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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 15h

The temperate house at Kew Gardens, is very temperate, maybe too much, TBH.

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The year is 2050. Google Scholar serves short vertical videos of AI influencer explaining text abstracts. Elsevier et al. look a lot like Masterclass or Curiositystream in the 2020s. (i know these are probably 10 years out of date). The most cited item (25 years, rolling) is a WikiHow entry […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Yeah, I'm not too worried about "agent swarms". Given where models get their training data, your swarms will be coordinating and cooperating like the open source community does. so 'agents' seem just as likely to get into each other's way. It's any piping of LLM output to the terminal of an […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 21h

I don't understand how @jonny can be live-tooting all he does with Meta's Muse and the Agentic Bullshit Bubble has not been seriously curtailed out of simple legal self-preservation by Big Tech. Like c'mon guys 🤣 #AISafety #Meta #Muse #Infosec

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Trying to get PhDs to mobilise because HE is rolling out AI faster that you can unpack the acronym TESCREAL (@timnitGebru, 2024) #AI #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #Universities #HE

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Imagine you're an elevator engineer. There's this great design (tho quite expensive, but let's just consider the engineering) that makes this impressive elevator which performs surprisingly well on all aspects, and beyond. Like maybe it takes you all the way to the room or smth. But the […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Actually, I'd prefer my Gardens to be for the Many, not the Kew. #Puns #KewGardens #London

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h

"I know SW London is not ideal for the Geopolitics conference crowd, but we just have to put up 'Coup Gardens'. It's not even a choice." #Puns #KewGardens

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

I am sure plenty resent Big AI companies calling themselves 'labs'. So I was, until I realised this was as in meth, not research.

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

I am sure plenty resent Big AI companies calling themselves 'labs'. So I was, until I realised this was as in meth, not research.

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

"The Plan? Spend 4 years hyping a pointless dangerous technology, IPO, dump stock, move to the bunker in New Zealand."

Nathan Fielder in Nathan for you - for you

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

'These "AI productivity gains", are they in the room with us right now?' #AI #productivity #Bubble

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

i am trying to make a halloween costume of the giant parents from the rehearsal season 2, and i think i am going with the dad because easier, and i can get most of it by just stitching extra shirt sleeves and pant lets on the pants and making some stilts […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

nathan fielder acting as a kid in the rehearsal season 2, where he is a normal sized adult, and so the adults need to be made giant, so they are just wearing stilts and have their arms and legs double sized by stilts and arm extenders with nonfunctional hands at the end. the dad - normal 50's dad looking guy with brown pants, button down shirt and tie - is giving nathan a toy airplane with the mom - red dress, white smock apron - in the background

the mom closing the door with her fair arms and hands, she can't really do it because the hands don't work, so she has to wrap the fake forearm part around the front of the door and try and pull it closed

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Well whoop-dee-do, when you train your statistical text synthesiser to "be able to complete every goal", then label part of the arthithmetic of production 'reasoning', because you've made it un-auditable (the 'better' the 'reasoning' the less auditable it is), *drum rolls* LLM 'engage in […]

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/10/2026

The stick is very, very simple. Ban the collection, use and resale of cross-site behavioral tracking for advertising purposes. GDPR has teeth, if we just enforce it. That one change, and Meta, TikTok and Google lose all their traffic leverage. Of course that's precisely why lobbyists want to […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

I mean yeah, why did we need to be told it's creepy as and should be illegal to sexualise kids by the kids themselves? We’re teenage girls fighting to ban the use of school uniform in porn. Why have you left it up to us? | Rose, Mae, Aylin and Willow | The Guardian […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

The United States government declared the Italian anti-fascist collective to be 'terrorist'. Autistic/Inventati provides digital services to different activist collectives, including queer rights, feminism, abortion rights and anti-militarism. The US sent out a request for mutual legal […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

If you want an indication of how deeply shagged UK HE is, know that at the last research degree committee, a 'senior data analyst' from the Uni's planning dept results on N's < 20 WITHOUT having worked out a measure of statistics significance. The report (on the PRES) was all Google Gemini […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

