Matthew Varona

phd student @uoftcompsci! data visualization, HCI, birds 📈🤖🦜

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[Zixin (or Nicole, she/her) @zixinnic]

❤️👾 Ever wonder how people date AI chatbots? 👾❤️

You can learn in our paper "Negotiating Relationships with ChatGPT: Perceptions, External Influences, and Strategies for AI Companionship" which has been accepted to #FAccT2026!

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[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@ninajirachi upgrade toronto venue... please... 😭

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@DavidSmashfrica enough of causal inference. Give me casual inference, where you kinda just guess what happens next

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@DavidSmashfrica parking lot, Japan

[🦋 shiffman.lol @shiffman]

i like the color pink

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@hatimb00 “i swear im not addicted, its just that life loses all vibrance and meaning if i do not actively engage in the act of creation”

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@hatimb00 Has he tried meditation?

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@teamsecret this was my sign!! RAHHHHH 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@teamsecret this was my sign!! RAHHHHH 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[Team Secret @teamsecret]

RAHHHHHHH 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

#LabanSecret #ItLiesWithin

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@hatimb00 what about 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 games

[Matt Henderson @matthen2]

a thread with some of my top animations 📍🧵
https://t.co/kyAsrwERAT

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@DavidSmashfrica jonathan coulton reference ‼️

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@JotaroUT awesome! congrats Jotaro 😁

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@mikkogv_ fuck the big three tho… def drake focused but cole caught strays

[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@DavidSmashfrica hostile UX

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

I wish we could stop worrying about whether something is intelligent or whether something is general, and just focus on whether something is useful, whether something helps people, and whether something moves society in a positive direction.

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[Matthew Varona @infairvar]

@Fort1st He Who Must Not Be Named