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@justinesherry.bsky.social
I'm a member of the imperial senate on a diplomatic mision to Alderaan.
Computer networking professor. 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇹, she/her, Dr. Sherry, Mamã, working at AS8!
www.justinesherry.com
Computer networking professor. 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇹, she/her, Dr. Sherry, Mamã, working at AS8!
www.justinesherry.com
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We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
August 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!
August 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Not just any crab. A crab of mischief!
dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful
August 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful
Just played around with some of these examples and damn.
Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Just played around with some of these examples and damn.
Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...
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GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
August 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???
August 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???
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Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc
August 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc
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Important details from this story:
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Important details from this story:
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
LOVE ME TIL MY HEART STOPS
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
August 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
LOVE ME TIL MY HEART STOPS
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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
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BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Foundation challenges Online Safety Act Regulations
The High Court is to hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the Online Safety Act (OSA). The foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedi...
www.scottishlegal.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.
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Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.
July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.
Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.
64 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
July 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.
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I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious:
'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'
'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'
July 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious:
'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'
'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'
Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...
"Fewer than half of gen Z parents called reading to their children 'fun for me' and almost one in three saw reading as 'more of a subject to learn' than something to be enjoyed"
I mean sure, I too worry about the kids, but I also just feel sad for the Zoomer parents if this is really the case
I mean sure, I too worry about the kids, but I also just feel sad for the Zoomer parents if this is really the case
‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried
Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...
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Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.
July 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.
WHAT
You can even use anteanteontem, and so forth.
July 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
WHAT
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It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike.
‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).
‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’
🤯
‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).
‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’
🤯
July 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike.
‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).
‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’
🤯
‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).
‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’
🤯
Portuguese has "anteontem" for the day before yesterday which is also great
'Overmorrow' refers to "the day after tomorrow," but it has really only been used as an adjective/adverb, and also hasn't had much usage since the 16th century.
July 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Portuguese has "anteontem" for the day before yesterday which is also great
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my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
boomer opinion i have is that there are way more young adults out there who legit don’t know how to take care of themselves in very basic ways than we’d probably be comfortable with knowing
July 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
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Pittsburgh is known as the City of Bridges with, allegedly, 446 of them.
The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River.
#UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography
#cityscape
The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River.
#UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography
#cityscape
July 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Pittsburgh is known as the City of Bridges with, allegedly, 446 of them.
The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River.
#UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography
#cityscape
The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River.
#UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography
#cityscape
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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HDYGH, @josephgalbo.com ?
Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard.
Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him
Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard.
Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him
Joe Galbo - Social Media Specilaist for Consumer Product Safety Commission
Podcast Episode · How Did You Get Here? · 07/21/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
HDYGH, @josephgalbo.com ?
Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard.
Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him
Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard.
Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him