What's a good alternative for Clown as 'entertainingly incompetent, professionally' ? Cause Clowning is a legitimate art form that requires high professional competence, even within the performing arts. 'chancers'? I'm in a UK English context, but I'll take suggestions from all dialects - I […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Compute implies the existence of Expute Disputes imply the existence or Euputes

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

'Moore's law', it turns out was not even 'Moore's observation back then'. It was really 'Gordon Moore's high pressure target for his engineering teams at Intel, which have set the pace for the industry'. That is, it is a 'law' of capitalist economics more than computing. @mraharrison @grant_h […]

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

I still can't get over the fact that writing down what you need done with sufficient attention to detail for somebody else to do it -- you know, like, _documentation_ -- is now called "a SKILL" and is only ever blindly fed to a bot. Y'all are aware that you can write things down and make them […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

If you don't write short, accessible texts, or make videos or podcasts about your doctoral research... ... You will likely double the likelihood of someone chucking it into Big AI thinking they are doing this out of care, so they can have a conversation with you about it after you defend […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

You will get increasingly angry, then laugh, esp. when you notice the date youtu.be/ETsW_n8XZpE #NathanFielder #ThePlan

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

"...obviously the energy transition will need massive effort towards electrification, it's just that we feel that, in the current climate, the motto 'we want juice to run the world' would work in print, at a push in A/v, but for radio and podcast ads...erm..."

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

My DTh's friend's kid's just-awarded Thesis: "Abstract This thesis introduces an expressive class of quotient inductive types, called QW-types, within the framework of dependent type theory. QW-types are initial algebras for equational theories with possibly infinitary operators and equations." […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

I hold the fact I am now starting some sentences with 'Say what you want about the PRC's socio-political model, but...' as being less about China than how bad the late capitalism has gotten in the West.

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

Bloody time. It's just one thing after another with time, isn't it?

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Dunno why the English use the expression 'play silly buggers' derogatorily, considering plenty of people enjoy play, silliness, or buggery, separately, or in various combinations. 🤔

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

I have been operating (surprisingly) on 4h sleep for going on 10 days. After the first week, it settles into a permanent sense of irreality. I can see how Thatcher messed up the UK if she was running like that all through her terms. I'm so tired I've gone all the way round to energised, and […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Right before talking about my research design, I had a slide with this picture, simply titled "The plan?" During which I said 'if one person in the room gets this reference, it'll have been worth it' #PhDLife #NathanFielder

Still of Nathan Fielder in Nathan For You

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Malware, but all it does is prepend "Sure, here's a revision of your email to sound less aggressive:" at the top of each of your emails

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Finally some good news. LAC, which issues ISBN numbers, will not do so for synthetic texts. This news brought tears of joys, because you take the wins you can in the fight against slop. Bad news, is presumably a lot of other national ISBN authorities have yet to take that stance. And […]

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

"Dressing Nice and Talking Shit: the Will Bernard story"

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

ugh. the patch is massive 🫩 the bug is based on causing an OOM condition and no-one ever accused the php interpreter of being neatly and elegantly architected, so the fix touches everything 🫩 the bugs go back many years but backporting the fix to all those versions is wildly impractical 🫩 the […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Society changes slowly, and mostly by people dying. When things move fast it's usually because there is political power behind it. Vote.

I hate when people say "change takes time." Then why were Flock cameras and data centers rolled out so quickly? It feels like change only happens fast when it benefits the wealthy or expands the surveillance state.

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@MrBerard Dooo itttttt

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

mastodon 5.0 regards viewing full posts as antisocial behaviour so -- read more --

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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶 @mrberard.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

is "factor analytical techniques which we owe to turn-of-the-20th-century white Englishmen who were as enthusiastically brilliant at statistics that they were at eugenics" too spicy for a doctoral presentation? asking, uh, for a friend. #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FactorAnalysis

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

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