Force@irtf.org · 2w ago

The ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop will take place in Vienna at IETF-126 on Monday, July 20th. Check out the program at www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/pr... and see www.ietf.org/meeting/126/ for online participation options.

It's always funny to me how people equate LLMs to other, less understood things. We don't know how neurons make consciousness, but we absolutely know how LLMs work. They are not a black box. They are intricately designed, often public white boxes. There's no consciousness because we can look at it.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2w ago

Many, and especially he, love to do that. So glad others see it too. More here from me on this including many more collected examples in the appendix: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Seeing lots of papers at #CHI2026 still using online survey tools... not sure if we can still do that.

I also don't understand why this is a problem.

Reuters@reuters.com · 4mo ago

US fertility rates drop to record low in 2025 as births fall reut.rs/4c1Upo9

So can anyone tell me what cutting a submarine cable even does? There's redundant links so things will slow down a little but not a lot of impact on connectivity. Yet they do it. There must be some reason they are so geopolitically relevant.

I once again remind everyone that "finding new customers for a product" is not the same as "one person one vote". No one is democratizing anything here.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As part of our series “Democratizing AI for the Global Majority,” Teanna Barrett (@bound4nostar.bsky.social) examines the politics and power asymmetries shaping AI development in Africa today, and how developing local AI ecosystems might offer a path for progress. datasociety.net/points/towar...

Can anyone tell me how captchas still work? It seems like they shouldn't but I still see them around.

Working on pluralistic alignment? Our newest Substack post dives into Jeff Basoah’s research on whether and how AI should culturally adapt. globeai.substack.com/p/how-cultur...

How Cultural Adaptation of LLMs Can Backfire

The surprising insights that made me rethink the goal of pluralistic alignment

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Nova made a nice writeup of our recent hotnets paper on human methods in Networking for the ISOC blog: pulse.internetsociety.org/en/blog/2026...

Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research — Internet Society Pulse

Action research, Participatory Action Research, and Participatory Design approaches should be employed in Internet research studies to integrate community participation directly into the research outp...

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NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us. 1/2

With the recent news of the pullback, I am troubled a bit that it seems that Alex Pretti simply bringing his gun, not using, pulling, or brandishing, was really impactful in this change. If he had been killed without it, the uproar seemingly would have been a lot smaller.

I find myself increasingly frustrated with the "artifacts have politics" line of reasoning; it's correct and good to understand (we now teach it in our intro) but the degree and intention of the politics is way more important than the binary nature of it.

Really delightful book fwiw.

Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 8mo ago

STS/Communications scholar Morgan Ames (whom these authors don't cite) has repeatedly demonstrated that OLPC was ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, including in an award-winning book published in 2019. The real question is why economists don't acknowledge work in other fields.

Can smart technologies help people experiencing homelessness? #UWAllen prof @kurti.sh and postdoc Esther Jang worked with tiny house villages in Seattle to explore their potential for managing infrastructure and other community needs. #ThisIsUW #CSCW #HCI #IoT news.cs.washington.edu/2025/12/04/a...

Allen School researchers explore smart technologies for empowering people experiencing homelessness - Allen School News

Modern Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as smart home devices, sensors and security cameras have transformed how we interact with our physical environments. As University of Washington resea...

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I don't think it's well understood that Google lost the SEO wars. LLMs/AI let them fight back by controlling the content but there's no going back to a world where Google can correctly identify good human content. It's just not possible.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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I once again implore technologists to stop saying they "democratize" things. You're not doing "one person one vote", you're just selling to new people that didn't get sold to before.

I'm going to assume this is less ominous if you can speak the language.

Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025 www.irtf.org/anrp/

Whenever these things happen, I am reminded that solo shooter from a rooftop is just not a leftist way of doing things. It's not communal. Instead a big group of friends station themselves around town with grenades. That's communal.

In an update on my own AI negativity, I learned that AI girlfriends are not the most impactful AI product at the moment, it's actually AI boyfriends.

On June 13, and 14, several volunteers from the Seattle Community Network installed networking equipment including routers, access points, and cabling to enable broadband internet access for the residents at the Y K Building at 110 14th Ave., in Seattle. #seattlecommunitynetwork #seattle

Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA. Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

Full Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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It's interesting to me that the last two major tech hype cycles (LLMs and VR) both are amazing tech demos that seem full of potential but manifest as shallow "solutions-in-search-of-problems".

My favorite thing about Hans is how he was drafted into WW1 and died. If life was a book this would be a bit of a heavy handed metaphor.

Dr. Christiane Grünloh@cgruenloh.bsky.social · last yr.

Halfway through „The AI con“ by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social Brilliant! I hit pause a lot to make notes. Definitely will also buy the ebook once it’s available in Germany (22.05.) so that I can scribble properly in the margins thecon.ai TIL about the „Clever Hans Effect“

Proud #UW alum @armon.bsky.social, co-founder of high-flying @hashicorp.com, stays grounded by lifting up the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. He and Joshua Kalla recently gave $3M to support #UWAllen research and student success. #UWinnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/05/14/d...

‘An incredible driver of economic mobility’: $3M gift from alum Armon Dadgar and Joshua Kalla will support systems research and student success - Allen School News

Ever since he was a student, Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) has had his head in the cloud. Inspired by an undergraduate research project, he went on to co-found the high-flying company HashiCorp after gradu...

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Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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What's funny is I talk about this a lot in my networks class; it wasn't just the NSF, the DoD built the Internet. It goes to show how much an ideology (decentralization) can have massive repercussions on designs and how technology isn't wedded to its funders in the way lots of people presuppose.

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young@dannagal.bsky.social · last yr.

All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.

key to the healthiness of many hunter gatherer pops of antiquity was VARIETY. one major area where the carnivore bro guys go wrong is imagining these ancient humans as eating just meat. in fact the majority of their calories came from vegetarian sources ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...