Laura 🤔
@summerscope.bsky.social
lead design eng @pydantic | http://debias.ai | Ethics Litmus Tests | 99% spicy 🌶 hot takes | she/her
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This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.
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The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
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Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”
This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…
adsei.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”
This project has been a slow burn, a wonderful dialogue with Linda across many months. I hope some teachers find this and find it useful, there’s more sections to come and of course any feedback or requests will help us shape it!
Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on.
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction
Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …
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July 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This project has been a slow burn, a wonderful dialogue with Linda across many months. I hope some teachers find this and find it useful, there’s more sections to come and of course any feedback or requests will help us shape it!
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Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on.
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
People Friendly: Teachers’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence – Introduction
Introduction So, you want to teach your students about AI. But it’s hard to know how to teach them, or what to teach them, when it feels like the landscape is changing minute-by-minute, when there …
adsei.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on.
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come!
adsei.org/pfegtai-intr...
#EduSKY #EduSKYAU
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Only important news. (Rat)
May 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Only important news. (Rat)
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Just learned there’s a place in Brooklyn called Win Son Bakery that does breakfast sandwiches on scallion pancakes and I’m grunting lustily
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Just learned there’s a place in Brooklyn called Win Son Bakery that does breakfast sandwiches on scallion pancakes and I’m grunting lustily
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Waking Up on Sunday Be Like: 'I'm Starving but the Fridge Is So Far Away!'🥱😴🍮
April 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Waking Up on Sunday Be Like: 'I'm Starving but the Fridge Is So Far Away!'🥱😴🍮
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They never don't look painfully stupid
April 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
They never don't look painfully stupid
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No Sunday scaries. Only Sunday defiant hope-ies.
April 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
No Sunday scaries. Only Sunday defiant hope-ies.
Every morning, rain or shine, these guys stalk me for the precise duration of my flat white 🤣☕️
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Every morning, rain or shine, these guys stalk me for the precise duration of my flat white 🤣☕️
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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I've had to fight for my son's right to be himself. It should not be a fight.
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Trans Day of Visibility
This is an edited version of a short talk I gave at a Transcend Australia event for Trans Day of Visibility this morning. I’m very grateful to Transcend for giving me the opportunity to speak…
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March 31, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I've had to fight for my son's right to be himself. It should not be a fight.
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Look who came up the driveway this afternoon!!!! You've never seen me grab my camera so fast. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a dirty window in low light, so it's a bit fuzzy. Still! Lynx!! In my yard!!! Look at those big fluffy paws! 🦊🌿
March 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Look who came up the driveway this afternoon!!!! You've never seen me grab my camera so fast. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a dirty window in low light, so it's a bit fuzzy. Still! Lynx!! In my yard!!! Look at those big fluffy paws! 🦊🌿
Rios surfing the sunshine. Berlin spring time really showing up now ☀️
March 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Rios surfing the sunshine. Berlin spring time really showing up now ☀️
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Surveying their territory (the den)
March 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Surveying their territory (the den)
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Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
November 13, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
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why did they show the same label twice
March 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
why did they show the same label twice
I wrote a thing! www.linkedin.com/pulse/opposi...
The opposite of the paperclip maximiser
What if we built an AGI and it decided to do nothing? As in - really nothing, not engage with the world or any individuals, not monitor, not compute, just sit there dormant. True inaction — not malice...
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May 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I wrote a thing! www.linkedin.com/pulse/opposi...
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@summerscope.bsky.social and @lindamciver.bsky.social are writing a teachers' guide to AI, but they need your help! Please share with all the teachers you know.
#EduSky
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#EduSky
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May 16, 2024 at 11:12 PM
@summerscope.bsky.social and @lindamciver.bsky.social are writing a teachers' guide to AI, but they need your help! Please share with all the teachers you know.
#EduSky
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#EduSky
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i am watching THE BEEKEEPER while i do dishes and i somehow did not realize that the concept of this film was "what if you could murder everyone who defrauded your boomer parents with an internet scam?"
May 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM
i am watching THE BEEKEEPER while i do dishes and i somehow did not realize that the concept of this film was "what if you could murder everyone who defrauded your boomer parents with an internet scam?"
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Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
May 4, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
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Announcing ✨Prodigy-HF ✨
It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!
It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!
October 25, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Announcing ✨Prodigy-HF ✨
It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!
It's a new plugin that allows you to train @huggingface.bsky.social NER models directly on annotated data in Prodigy. It also provides a recipe to upload annotations to Hugging Face HUB!