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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · 14d

hehe ty!

p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · 14d

becoming one of those computer scientists who won't stop yapping about my analog hobby of choice.

(canon ae-1 · kodak ultramax 400)

Penn's Landing sign in Old City, taken at golden hour. A #firstoftheroll shot with an artsy light leak on the lefthand side.

Brick rowhome style apartments in Old City, shot at late golden hour. The buildings have fun moody yellow detail, with a tree standing shadowed in the foreground. Pennsylvania Hospital rises just into view in the far background.

Closeup of ivy and other greenery growing along/trailing off the pillar of a short, weathered grey/beige brick wall.

The far sunlit interior of a garden in focus, shot past a wrought iron fence and long pine needles in soft focus in the foreground.

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jul 22

"what demon in marketing is behind this?"

what a truly evergreen question 😭😭😭

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 12

the non-ironic, casual deployment of the white usage of "woke" in news articles and opinion pieces makes me want to scream

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · Jul 9

I've always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the framing of AI risk around the actions of "malicious actors". Because sometimes the malicious actor is the company that built the thing. And the model is causing harm because it was successfully steered into doing what it's creators wanted it to do.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jul 3

Well, I guess they just declared war on us, but it was either that or having a Black character in Star Wars

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jul 3

the alt text! 😭😭😭

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 23

the research homies of all time are cooking btw 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Ro Encarnación @rone.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with this team. Truly one of the best collaborative experiences I have had to date (special s/o to our MVP @mkgerchick.bsky.social for leading this)!

Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025!

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Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social · Jun 21

Excited to be at #FAccT2025 and honored to see our work “auditing the audits” resulting from one of the first enacted AI laws in the U.S. received an honorable mention! I’ll be presenting this work on Wednesday at 11 AM Athens time: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Jun 19

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · Jun 18

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 13

graphic design is our passion 🎨✨

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 12

🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Jun 11

Work can be so endlessly rigorous about the technical half of the word but the socio half just stands in for anything and everything

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

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Nick Doty @npdoty.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 30

anyway, if your problem with technology was those inconvenient people who do technical work, and how they ask questions, have opinions, take ethical stances, etc.
then it might be especially tempting to just replace them with ai. fewer tedious coffees, for one thing.

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Jun 12

Important points @ach.bsky.social ACH2025 conference by Mohammad Suliman about the gaps in accessibility for research and programming. Taking notes for our new ACH Anthology!

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 11

“fort robert e. lee” lmao give us irredeemable loser energy.

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 5

😍😍😍

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 3

"better" *non-subaltern...

p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 3

mood.

Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Jun 2

"I will constitute the field." is such a mic drop. Set using some of printshop's shiny newish type (Centaur); quote from Louise Glück's "Witchgrass":

Photo (digitally horizontally reflected for readability) of shiny new letterpress metal type for a 7-line quote from the end of Louise Gluck's poem "Witchgrass." The type is neatly packed with metal spacing and with blocks into a solid rectangle. The text reads: "I don’t need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.
- Louise Gluck, from 'Witchgrass'"

Photo of a letterpress print using Process Blue ink on white paper to display a 7-line quote from the end of Louise Gluck's poem "Witchgrass." The text reads: "I don’t need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.
- Louise Gluck, from 'Witchgrass'"

Zoomed in version of previous photo. Photo of a letterpress print using Process Blue ink on white paper to display a 7-line quote from the end of Louise Gluck's poem "Witchgrass." The text reads: "I don’t need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.
- Louise Gluck, from 'Witchgrass'"

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 3

like okay hierarchy of knowledge go and give us even more nothing!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jun 3

I catch blocks if I talk about C19 but:

There’s a new, more contagious strain spreading—“razor blade throat” is one symptom. But, most spread is SYMPTOMLESS. You DON’T KNOW you’re spreading it.

More spread, more mutations & variants—>more disabled & dead.

Put a mask on in public. We keep us safe.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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p. sampson @pdotsamp.bsky.social · Jun 2

agre mentioned!!!

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