Dr Katie Twomey

Have you had to try Cadmus yet? I just...

Also "for the birds" which was the in-phrase around Brexit. My teeth will never recover.

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

Please don't tell people how I live 😂

Ha I am very able to supply similar

Ha oh yes sorry! It is hands down my absolute favourite anecdote. When Anal Bum Reversal happened I immediately texted a friend to tell them I'd had my Donkey Sex moment.

If I've been looking a bit traumatised recently that's why 😂

Far from the most important point here but may I congratulate you on "fucked up out the wazoo"

I mean they sound amazing

I immediately felt better when I remembered that my friend, while teaching evolutionary linguistics, let YouTube autoplay and accidentally showed 50 undergraduates a video of donkeys having sex

I mean I'm not a comedian but it feels like material

Thank you! My life is a chain of disasters that are simultaneously horrifyingly embarrassing and hilarious. I'm used to it 😂

Oh PLEASE do laugh at my idiocy. It's the only way I survive 😂

Codicil: family zoom is now called Sensible Zoom Name

After the requisite fortnight of me sitting in the understairs cupboard rocking back and forth, though, it turns out my students did not mention this atrocity in their feedback to the Student Voice meeting and just want more lectures. Excellent eggs. But jesus.

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The family zoom is therefore called Anal Bum Reversal...

The Tory politician is Suella Braverman...

The zoom name is an anagram of the name of a Tory politician...

The link was to my family zoom...

I'm a lecturer and I'm teaching online due to burnout. I helpfully emailed my students the zoom link for a session in addition to it being on the timetable. But, as students started to arrive we realised some were missing. I'd copied the wrong link into the email...

A whole ago I said I'd made a massive cock-up at work and that I'd share it when I was fairly sure my livelihood has survived. I am so far (un)gainfully employed still. So here is what I did

Pumpkin   was what she called him because she knew he’d always held a candle for her   that his head was huge, fleshy and orange were further contributory factors Brian Bilston

Today’s Halloween-based poem is called ‘Pumpkin’.

That was exactly my first thought

Bahahahahaaaaaaa!

This is exactly the problem Zitron has highlighted though - generative AI companies absolutely want there to be no distinction between the ecological disaster worthless slop they engage in vs. machine learning algorithms which have existed for years. There is, though!

YES

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

Petition: Make the COVID vaccine universally available, free of charge, to protect us all. Provide the resources required by the NHS, to ensure that the COVID vaccine is available for all who would benefit from it, regardless of their age.

I want to start a petition, will you sign it?
'Make the COVID vaccine universally available, free of charge, to protect us all. Provide the resources required to ensure that the vaccine is available for all who would benefit from it, regardless of age.'
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Oh please do! I worry that research funding is going to be funnelled towards the shiny new LLMs rather than actually useful applications. We'll see I spose.