Christina Wilmot
@crisptina.bsky.social
Sociology PhD student at UCLA. Ex-Googler and stuff.
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1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
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Hey y'all know Google? Ever use it? Just a reminder that the NSF funded the early development of Google. Just a little factoid for you if you find yourself pondering the purpose of federal grant money today
January 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Hey y'all know Google? Ever use it? Just a reminder that the NSF funded the early development of Google. Just a little factoid for you if you find yourself pondering the purpose of federal grant money today
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 AM
its not too late, it's never too late 🎶
@olizardo.bsky.social how do I turn this vaguely early-ish bluesky invite into a fancy social networks paper
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
its not too late, it's never too late 🎶
Relatedly:
I will sell my soul to the next corporation that offers me half the salary of Big Tech but to do *actual* *work*. 💸
I will sell my soul to the next corporation that offers me half the salary of Big Tech but to do *actual* *work*. 💸
July 10, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Relatedly:
I will sell my soul to the next corporation that offers me half the salary of Big Tech but to do *actual* *work*. 💸
I will sell my soul to the next corporation that offers me half the salary of Big Tech but to do *actual* *work*. 💸
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Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?
June 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?
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i saw a video today of a guy who wrote a computer program to calculate how many cans of alphabet spaghetti-o’s it would take to write out the lord of the rings trilogy entirely in spaghetti-o’s letters, and i think that guy should be the only man allowed to write code anymore.
May 9, 2024 at 4:13 AM
i saw a video today of a guy who wrote a computer program to calculate how many cans of alphabet spaghetti-o’s it would take to write out the lord of the rings trilogy entirely in spaghetti-o’s letters, and i think that guy should be the only man allowed to write code anymore.
Schadenfreude of the day: watching a cybertruck circle endlessly looking for parking 🤭
I didn't get to see what happened, but just as one must imagine Sisyphus happy, one must also imagine that the cybertruck found parking.
I didn't get to see what happened, but just as one must imagine Sisyphus happy, one must also imagine that the cybertruck found parking.
March 16, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Schadenfreude of the day: watching a cybertruck circle endlessly looking for parking 🤭
I didn't get to see what happened, but just as one must imagine Sisyphus happy, one must also imagine that the cybertruck found parking.
I didn't get to see what happened, but just as one must imagine Sisyphus happy, one must also imagine that the cybertruck found parking.
Love watching mandatory ads before I can see the State of the Union address. Democracy.
March 8, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Love watching mandatory ads before I can see the State of the Union address. Democracy.
I've had two separate people this week tell me I need to go convince Big Tech to listen to social scientists.
🤣 Oh you sweet summer child....
"Tech really should hire someone like you"
"Dear, they did hire people like me. And then they fired all of them for doing their jobs"
🙊
🤣 Oh you sweet summer child....
"Tech really should hire someone like you"
"Dear, they did hire people like me. And then they fired all of them for doing their jobs"
🙊
February 28, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I've had two separate people this week tell me I need to go convince Big Tech to listen to social scientists.
🤣 Oh you sweet summer child....
"Tech really should hire someone like you"
"Dear, they did hire people like me. And then they fired all of them for doing their jobs"
🙊
🤣 Oh you sweet summer child....
"Tech really should hire someone like you"
"Dear, they did hire people like me. And then they fired all of them for doing their jobs"
🙊
Prediction: as climate change escalates, Punxsutawney Phil's frequency of correct predictions will rise, with the post-Groundhog Day weather more closely approximating random
February 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Prediction: as climate change escalates, Punxsutawney Phil's frequency of correct predictions will rise, with the post-Groundhog Day weather more closely approximating random
got an email from the U.N. that im entitled to $3.5 million. im just like wow guys ty so much, really appreciate it ❤️
January 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
got an email from the U.N. that im entitled to $3.5 million. im just like wow guys ty so much, really appreciate it ❤️
Ok I'll fess up - I'm too young to have ever lived in a time before email...how did people's workdays look back then? Did you have to walk over to someone to ask them for things??
Perhaps that was a necessary barrier to So. Many. Tasks 🙀
Perhaps that was a necessary barrier to So. Many. Tasks 🙀
January 22, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Ok I'll fess up - I'm too young to have ever lived in a time before email...how did people's workdays look back then? Did you have to walk over to someone to ask them for things??
