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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

didn't realise to what extent culture / cool artists, record labels etc migrated here from X/twitter, leaving X a barren desert of culture / of only tech people

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CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Professor Max Van Kleek @emax.bsky.social is speaking at the King's AI Summit: Workforce Futures at King's College London next week on the panel discussion 'The Workforce of 2030: What Will Change – and What Won't?'. 16:05 Tuesday 19 May 2026 Strand Campus Further details: kingsaisummit.com

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King's AI Summit 2026

King's College London AI Summit 2026 — bringing together leading researchers, industry pioneers, and policymakers to shape the future of artificial intelligence.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 27/09/2025

Ditto lists and starter packes: you should be able to remove yourself from those. Yes, there are useful lists and starter packs, but some of them are clearly hostile and in bad faith. It's a failure of safeguarding that you can't remove yourself.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

let's make bsky the un-linkedin and the anti-X it would be nice if this place was not about 'networking' or selling SaaS products. or boasting about your personal successes for 'tips for personal growth' or about hate, scams, and porn (x).

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"I used emdashes before ChatGPT-and they didn't make me any less human."

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I have also found that basically none of my posts on X get any views anymore; it must be the fact that I mostly write about science, critical tech, and high education – things that MAGA doesn't believe in.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Adorno: In Defense of Truth aworkinglibrary.com/writing/in-d... The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power [...] has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false, which the hirelings of logic were in any case diligently working to abolish.

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In defense of truth

Things have come to pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying. Each statement, each piece of news, each thought has been pre-formed by the centres of the culture industry.…The extreme...

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

elon has left his role at the white house. this _has_ to be a good thing.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The students calling this "Chinese Exclusion Act" redux are right. Trump is trying to do a "greatest hits" of the most shameful parts of US history. apnews.com/article/chin...

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Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas

Chinese students in the U.S. are scrambling to figure out their futures after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday some students would have their visas revoked.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"Cathedral of tech debt" should be my callsign

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

or maybe ... revise and resubmit for peer review (stole from reviewer 2 must be stopped)

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Plaything is definitely my favourite, absolute silliness but the hidden easter egg is far more innovative than the episode

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

once again i am the target audience of Black Mirror. incredible season

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

beautiful machine! i have one as well; going to try to get it back running when i'm back in the US this summer

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Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile."

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

TS / modern web development is surprisingly awkward and inelegant, layered technologies with unreliable and complex toolchains. the only benefit is the speed with which it changes.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Another computer scientist here; definitely agree with historical context from Judah. Another point: where have all the great end-user-programming and data management tools like hypercard and filemaker gone? why are we forcing non-devs to write _typescript_ ffs? Even I shouldn't.

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positron96.bsky.social @positron96.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hi Max, my colleague and I wrote this article on why GenAI does not have to undermine education. Please help us share it by reposting to promote dialog. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

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Frontiers | Shaping integrity: why generative artificial intelligence does not have to undermine education

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in education has been met with both excitement and concern. According to a 2023 survey by the Wor...

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

AI is a growing issue for moderators on Reddit and Travis has been on it (I co-authored). This qualitative work provides some context on what problems and challenges mods (at CMV and other subreddits) see and how they resist.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

6) How can we improve the usability of generative AI for novice users in creative applications, such as advertising? Nimisha Kartanak et. al "Expanding the Generative AI Design Space through Structured Prompting and Multimodal Interfaces" > #chi2025 arxiv.org/abs/2504.14320

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Expanding the Generative AI Design Space through Structured Prompting and Multimodal Interfaces

Text-based prompting remains the predominant interaction paradigm in generative AI, yet it often introduces friction for novice users such as small business owners (SBOs), who struggle to articulate c...

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

5) Can telepresence make us feel connected across time? A new study using a player piano and life-sized projections shows it can — evoking memory, emotion, and even two-way illusions X. Xiao and Hayoun Noh et al. "ReMirrorFugue" - #chi2025 hon. mention! 🏆 > dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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ReMirrorFugue: Examining the Emotional Experience of Presence and (Illusory) Communications Across Time | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

4) How can we responsibly co-design LLM-driven chatbots to provide emotional support to parents so they are predictable, helpful, safe? – Sruthi Viswantathan et al. - "The Interaction Layer: An Exploration for Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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The Interaction Layer: An Exploration for Co-Designing User-LLM Interactions in Parental Wellbeing Support Systems | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

3) What challenges do North Korean Defectors (NKDs) face starting new lives, and how could this inform tech to support other life changes? > Hayoun Noh et al., "Bridging Borders, Breaking Biases: Envisioning Technologies to Support NKDs" #CHI2025 paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Bridging Borders, Breaking Biases: Envisioning Technologies to Support North Korean Defectors in South Korea | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

2) Can AI-powered Augmented Reality filters improve the efficacy of online psychotherapy by supporting greater self-disclosure control by clients and therapists? Hayoun Noh - "CounselAR: Exploring How AR Filters Facilitate Online Psychotherapy" #CHI2025 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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CounselAR: Exploring How AR Filters Facilitate Online Psychotherapy In the Wild With South Korean Young Adults | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

1) Can AI make art analysis, education, and appreciation more accessible? 🎨🤖 ArtBot, a Socratic LLM guide that helps users think deeper about art—showing promise beyond passive scrolling. Thomas Serban von Davier et al. > dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #chi2025

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ArtBot: An Exploration into AI’s Potential for Guiding Art Analysis | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Nontheless - Research Thread 🧵 – new HCI / HCAI research we're presenting this week at #chi2025 in Yokohama, Japan from the Human Centred AI Group Human Centred AI / Human Centred Computing group at Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford > Good luck all! In randomised order --

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My travel grant and panel at #chi2025 was cancelled by the Trump Administration's actions to cut all civilian travel connected with DOD funding. Very sad I will be missing out in Yokohama, Japan this week!

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Katie Seaborn (Aspire Lab) @aspirelab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities. You can help! You can apply for help! Spread the word. ignite-us.team #igniteus

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We are Ignited

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

oh right -- ! the other article stated that MIT was signing onto the Harvard lawsuit too. Maybe both?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Again, our 27 page open access paper on these, and the perils that ensue from using them. By me, @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net doi.org/10.1016/j.jr... #meta #ar #arglasses #raybanstories

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Redirecting

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

if one actually cares about what experts think -- and not just follow AI hype, this is an interesting report that provides historical perspective the AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research > aaai.org/wp-content/u...

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

in my limited experience, most llms generating code generate pretty unreadable stuff. making it it a tool for non-programmers but not a very useful tool for actual software engineers

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

interesting benchmark - but i would _really_ love to see a comparison of code quality in terms of architectural features, simplicity, code modularity, secure coding, privacy by design etc instead of just looking at the completed running result. composio.dev/blog/gemini-...

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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

This blog-post compares the coding capabilites of new Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)

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