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catherine stinson @nerd_sighted

maker of soft blinky things, aspirational cordwain, non-human primate enthusiast, AI apocalypse prevention operative

Joined December 2016
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catherine stinson@nerd_sighted
6 Feb 2025
fleeing this hellhole. find me on bluesky.
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Friends are always asking me "should I be afraid of AI yet?" Here's my answer: ecampusontario.pressbooks.pu…

What are Large Language Models Made of? – Leading the Way: Envisioning the Future of Higher...

Envisioning Higher Education

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Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.
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Naheed Dosani@NaheedD
27 Mar 2023
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
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Arvind Narayanan
@random_walker
20 Mar 2023
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gp…

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Boring take: the main problem with the Chomsky ChatGPT opinion piece is that it’s so boring.
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LOL sob
Meredith Whittaker
@mer__edith
22 Feb 2023
And just like that, the hypothetical socially beneficial sci-fi use cases, so central to AI boosters' marketing, dissolve into air, leaving only the imperatives of capital.
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thestar.com/news/gta/2023/02…

Canadian police used deadly force at record rates in 2022, new research finds

Sixty-nine people were killed by police in Canada last year, a record that continues a sharply rising trend in recent years, according to new research by the Tracking Injustice project.

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So happy to see this much needed resource launch! Thanks to Rohan Khan and @douglasmartin for doing the heavy lifting from @QueensComputing.
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Should I title my grant application What’s the DL on DL?
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I’m re-reading fucking Benjamin because of an AI project. Walter, not Ruha.
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Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her)@JILLSLASTWORD
16 Jan 2023
We must work together to ensure ALL Ontarians have access to accessible, equitable, and PUBLIC health care! Join me in signing this petition to STOP FORD'S PLAN TO PRIVATIZE: jillandrewmpp.ca/stop_privat… #ONPoli
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1998 me, a computer science major who read Barthes and Beaudrillard for fun, would be pretty amazed to find out how it all turned out.
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HPS and STS folks: apply to present at CSHPS this May in Toronto. Hasok Chang is the keynote! Deadline January 20. yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting.html
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New Report Released: Ontario Deaths in Custody on the Rise  - CCLA

Despite a declining provincial custody population, deaths in custody in Ontario are increasing at an alarming rate.  CCLA has sent a letter to the Solicitor General of Ontario urging immediate action...

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Andy Baio@waxpancake
22 Oct 2022
The Stable Diffusion Discord has a channel devoted to spectacular failures and it’s full of gems
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Big Data & Society@BigDataSoc
21 Oct 2022
In this great new article, @farbandish and Jeanie Austin audit the HRT Transgender Dataset and propose the concept of "mess" to understand the affective and emotional dimensions of auditing algorithmic systems Check it out: buff.ly/3Tgglj8
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Truly a thread for our times. A whole class could be designed around it.
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