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Amos Teo

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Data scientist | Industry linguist | PhD Birds, plants, languages, transit, climate Vancouver, BC He/him 🌈

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 1d

I am a GenAI killjoy and I encourage you to be one too. Here’s how:

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 1h

Watching this instead of reading about Sora 2
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AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 8h

Being one of a handful of people crossing the Cambie Bridge in the drizzle was a good opportunity to practice belting out some songs.

False Creek in Vancouver on a grey cloudy day

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 10h

But the story this comes from does highlight the risk we’ve put ourselves at the mercy of big tech companies like Meta who can delete you based on wonky algorithms, with little option to appeal
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It's sheer panic': Ottawa restaurateur says Meta wrongly banned her business accounts | CBC News

Laurie Viau Gillard uses Instagram and Facebook to advertise the small restaurant she co-owns in Kanata. Late last month, Meta suspended her accounts without explanation.

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 10h

“AI is undergoing ‘machine learning’” looks like a really bad paraphrase from CBC. It’s like saying the discipline of mathematics is learning arithmetic.
Machine learning falls within the (too) broad umbrella notion of “AI” and it’s long been used to flag content and profiles before the GenAI hype.

Screenshot of a CBC News article that reads:
Lethbridge explained that AI is undergoing ”machine learning,” a process that trains the software to flag posts that violate or otherwise jeopardize community standards. But the technology is far from perfect — for example, it's sometimes unable to recognize certain images or text.

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s view from Vancouver’s Fairview neighbourhood

View of downtown Vancouver towers as seen through a narrow gap between two buildings

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 1d

I am a GenAI killjoy and I encourage you to be one too. Here’s how:

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 4d

Crossing the Granville St Bridge on foot was a lot nicer with the wider pedestrian path, but I was very confused by the layout and entry and exit points

View of False Creek and Granville Island as seen from the Granville bridge facing West, with the new Sen̓áḵw buildings under construction, the Burrard Bridge and sea and mountains in the background

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Monday Vancouver

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 7d

Mrs Bucket has kicked the Bouquet.
Rip Dame Patricia Routledge
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket'

A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s walk home #vancouver

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 8d

@stephcampisi.bsky.social for your attention

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 9d

Well that’s when I was teaching students about modals!

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 9d

I used to use this example when teaching about epistemic vs. deontic uses of modal verbs like “can”.

@gretchenmcc.bsky.social has a great post that elaborates on this distinction (as well as the possibility vs necessity dimension) allthingslinguistic.com/post/1380488...

All Things Linguistic

The difference between epistemic & deontic, necessity & possibility, in an overlapping diagram This is a handy reference diagram I made way back in grad school for remembering the difference between...

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 9d

Marge to Homer: Kids can be so cruel
Bart (walking past): We can? Thanks Mom!

Marge saying to Homer: Kids can be so cruel
Bart (walking past): We can? Thanks Mom!

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 9d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 11d

Rainbow from the Seabus. Best commute ever. I’m gonna miss it

Double rainbow over North Vancouver with Vancouver Harbour in the foreground

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry @merriam-webster.com but Lao and Vietnamese are from completely different language families

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 11d

Mosquito Creek in North Van filling up. #BCStorm

Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 20d

Took a break from packing to go look for salmon in the Capilano River

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 20d

I’m in Berlin for the marathon and I am certain that there is at least one person running tomorrow who is gonna have to rush back into the U.S. tomorrow because of this haphazard, unfair bs. This is not how adults make policy decisions, and it’s downright inhumane.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20d

The email from Microsoft

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve longed lamented how US anything plays an oversized impact in the lives of people outside that cuntry youtu.be/uiUPis_XDTA?...

Charlie Kirk’s murder sparks calls for revenge | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 21d

Good on Jenny Kwan and the NDP MPs.

Cos some days I wake up feeling like I’m in Canada, some days I wake up feeling like I’m in 1930s Austria.

Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 21d

Statement from MP Jenny Kwan, said that none of NDP’s MPs participated in the standing ovation. Kwan denounces political violence, but “anyone with a platform should always be mindful that political rhetoric that is incendiary, racist and dehumanizing is unacceptable.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Not Every Canadian MP Stood to Honour Charlie Kirk | The Tyee

South Surrey MP Ernie Klassen said he and other colleagues abstained from the gesture. Here’s why.

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Amos Teo @mossinante.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve lost track of the number of >7 magnitudes quakes off Kamchatka this year :/

Castanet.net @castanet.net · 22d

B.C. coast no longer on tsunami watch after 7.8 quake off Russia (BC)

B.C. coast no longer on tsunami watch after 7.8 quake off Russia - BC News

Authorities say there is no tsunami risk to British Columbia's coast after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the same area hit in July by one of the biggest quakes

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Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social · 22d

We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.

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