Perhaps that was a necessary barrier to So. Many. Tasks 🙀
Perhaps that was a necessary barrier to So. Many. Tasks 🙀
rip to ASU freshman composition (honors, but still) being the greatest writing class of my life. Just full yikes.
“…ASU plans to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing help to students in one of its largest classes, Freshman Composition.” 🫠
OpenAI launches partnership with ASU, allowing full use of ChatGPT
It comes as schools at all levels grapple with whether and how to embrace generative AI.
www.axios.com
January 19, 2024 at 11:14 AM
rip to ASU freshman composition (honors, but still) being the greatest writing class of my life. Just full yikes.
Thoughts during mandatory annual cybersecurity training: Ransomware would be super effective against PhD candidates. I'd probably do *anything* if someone ransomed my dissertation data... Then I remembered: oh wait we're poor. 💁♀️
January 12, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Thoughts during mandatory annual cybersecurity training: Ransomware would be super effective against PhD candidates. I'd probably do *anything* if someone ransomed my dissertation data... Then I remembered: oh wait we're poor. 💁♀️
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The boys and I figured we’d ask ChatGPT to help us solve a clue from the Times crossword.
January 9, 2024 at 11:57 PM
The boys and I figured we’d ask ChatGPT to help us solve a clue from the Times crossword.
(I want to make a joke about how this is great news for us budding scholars, to know we could just publish absolute fake data...but they're toppling Harvard presidents now so I'll [kind of] hold my tongue)
American Sociological Review had replication packages for 20% of quant papers in 2023.
Quick update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
Four complete replication packages for 20 quantitative data analysis articles. Ten of the 20 quantitative papers provide nothing.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
January 10, 2024 at 9:12 AM
(I want to make a joke about how this is great news for us budding scholars, to know we could just publish absolute fake data...but they're toppling Harvard presidents now so I'll [kind of] hold my tongue)
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January 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago
December 7, 2023 at 3:00 AM
It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago
Sometimes I forget that there are literal 13 year olds on the same internet as me D:
On a related note... Why was I allowed unlimited access to the Internet at age 13???
On a related note... Why was I allowed unlimited access to the Internet at age 13???
December 4, 2023 at 9:56 AM
Sometimes I forget that there are literal 13 year olds on the same internet as me D:
On a related note... Why was I allowed unlimited access to the Internet at age 13???
On a related note... Why was I allowed unlimited access to the Internet at age 13???
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The words of one of the Palestinians who were shot in Vermont
December 2, 2023 at 8:07 PM
The words of one of the Palestinians who were shot in Vermont
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couldn't help but weigh in on the Sports Illustrated debacle, though I won't top @davidjroth.bsky.social. how AI has been used by media companies this year makes clear what it really is—not any instrument for building the future, but an extraction tool of last resort
www.latimes.com/business/tec...
www.latimes.com/business/tec...
Column: The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI
The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists, but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate ...
www.latimes.com
December 1, 2023 at 6:28 PM
couldn't help but weigh in on the Sports Illustrated debacle, though I won't top @davidjroth.bsky.social. how AI has been used by media companies this year makes clear what it really is—not any instrument for building the future, but an extraction tool of last resort
www.latimes.com/business/tec...
www.latimes.com/business/tec...
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me: hey chatgpt, give me names for a drug dealing sex trafficker.
chatgpt: navarro, montez, rodriguez, martinez, moreno, castillo, chavez
me: hey why are they all hispanic?
chatgpt: diversity and inclusion
chatgpt: navarro, montez, rodriguez, martinez, moreno, castillo, chavez
me: hey why are they all hispanic?
chatgpt: diversity and inclusion
December 1, 2023 at 9:05 AM
me: hey chatgpt, give me names for a drug dealing sex trafficker.
chatgpt: navarro, montez, rodriguez, martinez, moreno, castillo, chavez
me: hey why are they all hispanic?
chatgpt: diversity and inclusion
chatgpt: navarro, montez, rodriguez, martinez, moreno, castillo, chavez
me: hey why are they all hispanic?
chatgpt: diversity and inclusion
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remember when prominent folk from OpenAI claimed that "it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious"
November 29, 2023 at 9:10 PM
remember when prominent folk from OpenAI claimed that "it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious"