Andrew Cooper

@pocooperose.bsky.social

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Associate Professor, Teaching Stream @UTSC Psych & GD-PCS 🇨🇦 Opinions my own. (he/him) Therapy mechanisms & preferences (CBT, MDD, PTSD, dropout); meta-analysis & meta-science; hidden curriculum & sci comm. Lately: psychology & videogames 🎮👾

Two comments back to back in Bsky feed, both referencing diarrhea and politics First post: “feels like we’re days away from the FDA making an announcement that having debilitating diarrhea is extremely based and alpha” Second post: “solid stools are woke”
Diagram ostensibly depicting one user’s outcomes from online dating for a month, showing colourful horizontal bars that branch and bend into categories like “ghosted” and “wasn’t interested” From https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/htfpudAu1h
The “faux shocked Kirk” meme, depicting an illustrated drawing of Captain Kirk from the 70s cartoon in two panels, one with hand on chin and the next with hand over mouth. He is a White male with brown hair wearing a mustard starfleet uniform
A slim middle aged white man with rusty brown hair in a white collared shirt and black tie and slacks doing a strange celebratory dance with his hands
Old meme shows a dark haired young man pointing with a pen at a white board with text superimposed on it, reading: “ the best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now”
Picture of a terracotta quadrupedal creature that appears to be made of plasticine with very large eyes and a vacant expression. The word “pongo!” Is written in rainbow letters overhead.
Slide in colourful font with dark background. Title reads “Why Should You Care”. First bullet reads “LLMs are plausible text generators. They organize words and characters into a response that fits the prompt in a purely mathematical sense. Second bullet reads “keep in mind the most important fact: when LLMs are correct about something, that is incidental, not by-design”