Kimber Harrison
@kimberharrison.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at UT Austin 🤘
Thinking about bodies, technology, time, and methods
Thinking about bodies, technology, time, and methods
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🚨new pub - Noninferiority and Efficiency/Revenue Facilitation (NERF) Endpoints: @jadeshiva.bsky.social, @kimberharrison.bsky.social & I explore how NERF endpoints prioritize financial incentives over patient outcomes in health AI research & accelerate culture of financialized health. rdcu.be/eQzJe
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚨new pub - Noninferiority and Efficiency/Revenue Facilitation (NERF) Endpoints: @jadeshiva.bsky.social, @kimberharrison.bsky.social & I explore how NERF endpoints prioritize financial incentives over patient outcomes in health AI research & accelerate culture of financialized health. rdcu.be/eQzJe
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Inevitability of hallucination ?
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Inevitability of hallucination ?
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“Shelter workers said critical supplies are needed due to the influx of animals including food, water bowls, extra large crates and blankets. Anyone able to donate these items can drop them off at the donation bin located at the shelter’s front parking lot.” ktla.com/news/local-n...
Help needed as injured animals arrive at Pasadena Humane Society due to wildfire
As the deadly Eaton Fire continues burning in Los Angeles County, Pasadena Humane is seeking help as a large number of animals are being evacuated. Over 100 animals arrived at the organization on W…
ktla.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“Shelter workers said critical supplies are needed due to the influx of animals including food, water bowls, extra large crates and blankets. Anyone able to donate these items can drop them off at the donation bin located at the shelter’s front parking lot.” ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Best of 2024 from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.
Prison Laborers Want a Seat at the Table, Even If They’re Shackled to the Chair
Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.
www.texasobserver.org
December 31, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Best of 2024 from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.
Doing archival research and found this note from one cybernetician to a math professor and I have never felt so seen
December 20, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Doing archival research and found this note from one cybernetician to a math professor and I have never felt so seen
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The exhibition “explores the precursors of current biometric surveillance in Cold War manuals for police, border guards and spies; in forensic portraiture; and in the little-known early history of computer facial recognition, revealing links between forensics, science, art, and popular culture.”
Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency
This exhibition traces the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them.
wendemuseum.org
November 20, 2024 at 11:09 PM
The exhibition “explores the precursors of current biometric surveillance in Cold War manuals for police, border guards and spies; in forensic portraiture; and in the little-known early history of computer facial recognition, revealing links between forensics, science, art, and popular culture.”
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Started reading Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, and it’s *so* good!
My research delves into many of the topics discussed within the book, but it’s been quite insightful to get first-hand accounts of how AI is impacting people across the globe.
My research delves into many of the topics discussed within the book, but it’s been quite insightful to get first-hand accounts of how AI is impacting people across the globe.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Started reading Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, and it’s *so* good!
My research delves into many of the topics discussed within the book, but it’s been quite insightful to get first-hand accounts of how AI is impacting people across the globe.
My research delves into many of the topics discussed within the book, but it’s been quite insightful to get first-hand accounts of how AI is impacting people across the globe.
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This looks amazing!
December 2, 2024 at 11:29 PM
This looks amazing!
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Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
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I regret to inform you that even though the leopards will eat their faces, people will not actually realize that there were leopards or that they no longer have faces.
November 13, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I regret to inform you that even though the leopards will eat their faces, people will not actually realize that there were leopards or that they no longer have faces.
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Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" is hiring a Postdoc!
🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation."
🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology
🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation."
🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" is hiring a Postdoc!
🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation."
🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology
🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation."
🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology
This is Mabel, and she hopes you get good scritches, treaties and a nap today
November 28, 2024 at 7:31 PM
This is Mabel, and she hopes you get good scritches, treaties and a nap today
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I miss my former colleague David Golumbia. From talks and chats, I knew this was gonna be a masterpiece. I’m so grateful we can continue to learn from him—buy this book!!
Excellent background for those interested in the political ideology of Musk, Thiel, and other tech bros
Cyberlibertarianism
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I miss my former colleague David Golumbia. From talks and chats, I knew this was gonna be a masterpiece. I’m so grateful we can continue to learn from him—buy this book!!
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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This is Otis. He just had his very first vet appointment. Even got to take a picture like it was his first day of school. 12/10 we're proud of you, Otis
November 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
This is Otis. He just had his very first vet appointment. Even got to take a picture like it was his first day of school. 12/10 we're proud of you, Otis
PSA, it smells NOTHING like butter tortillas >:(
November 25, 2024 at 1:44 AM
PSA, it smells NOTHING like butter tortillas >:(
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This CNN interview with Clear CEO ask all the WRONG questions about current and developing biometric “identity verification”/surveillance tech… Surely we should be conncerned with more than just the airport lines getting longer, yes? @CNN Clear p.1
November 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM
This CNN interview with Clear CEO ask all the WRONG questions about current and developing biometric “identity verification”/surveillance tech… Surely we should be conncerned with more than just the airport lines getting longer, yes? @CNN Clear p.1
Had a book review editor tell me I should quit academia if I'm going to cheat by using AI to write my reviews (had never used chatgpt at this point). Now this journal wonders why it struggles to get reviewers 😵💫
This is not an email exchange I ever expected to have. (I'm the second one.)
November 24, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Had a book review editor tell me I should quit academia if I'm going to cheat by using AI to write my reviews (had never used chatgpt at this point). Now this journal wonders why it struggles to get reviewers 😵💫