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Techni-Calli

@iwillleavenow.bsky.social
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Global Privacy Counsel at EPIC, privacy advocate, nerd. Personal opinions, terrible jokes. CIPM, CIPP-US/E/C, FIP.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Saying "AI" was "trained" on the work of artists and writers is the wrong metaphor. Their work was made into a database to be copied from and reproduced in small chunks. There is no mind learning or being trained. There is no "intelligence" in that reproduction There's plenty of artificial, tho.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I really admire people that are able to work on things at a consistent pace, marathon-like level rather than a series of eternal sprints and rests. I mean, I don’t understand it, but I admire it.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Whelp, seems like you can’t make them then, anyway-
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
We’ve limited ourselves to only two streaming services per year which means we tend to try out a lot of shows we would normally ignore. Sometimes you find gems. Sometimes you find La Brea (I hate this show so much but TB is into it now, save me).
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
My desk currently has three separate beverages on it, it’s definitely a writing day.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Thank you so much for asking, I will be ringing in the new year getting zonked on NyQuil and passing out on my couch, as our forefathers intended.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
If your development process doesn’t include “how could this be misused” and coming up with ways to mitigate the harms, you’re doing it wrong.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Being a House of Disease during holiday break means TB is now way too familiar with the YouTube channels I like as I rewatch videos in an illness stupor.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
So far my visits to DC have included Indian, Salvadoran, Greek, Georgian, Afghan, Palestinian, Ethiopian, Italian, Peruvian, Japanese, and French foods (plus a Korean bakery). What new things should I eat? Recs within easy walking or metroing from DuPont would be ideal.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
It’s amazing how often politics talk makes me wish I weren’t a lawyer. I want the blessed gift of understanding less.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Banksy of crows pulling wires out of a surveillance cameraGraffiti reading ACABCrow saying “ha ha it’s terrible”Fluffy stuffed duckling toy menacingly holding a knife
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
This response is such an infuriating cop-out. Sure, you didn’t create this for the purpose of creating realistic violent, sexual, or otherwise compromising and harmful images, but was that use EXTREMELY OBVIOUS and ANTICIPATED??
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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
A delightfully caustic excoriation of Tesla from Defector: defector.com/youre-suppos...
defector.com
You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk | Defector
Tesla cars are shoddily built pieces of shit liable to fall apart and malfunction in dangerous ways at inopportune moments. No, this is not a blog from 2012! It is also not a blog from 2015 or 2018 or...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/12/2023
“‘you should assume that anything you type into ChatGPT is just going to be fed directly into future versions of ChatGPT’. And if on reflection you decide you have revealed too much to ChatGPT, retractions are not really an option.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT
Prof Mike Wooldridge will address looming questions around AI in this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Don't fill your house with cheap internet-connected cameras. Set strong passwords. Apply your security updates.
e.vnexpress.net
Bedroom camera footage hacked, sold online - VnExpress International
Untold hours of private camera footage from bedrooms, changing rooms, toilets and massage parlors in Vietnam have been hacked and put on sale online.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Why the fuck are we a butterfly now.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Ruining Christmas by admitting to my in-laws that I hate Polar Express and Prancer. (There are SO MANY great Christmas movies! Those two aren’t included!)
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Dr Bluesky @bostadevaca.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
George Costanza saying "My tokens Jerry! They're getting fingers!!"
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Hello, hackers, my old friends They got my top tier apes again.
Tweet reading: a massive theft appears to be happening right now - all these NFTs have been stolen from wallets, some of the absolute top tier apes. After the text, there is a long list of of hideous and useless NFT images.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
You would think that sometime BEFORE we hand over the world’s future to a bunch of billionaires we would check to confirm they’re not building a nightmare, but apparently no.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/12/2023
The potential for harassment and abuse with this (if it works), is immeasurable. www.404media.co/cmg-cox-medi...
404media.co
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ad...
“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror ep...
