Kathy Reid

Doing a #PhD [@anucybernetics](https://aus.social/@anucybernetics ) in #opensource #voice and #data #bias #FairML. Into #linux, #IoT. Built @SenseBreast. She/her pronouns. Ex @mycroft_ai Linux Australia, Inc. (npub10au…keuh) @deakin @mozilla
Living in Australia on Waddawurrung land but with connections in #Northumberland
#MastoAdmin for fediverse.au

GitHub: https://github.com/KathyReid
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Last Notes

2026-04-10 15:39:14 UTC

Could we please go back to the version of the internet patched together by chewing gum and goodwill;
the domain of the well-meaning, Aloha shirt-clad, neck-bearded hippie;
the time of the lady poet-engineer who wrote spanning tree protocols and prose to match them;
where the only thing you had to do to connect to other humans was to be "capable of sending and receiving packets";
where we share spare GPU cycles to search for extra-terrestrial life or to run HPC workloads for curing cancer;
where the internet was wild and unstructured and embryonic and so full of potential and life and --- I'm not sure - vectors? paths? possibilities?
At which fork or trunk or change did the current slop-enshitti-net emerge?

2026-03-23 08:19:23 UTC

Are you based in #Australia?
Work with #Indigenous #Languages?
Want to shepherd the nation's work with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages?
Now hiring: #EO role
https://idil-australia.au/resources/we-are-hiring
#FediHired
#GetFediHired

2026-02-16 10:16:24 UTC

Welcome to Geelong, Australia where it's currently 29 C at 2115hrs with a predicted low of 22 C at 0600hrs tomorrow.
No, we have not ratified the Kyoto protocol. What's climate change?

2026-01-30 05:47:28 UTC

On Tuesday night, I successfully defended my #PhD thesis on #dataset #documentation as a leverage point for better speech technologies at #ANU #Cybernetics! 🎉
I have some minor corrections and then I will officially be a #PhD. It's been a long six years!

2026-01-20 11:32:17 UTC

A characteristically brilliant piece of writing from @npub1fdr…lvhs on the #AI bubble and the labour economics driving it.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

2026-01-09 02:52:06 UTC

Are you evacuating in the #vicfires?
Register with Register. Find. Reunite. before you leave so you can be tracked and accounted for:
https://register.redcross.org.au/

2025-12-14 11:12:32 UTC

Bondi - what you can do to help
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Blood donation:
https://www.lifeblood.com.au/donor-centre/nsw/sydney-town-hall-donor-centre
There are donation slots available from tomorrow morning
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Reach out to your friends who are in Sydney or who are Jewish.
They may have lost loved ones, or have loved ones seriously injured in hospital.
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Reach out to your friends who are first responders
This event is the one they train for that they hope they never have to attend.
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Take care of yourselves
Media coverage can be overwhelming.

2025-10-29 10:31:46 UTC

This #CfP for short books in #AI #ethics may be of interest to some folks here.
Deliberately tagging @npub15n8…nqhg @npub15xv…0jms @npub1fqz…s3dt
https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/elements-in-ai-ethics-and-society

2025-09-04 02:19:30 UTC

The more every interaction with every organisation becomes mediated by a chatbot or agentic AI or some other form of automation, the more I think the future of progress depends on real people making progress via Signal chats or Mastodon DMs.
When every interaction is programmatic there is no room for joy, for spontaneity, for emotional resonance, for building of trust.
The organisations that will stand out are those that forge genuine, relational connections.
I trust my hairdresser and her sausage dog more than your LLM-bullshit-powered chatbot, major financial institution.

2025-07-25 21:21:29 UTC

Excellent article by #DanielSoufi for @npub1q5z…e7tk about declining quality, planned vs perceived obsolescence and how we are losing an appreciation for durable, well-crafted goods and experiences.
(English, I can't comprehend much Spanish, sorry)
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html#?prm=copy_link

