Cyd Harrell
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @ Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @ Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
hi! great to see you & hope things are well! (usual caveats about well being relative amid all of this)
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
hi! great to see you & hope things are well! (usual caveats about well being relative amid all of this)
I would have freaked all the way out, myself
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I would have freaked all the way out, myself
what the...what the hell????
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
what the...what the hell????
ooh, can I play? I've actually never read the whole thing
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
ooh, can I play? I've actually never read the whole thing
yeah, no it's not you - this was machine translated or AI generated or something
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
yeah, no it's not you - this was machine translated or AI generated or something
YES, you said that way better than I did!
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
YES, you said that way better than I did!
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
what does that mean? is it about being agentic or something?
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
what does that mean? is it about being agentic or something?
Reposted by Cyd Harrell
It still feels absolutely WILD to me to type that out, but after putting all the pieces of news and analysis—the biometrics/DNA sample expansion and the sloppy mass data consolidation and the nonconsensual face-scanning by DHS—next to each other, it was impossible to come to any other conclusion.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It still feels absolutely WILD to me to type that out, but after putting all the pieces of news and analysis—the biometrics/DNA sample expansion and the sloppy mass data consolidation and the nonconsensual face-scanning by DHS—next to each other, it was impossible to come to any other conclusion.