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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 03/09/2026

how my brain feels after 20 miles and dwindling food. or how my neck feels after accidentally sniffling my nose too hard in apparently the wrong way this morning. bruh 📍on the north twin trail along the little river

mossy tree trunk, twisted and growing in a circle

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 01/09/2026

been ditching the camera(s) for iphone-only on my perpetual journey to ultralight; here's the view yesterday from west bond, my favorite of the 48 so far. it would be ideal if the federal government didn't try to build roads to extract all of the natural resources out of here

silhouette of bondcliff mountain with additional ranges in the distance

silhouette of the slope of mount bond and the bondcliff trail, with dramatic clouds and lighting in the distance

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people

The Garfield, "You are not immune to propaganda" meme but instead it says car brain

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 22/10/2025

a great time today with our SIG attendees, who sketched out some lovely, hopeful alternative tech futures 🔮 #cscw2025 many thanks to co-organizers beatriz palacios abad, vishāl sharma, @hanlinliii.bsky.social, and @alexandrato.bsky.social; excited for the future of this community!

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 17/10/2025

tl;dr: i'm on the academic job market; say hi at #CSCW2025! i'm a distinguished postdoc fellow at northeastern studying how tech's deep entanglements into society have caused concrete harms to people and changed what privacy fundamentally means (is it dead? is it recoverable? how? 😨) yuxiwu.com

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yuxi wu, phd

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 09/09/2025

a lovely day to vote for @wutrain.bsky.social, a normal human fellow resident of boston, over a billionaire nepobaby cartoon villain 😌🖕

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 14/08/2025

presenting this work at #usesec25 friday morning at 11am! please come by and say hello to an academic job market candidate (me 👩🏻‍🏫) official link to paper: www.usenix.org/system/files...

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 24/06/2025

new paper incoming at USENIX Security 2025 📬 "Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision" really grateful to have worked with @hongshen.bsky.social, Fei Fang, and a team of amazing undergrads and community collaborators on this project yuxiwu.com/pubs/sec25_h...

Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision

People experiencing homelessness interact with service providers to access essential services. As clients, homeless individuals are expected to reveal sensitive information about themselves to service providers, while personal security and privacy (S&P) preferences fall by the wayside. Simultaneously, providers take on S&P-adjacent responsibilities: helping clients fill out applications, safekeeping clients’ personal documents, monitoring clients’ online safety, undergoing workplace S&P training, etc. We created five storyboards to represent S&P challenges that clients can face when they interact with providers. In interviews with homeless individuals and service providers in the Northeastern United States, we use these storyboards to explore the S&P challenges in client-provider relationships within homeless services. We find a set of mismatches in S&P priorities between clients and providers, leading to mistrust between the two parties. We provide design recommendations, envisioned by both parties, for providers to bridge these mismatches.

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 15/05/2025

in town for conpro and ready to rant about cultivating critical reflection and journaling about privacy harms 📓

a cityscape with the transamerica pyramid in the middle, cut off at the top

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/02/2025

If someone new to activism tells you about something like Blackout Friday, my feeling is you respond and say, “Cool!” and take part because it costs you nothing, then follow up with “Thanks for telling me about that—do you want to join me on [sustained action]?”

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 27/02/2025

48 hours of remembering what sunlight is again; thanks #usec2025🔒!

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 26/02/2025

🔒 Our new #USEC2025 paper shows that by automating permission decisions based on prior decisions, we risk NORMALIZING privacy discomfort rather than reducing it. "Modeling End-User Affective Discomfort With Mobile App Permissions" Paper: sauvikdas.com/papers/60/se...

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 24/02/2025

🚨 In our new #USEC2025 paper, we introduce a secure, physically-intuitive RFID tag that users actually trust. On-demand RFID: Improving Privacy, Security, and User Trust in RFID Activation through Physically-Intuitive Design 👉 Paper: sauvikdas.com/papers/62/se... #Privacy #AcademicSky #Security

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 13/12/2024

chapter 5 of my dissertation 🧩 co-authored with @willie-agnew.bsky.social, keith edwards, + @sauvik.me is coming to #CSCW2025 🇳🇴 glad to finally share my work on imagining a future of people collectively reporting on privacy harms preprint: www.yuxiwu.com/pubs/cscw25_...

Paper abstract for "Design(ing) Fictions for Collective Civic Reporting of Privacy Harms": Individually-experienced privacy harms are often difficult to demonstrate and quantify, which impedes efforts for their redress. Their effects often appear small and are inconsistently documented, and they only become more obvious when aggregated over time and across populations. Taking a design fiction approach, we explore the design requirements and cultural ideals of a government-run system that empowers people to collectively report on and make sense of experiences of privacy harm from online behavioral advertising. Through the use of fictional inquiry, story completion, and comicboarding methods, delivered in an online survey with 50 participants, we found that participants had detailed conceptions of the user experience of such a tool, but wanted assurance that their labor and personal data would not be exploited further by the government if they contributed evidence of harm. We extrapolate these design insights to government-supported complaint-reporting platforms in other domains, finding multiple common design gaps that might disincentivize people to report experiences of harm, be they privacy-related or otherwise.

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫 @yuxiwu.com · 21/11/2024

what the hell, sure, hello world a very rainy #cscw and costa rica = shooting the whole trip raw on @halideapp.bsky.social for the first time ☕️ (1/3)

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