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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

My thoughts on a major reason why the DOGE mindset is bad. If you thoughtlessly f*ck about at this intersection then you will find out.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Facebook is truly broken at this point. This is about 60% of my feed now - “look at this things that’s obviously AI. I know no one will praise me for making it”. Is it just a scam victim recruitment pipeline now?

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well that’s the stupidest experiment I’ve run in a while. Thanks for playing.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I asked ChatGPT to generate 5000 random numbers between 1 and 10 and then simulate 5000 humans choosing numbers between 1 and 10… yeah, it knows us

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

These stats from the “List of Municipalities in Florida” Wikipedia page feel… totally wrong? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Just realised this is basically the argument against TikTok

The lyrics to Bullet in the Head by RATM

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Whoever named the local coastal features was on something

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Never mind the word search, spot the typo 👀 #knowyouranemone

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Slow take (it’s been at least thirty years) is the kid in the trio advert called Suzi (Trio, I assume) because of Suzi Quatro?

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When a picture says 1000 words. (Taken in a toilet cubicle at a local church)

A photo from the inside of a women’s toilet cubicle of a piece of paper advertising a help service for those experiencing intimate partner violence. The phone number slips on the bottom are almost all torn off.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Well I’ve been banned from posting on AITA for this but I think it’s worth it

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This @bmj.com article from 2015 says Americans have 7.31 missing teeth on avg and English people 6.97. From nationally representative samples. This cannot be right, can it? Must be conditional on having missing teeth? Paging @timharford.bsky.social

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Post a classic from your notes app. I’ll go first.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pleased to see nursery training up the next generation of snowflakes ❄️

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This ChatGPT generated banana bread recipe, which I followed to the letter, feels like a helpful metaphor for what happens if you take LLM outputs at face value: it is somehow burnt and raw.

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Also, saw this the other day and loved it

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Terrible deal. This is worth about £1.56 in today’s money

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

When you hire a nanny but it turns out to be your extrovert ex-husband in disguise

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I’ve had this whirling round my mind for a while. When it comes to impact measurement you can any two of these things but but not all three open.substack.com/pub/elspethk...

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

… the comparison to the win rate when only 1 black actor is nominated is quite stark. On the 16 occasions when one nominee in the category was black the win rate was just 6.25% (vs 20% expectation) (3/14)

A graph showing the win rates of black actors nominated for the best actor Oscar when they are the only black nominees (6.25%) or one of two black nominees (80%)

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

… the comparison to the win rate when only 1 black actor is nominated is quite stark. On the 16 occasions when one nominee in the category was black the win rate was just 6.25% (vs 20% expectation)

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Based solely on the information below, guess which stage musical (West End) this is

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The voice of the people: ranking of ‘Love Actually’ storylines by public vote

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Will ChatGPT (via Bing) reproduce beahvioural biases that have not replicated? I asked it how many miles it'd declare on a car insurance form if it had to sign at the top vs sign at the bottom. 12,500 at top, 15,000 at the bottom 😑. So... when everything is AI will disproved biases become real 🤯

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Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

This Our World in Data chart has blown my mind. The green line shows cardiovascular disease deaths. Genuinely jaw dropping to see something plummet like this in less than the span of a lifetime.

A chart from Our World in Data showing death rates from different causes in the UK between 1950 and 2020. In 1950, 489.7 in 100,000 people died from cardiovascular disease in a given year. In 2023, it’s less than a fifth of that at 90.8

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