2025-07-05 02:55:44 UTC

It started slowly.
Seattle-based companies made the move to Vancouver, with generous re-location packages.
The Valley, bit by bit, moved northward, first capitalising on the cheaper real estate in Portland and Seattle, then joining the ex-SFats in Canada.
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SoCal had crumbled a decade prior - the nexus of water-guzzling, power-sucking AIs that mimicked Hollywood actors only worked as long as there was water and power - and Hollywood actors to mimic.
The LA fires of '32 had destroyed so much infrastructure the city was broke - and dry.
And once they'd been cloned and recast as AI avatars of themselves, actors retired - on albeit reduced residuals. No-one flew to LAX with a dream and a cardigan. Those left were either ICE agents or Undocumented they hunted.
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The Big Beautiful Bill had exactly the intended effect - an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor. You either had capital or you died - usually from something preventable like gum disease or pneumonia.
Those with capital moved north.
Those who only had labour - human, devalued yet expensive, connective yet computed labour - stayed. Inflation grew. The $USD sank.
The future, as the Great Dismal wrote, was already here - it just wasn't evenly distributed.
Five eyes became three when Australia and Aotearoa ripped up ANZUS in '30. Canada followed and Starmer, enjoying an unprecedented fourth term in a time of turmoil, made it one in '31.
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NoCal took a little longer - the vulture capitalists hanging on to the carrion of would-be unicorns, hoping to get a RoI.
After adding AI to everything, they had to enshittify to get a return. Inferencing a 5Q parameter model doesn't scale, even with a Redis cache the size of Sonoma county.
AI had, paradoxically, re-ignited the Open Source movement, who, determinists at heart, rejected the stochastic musings of the Bullshit Machines.
A team from Eleuther paired up with Wikipedia and dropped a reciprocal-licensed distilled RAG model that inferenced quicker than DeepSeek. They might have had help from CC Signals, who reached out to people interested in opening their information - but not for profit.
Then they used BitTorrent to do results caching. Inference cost dropped to marginal. A couple of big names saw, ahem, a slight decrease in market cap.
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Anyway, enough of the history lesson!
We're delighted to welcome you to Victoria Island, the new headquarters of FAANG, Inc.
We've pivoted a little in the last few years, and now most of our work involves geo-engineering so we can stay under 3 degrees.
We like it here, and we hope you do, too.
#TootFic #AlternateHistory #MicroFic #MicroFiction

2025-07-02 05:25:11 UTC

Are you a top US-based scientist looking to relocate to #Australia?
The Australian Academy of #Science is now offering generous relocation packages and guaranteed #research funding.
https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/are-you-a-top-us-based-scientist-wanting-to-relocate-to-australia
#FediScience
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2025-07-01 09:51:47 UTC

What a brilliant session with @npub15xv…0jms in conversation with @npub15n8…nqhg at #RMIT tonight.
Key takeaways:
- #BenderRule - name the language you're working in
- #AI is not one technology - it's many in a trenchcoat. Be specific.
- Who benefits from the changes wrought by AI and who bears the harms and externalities?
- AI is hype - learn enough to cut through it, ask difficult questions
- "Pile of racist linear algebra"
- Read everything by @npub1dqh…eq5y
- Read #TheAICon by Emily and @npub1e2z…n97d
- Read @npub187s…ft6l
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2025-06-19 02:52:37 UTC

Were you hoping to see @npub15xv…0jms in conversation with @npub15n8…nqhg in Melbs at #RMIT courtesy of #Readings but they were sold out?
Good news, they've moved to Storey Hall which is 4 x the capacity.
Get your tix 💖
#StochasticParrots #LLMs #BenderRule
https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

2025-06-05 02:10:56 UTC

Whelp, that coffee barely touched the sides, time for another one

2025-06-04 03:27:17 UTC

OMG SQUEEEE
@npub15xv…0jms is going to be in Melbs in conversation with @npub15n8…nqhg
Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT
Tuesday 1 July, 6pm AEST
Tix free:
https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai
To discuss her new book #TheAICon written with @npub1e2z…n97d
If you hate the #AI hype as much as I do and generally think of AI as bullshit generation and epistemic violence then you will love this.
If you loved the #StochasticParrots paper, you will love this.
I try and use the #BenderRule (Bender, 2019) in every talk I give - "state the language in which you practice" - because English is only 1 of 7000 other languages spoken in the world.

2025-05-24 03:37:46 UTC

Great ep of @npub1eyw…9004 with @npub157r…8pny interviewing @npub15xv…0jms and @npub1e2z…n97d and their new book The AI Con
https://open.spotify.com/episode/02nc4k4ZknOXVupuo9xOz8?si=f4692ed8b84948f6
Great deconstruction of the hype around AI which hides its harms.

2025-05-21 14:07:19 UTC

👀 new book from @npub1e2z…n97d and @npub15xv…0jms just dropped 🎉
brb, bookworming
don't wait up
also buy this book, that is all
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2025-04-17 00:20:54 UTC

I tried to brain before coffee and this was A Mistake

2025-04-11 03:31:12 UTC

If you watch one thing today, watch this impassioned, brilliant, incisive talk from Carole Cadwalladr for TED Conferences.
"It's a coup."
"A coming autocracy."
"A type of power the world has never seen before."
"The broligarchy doesn't want you to have a private life."
"We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism."
This. This is what a digital coup looks like.
Thank you Carole for your bravery. For leading the resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

2025-04-06 17:41:02 UTC

Observation: When I post on technical forums, I find that I am often writing sentences like "I am technical" or "I use Linux" to justify posting or to position myself as someone deserving of a technical response.
I want to stop doing this. I am technical. I don't need to continually justify it.

