Dr. Jacob Lagogiannis

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

Case in point https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-when-they-share-conversations/

I beg you, please do not give any financial/sensitive info to Meta’s chatbot

Finished some Halloween decorating!

The Pew team report using multiple models, and based this report on the best-performing model at the time, Opus 4.6. "Across nearly 300 individual survey questions, the estimates produced using our AI respondents differed from their human counterparts by an average of 12 percentage points."

Always lay your baby down to sleep on their back in a product designed for safe sleep.

I got served this on Threads and accidentally woke my (very annoyed) husband from laughing so hard when I got to The Point.

Transcription has come a long way, but it still has some… interesting outputs.

Time to floatmog.

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."

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

🚨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?

Thank god finally

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...

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

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.

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...

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

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/

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/...

Lots of reading to do!

"Silicon samples" should be grounds for a desk reject.

From the archives: 2025-09-22 at 20:32 PM My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop

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.

The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.

Home sweet home

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!

This thread is incredible.

The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.

Writes intro to article. [Thinking: eh, this needs a bit more explanation before I jump in here] Writes a new intro. Realizes, I'm 1000 words in before I even get to the old intro. This is now going to be two articles.

So many well-meaning Western people are oblivious to Palestine. Your systems don't work. Human rights don't apply. Countless evidence of war crimes so the ICC got sanctioned. Medics, journalists, executed. You can buy aid but it can't go in. Everything you built failed here.

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

It may not surprise folks that the modern process of sharing and validating scientific discoveries is fairly recent and formed to maximize profit for those who have no hand in the actual labor of research; making Robert Maxwell a billionaire on the back of scholars.

This field guide offers a collection of resources designed to help faculty, and their supporters, respond to attacks on their academic freedom. www.aaup.org/programs/aca...

Computer science and any other science does not exist outside society. Especially as AI enters into all aspects of our life we need graduates who are capable technically and societally aware.