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Meredith Whittaker

Sitting at the dining table, busy condensing 60 pages of unruly notes into 15 pages of more or less coherent text for my upcoming talk at @CCC.

Every so often I glance up from my computer on this, Christmas Eve, and catch the eye of a family member whose suspicious gaze lets me know that they still don't quite believe that there is in fact a real conference, attended by real people like me, scheduled on Dec 27th.

18 comments
Carol Romero

@Mer__edith @CCC :D I’m really bummed to miss it, especially after hearing you’re going this year! Hopefully, those of us not heading to Hamburg can catch the recording. Merry Christmas Eve

Weird Ugly Sweaters

@Mer__edith
With good reason...
I'm catching displeasure from certain quarters at working this week but even I would not imagine holding a conference in the middle of this time.

Anti. 🐘

@Mer__edith Wait until you'll see the signs that read: Finally, among normal people.

Will Berard 🫳🎤 🫶

@Mer__edith @CCC

Why does it sound like you deliberately leaving a public trail, because the last thing _you_ want to be suspected of is use of LLM, right? 😉🤫

Meredith Whittaker

@MrBerard @CCC Quite seriously, I would never. I write (to paraphrase Didion) to know what I think, and I accept talks at venues I respect whose thinking I want to engage with in order to have deadlines that help me move forward with certain inquiries. I would NEVER schlepp myself to Hamburg during the most relaxed time of year to read what a bot wrote at an hour dangerously close to my bedtime!

Will Berard 🫳🎤 🫶

@Mer__edith @CCC

I have shown that video of you calling chatGPT a bullshit machine to every class I taught (applying a 15+ age rating). 🙏

I can mouth it by heart "so..wastes your time... besmirches my name".

Keep telling them.

Alecs Ștefănescu

@Mer__edith so sweet to read of other folx doing the same thing tonight. I submitted a self-organized session on Relationship Anarchy at 38c3 and I'm still writing the zine that's supposed to form the basis of that presentation.

Looking forwards to your talk! :)

Mario Restuccia

@catileptic oh it's you organising the session on relationship anarchy! I'm so looking forward to it ✨

Doerk

@Mer__edith @CCC Unfortunately I didn't get any tickets, otherwise I would enjoy to listen. But yes, conferences starting at 27th of December are a bit odd.
Merry Christmas

ang_mo_uncle

@Mer__edith @CCC is it going to be good? BC your talk is at the same time as the one about dinosaurs....

René

@Mer__edith @CCC Wauw, hope you make it. Mayby some #ai (notebooklm) can help?

Sergius

@Mer__edith @CCC
Meredith spricht beim CCC? Pflichttermin 😅👌

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