Silvia Canelón
@silviacanelon.com
Data scientist @ UPenn
Independent data journalist
https://silviacanelon.com she/her/ella 🇻🇪 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia #RStats #RLadies #ddj
Newsletter: https://silviacanelon.com/contact
Independent data journalist
https://silviacanelon.com she/her/ella 🇻🇪 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia #RStats #RLadies #ddj
Newsletter: https://silviacanelon.com/contact
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· Oct 22
New Kensington ‘fast-track court’ lands most with warrants, back into the cycle of addiction and homelessness
Kensington Voice collected and verified data on 87 people who were arrested during the first months of the program and tracked their journeys through the court. Most ended up with Wellness Court…
www.kensingtonvoice.com
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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my first @theguardian.com: I wrote about this year's "Drag Queen Christmas" tour stop in Pensacola, FL, which from the 1950s-70s hosted America's biggest LGBTQ event; the state AG tried to get the "demonic" show canceled.
I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:
I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:
A Florida official wants to cancel a sold-out Christmas drag show. The queens are performing anyway
A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring artists from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will stop in Pensacola despite the state attorney general’s efforts to stop it
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
my first @theguardian.com: I wrote about this year's "Drag Queen Christmas" tour stop in Pensacola, FL, which from the 1950s-70s hosted America's biggest LGBTQ event; the state AG tried to get the "demonic" show canceled.
I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:
I talked to Florida drag queens and supporters that refuse to go underground:
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Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means that when you buy an artist's music, the site doesn't take a cut. There's no better day to support musicians!
My band, Pansy, just released an EP. You can stream it or buy it here <3
pansysucks.bandcamp.com/album/skin-g...
My band, Pansy, just released an EP. You can stream it or buy it here <3
pansysucks.bandcamp.com/album/skin-g...
Skin Graft, by Pansy
5 track album
pansysucks.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means that when you buy an artist's music, the site doesn't take a cut. There's no better day to support musicians!
My band, Pansy, just released an EP. You can stream it or buy it here <3
pansysucks.bandcamp.com/album/skin-g...
My band, Pansy, just released an EP. You can stream it or buy it here <3
pansysucks.bandcamp.com/album/skin-g...
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 67:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @sophiesong.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me in our dismay at defenders of worker’s rights who’d rather talk to ChatGPT than, you know, actual workers.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @sophiesong.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me in our dismay at defenders of worker’s rights who’d rather talk to ChatGPT than, you know, actual workers.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 67:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @sophiesong.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me in our dismay at defenders of worker’s rights who’d rather talk to ChatGPT than, you know, actual workers.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
… in which @sophiesong.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me in our dismay at defenders of worker’s rights who’d rather talk to ChatGPT than, you know, actual workers.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
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Good grief
If you want to see the future of journalism, here it is. An Alberta newspaper wants to hire a reporter who hands over the writing to AI. jeffgaulin.com/jobs/JobDeta...
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Good grief
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To us, it's a no-brainer. On Small Business Saturday, buy the EAPM News a11y hat. It's designed by a local Boston-area designer who also donates his time to run the shop. Oh, and the proceeds help EAPM.
EAPM News A11y Leather Patch Hat
One size Circumference, in 23.82 Crown height, in 4.55 Bill length, in 2.76 Introducing the perfect accessory for casual outings or everyday wear: our stylish Dad Hat. Crafted from soft, dur…
equalaccesspublicmedia.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
To us, it's a no-brainer. On Small Business Saturday, buy the EAPM News a11y hat. It's designed by a local Boston-area designer who also donates his time to run the shop. Oh, and the proceeds help EAPM.
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Every activity we do provides us with 3 payments: pocket/wallet payment, the payment for the heart, and the payment for the brain. "As managers and leaders, as people in charge and responsible for others, we must take care of that balance in the three currencies of payments." @yabellini.bsky.social
An oldie but a goodie. Thanks for the insightful blog post @yabellini.bsky.social. yabellini.netlify.app/blog/2023-10...
Three currencies of payment for our work | Yanina Bellini Saibene
yabellini.netlify.app
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Every activity we do provides us with 3 payments: pocket/wallet payment, the payment for the heart, and the payment for the brain. "As managers and leaders, as people in charge and responsible for others, we must take care of that balance in the three currencies of payments." @yabellini.bsky.social
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I feel this so deeply. As a person who likes to try crafts and talk about it people are so often like "I'd love to do that but I'm not good at it". But crafts and hobbies are about learning. There's no guaranteed way to be good right off the bat. You have to develop skills and trust yourself.
