siobhán o'flynn

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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. Canadian Studies UofT. Children's data privacy, DIgital Humanities & Social Sciences / DHSS. Digital/ geolocative /interactive storytelling, video games & game studies.
Cities / mapping hidden histories.
Speculative design & fiction. Life Design Educator. 
She/her.
Playing w MidJourney & w AI gen texts, Bitsy, Twine.
@sioflynn on Threads
Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’

The Guardian

Wow. Here's a whole new frontier of fun & errors:

Ask #ChatGPT to write a Wikipedia for you. Mine is 80% wrong. Not #hallucination just wrong. So much for AI tutors:

"Hi ChatGPT! write a wikipedia entry for Siobhan O'Flynn, academic, based in Toronto. Add in as much detail as you can on: Early Childhood; education; influences; notable career highlights; family life; personal life; publications; teaching; training and mentorship. Give details of thoughts of friends and colleagues too."

I asked #ChatGPT the following. Then a script of the first episode. It invented a next-gen device from an existing product & company, Lovense. Pretty solid overall:

"Hello! Can you write me a short pitch for an Ezra Klein podcast on teledildonics and the future of wellness in the style of Ezra Klein that Ezra Klein would like to do on the The Ezra Klein Show? Include details of new tech innovations in the field of teledildonics, wellness tech, and accessibility tech."

cc @ezraklein

I have made tons of #pico8 games over the years ✨

22 games for just 15 € 🙏

https://itch.io/s/90299/creator-day-and-sale-pico-8

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Creator Day and Sale - PICO-8✨ by Elastiskalinjen

A bundle by Elastiskalinjen, 15.00€ for 22 games

itch.io
Is this the end of the Twitter research era? The graph shows tweets over time coming into one of our V1 API data collections.

I am thrilled to share details of the 2023 Barker Fairley Event at University College! Join
Thea Lim, Sheila Heti & Suzette Mayr for a vital discussion, "Money's Too Tight to Mention: Writing Novels About Labour"

March 27, 6-8 pm. LIVE! Registration:
https://uc.utoronto.ca/bfv2023

this is amazing - so glad to see Jeff Barnaby remembered in this way

'Last week, Netflix and imagineNATIVE announced the Jeff Barnaby Grant in honour of his contributions to Indigenous narrative sovereignty, genre film, and Canadian cinema.

Five Indigenous film and television creatives across Canada with productions at any stage in the horror, thriller and futurism genre will each receive $25,000 to support their projects.'

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/new-grant-for-indigenous-filmmakers-launched-in-honour-of-jeff-barnaby-1.6247694

New grant for Indigenous filmmakers launched in honour of Jeff Barnaby

Sarah Del Seronde is a big believer in interrogating the word 'legacy,' particularly as it relates to her late husband, the filmmaker Jeff Barnaby. Before his death in October, the 46-year-old had an outsized influence on Indigenous storytelling -- and Seronde said that part of his work is ongoing.

CTVNews

Does anyone know current numbers of #midjourney users? accounts? # of images generated?

trying to find stats on how big & how rapid the growth.

#ai #midjourneyAI

College student made app that exposes AI-written essays

Edward Tian, a computer science student at Princeton, built an app called GPTZero that can “quickly and efficiently” label whether an essay was written by a person or ChatGPT.

Polygon
Stolen data on 200 million Twitter users now being given away | IT World Canada News

Twitter account information on 200 million users, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump Jr., is now available for free on a hacker forum, according to security researchers. The researchers at Privacy Affairs, a group of experts in several countries, say the data comes from the same trove of information on 400 million Twitter

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