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13/12/2023
If you’re wondering why Twitter would make significant enough changes to the link shortener that it would break all links, @molly.wiki posted this three hours before links broke on Twitter - an exploit that could take over a user’s account if they clicked on a link. Twitter did not pay a bounty.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Incredibly upsetting how hard I found these choices when the answer was obviously “they’re both nightmares.”
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Who the fuck is giving these people money, please give it to me instead, I swear I can come up with a terrible dream I’m unqualified to achieve.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
They were very angry I was “completely misreading the argument” of an article they had shared. Responding that I wrote the article did not make things better.
Tweet reading: what’s the dumbest reason someone on the internet got mad at you?
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
If you’re wondering whether the U.S. government is taking GAI risks and safety seriously, the House Oversight hearing yesterday featured several iterations of “the biggest risk is that we don’t use it FAST enough,” so no.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Absolutely terrified to see what kind of “humor” we can expect from a Musk GAI trained on Tweets.
Text reading: “Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor”
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Eh, 14,000 and 6.9 million are basically the same, right? techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/2...
techcrunch.com
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch
Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
No chance this will be used for deepfake porn, no siree
Image of a tweet reading “high quality AI generated human videos are coming! Animate Anyone can generate videos of anyone with a single image and a bit of pose guidance.” And then a link to the wildly cursed tech.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
MOAR MOCKING. davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
davekarpf.substack.com
Elon Musk's Dealbook Meltdown
Let us all point-and-laugh together
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Ah, yes, definitely “blackmail” and not, you know, cause and effect. It’s like those ridiculous “won’t someone sleep with the conservative men” pieces. They approach everything as something they deserve being withheld. Can’t imagine it as natural consequence for speech/actions.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Look, I try to be a kind and decent human being, but every now and then I want to just enjoy the public unraveling of the world’s worst and somehow most successful businessman and the death of a mass murdering war criminal. Let me have a little petty as a treat.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
“Women don’t want to sleep with men whose core beliefs directly oppose their own and the men are sad so the women must be wrong” is such a bizarre article concept, but they keep rewriting it every few months.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
My kingdom for a mainstream journalist who forgoes the “controversial statement” or “insensitive gaffe” language and just says “this rich, racist, transphobic piece of shit continues to be fucking awful.”
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Ok, but “the time” implies he’s only done it once and…
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
One of my fears: AI is trained on existing clinical data and texts. Black folks are routinely and systematically given less pain relief as compared to white folks. The myth of Black folks feeling less pain is still alive and well, even among medical students (look it up). AI continues the trend.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological dif...
The present work examines beliefs associated with racial bias in pain management, a critical health care domain with well-documented racial disparities. Specifically, this work reveals that a substant...
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
I need to preface this by saying that I love the Brits, but a Brit friend was teasing me for saying Oxford is close to London. It’s like an hour and a half drive. My DAILY law school commute was 2 1/2 hours each way. If you don’t need to pack road trip snacks, it’s close.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
What kind of cult of dystopic blandness has this man created.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
My office art projects may be a bit too thematic.
Painting of surveillance camera in leaves
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
“We could leave the Christmas lights up til January” Taylor, that is only one week after Christmas, that is not at all unusual, who takes the lights down earlier than that.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Really good article by a science fiction writer on TESCREAL philosophy, the terrifying influence of tech bros, and mistaking dystopias for road maps: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
antipope.org
We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
What should one definitely do, see, or eat in Ottawa in December?
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Will I ever in my life know the kind of joy I see on my child’s face when I ask if they are pooping.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
“American Idiot” popping up on the radio as I’m dropping off my ballot feels a little on the nose.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Tech people: do you consider LLMs to be generative AI? Why or why not?
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Still extremely obsessed with Robin McKinley’s books, tbh, both fairy tale retelling and original. And Sonali Dev’s modern Bollywood-style Jane Austen retellings have been so wonderful and fun.
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Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
I simply cannot with this cryptocurrency nonsense.
Text reading: Tether – co-created by a former child actor who was in The Mighty Ducks, backed by a Bahamas bank run by the inventor of Inspector Gadget – is extremely evasive when it comes to supplying any details, about anything.
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