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Susan Campbell

@susangc7.bsky.social
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(she/her) Still not entirely clear on this whole social media thing. Apparently I am supposed to have something to say about everything? I study how people use AI and do cybersecurity and stuff.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
right, 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."
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Shaawan Francis Keahna @shaawan.com · 29/09/2026
if 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...
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Woe and Behold: Autofiction in a Time of Endless Horror (with Shaawan Francis Keahna) | Department of English
Registration: 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...
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
a 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*.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Many 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.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
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.
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Emily Darling @radicaldreamer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
ikea 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
a yellow toy chest that looks like a mimic, with pointy teeth inside and little paw like feet
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Mor 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)
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/01/2026
Signal 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.
Message from "Signal Support"

Dear User, this is Signal Security
Support ChatBot.

Our system has detected a recent login attempt to your account from an unrecognized device or location. As a security measure, we have blocked this attempt and sent a verification code via
SMS to your registered phone number.

If this was NOT you: To secure your account and block this unauthorized access, please reply to this message with the verification code
you just received.

If this WAS you:
You can safely ignore this message. The login attempt will be automatically approved shortly. 

Thank you for helping us keep your
account secure.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
And 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?"
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Quick cartoon because.
cartoon: parrot in a hat and tie holding a cup of coffee
Look, I'm a person!
Bills! Math! Taxes! I drink coffee!
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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
::slowly stands while clapping::
Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki
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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025
BBC 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
Some Windows 95 and MSDOS software boxes around a Macintosh SE computer
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I’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.
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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 15/08/2025
UMich 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/171006
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Susannah Paletz @susannahpaletz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We 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.com
Postdoctoral Associate
Job 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...
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I 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
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The 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.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2025
NEW: 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.org
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
The 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…
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Joel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Hello 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.io
Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking
An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop
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Lebanexican @lebanexican.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Democrats 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.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 23/05/2025
Please 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...
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Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network
Are 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...
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Jay @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?"
A still frame from the wedding episode of Andor, Luthen is staring at a young imperial naval cadet with enormous interest while probing him for information.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 03/05/2025
Kentucky might have horse races today. Baltimore has its own annual race with crocodiles, poodles and more.
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Kinetic Sculpture Race hit the streets of Baltimore for 25th year
Celebrating its 25th year, Baltimore’s favorite spectator sport, The Kinetic Sculpture Race, took to the streets on Saturday.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/04/2025
Discworld 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.”
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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The 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/59tpt988
tinyurl.com
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. 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.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
the panopticon gets pettier www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
theverge.com
Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Full Story Baltimore @fullstorybaltimore.tours · 05/03/2025
It'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/...
Photo of a tour guide standing in front of a neo-gothic church window, holding a lantern, at nighttime.Photo of a marble plaque saying DOUGLASS PLACE on (or possibly in) a brick wall.
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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
Google
is tripe kosher
All
Images
Videos
Shopping
Forums
News
Al Overview
Learn more :
Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~
Generative Al is experimental.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 20/02/2025
Answering 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.)
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Justin Sherman @jshermcyber.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New @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.com
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google 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.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
Screenshot of a twitter post showing that the latest openAI commercial model is better than previous models at doing arithmetic but still cannot reliably produce the correct answer of multiplication problems with values greater than 11 x 11.  It's supposed to be impressive I think
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Danish 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.
Why California?
O Sunshine Galore: Let's face it, Denmark's weather is... well, let's just say it's cozy. California has 300 days of sunshine a year. Imagine swapping your rain boots for flip-flops!
Tech Dominance: Gaining an extra bunch of Tech bros? Great! It is what every democracy needs.
Avocado Toast Forever: California grows 90% of the U.S.'s avocados. That's right - we'll never run out of avocado toast.
• To protect the free world: Most people say we have the best freedom. Colossal freedom.
O Disneyland: We'll rename it Hans Christian Andersenland. Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet? Yes, please.
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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
for 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
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Do 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
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Kaelyrhn 3³ ✅ @kaelyrhn.kayleighbourquin.com · 19/01/2025
A series of three screenshots from the film "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade", from the humorous scene where Indy is telling the bad guys that Marcus Brody is multitalented, only to cut to Brody bumbling his way through a crowd. 

