Work in #archives, #OpenContent, #editing, #libraries or #OpenData? => #WikiconAustralia, brought to you by @wmau.bsky.social, hosted at the @nfsaonline.bsky.social Includes tutorials on #OpenRefine, and workshops on handling #Indigenous material appropriately. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

Are you at @everythingopen.au today? Come join my tutorial after morning tea where I'll cover fine-tuning #Whisper #ASR models using @mozdatacollective.bsky.social datasets! #EO2026 #EverythingOpen

The inimitable @attacus.net has been in my bookshelf! Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality. My faves: James C Scott - Seeing like a State Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes #pyconau

At @pyconau.bsky.social #pyconau Dr Arwen Griffioen presents an anti-oppresive framework for #AI and #data ethics - red team your models for #bias, centre the voices of the people who are most likely to be harmed, monitor continuously, for distributional shift. Use your privilege to push back.

On Friday I was delighted to attend the launch of @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI - in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social and @drwaus.bsky.social with introductions and framing from @lisagiven.bsky.social and Lizzie O'Shea. 1/4

With my @mozilla.org Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets. Better #AI requires better #data - authentic, human. 2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...

So proud of my #ANU #Cybernetics alum, colleague and friend, Alison Kershaw, for winning the Unsung Hero of #SciComms Award at the recent #NationalScienceWeek launch at the South Australian Museum. Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎 whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...

NEW BOOK EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE THAT IS ALL

This is Tim Tam, he passed over the Rainbow Bridge in September, as a baby corgi in 2014 xx

One reflection I have on #USpol at the moment is that resistance is strongly bound to #infrastructure - the technical systems, data, access and so on that can enable or thwart Musk's coup d'etat. The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?

5.15am and 162 incidents on the Vic Emergency app - and it's going to be 38° C today. Worst storm we've had in decades. #Geelong #VicStorms

It's totally surreal, but not unexpected that a train station we stopped at - Dimboola - on the Overland to #Adelaide last week is now being evacuated due to #vicfires. Every dam on the way through was nearly empty - the ground dry, parched and thirsty. Western Vic to Adelaide is a tinderbox.

🌟 The late Liz Williamson's work - Weaving Eucalypts - was a global collaboration with artists in Bangladesh, India and Australia, using silk dyed with eucalyptus leaves. The installation resembles an arboretum, and highlights the importance of connecting to the real world.

🌟 Don Dunstan's emblematic pink shorts - the act of wearing which was radical in its time, and symbolic of LGBTQI rights.

🌟 Future woven floral forms (black) 3 by GRACE LILLIAN LEE which wove culture with art, evoking the tension of constriction and freedom of inhabiting multiple cultures.

🌟 Refugee Astronaut by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, which explored themes of migration and adaptation - of both people and artefacts.

Age yourself with your first computer

LOL like just recruit me already #remotework #MLOps #datascience

I am spending Boxing Day working on my @everythingopen.au #EO2025 talk on "Token Wars" and doing a little light reading to brush up. Your attention is all I'll need 😉 #NLP

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

I would like a new weather please, mine is broken. #vicheatwave #vicfires

The Mozilla #CommonVoice #speech #dataset v20 was released yesterday. Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below. observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...

Delighted that my abstract "Token Wars: Why everything shouldn't be open" has been accepted to #EverythingOpen, happening in Tarntanya/Adelaide in January 🎉 💪 I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI. Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au

The @opensource.bsky.social released the #OpenSource #AI definition this week, stopping short of requiring that #datasets used for training AI models also be openly available. The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches. blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...

#libraries, #galleries, #archives, #museums - #GLAM institutions preserve our cultural heritage, and have a key role in shaping our cultural #futures. I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T

Well that's my duty done as both an Aunty and a #nerd