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Theodora Ward

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writer, enthusiast // luddite department, AAUP-NC* *ignominious and disagreeable internet posts bespeak nothing but personal spleen 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@theodoraward, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2h
made an ill-advised excursion onto blue sky and beheld the argument that it’s “climate-disinfo” level obfuscation to conflate the (plausible) claim that openai stole tristan buckmaster’s *approach* to the millennium prize navier-stokes problem with the (unfounded) claim that they stole the […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2h
www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ch… rip to the company whose chatbot was implicated in the first american suicide listed on the wikipedia article “deaths linked to chatbots,” which is a wikipedia article […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 3h
#techfacts #technology #computerfacts did you know that it's called "dogfooding" because the only food they serve at the alpo headquarters cafeteria is dog food? It's not one-to-one though because every Alpo employee is a dog #info
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 3h
it's kind of cute that it's called a "laptop" bc it implies that the paradigmatic use case is like, sitting on a couch
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17h
this is genuinely apropos of nothing but it feels strange to remember that obama was president during the 2016 presidential election. when i try to summon my sense of “the obama era” it feels so remote, comparatively, like it ended in 2010 or something. i guess in retrospect / affectively the […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18h
[transphobia x AI crossover] rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/07/15/ai-t… i’ll take “actually-existing AI use-cases” for $500
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23h
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100… appreciated this
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
i've heard it said that even if LLM-based chatbots don't have feelings, they work better if you address them respectfully, like a person. i think we (at least here in the historically-protestant USA) tend to believe that belief -- the experience of cognitively assenting to a given proposition -- […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
blood dungeon rips...havent dug into fire emblem but it seems real good...dragons dogma 2 DLC getting some nice reviwes...marathon pve mode...are Videogames Back
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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026
this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
im so fucking long-winded lol. sitting down to write a simple litlte blog post and it's like blah lbah blah blah blah like omg get to the point u doofus
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
it’s the weekend...you knoiw what that means......time to noodle around
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
im a grifter. i grift hither and thither. up and down i grift. come grift with me! i open my palm and proffer you a grift
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
s wild how many photographs there are of dario amodei making goofy wincing faces. i feel like every article i see about him has yet another picture of him looking goofy while wincing
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
it’s been funny watching cal newport’s arc. i wasn’t a particularly close follower of his but i remembered him as the “mild-mannered self-helpy attention-economy guy” and then he reluctantly started writing about AI and then he wrote that “doom trolling” NYT thing where he was like “why the fuck […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
i swear like 75% of the time i hear about a new movie the title sounds like it's from a fake movie from 30 rock
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
founder? i barely know her! submit post
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
i hope this movie isn't too credulous about the doomer stuff for me to enjoy, because i very badly want to enjoy a movie about sam altman being a piece of shit
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
anne carson is the best. congrats to anne carson on the big prize. we love you anne carson
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
They’ve just withdrawn three of the papers: * Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds * Algebraicity of Kuga–Satake Correspondences for K3 Surfaces * The rational Hodge conjecture for products of K3 surfaces github.com/openai/math/blob/main/hi…
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
the prevalence of the idea that “STEM” is a meaningful disciplinary formation whose members are capable of representing general-purpose technical knowledge is ultimately a very strong argument for how badly people need humanities education. ok i confess i don’t know how prevalent this is but i […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
man i’m taking a look at amanda askell’s philosophy phd dissertation and, in the way that qanon makes me question whether or not a hypertrophied sense of pattern recogition was a great idea evolutionarily speaking, this makes me wonder the same thing about abstraction. it’s essentially an […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Happy Wednedsay Mastodon :))))))))))))) AHHHhhhhhhhhh :) <3
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a friend came over and we were going to watch a movie but instead we decided semi-ironically to play halo but there wasn't split screen on the pc version so instead i busted open ufo50 for the first time in like a year after sinking 500+ hours into it and we played through mooncat and then party […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