The following captions are below each panel 

1. Showing Indy and his father: "Millennials - Generation Alpha are digital natives. They've grown up already using every technology you had to adapt to."

2. A close up on Indy, his father still in the background:
"They know every smartphone, watch 3 screens at once, spend 10 hours a day online. With any luck, they've got the tech skills we need already."

3. Showing Marcus Brody in a crowd of seemingly Middle Eastern people:
"Gen Alpha - Does anyone here know what a c drive is? Is itanapp?"
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Nobody can ever accuse Jimmy Carter of not having a wicked sense of humor🤣😭💀
Screenshot of a tweet by Nick Field that says:

“One last gift from Jimmy Carter, all flags will be at half-staff on Inauguration Day”

“The flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days at all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories and possessions after the death of the president or a former president.” Per the VA website
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Jason Grosman @jsgrosman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
NPR is looking for someone to help the digital trains run on time. job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Senior DevOps Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024
Newsletter: 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.at
Never Forgive Them
In 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...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/12/2024
They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.
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Maryland Transit Administration @mta.maryland.gov · 08/12/2024
MTA 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....
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
the 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
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today 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.
Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. I train the data scientists who go on to firms like Lockheed or Accenture, or the feds. I am here to speak on shared governance, as the Vice President of United Academics of Maryland UMD, the union for all faculty. The CUSF survey on today's agenda today reveals broad dissatisfaction with shared governance. We push that button but nothing happens. This breeds resentment. Let me explain.
The most obvious violation of shared governance is in front of you. A supermajority of UMD graduate workers have signed union cards with the Graduate Labor Union. Earlier this year, in the Maryland Senate, our Dean of the Graduate School said that graduate workers did not want a union and when pressed about the stack of signed cards next to him replied, "I don't know how those have been presented to students." As if a supermajority of grads suffered mass delusion. Lobbying against your own employees breeds resentment.For the sake of real shared governance, I urge UMD to recognize the graduate union. They just want to do their jobs. To afford rent, to have their visas delivered on time. You say they aren't real employees, but you're obviously hiring them to do the same work as me. From 2014 to 2022, UMD's enrollment increased 10.7%, while the amount of tenure track faculty fell 6.9% and graduate TA's rose 11%. Peer institutions from Pennsylvani to Florida to Michigan to Nebraska collectively bargain with graduate and faculty unions. Your refusal to live up to your peers' examples breeds resentment.
Fighting our unions is just one way you create resentment. When I received tenure, UMD celebrated by canceling my health insurance and my first paycheck. This happened to about 20% of promotions. Including a colleague of mine in remission from cancer who had her medical care disrupted. Exceptional for tenured faculty like me, but not for grads, hundreds of whom miss paychecks each semester. Why? Because we balanced our budget by making clerical vacancies permanent. This disrespect to payroll staff, disproportionately Black women, breeds resentment among the faculty who rely upon them.This resentment is why, according to President Pines's climate survey, 70% of UMD faculty feel uncomfortable with the campus climate and 51%, including myself, have considered leaving UMD.
24% of faculty have experienced exclusionary conduct on campus. 36% of Black faculty. We keep one eye on the door because it's uncomfortable and nothing changes. We get a blue-ribbon committee and a slideshow.
Vice President elect JD Vance has said, "the professors are the enemy." We expect more attacks. Who knows whether the NSF will continue to fund my $3 million grant to increase Black men's participation in data science.
Right-wing activists have already targeted us, our students, and even President Pines and his family with vicious death threats. I am so sorry this happened, Dr. Pines. We want to help you build a stronger university where everyone belongs. Our grads seek union recognition to do just that. Our working conditions are students' learning conditions. We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it. Do the right thing. Bargain with grads now and faculty when we're ready. We should be able to sit down together at the same table, because if Florida or Texas are any guide they're coming for us all.
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Wonderfish @wonderfish.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
my cat jumped on the back of a chair and framed herself in this star trek picture perfectly
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
oh, so we have to keep doing this forever wapo.st/4fkUVgo
wapo.st
Opinion | Oh, so we have to keep doing this forever
One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted.
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