Laura 🤔

The Art of Being Difficult I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…

This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.

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Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”

This project has been a slow burn, a wonderful dialogue with Linda across many months. I hope some teachers find this and find it useful, there’s more sections to come and of course any feedback or requests will help us shape it!

People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …

Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on.

The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
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#EduSKY #EduSKYAU

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Only important news. (Rat)

Bacon egg cheese on a scallion pancake

Just learned there’s a place in Brooklyn called Win Son Bakery that does breakfast sandwiches on scallion pancakes and I’m grunting lustily

A classic! Still have this somewhere in storage

Waking Up on Sunday Be Like: 'I'm Starving but the Fridge Is So Far Away!'🥱😴🍮

Beautiful, Lin

Shameful I am very overweight. Fat, even. There are many reasons for this, and I’m tempted to start making excuses and explaining how my weight is not really my fault. But here’s the thing. Weig…

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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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A Cybertruck on the streets of Chicago

They never don't look painfully stupid

No Sunday scaries. Only Sunday defiant hope-ies.

Cat sits on balcony high up glaring at camera

Cat sits on balcony deck looking up at camera pleadingly

Every morning, rain or shine, these guys stalk me for the precise duration of my flat white 🤣☕️

On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.

On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Trans Day of Visibility This is an edited version of a short talk I gave at a Transcend Australia event for Trans Day of Visibility this morning. I’m very grateful to Transcend for giving me the opportunity to speak…

I've had to fight for my son's right to be himself. It should not be a fight.
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An adult lynx sits primly in a snowy driveway. All you can see is one tall bank on the right. The cat is very fluffy and has huge paws and adorable ear tufts.

Look who came up the driveway this afternoon!!!! You've never seen me grab my camera so fast. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a dirty window in low light, so it's a bit fuzzy. Still! Lynx!! In my yard!!! Look at those big fluffy paws! 🦊🌿

Rios surfing the sunshine. Berlin spring time really showing up now ☀️

Two cats, litter mate, sitting side by side on a bookcase. On the left is Frankie, with tabby stripes on his back and head, a Christmas tree shaped splotch on his nose and a white front. Beside him on the right is brown tabby cat Joe. Frankie is looking toward the camera through almost closed lids and Joe is looking off to the side. They both look relaxed. #CatsOfBlueSky

Surveying their territory (the den)

Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!

Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence

Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance

two labels: - GIF replies only - 35 or Older

why did they show the same label twice

The opposite of the paperclip maximiser What if we built an AGI and it decided to do nothing? As in - really nothing, not engage with the world or any individuals, not monitor, not compute, just sit there dormant. True inaction — not malice...

I wrote a thing! www.linkedin.com/pulse/opposi...

@summerscope.bsky.social and @lindamciver.bsky.social are writing a teachers' guide to AI, but they need your help! Please share with all the teachers you know.
#EduSky

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i am watching THE BEEKEEPER while i do dishes and i somehow did not realize that the concept of this film was "what if you could murder everyone who defrauded your boomer parents with an internet scam?"

Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures

For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"

Announcing ✨Prodigy-HF ✨

It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!

This is a nice read on the history of BMI! dovetail.com/outlier/hist...

Good background on the sampling bias in the original populations measured, and the (ab)use of the measure.

"His purpose was to find patterns and solve problems at the population scale, not at the level of individual people."