Mo Engel

Okay, you can have three days. But I'll be back.

We got our mail in ballots about 4 days after the writ dropped. Very efficient non-partisan system.

I made a custom "fun" feed so I can just flip off the following when I need a break. (Yes, you're on it 😉)

The Theories and Methodologies cluster on #criticalAI co-edited for PMLA by @ritaraley.bsky.social and myself is now online, open access. it consists of eight interventions by leading voices, as well as our framing essay “AI and the University as a Service.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Love me a great beach photo!

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

Queers, it is time to brush up on our abseiling.

Could you use some new, yay Canada buttons? Just landed on Etsy (pricklycactuscollage.etsy.com). I’ve had to turn off sales to the USA because my courier has yet to find out from US CBP (customs and border patrol) if, and how parcels can cross the border. So send some love my way, please!

#goals for sure

The world has officially gone to shit...

I love Scrivener, but that's because I actually use it. The right tool is the one you will use, regardless of features, functionality, etc. (Scrivener keeps me coming back because I can see everything on one screen. Other people need different things)

Ah irony... Everyone loves it, but no one wants to pay for it.

Also, look no further than Canada to see how a performative downward push on presidential salaries results in an equally downward push on the quality of the people doing those jobs. Because, you know, super talented people have options.

Wade goes viral! Noice!

Enjoying a little pause in the noise

Neoliberalism 😉

And to be clear, I am 🤣ing this, not ❤️ing this!

OMG love it! 92-95 were my loft years (of course the loft lived on long after!) Bit also, why do I look so pained? 😂 Pre digital so no previews and retakes...

Just a quick self promo - I make and sell silly stickers (and buttons/badges). Slowly building back traffic after the Canada Post strike. If you are a store I can do wholesale, if you are a human I can help you out, too. I’m on Etsy as pricklycactuscollage but discounts galore if we connect here

Today's the day! Session starts at 9 am in Galerie 2.

A colleague here at the University of Queensland is doing on a study perceptions of authorship of computer generated texts. Please consider participating in the survey and feel free to share the link with your networks. #AcademicSky uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

Where is the laugh react?

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The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

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#academicsky

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Some feeds are built in for you, others you can add that folks have curated. I created a feed for my actual friends, so I can reduce the noise. If I want to catch up with a whole academic world, I can look at one feed, but if I just want to catch up with my people, I can do that too.

I'm aiming to be more present here in the personal Facebook sort of way that I will miss when the enshittification really takes hold over there.

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For @wadekelly.com 😉

YouTube video by Hyperallergic Feminism, Proto-Blogs, and Chaco Canyon: Lucy Lippard’s Life in Art

My new podcast with Lucy Lippard is out and I am delighted to share it. Have a listen (and watch, because the video is great too)