Michael Muller (he/him)
@michaelmuller.bsky.social
I do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI. My posts do not reflect the views of my employer.
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Barry Dempster, RIP
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Barry Dempster, RIP
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Just imploring you to mask up. Flew home from an insanely wonderful mo of research in Paris last Sunday. Double masked but surrounded by coughing unmask travelers. By Thurs I was in the hospital. Out now but recovery is going to take a while from this random NON COVID virus. #WearAMask
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Just imploring you to mask up. Flew home from an insanely wonderful mo of research in Paris last Sunday. Double masked but surrounded by coughing unmask travelers. By Thurs I was in the hospital. Out now but recovery is going to take a while from this random NON COVID virus. #WearAMask
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May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️🔥
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️🔥
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OPINION: "Perhaps the most important skill schools can teach children today is the self-awareness to prioritize learning over shortcuts, and to refrain from delegating work to machines until they know how to do it themselves," Jennifer L. Steele writes.
Opinion | Kids Need Stronger Soft Skills in the Age of AI
Jennifer L. Steele writes that teachers still have tools to teach children soft skills even as artificial intelligence becomes more popular.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
OPINION: "Perhaps the most important skill schools can teach children today is the self-awareness to prioritize learning over shortcuts, and to refrain from delegating work to machines until they know how to do it themselves," Jennifer L. Steele writes.
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Can we please stop using the phrase "the advent of LLMs"? They are not something that arrived on the scene of their own accord and the religious connotations are also extremely icky.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Can we please stop using the phrase "the advent of LLMs"? They are not something that arrived on the scene of their own accord and the religious connotations are also extremely icky.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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OPINION: "Solving novel, complex problems will continue to befuddle AI, not only because there are many steps and unknowns, but also because AI lacks our spatial and emotional understanding of the world," Jennifer L. Steele writes.
Opinion | Kids Need Stronger Soft Skills in the Age of AI
Jennifer L. Steele writes that teachers still have tools to teach children soft skills even as artificial intelligence becomes more popular.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
OPINION: "Solving novel, complex problems will continue to befuddle AI, not only because there are many steps and unknowns, but also because AI lacks our spatial and emotional understanding of the world," Jennifer L. Steele writes.
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There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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Reposting for the morning crowd and due to the tight deadline.
Several postdoc positions available for technical AI development at Cornell -- both the NYC Tech campus and Ithaca
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
✈️ Spread the word! ✈️
Several postdoc positions available for technical AI development at Cornell -- both the NYC Tech campus and Ithaca
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
✈️ Spread the word! ✈️
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposting for the morning crowd and due to the tight deadline.
Several postdoc positions available for technical AI development at Cornell -- both the NYC Tech campus and Ithaca
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
✈️ Spread the word! ✈️
Several postdoc positions available for technical AI development at Cornell -- both the NYC Tech campus and Ithaca
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
✈️ Spread the word! ✈️
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Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
October 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/
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The Bronx united is a force to reckon with.
Incredible energy and purpose at the Bronx Democratic Party dinner last night with Governor Hochul, Chair Jamaal T. Bailey and so many wonderful leaders.
Incredible energy and purpose at the Bronx Democratic Party dinner last night with Governor Hochul, Chair Jamaal T. Bailey and so many wonderful leaders.
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The Bronx united is a force to reckon with.
Incredible energy and purpose at the Bronx Democratic Party dinner last night with Governor Hochul, Chair Jamaal T. Bailey and so many wonderful leaders.
Incredible energy and purpose at the Bronx Democratic Party dinner last night with Governor Hochul, Chair Jamaal T. Bailey and so many wonderful leaders.
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way."
Never a bad day for Blake's passionate defense of the creative spirit www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/14/w...
Never a bad day for Blake's passionate defense of the creative spirit www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/14/w...
William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A Timeless Defense of the Imagination and the Creative Spirit
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.”
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September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way."
Never a bad day for Blake's passionate defense of the creative spirit www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/14/w...
Never a bad day for Blake's passionate defense of the creative spirit www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/14/w...
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The NSF awarded Associate Professor Tanu Mitra @tanumitra.bsky.social a grant to study how large language models will affect information integrity workers such as journalists, fact-checkers, humanitarian responders, and content moderators. #llm #ai #research #faculty
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Project to help information workers navigate new threats
A recent study named the jobs most at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence. The list includes journalists, news analysts, proofreade...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The NSF awarded Associate Professor Tanu Mitra @tanumitra.bsky.social a grant to study how large language models will affect information integrity workers such as journalists, fact-checkers, humanitarian responders, and content moderators. #llm #ai #research #faculty
ischool.uw.edu/news/2025/09...
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