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Aug 11, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I’m reading The Lorax to my daughter.

She learning to equate knitting with rampant capitalism and environmental devastation.
Cc @julia_azari, capitalist plunderer.
Just noticed the typo in this tweet. I hate everything right now.

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Dec 14, 2022
A stray thought about ChatGPT:

It’s a cliché generator. A truly impressive cliche generator.
(1/x)
I was reading @ibogost’s Atlantic piece yesterday.

A few paragraphs in, I thought to myself “man, he’s kinda phoning this in.”

Then there was the reveal. He used ChatGPT to write the intro. Once he started writing in his own voice, you could *tell*.

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
And that makes total sense!

The machine doesn’t have original ideas.

It produces speech patterns that resemble typical speech patterns.

That’s what cliches are: typical speech patterns.
(3/x)
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Dec 10, 2022
The #TwitterFiles are just fan service for aggrieved conservatives who exist in the Fox News Extended Universe.
This entire installment from Taibbi is just “ZOMG senior Twitter leaders met with government agencies to identify threats?!? And they considered CONTEXT when evaluating high-profile strategic communications?”

…man, you know that’s just a description of competence, right?
Again, fan service.

It’s December 10th. Trump has lost the election and is loudly spewing The Big Lie that RESULTS IN AN INSURRECTION.

How brainwormed do you have to be to think “the scandal here is Twitter executives developing new tools to deal with Trump’s rhetoric”?
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Dec 9, 2022
Shadow-banning is good, actually.

There should be more of it.
You can basically divide content moderation into two buckets.

You can develop ratings for each individual utterance or you can rate the speakers.
Focusing on the speech means identifying keywords, then expanding for context.

That gives you dictionaries of hateful words, and specific misinformation efforts that require context or outright blocking.

It’s difficult, necessary work.
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Dec 8, 2022
November 1994: @wired covers the Hackers on Planet Earth conference.

The opening keynote speaker and serious-adult-in-the-room is Robert David Steele.

“Even though Steele seems sincere in his desire for ‘free’ information, others in Washington may be less benign.”
(1/2)
Wikipedia is a great resource for sussing out the trajectory of these figures.

Steele in 1994 told WIRED he had ambitions of becoming Director of National Intelligence. What happened next? Where is he now?

The answer? Hmm…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Da…
Frequent Alex Jones guest… thought NASA had a secret slave colony on Mars… protocols of the elders of zion… QAnon… COVID conspiracy theorist who died of COVID in 2021.
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Dec 3, 2022
The thing to understand about the Hunter Biden laptop story was that it was SUPPOSED to be the Trump campaign’s “October Surprise.”

Mainstream media and social media were supposed to take the bait and focus on the appearance of scandal for the last weeks of the election.
(1/x)
They didn’t take the bait. The New York Post story was shunned. Social media platforms treated it as manufactured propaganda with questionable sourcing.

And conservative elites have been PISSED ever since.
(2/x)
They’re supposed to be these brilliant media manipulators.

Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and the rest of the Pepe Patrol pretend at being these incredibly sophisticated actors, injecting precision memes to bend the public will.

But they’re actual just blunt instruments. (3/x)
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Dec 3, 2022
An early thought on the ChatGPT hype:

I keep people hearing this will upend higher education — “No more take home essays ever,” etc.

I think that’s obviously wrong.

What this *will* upend is the underground market for cheating on tests.
ChatGPT is at or very close to the writing level of an average undergrad pulling an all-nighter to complete an essay on readings they only skimmed.

Plagiarism detection software isn’t going to catch this stuff. That’s a real problem.
To state the obvious: this is worse for the student than for the professor.

A generative AI engine could write all your short-response essays for you and earn you a B while you learn nothing from the class.

Why take that class if you didn’t intend to learn from it?
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