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Dr Katie Twomey

@k2mey.bsky.social

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Autistic fan of autistic people. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 9h

I'd still say the character at the end of what we think is "growth", looks more like the S in "sex". But ignore me because I get totally overinvested in this kind of thing 😂

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 9h

The last character doesn't look like an H though. But that makes a lot of sense in context. Ooh fun puzz!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 9h

I love this puzzle. Is there any more context?

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 10h

search: Totk ny chasm location

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11h

NWS sending warnings like

Severe weather alert for a Freeze Warning in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A red icon with a snowflake indicates the affected area on a map, which includes regions near Allentown and east-central Pennsylvania, extending toward northern New Jersey. The warning is in effect from 11 PM this evening to 9 AM EDT Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

Frozen chopper pilot in Day after Tomorrow

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 10h

Hi Sylvester 👋

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 11h

I wanna start a PeepGPT where we charge subscribers the same amount to access actual human experts willing to write that email / make that image / generally tell you you are okay

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 10h

OH!

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 11h

This feels a bit Streisand Effect

Paula Simoes @paulasimoes.bsky.social · 12h

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 13h

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 12h

If you log in to the USS website you can choose different investment approaches where they do it for you (high/low/medium risk and an eco and islam-friendly scheme I think?). Can't remember if you can be more fine-grained but I'd hope the eco one at least isn't all-in on Nvidia! Think it's easy...

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 14h

Yep. Which reminds me, I need to make sure my pension isn't invested in any tech stocks...

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 15h

Tick tock

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Adopted Lancastrian but Quernmore

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

After today I realise I have Big Clare Balding energy

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

And thank you too, and same re. friends! We all make heinous errors sometimes. We should be kind to ourselves when we do. (I'll let you know how morning Katie feels about that...)

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh thank you! It'll be fine. I generally stumble from disaster to disaster and I'm still here ❤️. And we're friends in our online way!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Just be very careful copy pasting zoom links is what I'm saying

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Also it is hilarious and will share once the dust has settled, whether I get sacked or not

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Today I made an absolutely massive and completely accidental cock-up at work and I am grateful for being autistic and burned out because in the context of the lifelong existential dread and current horror it's no bigge

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

These are beautiful! I hope they're still in use today. Especially floobiddyhaha. We need to start a dictionary!

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

I think he knew exactly what he was doing. This is all free publicity

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

“violence pigeon” is perfect 😂

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 1d

Another one claimed!