Kat Lo
@lolkat
Producer for @hbomberguy, Content Moderation Lead @Meedan. Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, T&S, mental health. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs with examples of posts now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/fac…
It’s insane how far gamers will go to give transparently bad actors with many allegations the benefit of the doubt just so they can buy a video game with a clear conscience.
Please check your emails and all your DMs!!! (yes including on LinkedIn)
Still waiting on about 30 people to reply to emails for the Plagiarism Reimbursement project, so hopefully those people check their spam folders. If you suspect you were plagiarised by a certain creator last year, please do that!
Turns out the best way to get over tweeting anxiety is to not tweet. Let’s fucking chill on Bluesky @lolkat.bsky.social 🤠
Re: the left needs more podcasters/influencers to combat the joe rogans and Andrew tates of the world This is why that won't work Dropout is a very left leaning company in both actions and policy. They supported the writers strike, their crew is still masking on set, and they
Since Monday, Dropout has received an unsustainable amount of physical threats to the safety of our staff and existential legal threats to the company.
takeaways from this: 1. it’s going to be fine. organize 2. the right is going to demolish america as a functioning government institution 3. the democratic party leadership needs to be systematically destroyed for the good of the future 4. we will all be okay
they burned ballots in georgia, lost over 3000 mail in ballots and made bomb threats all day which led to make polls closing early and people having no where else to go to vote. if this isn’t voter suppression idk what the fuck is
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
New from 404 Media: in a massive shift, Telegram says it now *will* provide user data to authorities in response to legal orders. Includes IP addresses and phone numbers. Yesterday privacy policy said just terror suspects. Now it is crimes more broadly 404media.co/telegram-chang…
I’ve been on /r/therapists a lot lately for research and I just started getting this ad all the time…eeeheheehhehee fuckers
"Most concerning is the illusion that LLMs are retrieving information rather than constructing word associations. LLM responses are statistically likely rather than factually accurate. Sometimes these things correspond, but often they do not." E. Salvaggio techpolicy.press/challenging-th…
What are some good nonprofits committed to defending small authors against plagiarism and IP issues?