Monica Carol Miller

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true

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Are you really gen x if you haven't thrown out your hip joint reaching for a drink 2 feet away

I am reminded, once again, that the real reason that the GRE has all of those logic puzzles on it is to prepare us to try to schedule meetings with people who have conflicting schedules.

Oh yeah—there were trees. It was scary!

I saw it at a drive-in, sitting outside in lawn chairs. So scary!

Out of office auto-reply on from now until Wednesday of next week. It feels really good!

Congratulations!!!

Although it was intimidating at first, slipping a loop off without the hook to help!

I think it helped me that I learned to crochet first a couple of years before I learned to knit. By then, I understood pulling one loop through another.

True story.

Ooh! That would be wonderful!

If you don't subscribe to the NPR Music newsletter, you haven't yet been able to read my lil essay on the importance of listening to human voices beyond the persuasion machine. Here's a link to a not great but readable web page: bit.ly/4o9T1E3

We talked about this back when the first trial for lenacapavir first said the magic words everyone wants to hear, "halted for efficacy"(*), so a recap: this is not a vaccine or a treatment. It's PrEP aka "pre-exposure prophylaxis": you take the drug so if exposed to the virus, you will not catch it.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Indeed! And the adjunct professor won!

Maybe Andy Kaufman will appear?

Wow!

Do the 1990s have a nickname? I think they should be the Velvet 90s.

I adore that song—I still have my 45 of it.

I teach survey of American lit each summer, in which students are required to read a novel from a list I provide. Each summer, I enjoy seeing a few young men read Vonnegut for the first time and freak out.

Ooh, I’m really looking forward to the new album—I haven’t listened yet. I’ve been happy to see good review of it.

I just listened to an interview with Lily Taylor on the Happiness Lab podcast, where she talked about this movie some.

Oh, my.

Today, I’m reminded that you can sing Deck the Halls to the tune of War Pigs, and vice versa.

I love this idea! I would love to follow along!

I’m so glad that you’re getting some space. You’ve been in my thoughts!

It feels like an act of community service when parents let their kids wear a full Halloween costume in public. Thank you. I needed to see a tiny Spiderman today.

I assumed it was a Georgia thing, with Coke in Atlanta. In western NC and east TN, people said soft drink.

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

I really enjoyed @scalzi.com ‘s #WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye: it was ridiculous & ridiculously moving. Great music refs—I especially appreciated the Nick Drake reference. I was disappointed, though, that there wasn’t any reference to @robynhitchcock.bsky.social ‘s #CheeseAlarm.