Dr. Jacob Lagogiannis
@logas.me
F&M Assistant Professor Usable Privacy and Security Researcher 32yo https://logas.me
As a US citizen and academic, I strongly believe that I have a duty to not self-censor in response to perceived political pressure. Paying the mafia and bowing to bullies is not how I choose to live my life, especially when the cost is "not receiving a grant," not "prison/torture/death."
We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.
Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"
The ChatGPT browser is already dead
ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.
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I cannot stand AI, it has made the internet practically useless when looking for product reviews or DIY tips.
🚨LANC CITY🚨 The moment we have been waiting for. We have been fighting for a comprehensive and strong zoning ordinance since the end of last year and now the city is having a reading and hearing of the proposed ordinance.
Our data center team had a great night workshopping our writing and art for an upcoming zine project. Submissions are being accepted though June 15th and you can send them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hit the ground running here in Lancaster! Got plugged in with #LancasterStandsUp and hosted one of their #TroublemakersCafe events to talk AI and privacy. The event was a wild success with about 40 people in attendance! Looking forward to continuing to work with this fantastic group!
Does anyone have experience with making an Organization-level Apple Developer account for their research lab?
Another year, almost half a decade but still feels like it was yesterday. Miss you dude.
Nearing the end of my first year as a faculty member and it has taught me a lot! First and foremost: "Beautiful, polished lecture slides are no more appreciated by students than ugly, boring lecture slides."
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a
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Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says
A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.
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Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 6mo agoA small group of protestors assembled near an empty warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, in mid-January with one objective: to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from converting the building into an immigration detention center.
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
Scott Patrick, PhD@neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by @cylab.bsky.social ! Endless thanks to my advisors @sauvik.me and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.
Sauvik Das@sauvik.me · 10mo agoCongrats to my student @hankhplee.bsky.social for being recognized as one of the 2025 CyLab Presidential fellows! cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/1...
I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication! This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Choosing a Password Manager
Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that password elsewhere to get into your accounts. The best way to protect yourself is to use a unique password everywhere (and two-factor authentication,...
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Data centers in space is such a bad idea, electronics don’t work the same way up there and just because it’s empty doesn’t mean it’s an infinite heat sink
The Verge@theverge.com · 9mo agoGoogle has a ‘moonshot’ plan for AI data centers in space
Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...
Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum
Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.
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"Silicon samples" should be grounds for a desk reject.
Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 11mo agoCan large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵
From the archives: 2025-09-22 at 20:32 PM My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop
My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop | deadSimpleTech
In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go. What makes fiction interesting and compelling is, in large part, the spark of recognition: of seeing your experience reflected by someone else, of seeing how someone else sees and experiences the world, of recognising something in a story that you can take from it and put into your own life. This - all of this - is deeply dependent on the aforementioned relationality of fiction: fiction without an author feels wrong, and almost fraudulent, as though the person who generated the story is lying to you by pretending to have had experiences, thoughts and feelings that he actually hasn't. The reaction this generates is a subconscious level of disgust and violation, as we're expected to pretend that (in this case) Sam Altman has feelings that he's never shown any evidence of being capable of.
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In other news, I will finally have my own place to live here in Lancaster this coming Friday! At times I think my life could be a Seinfeld-esque sitcom.
While I was unable to meet the CHI 2026 deadline this year, I am very excited and motivated by the work I will he publishing soon!
Officially published my first canvas page as faculty at F&M! Now I wait for a student email to notify me that “computer” is misspelled or something.
This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
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The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.
No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissi...
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I am very excited to be getting settled and started at my new academic home. However the universe seems to be taking joy in throwing all obstacles it can in my way!
