Susan Campbell
@susangc7.bsky.social
(she/her)
Still not entirely clear on this whole social media thing. Apparently I am supposed to have something to say about everything?
I study how people use AI and do cybersecurity and stuff.
Still not entirely clear on this whole social media thing. Apparently I am supposed to have something to say about everything?
I study how people use AI and do cybersecurity and stuff.
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And it turns out the killer app. in human civilization is, "what if we murdered fewer people? Or even - now hold on to your hats for this one - what if we murdered no people?"
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And it turns out the killer app. in human civilization is, "what if we murdered fewer people? Or even - now hold on to your hats for this one - what if we murdered no people?"
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Quick cartoon because.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Quick cartoon because.
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::slowly stands while clapping::
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
::slowly stands while clapping::
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BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
#windows95
#windows95
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
#windows95
#windows95
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I’m fine with politicians who are good at riling up the people I don’t like, but if they don’t support trans people, I won’t support them at the ballot box.
August 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m fine with politicians who are good at riling up the people I don’t like, but if they don’t support trans people, I won’t support them at the ballot box.
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UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus.
apply.interfolio.com/171006
apply.interfolio.com/171006
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August 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus.
apply.interfolio.com/171006
apply.interfolio.com/171006
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We are hiring a one-year postdoc! Position involves team science with AI from a social science perspective (e.g., psychology, org behavior, communication, HCI, human factors, business technology, related fields).
Best consideration is Aug. 29:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Best consideration is Aug. 29:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Postdoctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: Founded more than 50 years ago with a specific commitment to advancing social justice, the INFO College enrolls over 2,500 students in nine de...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are hiring a one-year postdoc! Position involves team science with AI from a social science perspective (e.g., psychology, org behavior, communication, HCI, human factors, business technology, related fields).
Best consideration is Aug. 29:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Best consideration is Aug. 29:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
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I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME
Mercedes-Benz is teaming up with Microsoft to turn your cabin into a productivity zone, with Teams meetings on your dashboard, voice-activated AI for email summaries and seamless access to business logins and calendars.
They call it your third workplace.
#mercedesbenz #microsoft #cartech
They call it your third workplace.
#mercedesbenz #microsoft #cartech
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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NEW: To work on Defense Dept. computer systems, Microsoft engineers in China remotely instruct American “escorts,” who often lack advanced technical expertise.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack…
www.propublica.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: To work on Defense Dept. computer systems, Microsoft engineers in China remotely instruct American “escorts,” who often lack advanced technical expertise.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
“We’re trusting that what they’re doing isn’t malicious, but we really can’t tell,” said one escort.
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Hello friends! I am co-organizing a workshop at VL/HCC 2025 (in Raleigh, NC, this October) on human-AI sensemaking, with an emphasis on embodied/visual languages to build common ground between human and AI systems.
Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking
An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop
human-ai-sensemaking.github.io
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hello friends! I am co-organizing a workshop at VL/HCC 2025 (in Raleigh, NC, this October) on human-AI sensemaking, with an emphasis on embodied/visual languages to build common ground between human and AI systems.
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Democrats have consistently ceded the immigration debate to Republican talking points. For years. And Latino voices are absent. Immigration is a net good for this country. So get out there and say so.
June 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Democrats have consistently ceded the immigration debate to Republican talking points. For years. And Latino voices are absent. Immigration is a net good for this country. So get out there and say so.
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Please spread the word!
Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network
Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...
www.psychologicalscience.org
May 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Please spread the word!
Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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A general life rule: If a scam seems obvious to you, it wasn't meant for you. We can all be scammed. We're just able to see through cons for whom we are not the target audience. Treat those who get scammed not as jokes or inferior, but as humans just like the rest of us. One day, it could be you.
May 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A general life rule: If a scam seems obvious to you, it wasn't meant for you. We can all be scammed. We're just able to see through cons for whom we are not the target audience. Treat those who get scammed not as jokes or inferior, but as humans just like the rest of us. One day, it could be you.
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"You say you think the TIE Fighter should have better acceleration in War Thunder? Do you have any hard technical data to back that opinion up, boy?"
May 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"You say you think the TIE Fighter should have better acceleration in War Thunder? Do you have any hard technical data to back that opinion up, boy?"
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Kentucky might have horse races today. Baltimore has its own annual race with crocodiles, poodles and more.
Kinetic Sculpture Race hit the streets of Baltimore for 25th year
Celebrating its 25th year, Baltimore’s favorite spectator sport, The Kinetic Sculpture Race, took to the streets on Saturday.
buff.ly
May 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Kentucky might have horse races today. Baltimore has its own annual race with crocodiles, poodles and more.
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Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures
"If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
"If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
April 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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I feel in my heart that Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel, and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West are among the best examples of the Baltimore spirit that makes us the city we are. What other city would anthropomorphize literal dumpsters and turn them into civic heroes?
April 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I feel in my heart that Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel, and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West are among the best examples of the Baltimore spirit that makes us the city we are. What other city would anthropomorphize literal dumpsters and turn them into civic heroes?
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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the panopticon gets pettier www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.
www.theverge.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the panopticon gets pettier www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
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It'll be excellent weather for the first outdoor walking tours of the spring, this weekend! Come on out—
Friday Mar 7, 7pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows
Sunday Mar 9, 5pm, Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point
Book tix here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ or here: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/...
Friday Mar 7, 7pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows
Sunday Mar 9, 5pm, Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point
Book tix here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ or here: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/...
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It'll be excellent weather for the first outdoor walking tours of the spring, this weekend! Come on out—
Friday Mar 7, 7pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows
Sunday Mar 9, 5pm, Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point
Book tix here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ or here: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/...
Friday Mar 7, 7pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows
Sunday Mar 9, 5pm, Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point
Book tix here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/ or here: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/...
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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
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Answering some questions: the series covers the first novella "All Systems Red," I'm a consulting producer, and we've been working on it since 2021. (So it seems fast from the timing of the announcements but it has actually taken a million years in me-time.)
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
www.apple.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Answering some questions: the series covers the first novella "All Systems Red," I'm a consulting producer, and we've been working on it since 2021. (So it seems fast from the timing of the announcements but it has actually taken a million years in me-time.)