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Kathryn Tewson

@kathryntewson.bsky.social

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · Mar 12

New policy: people who come into my mentions to scold me for how I engage with bad-faith users are getting blocked. Y’all clearly are looking for a different online experience than the one I provide, so I’ll just help you along to it.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 1h

It literally was, at least in part! The AI draft was reviewed by human lawyers, per Nick Holzherr on LinkedIn

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2h

It can’t analyze those things, though. The best it can do is offer words in statistically similar patterns to those found in other people’s analyses.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2h

I know what the word means. That’s why I asked you how *you* are using it, because in my experience it takes longer to vet the result of an AI search than it does to just do the research myself.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 4h

Did you see the “contract” this thing produced?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4h

The whole internet loves María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan activist who loves democracy!

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

I know; I was adding more context for what it actually means and why we call it that, in order to help shore up your understanding.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 6h

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

People deciding they don't find you funny anymore isn't censorship. The first amendment doesn't guarantee you laughs or views on streaming or ticket sales. Be defensive or mad about it I guess, but that's not particularly funny either.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

Boilerplate is called that because you literally just repeat it without alteration. The idea is that instead of needing to be set in moveable type every time, the entire clause is pre-cast into thick steel like they make boilers out of.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

If your lawyer friend had refused to evaluate your letter, would you still have sent it

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

It has no medical knowledge. It does not know things.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

It’s actually not that great now. People in my line of work are sanctioned for using it every day.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I’m asking if you actually click on those source links.

They do not provide their reasoning and thinking processes, because they don’t reason and can’t think.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 5h

What do you mean by “efficiency”?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

What would “looking into it” entail?

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

It’s to avoid the question of whether the judiciary can restrain the president, specifically. This carveout isn’t unique to this case

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

If it’s boilerplate, then you wouldn’t need genAI. Just copy and paste the boilerplate.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

Which one?

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10h

You weren’t building on her work, you were asking her to evaluate yours.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10h

Do you have the records yet?

If your lawyer friend had told you it was deficient, would you have sent it?

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10h

Oh I know! But what’s interesting to me is that it asked me four questions, each with si parts, and I only answered one of them — and it was ready to write me a letter to the board

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, it looks to me like you managed to avoid wasting money on a lawyer by having one do the work for free.

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