Reposted by Susan Campbellrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026right, yeah, i do not think that your p(doom) should be zero, just that the _solution space_ they have constructed occurs at the far end of a long series of bad inferences, leading, e.g., OpenAI to declare "there's no point in sandboxing our models because they'll just figure out a way out." 518814
Reposted by Susan CampbellShaawan Francis Keahna @shaawan.com · 29/09/2026if you or anyone you know goes to UMD college park, i'm doing a horror autofiction workshop next week!! <3<3<3 english.umd.edu/events/woe-a...english.umd.eduWoe and Behold: Autofiction in a Time of Endless Horror (with Shaawan Francis Keahna) | Department of EnglishRegistration: go.umd.edu/WoeAndBehold TerpLink: https://terplink.umd.edu/event/12786765 Accessibiloty: For access needs, accommodations, and questions related to this event please reach out to: unityc... 122
Reposted by Susan CampbellPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026a big problem is that a lot of folks have internalized the idea that security is UX friction, and that if there's not enough UX friction it's "not secure". But usually the reverse is true. Google secures more passwords than every third-party password manager combined *because it's easy to use*. 1122
Reposted by Susan CampbellQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium. 464334944
Reposted by Susan CampbellRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553902982
Reposted by Susan CampbellEmily Darling @radicaldreamer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring 6043611358
Reposted by Susan CampbellMor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7) 5195105
Reposted by Susan CampbellIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/01/2026Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE. 1519701277
Reposted by Susan Campbell"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2025And it turns out the killer app. in human civilization is, "what if we murdered fewer people? Or even - now hold on to your hats for this one - what if we murdered no people?" 39310
Reposted by Susan CampbellKatie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2025::slowly stands while clapping:: 61010257
Reposted by Susan CampbellFlippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95 791184531
Reposted by Susan CampbellLaura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I’m fine with politicians who are good at riling up the people I don’t like, but if they don’t support trans people, I won’t support them at the ballot box. 410712
Reposted by Susan CampbellJessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 15/08/2025UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus. apply.interfolio.com/171006apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 01615
Reposted by Susan CampbellSusannah Paletz @susannahpaletz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025We are hiring a one-year postdoc! Position involves team science with AI from a social science perspective (e.g., psychology, org behavior, communication, HCI, human factors, business technology, related fields). Best consideration is Aug. 29: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comPostdoctoral AssociateJob Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: Founded more than 50 years ago with a specific commitment to advancing social justice, the INFO College enrolls over 2,500 students in nine de... 023
Reposted by Susan CampbellAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME 29821226
Reposted by Susan CampbellUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. 03711
Reposted by Susan CampbellProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2025NEW: To work on Defense Dept. computer systems, Microsoft engineers in China remotely instruct American “escorts,” who often lack advanced technical expertise. “We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.propublica.orgA Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese HackersThe Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack… 30559202
Reposted by Susan CampbellJoel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Hello friends! I am co-organizing a workshop at VL/HCC 2025 (in Raleigh, NC, this October) on human-AI sensemaking, with an emphasis on embodied/visual languages to build common ground between human and AI systems.human-ai-sensemaking.github.ioBeyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in SensemakingAn IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop 173
Reposted by Susan CampbellLebanexican @lebanexican.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Democrats have consistently ceded the immigration debate to Republican talking points. For years. And Latino voices are absent. Immigration is a net good for this country. So get out there and say so. 0106
Reposted by Susan Campbellsimine vazire @simine.com · 23/05/2025Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgCall for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT NetworkAre you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit... 59695
Reposted by Susan CampbellJay @jarl.bsky.social · 04/05/2025"You say you think the TIE Fighter should have better acceleration in War Thunder? Do you have any hard technical data to back that opinion up, boy?" 5573126
Reposted by Susan CampbellBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 03/05/2025Kentucky might have horse races today. Baltimore has its own annual race with crocodiles, poodles and more.buff.lyKinetic Sculpture Race hit the streets of Baltimore for 25th yearCelebrating its 25th year, Baltimore’s favorite spectator sport, The Kinetic Sculpture Race, took to the streets on Saturday. 0182