2025-03-31 03:19:01 UTC

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Strong agree - at the moment, the trade-off is between strong privacy - which Home Assistant offers - or strong functionality - which Alexa/Echo/Amazon offers - and to a lesser extent, Google Home.
The question at the heart of all of this is the business model. Apple gets a margin from all the Apple hardware, and tries to upsell subscriptions - like Apple Music.
Amazon is trying to imbricate Alexa into its e-commerce platform so that it can gain revenue from "agentic services" - service providers it will refer people too, for a cut of the customer acquistion.
Home Assistant is trying to generate revenue through the Nabu Casa cloud, as well as hardware like the Green, the Yellow and the Voice Preview, although looking at price I suspect there's not a lot of margin on the hardware. The privacy is a selling point for many folks I imagine with the HASS, although having Nabu Casa cloud as an option muddies the water somewhat - I haven't played with the Voice Preview to know whether on-device voice is viable or cloud is necessary.
There's another layer here - and that's the "privacy tax" that many disabled people face in accessing services - having to hand over more data to get access to services that meet their needs - whether it's means testing or qualifying information. Many disabled folx have higher dependence on voice assistants, so the harms and benefits equation is different than for able-bodied people. If you need a device's functionality, then you're more willing to give up privacy to be afforded those benefits - in effect a privacy tax.
I strongly agree we need more robust legislation here, particularly given the nature of market competition - or more clearly, the lack of it. You basically have Amazon, Google or Home Assistant.

2025-03-30 23:02:56 UTC

In which [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) is spot on the money, as usual, highlighting the #privacy and #trust issues in #AgenticAI
By @npub19g4…6a0t with ht to @npub1sr5…vdpm
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/

2025-03-14 21:57:19 UTC

From March 28th, Amazon will send everything you say - all audio utterances - to the cloud, removing support for "processing on device". Billed as necessary to support Voice ID + Alexa+ features, there are significant implications for #privacy #VoiceAssistant
Nuanced and informed reporting by #ScharonHarden for @npub15wh…e9hw
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

2025-03-10 12:36:57 UTC

I didn't expect "using a Torrenting client to seed US government scientific datasets because the policy settings are erasing years of research" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.
You wouldn't download America's scientific research output would you?
#SafeGuardingResearch
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2025-02-06 22:17:36 UTC

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literally tears streaming down my face 🫂

2025-02-02 21:58:06 UTC

Why brain not work? Why brain ugg?
Ah Brain need Coffee.

2025-02-02 04:11:40 UTC

Great ep of the #TechWontSaveUs #podcast where @npub157r…8pny interviews #JathanSadowski about his new book - The Luddite and the Mechanic.
Great framing of the Mechanic *doing* things and the Luddite understanding *why* those things were built and who they serve.
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/259_how_to_see_tech_like_a_luddite_w_jathan_sadowski

2025-01-13 11:18:36 UTC

Really interesting #LLM #AI model from the Berkeley #NovaSky team - the #SkyT1 reasoning model is fully #OpenSource, and includes the training data - it falls short in comparison to the o1 model from OpenAI but can be trained for $USD 450 - compared to $millions.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/researchers-open-source-sky-t1-a-reasoning-ai-model-that-can-be-trained-for-less-than-450/
https://novasky-ai.github.io/

2024-12-27 05:35:44 UTC

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"Grief is the price we pay for love".

2024-12-25 21:03:51 UTC

TOTAL FIRE BAN IN EFFECT FOR VICTORIA
The entire state of Victoria is under a total fire ban order today, ahead of soaring temperatures and strong winds. These are the worst conditions since the Black Summer bushfires of 2019/2020.
Enact your #bushfire plan, leave early.
The Grampians/Gariwerd fire near Halls Gap / Pomonal / Stawell is still out of control and expected to grow.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-26/boxing-day-total-fire-ban-bushfires-victoria/104762386
#vicfires
#bushfires

2024-12-24 01:03:06 UTC

I lost my beloved @npub180n…yxlj in September - it was his time, he was very unwell and he outlasted all expectations. I gave him a kind and painless crossing.
There were all the usual pieces of grief - his collar, which I haven't got around to cleaning and memorialising. Cleaning out his doggy toys. Vacuuming Under The Dining Room Table, which was His Space. Planting things in the gardening minus his generous and frequent deposits. Meeting Rosalie, my neighbour from Glasgow, whose house we would pass on increasingly short walkies, sans corgi and her saying "no more doggie?". No more doggie.
But it's hit me that he won't have any presents at Christmas - he was a family member and got his own presents. No more squeaky toys or deliciously stinky dried sausages or balls that lit up and zipped across the floor. No more fluffy corgi under the dining room table, waiting for some Christmas dinner leftovers. No more belly-full corgi snoring like a freight train.
No more doggie.

