THREAD: Hello all, my latest Middle East Eye story was published today, and it's on a story that has caused global shock: a HRW report has revealed that unprovoked massacres of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi border guards near Yemen shooting at them for sport, left hundreds if not thousands dead in the last 15 months. My story includes interviews with two survivors, and the details are gruesome enough to require a CW from this point on.

#SaudiArabia
#Ethiopia
#migrants
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ethiopian-survivors-mass-killings-saudi-yemen-border-recount-horrors-massacre

@martinmeany Hi Marty, what do you mainly use it for?

We've finally done it. @emilymbender and I have turned Mystery AI Hype Theater into a podcast!

https://buzzsprout.com/2126417

Our amazing producer, Christie Taylor, has helped us turn this into a pod. Now you can listen where ever fine podcasts are sold. Also leave us nice reviews on your favorite podcasting site.

The first three episodes on our inaugural target are up, but more are coming soon.

Google really fired Timnit Gebru only for its CEO to recycle her warnings as talking points every two weeks a few years later.

Related: "Each £1,000 donated will send one more student to this year's Deep Learning Indaba.

African #machinelearning is strong and varied. ​… Africans must be contributors, shapers and owners of the coming advances in machine learning. The #DeepLearningIndaba is our effort to strengthen the foundations of African machine learning, and to increase the participation of African researchers in the field."

https://gofund.me/fac92d6e (h/t @timnitGebru)

@JoBlakely thanks, Jo, will check it out. You might also be interested in this particular panel of @DAIR's #StochasticParrotsDay which touches upon the exploitation of data workers in #Kenya in more detail:

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/p/5k7JempgUbCAcpTjUZPuKQ?playlistPosition=2&resume=true

Most definitely worth a subscription:
https://www.thecontinent.org/

"Data is the new gold. They will extract the data from us, create programs and then sell those programs back to us. And then all the profits flow out."

- Pelonomi Moiloa in the latest edition of The Continent on the importance of African AI solutions.

#AIethics #chatgpt #bard

Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Together always, united in diversity.
But it's also a sad reminder that the rights of so many people in our community are still not respected in a lot of places. And the lives of many people are still in danger.
#IDAHOBIT

"Conservative outlets, through dumb luck or cunning wisdom, found themselves perfectly counterpositioned, unfairly distributed, and robustly monetized. Liberal digital media startups, like Slate or BuzzFeed, learned these lessons too late."

https://every.to/napkin-math/why-are-republicans-better-at-making-money-on-the-internet

@dwsmart @danielle_r that perception also enables non-native speakers to focus on the actual topic rather than their language (as long as the speaker can still get every point across).

Quite a balance statement to wake up to.

Just got laid off by Shopify. wondering if anyone needs an experienced frontend developer?

@drewtoothpaste https://youtu.be/7vObEK3Lbp4

@tentaclequing you probably came across it elsewhere but maybe @mmitchell_ai's thread on Google's misinformation regarding Bard "learning" a new language from scratch.

https://mastodon.social/@mmitchell_ai/110215730162166630

@mariyadelano hear, hear. Truly hoping it's not only wishful thinking of all of us.

A good list of common mistakes as a manager.

A fundamental insight is different people need different levels of oversight and you can’t have a one size fits all approach to managing a team. What is micromanaging for one is providing guidance for another.
https://www.benkuhn.net/newmgr/

We all get too many emails but here's one I'm glad I set-up.

Losing the domain of your website or #business would be a disaster (having had to help clients who lost theirs to a dropped domain buyer, I can tell you it is!).

A bullet dodged?

Only just! The card I'd set-up on the auto-renew had expired. Gulp.

If you don't already have auto-renew set-up on your domain, do yourself a favour and go do that now. And, in this rare instance, make sure you DO check the "Can we email you?" box.

Okay, #60Minutes is saying that Google's Bard model "spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know." I looked into what this can mean, and it appears to be a lie. Here's the evidence, curious what others found. 🧵

1-The exact language referred to seems to be Bengali.
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11980033/Google-CEO-says-doesnt-fully-understand-new-AI-program-Bard-works.html
I can't stomach the 60 minutes piece; here's the Daily Mail naming it. (Will check transcript when avail.)

@glenngabe full thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mmitchell_ai/110215730162166630