Reposted by Susan CampbellMicah @rincewind.run · 27/04/2025Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.” 2648138
Reposted by Susan CampbellSarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988tinyurl.comFrom the changemyview community on RedditExplore this post and more from the changemyview community 521271513
Reposted by Susan CampbellJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/20251. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware. 11978743580
Reposted by Susan Campbellsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/03/2025the panopticon gets pettier www.theverge.com/news/637228/...theverge.comMadison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt designMSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees. 625779
Reposted by Susan CampbellAnthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Mister Rogers never misses 195248648236
Reposted by Susan CampbellFull Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 05/03/2025It'll be excellent weather for the first outdoor walking tours of the spring, this weekend! Come on out— Friday Mar 7, 7pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows Sunday Mar 9, 5pm, Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point Book tix here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ or here: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/... 12421
Reposted by Susan CampbellDelbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date 170110063191
Reposted by Susan CampbellMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 20/02/2025Answering some questions: the series covers the first novella "All Systems Red," I'm a consulting producer, and we've been working on it since 2021. (So it seems fast from the timing of the announcements but it has actually taken a million years in me-time.) 581439236
Reposted by Susan CampbellJustin Sherman @jshermcyber.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New @wired.com story: “This is exactly the kind of seemingly obscure data that would pique a foreign adversary's interest,” says Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, and author of the upcoming book Navigating Technology and National Security. www.wired.com/story/google...wired.comGoogle Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic DiseasesGoogle enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found. 28036
Reposted by Susan CampbellJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy 1083161624
Reposted by Susan CampbellMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Danish activists have a petition to buy California from the US for $1 trillion. 200,000 signatures so far. That big theme park there would be renamed Hans Christian Andersenland. 29772194
Reposted by Susan CampbellL.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession 137104672766
Reposted by Susan Campbelldr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Do you want to learn about Renaissance violence & art thru the lens of Black history, and give your brain a break from coup news for an hour on Thursday evening? Or Saturday midday? Baltimore-area folks, I gotchu 27119
Reposted by Susan CampbellKaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Nobody can ever accuse Jimmy Carter of not having a wicked sense of humor🤣😭💀 20684851779
Reposted by Susan CampbellJason Grosman @jsgrosman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024NPR is looking for someone to help the digital trains run on time. job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...job-boards.greenhouse.ioSenior DevOps EngineerWashington, District of Columbia, United States 031
Reposted by Susan CampbellEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 19153681815
Reposted by Susan CampbellU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/12/2024They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it. 382838486
Reposted by Susan CampbellMaryland Transit Administration @mta.maryland.gov · 08/12/2024MTA wants your help to redefine the vision and goals of the (MARC) system. A virtual public meeting will be held on Thursday, December 12th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. to discuss the ongoing MARC Growth and Transformation Plan. To register visit eventbrite.com/e/1038859846.... 2164
Reposted by Susan CampbellCasey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024the atlantic or whoever is not looking to be reasoned with when it posts "we should give every child a gun" or some such. they are click piggies. if you find yourself saying "mr. the atlantic, sir, this is out of hand" you are playing right into their click piggie hands 1063885
Reposted by Susan CampbellDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Today I went to the USM Regents meeting and spoke for @uam-umd.bsky.social and in support of UMD's Graduate Labor Union, who have supermajority support and are seeking voluntary recognition. Our working conditions are learning conditions. The right is coming for us all, management must work with us. 0247
Reposted by Susan CampbellWonderfish @wonderfish.bsky.social · 08/11/2024my cat jumped on the back of a chair and framed herself in this star trek picture perfectly 7637551050
Reposted by Susan CampbellAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 06/11/2024oh, so we have to keep doing this forever wapo.st/4fkUVgowapo.stOpinion | Oh, so we have to keep doing this foreverOne must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. 521069221