2024-12-23 22:45:55 UTC

I just figured out the reason why LinkedIn now has short videos - it's a way for you to turn sound on on your mobile device because so many ads now have sound.
So they're not just an engagement tool, they are a UX pattern to help advertising be more effective.

2024-12-23 02:20:34 UTC

Random thought: What if all those #GhostJobs posted by recruiters are actually ways for them to gather a whole bunch of PDFs for #tokenization to train #LLMs?

2024-12-22 04:19:48 UTC

I am replicating a paper on perturbation of audio files to reduce their ability to be used for speech synthesis. Good paper, good repo, well documented.
Please guess what I've spent the last four hours doing.

2024-12-07 08:05:44 UTC

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I just finished reading Johann Hari's Magic Pill - how have you found it?

2024-12-07 03:30:39 UTC

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that's a huge effort, well done

2024-12-06 14:48:20 UTC

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I am in Australia and had breast cancer at age 31 and was treated entirely or mostly for free.

2024-11-27 22:52:35 UTC

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because the Matrix UX is terrible

2024-11-27 12:32:22 UTC

I have done my duty as a privacy conscious technologist and my family group chat is now on @npub1rkw…5q62 🎉

2024-11-25 23:05:25 UTC

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100% agree

2024-11-16 00:35:05 UTC

You know it's proper bushfire season when:

2024-10-23 22:22:46 UTC

The @npub1hzk…xgzu #TechRadar is always on my must-read list - because it has a pulse on the future of where various technologies are headed, and provides practical advice around whether to Hold, Assess, Trial or Adopt a particular technology.
This edition's highlights:
➡️ #GenAI coding tools are causing antipatterns of developer behaviour, such as an over-reliance on coding suggestions, and a lack of abstraction - what we used to call code "elegance". "Quelle surprise", we collectively gasp.
➡️ #RAG - retrieval augmented generation - to strengthen the truth of generated responses from an #LLM - is a strong adopt - which tracks with what I saw at @npub1yz4…z776 last year, and other @npub1sq2…my47 papers. RAG all the things.
➡️ Rust is in ascendance due to its incredible performance, with some implementations previously using Python now offering Rust too. This matches with the signals I've been seeing across the ecosystem - with Rust also making headway in the Linux kernel space.
➡️ #WebAssembly #WASM continues ascendance due to its ability to deliver powerful applications through a browser sandbox
➡️ Observability 2.0 is rated as Assess, and I think this is wrong - my signals - Grafana, Honeycomb.io - would place this in Adopt. Also ClickHouse's maturity for storing @npub1vtp…3yc6 data ...
➡️ Bruno as an alternative to Postman for API testing and integration is rated as Adopt - and I am in strong agreement with this.
What are your thoughts?
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

2024-09-26 02:04:27 UTC

I'm keeping a close eye on this one as I think it's a case of #OpenWashing:
#KangarooLLM, backed by several major companies, including HP, is seeking volunteer contributors, volunteer Dataset Lead and a volunteer Bot Lead to build "Australia's first homegrown #OpenSource #AI".
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kangaroo-llm/
There is no presence for KangarooLLM on GitHub.
Their T&Cs indicate the LLM is Apache 2.0 licensed:
https://kangaroollm.com.au/privacy-policy-terms-of-service
with contributors "automatically agreeing to license their work".
https://kangaroollm.com.au/

2024-09-24 00:13:30 UTC

First Languages Australia are hiring - so if #Indigenous #languages #linguistics are your jam, these roles might be, too
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Administration Officer
The Administration Officer will play a key role in coordinating nationwide consultations, managing logistics, budgets, and communication with stakeholders. This role requires proactive engagement with communities and meticulous planning to ensure the success of these consultations as well as regular nationwide and interstate travel.
Legislation Policy Advisor
As part of the same initiative, the Legislation Policy Advisor will be critical in shaping the legislative framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This role involves engaging with communities, researching existing policies, and drafting strategic recommendations to influence future legislative measures. The position requires regular nationwide travel, providing a unique opportunity to contribute to the future of First Nations languages.
How to Apply
To apply, please use the links below.
Administration officer: https://www.seek.com.au/job/78478383
Legislation Policy Advisor: https://www.seek.com.au/job/78478447
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#FediHiring #Job #Australia #AU

2024-09-18 01:00:17 UTC

Is there a term yet coined for the tipping point where a website becomes unreadable due to the invasive nature of adverts, popups and interstitial unrelated content that then reduces the value of the advertising for the website publisher because we don't use that site anymore?
I think this is different to #enshittification because neither the publisher nor the advertiser want to lose viewership. Is it a form of resistance?
#surveillance #advertising

2024-09-16 02:42:00 UTC

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"top effort"?

