Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶

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Followers

599

Account age

1 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.5%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2024

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: How many nunchucks could a nun chuck if a nun chucked nunchucks? · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

7.2 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.6×

Follows 930 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post How many nunchucks could a nun chuck if a nun chucked nunchucks? ★ 9

Another one of those that should be prefixed by "To no-one's surprise," Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/29/word-worm-crawls-into-copilot-spreads-chaos/5280588 #AI #Copilot #TheRegi… ★ 1 Anthropic writes system prompts like tokens grow on trees, but at least kudos to them for using the third person. leaked-llm-prompts/Anthropic/opus-5.md at main · Eversmile12/leaked-llm-prompts · GitHub https://github.com/Eversmile12/leake… ★ 2 - We need the state, and some taxation, self evidently, to fund these things which yield a social, but no economic benefits. Neoliberalism: Trust me bro, we can have market incentives for the public good, it'll work...think of the savings.… Another ep from my infrequent podcast on "Generative" AI in Higher Education. I speak to Dr Federica Frabetti, software engineer emerita, teaches media/culture studies, author most notably of Software Theory (2015) a (continental) philos… ★ 2 "I would like now to interrogate our knowledge of assessment through a framework affectionately known as 'Cotton-Eye Joe's': where did it come from, and where is it going?" #BerardGetsTheD #PhdLife #JokesIHaveToCutFromMyThesis #CottonEyeJ… "In fact, by making decisions on technology, we make decisions about what it means to be human. Ultimately, this is the sense of my affirmation that it is necessary to think technology _philosophically_ in order to think it _politically_."… ★ 2 Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side | Alan Turing | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/24/alan-turing-short-story Language anthropomorphising LLMs should be considered hate speech against our species. #AI #LLM #Anthopomorphism ★ 1 A less appreciated, but arguably even more problematic category of chatbot-induced delusion are _delusions of competence_ “AI not only ends the past, and makes the present frantic, it also forecloses any future. Under AI’s sway, the future is neither bright as the technopositivists promise, nor a descent into rule by robotic overloads, but a constant rehashin… in Guest, O., Suarez, M. and van Rooij, I. (2025) ‘Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243.

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mastodon.acm.org

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2024

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 1 year ago.

👁️Averages 3 views per post.

📤Posts about 7.2× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

61/100

Fair Credibility score

84%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.

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About

"I just want to make the world a better (read) place" Former tech bro turned tech uncle, computer science teacher, and Education PhD. My research is about LLMs (the AI chatbots of Big Tech, really) in Higher Education. I have a sideline in audio work. Providing occasional smutty narration for @ALTAfterDark, because #AccessibilityIsHotAF What a time to be alive! (derogatory)