Anna Koop

The arrogance towards interesting humanities research is soooo frustrating. STEM isn’t everything.

Tech women! My friend is doing a study on women in tech and information systems. Interview and a few diary entries, easy. All tech connections welcome.

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.

Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

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Fair enough and kudos to you for the strength you show in doing good in this world. The trees are a hell of a legacy and undeniable fact.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

There’s a good chance your ancestors explicitly walked in the teaching that we carry seven generations before us and seven generations ahead.

Which means you were loved and honoured by the ancestors who would never get to meet you directly. They cared.

If this is out of line, rage at me. But I’m haunted by this and it might help? I was taught about it by an Anishinaabe woman who was stolen, whose bio parents and grandparents were tortured by the residential school system.

The plausible bullshit matching reality is a *uncontrollable and inconsistent* side effect.

We can care for each other.

It’s got to be terrifying as parents, knowing there’s a treatment that can make a lifelong difference and needing help to make it.

I like the monocropping parallel. And it hadn’t occurred to me before how doing eugenics is essentially saying that the genes you prefer can’t win without help.

Like the whole anti-woke movement is straight up admitting you can’t thrive unless you keep everybody else down.

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Data are necessarily biased because they consists of observations of particular phenomena taken by specific people, from specific vantage points, using specific instruments, for a specific purpose. Data are literally the encoding of particular biases—that’s what makes it data.

It is *tremendously* irresponsible of the article to use the word “persuasion” for interacting with a plausible bullshit generator. It does not “believe” anything. It’s even worse than simply statistical word frequency - it’s that skewed towards what people wanted to hear in artificial tests.

Huh maybe if they weren't kicking all the Palestinians off the app there would be more users

Maybe if they didn't welcome Jesse Singal there would be more users

I’m finding myself raging ever more at recaptchas. Not so much that it’s meaningless, because the data is absolutely being used to train models, but because I did not consent to this labour and they are lying about why it’s there.

Oh this is true in work too. It’s amazing how debilitating it is once you start to suspect your workplace of demanding meaningless work.

Billionaires could solve world hunger but instead they are making a Ring to enslave Middle-earth.

Even here we have people getting urgent care while meeting basic needs can’t be done. I can’t imagine how it feels in Palestine, having only limited glucose solution to treat ongoing starvation.

Everyone needs food. Everyone should have food.

I’m so, so sorry you have to do this to survive. I so very much want you to survive and be well and have your humanity and right to life protected and celebrated.

Dr Menna’s campaign page now has a note reassuring donors that if the entire family is lost the money will go to help others. 💔

What a thing to have to consider, how *I* will feel about my money after *you and your entire family* is murdered!!

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Problem with writing, or any art, in an information-commodity economy is that you're trying to pursue contradictory goals that in a better world would be aligned: art should be free; artists should have the means to live securely and with a modicum of comfort. Above all with free time to make art.

At a time when the world can seem so grim, @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s work on decomputing can provide a ray of hope.

We don’t just need to reclaim control over technology, but of our collective vision of the future.

The other 50% is iteration. GenAI is TERRIBLE at iteration in general, much less precise iteration. We're astonishingly far from prompting, "use what you've generated as a new basis and just change [element]" and getting anything useful back.

It's just not how LLM dot-connection works natively.

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

If someone asks a question about "AGI", the only reality-based response is to demand a definition of "AGI" before replying. #acl2025