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I feel this so deeply. As a person who likes to try crafts and talk about it people are so often like "I'd love to do that but I'm not good at it". But crafts and hobbies are about learning. There's no guaranteed way to be good right off the bat. You have to develop skills and trust yourself.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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For people who don't already know all these words, what would be more useful is talking about how the technology works (e.g. what data does it use, where does the data come from), what it does (not what companies say it does), and how else it could be (mis)used.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For people who don't already know all these words, what would be more useful is talking about how the technology works (e.g. what data does it use, where does the data come from), what it does (not what companies say it does), and how else it could be (mis)used.
Just finished Yellowface by @rfkuang.bsky.social, and wow. It was whatever the audio equivalent is to “page-turner.” Kudos also to narrator Helen Laser who helped keep me on the edge of my seat share.libbyapp.com/title/9173603
Yellowface
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
Hard to put down, harder to forget. - Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestse...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just finished Yellowface by @rfkuang.bsky.social, and wow. It was whatever the audio equivalent is to “page-turner.” Kudos also to narrator Helen Laser who helped keep me on the edge of my seat share.libbyapp.com/title/9173603
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Massachusetts drivers are being tracked and their data is being shared nationwide — thanks to police using license plate readers (LPRs) made by Flock and other tech companies.
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Email Your Municipal Leaders: Flock license plate readers threaten our privacy and safety
mobilize.aclum.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Massachusetts drivers are being tracked and their data is being shared nationwide — thanks to police using license plate readers (LPRs) made by Flock and other tech companies.
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
Does your local police department use LPRs? Take action to find out: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...
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‘Wellness’ and ‘court’ are two words that should never be found together. More evidence of the failures of the Parker administration for a population that needs support the most.
The visualizations are awesome tho!
The visualizations are awesome tho!
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
New Kensington ‘fast-track court’ lands most with warrants, back into the cycle of addiction and homelessness
Kensington Voice collected and verified data on 87 people who were arrested during the first months of the program and tracked their journeys through the court. Most ended up with Wellness Court…
www.kensingtonvoice.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
‘Wellness’ and ‘court’ are two words that should never be found together. More evidence of the failures of the Parker administration for a population that needs support the most.
The visualizations are awesome tho!
The visualizations are awesome tho!
Quick & easy visual tutorial for making a map using Census data & the relatively new mapgl #RStats package. I hadn't had a chance to explore mapgl yet & this tutorial offered the perfect intro. Excited to try it w large spatial datasets and see how it compares to rdeck! H/T @smachlis.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Quick & easy visual tutorial for making a map using Census data & the relatively new mapgl #RStats package. I hadn't had a chance to explore mapgl yet & this tutorial offered the perfect intro. Excited to try it w large spatial datasets and see how it compares to rdeck! H/T @smachlis.bsky.social
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🤖 Introducción a #Tidymodels
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz
📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...
#LatinR2025
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz
📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...
#LatinR2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🤖 Introducción a #Tidymodels
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz
📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...
#LatinR2025
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz
📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...
#LatinR2025
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Renting as An International: Three tips to protect your rights in Boston as a renter gobserver.net/6264/campusc... @Gobserver_nu #china #india #boston @AlumniNU @Northeastern @NUjournalism
Renting as An International
It has been three months since Boston introduced a long-awaited reform to its rental system: tenants no longer need to pay their fee unless they specifically hire a broker. But what international stud...
gobserver.net
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Renting as An International: Three tips to protect your rights in Boston as a renter gobserver.net/6264/campusc... @Gobserver_nu #china #india #boston @AlumniNU @Northeastern @NUjournalism
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
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🎨 Recording now live!
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2
#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2
#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
Developing your data visualisation skills in ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
We’ll be working through the process of developing a visualisation in ggplot2. Some knowledge of the tidyverse will be helpful, but all of the code in this session will be explained and available…
nrennie.rbind.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🎨 Recording now live!
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2
#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2
#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
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New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
New Kensington ‘fast-track court’ lands most with warrants, back into the cycle of addiction and homelessness
Kensington Voice collected and verified data on 87 people who were arrested during the first months of the program and tracked their journeys through the court. Most ended up with Wellness Court…
www.kensingtonvoice.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
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Packed hearing, dodged questions. At the first-ever City Council hearing on Philly gov’s use of AI and surveillance, City Councilmembers asked powerful, basic questions to open up the city’s black box of technology, and were disappointed by the city’s lack of answers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Packed hearing, dodged questions. At the first-ever City Council hearing on Philly gov’s use of AI and surveillance, City Councilmembers asked powerful, basic questions to open up the city’s black box of technology, and were disappointed by the city’s lack of answers.
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Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
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Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?