modern american israel policy is entirely downstream of the kind of evangelicals who blow a shofar to open their church service because christianity is basically judaism if you think about it right but also actual jews are still really important because we need to rebuild the temple in israel so […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
www.wired.com/story/openai-is-pissi… Nestor Guillen, a visiting math professor at NYU, tells WIRED that “there's a perception of mobster behavior” from the AI companies among mathematicians. is this good,
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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There's a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
trying to find studies about instructional labor after chatbot-generated essays became available to students and finding nothing but slop blog posts advertising slopbot-powered slop detection software. the grifts have achieved recursivity. a rogue grift-maximization function has replaced the […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
this is why -- though i appreciate the rhetorical function of the article -- that hamilton nolan piece about how "if anthropic employees really do have concerns about AI safety they should unionize" was so out of its depth. i posted about it already but at the end of the day i really do think […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
just like that joke about how any new yorker cartoon can accomodate the caption "christ, what an asshole," almost any news article can accomodate a quote with the (ambiguously ironic) caption "harsh, but fair"
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
[Sam Altman | Mentions of Rape] I think we talk way too little about the fact that Sam Altman raped his sister
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026
there comes a point during a whipits binge at which you start sifting through a mixed pile of chargers looking for the ones that still have a seal and this is how we envision the types of guys that are trapped in pseudoproductive loops where they use their chatbot to use their chatbot to use […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
lots in this article to comment on and also, frankly, roflmao at. but the way this article talks about how going on maternity leave will leave a Woman In AI left behind does have me thinking about how many AI users have this perception of insanely rapid progress? even though we hit the scaling […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
ive discovered at the tender age of 33 that when i wake up at 5 like i usually do i can “try to fall back asleep” for more than 2 minutes instead of bolting out of bed and drinking 1,000,000 cups of coffee. which has been amazing in all ways except insofar as it has been extremely disorienting […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
barely related but i'm surprised there's not more starcraft lingo floating around in/from the xrisk discursive world. iirc it was definitely one of the four works of fiction that ziz talked about a lot? having never played starcraft as the zerg i do feel like running 10,000 "agents" […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mastodon.acm.org/@MrBerard/11737853… small open source models dont have enough parameters to be sentient. god only breathes life into them at exactly one trillion parameters. thats how many numbers it takes to turn a bunch of numbers into a brain.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up:
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1173771… i missed the lighthaven orgy last night because i had to stay late at longtermist HQ vibe coding R programs to update our probabilities
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
one of the strangest things abt “Is Claude Conscious ??”-type articles is that its subjects (and reporters) seem to take for granted that the ELIZA effect simply doesnt apply to them? as someone who has only beaten back pathological obsessive thinking with therapy and medication, i struggle to […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchi… i throw on the ncsu student radio sometimes and it is genuinely moving how eclectic and occasionally-awkward and fundamentally human it is. i love it so much. sadly i no longer have the Young Music Obsessive spirit but it is […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
claim heard recently in a fairly high-stakes institutional LLM-based chatbot policy discussion context: "you know, GPSes and search engines use AI too." i guess if i have learned nothing else from this moment in history, i have learned how important it is not to take for granted that the words […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@wikihow_real/11737… facts.
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
i guess i'm too autistic or something to have noticed most of the cultural differences people claim exist between new england and the southeast but the main one i've noticed is that 75% of people in a given NC coffee shop are having a bible study lol
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
trying to think through why, even as a lot of my anger at AI is aimed at evil megacorps, I wouldn’t want any part of chatbot consumer tech even if it were somehow magically Ethically-Sourced, and i think a lot of it comes down to the q&a format. however much the LLM is fine-tuned to hedge […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
i did not realize chris olah is ex-evangelical but that makes so much sense lol. “protestant” usually feels too vague as a descriptor of social phenomena to be useful to me, but the epistemic and evidential priority true-believer LLM psychonauts give to the felt experience of individual […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
more like the new york crimes imo tbh
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
how did “minecraft dungeons ii” wind up on my steam wishlist. i’ve never played the first “minecraft dungeons.” nor even really “minecraft.” anyway i guess “minecraft dungeons ii” is out
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… Ha Ha!! Im Da Joker Inc!!! If My IPO Doesnt Reach Two Trillion Dollars ... I Blow Up A Hospital!!
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