Laura J Watkins
ljw.bsky.social
Laura J Watkins
@ljw.bsky.social
Product Operations @Google

Prev: DevRel & Accelerators @eBay & some other places. FKA @pinkyswearing on Twitter
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I only want to be friends with people who are into 1978 Elton John performing "Benny & The Jets" with the Muppets.

https://youtu.be/jUVVuGlQPMs
Muppet Songs: Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Muppet Songs Want to see more Muppet Songs? Check out the Playlist! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnfTpIrAsxxWspjh9oN2oM1Hu4VcysZXz Thanks for viewing. Please Subscribe.
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June 1, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
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March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Reading a new Sarah Vowell essay is always a delight.
270 million American documents on-line; 12.73 billion to go. Sarah Vowel's fascinating look at the National Archives.
wapo.st/3zY6XMX
Opinion | The Equalizer
Sarah Vowell on the National Archives
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October 8, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Tis the season of Burning Man, where we once again decorate our bikes and drag out the bins of dusty decorations and supplies from our garage. Like Christmas, but for fun weirdoes.
August 20, 2023 at 2:38 AM
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wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped

probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/
June 6, 2023 at 7:23 AM
Ok, I get it re: the Apple VR headset.
But where they lose me is that it's controlled by repetitive tiny finger pinches/swipes.

iPhones & keyboards already have shit ergonomics... why repeat that again when space isn't a constraint?
June 6, 2023 at 2:17 AM
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I’m just gonna leave this here…
June 2, 2023 at 4:14 AM
I only want to be friends with people who are into 1978 Elton John performing "Benny & The Jets" with the Muppets.

https://youtu.be/jUVVuGlQPMs
Muppet Songs: Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Muppet Songs Want to see more Muppet Songs? Check out the Playlist! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnfTpIrAsxxWspjh9oN2oM1Hu4VcysZXz Thanks for viewing. Please Subscribe.
youtu.be
June 1, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Tuna is the cutest dog.
May 29, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Love to see Waystar-Gojo products in the wild.
May 26, 2023 at 6:30 PM
They're trying to launch the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign live on Twitter Spaces with Elon as host. But Spaces keeps crashing and the audio feed doesn't work and it's just... exactly what you'd expect from this squad of incompetent flamingoes.
May 24, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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moving from twitter to bluesky
May 12, 2023 at 1:42 PM
When your mom wants homemade spanakopita for Mother's Day you... make homemade spanakopita.
May 14, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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librarians are incredibly punk
May 13, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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twitter was cool because I did get 2 jobs because of twitter basically

but Bluesky is special because this is where I get to jeopardize that employment ❤️
May 13, 2023 at 9:15 PM
Sending out my annual signal to see
if anyone knows where you can get (or someone who'll ship) Uncle Saba's Poppadoms in the US.

They are *~ the greatest snack ~*

Pringles could never.
May 10, 2023 at 3:48 AM
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🚂🚂 Choo choo! Welcome aboard the LLM hype train! It’s me, the conductor, Mr. Trust & Safety Vendor Trying To Sell You Something!

But actually, all aboard for a thread about how both the promise and peril of LLMs for online safety are sorta overstated.
Hey, @caseynewton.bsky.social, I talk to a lot of #trustandsafety people who are sure that #largelanguagemodels based AIs will "soon" be ready for content moderation at scale.

Sound right to you?

#askingforafriend
May 5, 2023 at 4:05 PM
The old TWA terminal at JFK is wonderful. Just a groovy little 1962 time capsule.
May 1, 2023 at 9:37 PM