2024-09-10 23:50:52 UTC

Absolutely the fuck not.
#SpeechRecognition #Advertising #Surveillance
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

2024-09-05 22:02:25 UTC

Huge congratulations to #TeHiku Chief, and advocate for #TeReo #DataSovereignty, Peter-Lucas Jones, on being recognised as part of the @npub1eza…f2qr #AI100. Huge congratulations!
https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/

2024-08-29 08:26:56 UTC

If you happen to be a government minister making decisions about what questions to include in a #Census, there are some excellent books on categories and category work that are important reading.
Our world is built on categories. Categories have power. And those people for whom there are no categories are dis-empowered, marginalised - and uncounted.
Data Feminism, by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein, takes an intersectional feminist view of data analytics, showing how data do not speak for themselves, and how the work of data analysts - category work - is crucial to social change.
https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star is an exploration of how categories form part of infrastructure, blending into the background, invisibly shaping the world. Bowker and Star show how categories legitimate various things - types of work, types of people.
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4738/Sorting-Things-OutClassification-and-Its
Categories we Live By: How we classify everyone and everything by Gregory Murphy shows us where categories come from, how they are shaped, and the power they have.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547031/categories-we-live-by/
The government is responsible for "category work" in the census - defining the categories that shape Australia, and the categories that make people invisible - or serve to hide them.
The #Census is category work. And we need better categories.
#AusPol #Equality #CensusFail
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2024-08-28 15:16:40 UTC

Great interview with [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) in @npub1ejm…4j05 from @npub13va…aerq talking @npub1rkw…5q62, #surveillance, #privacy and #sustainability
"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."
https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

2024-08-27 09:35:07 UTC

"The greatest gift you can have in life are people who tell you the truth" - Roxanne Gay in conversation with Jan Fran for the #WheelerCentre
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2024-08-25 04:17:11 UTC

In an activity that is triple on brand for me, I am sitting in a library cafe, drinking coffee, writing up my #PhD thesis on my #Boox
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2024-08-25 01:34:32 UTC

Most folks I know understand the deep respect and admiration I have for #libraries, #galleries, #archives, #museums - #GLAM institutions who not only preserve our cultural heritage, but have a key role in shaping our cultural #futures.
So it should come as no surprise that I'm thrilled to be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia this October.
The lineup features leading academics and practitioners. Along with 5 other speakers, FF24 will feature more than 30 contributors from the #AI4LAM community around the world.
Technology, language, history and creativity will converge in #Canberra for four days this October when global leaders from galleries, libraries, archives and museums gather for Fantastic Futures: the world's first in-depth exploration of the opportunities and challenges of #AI for the cultural sector.
The conference experience includes pre-conference workshops, tours of Canberra, and the NFSA facilities. Attendees will also have access to the exclusive conference dinner, and can enjoy a performance by the award-winning Australian audiovisual artist and composer, @npub1q5x…r62k fox audio
Conference tickets are selling fast, so grab yours now and explore the full program. Tickets sales close 30 September: https://bit.ly/4dgmB4T
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2024-08-21 08:16:27 UTC

WANTED: #Internship / Junior #software engineering role around #Geelong / Western #Melbourne / #Naarm
I have a friend who is about to graduate from Deakin's software engineering course, and she is seeking an Internship / Junior Software role.
She's across software dev, mostly backend, #cybersecurity, #Python, #Rust, #C++, #javascript, #typescript.
Any place recommended should be queer / trans-friendly / welcoming.
Genuine leads appreciated, happy to make introductions offline.
#FediHired
Boosts appreciated
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2024-08-20 09:16:54 UTC

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2024-06-11 09:55:28 UTC

Is anyone I know going to see @npub1vt7…5vdp at the #WheelerCentre in #Melbourne #Naarm on 26th June? 6.30pm to 7.30pm
I have my ticket already, would love to catch up for coffee / bevvies before or after.
https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/surveillance-technology-and-ai-meredith-whittaker-in-conversation/