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.
@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
@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.
@Mer__edith Wait until you'll see the signs that read: Finally, among normal people.
@CCC is short for "esCape Christmas Conspiracy"
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?
@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!
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.
@MrBerard Do you have a link to the video? @Mer__edith
@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! :)
@catileptic oh it's you organising the session on relationship anarchy! I'm so looking forward to it
@catileptic Oh wow I really want to see this :)
@Mer__edith @CCC hehe, my mother couldnt believe it either
@Mer__edith @CCC is it going to be good? BC your talk is at the same time as the one about dinosaurs....
@ang_mo_uncle @CCC Well, it will be recorded. So whatever you choose, you'll have the opportunity to judge for yourself at some pint
@Mer__edith @CCC I'll let fate decide. Fate if I have a seat in Saal 1 that I didn't need to give up for dinner.
@Mer__edith @CCC Looking forward
@Mer__edith @CCC I so wish I could drop by!
@Mer__edith @CCC Wauw, hope you make it. Mayby some #ai (notebooklm) can help?
@Mer__edith @CCC
Meredith spricht beim CCC? Pflichttermin
@Mer__edith "reality" usually has been a relative term
@Mer__edith @CCC that might give them an idea of the stage size
@Mer__edith Thank you very much for this deep and thought inspiring talk. Me and my friends/family as NPCs is quite frightening. You said you would publish your talk later. Do you already know when and where? Would be great to re-read it, since it was so much to think about.
@Gerbsen Looks like the recording is up. The answer to when the text will be published depends on when I find the time to do a close edit, add in the bibliography, format it, and talk with my CCC friends about where and how to distro. But I'd like it to be soon!
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-are-facts-love-privacy-and-the-politics-of-intellectual-shame
@Mer__edith thank you for the info. I would love to have the text also available in German (without LLM translation). I know a very good translator/reader/editor. In case thats something you are interested in plz let me know.
@Gerbsen Thank you! That's very generous, and I'd love to have it translated if that's a possibility. I hadn't thought that far ahead.
@Mer__edith
Finally got the time to listen to this. Thank you.
By the way, how is your book coming along?
@Mer__edith @CCC I was chatting with someone last night who said they had gone to a conference on the 26th December and I professed it was amazing that all these conferences happen just after Christmas, relaying your toot. Turns out this person was at the same conference, and saw your talk
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world @CCC@social.bau-ha.us
Currently halfway through the talk, it's crazy concise and i love it dearly
I am excited where past-you is gonna go with all these powerful ideas
@Mer__edith - Nah not really, only you and the other 14'999 participants.