How are things going in the other spaces?

Well, if you ask people in DMs on Twitter if they want a Bluesky invite, the DM never goes through. (Asking if they want something like a "y k s e u l b" invite does, and I've confirmed this multiple times).

I wrote for Slate "You can’t half-heartedly resist censorship: Social media platforms should do everything possible to fight such restrictions, rather than accept defeat when faced with threats of throttling" as in Turkey. This is a response to Musk explaining the local context. https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/turkey-elections-twitter-free-speech.html

The GDPR Article 26 infringement identified by CNIL is interesting, but the decision doesn't really address the fundamental issues with extensive personal data sharing across thousands of companies in today's surveillance marketing ecosystem, from ID matching to profiling to RTB.

“ Steve Wozniak: If you want to learn about AI killing people, “Get a Tesla” “ – SkyMagzines
https://skymagzines.com/steve-wozniak-if-you-want-to-learn-about-ai-killing-people-get-a-tesla/

#Tesla
#Elmo
#ElonMusk
#AI #ML #SelfDriving
#Artificialintelligence
#MachineLearning
#EthicalAI
#AIEthics
#BigTech
#BigData
#Apple

In Russia, “once-elite universities are allegedly pursuing research agendas dictated by the Kremlin on topics like “patriarchal values and institutional practices that protect and preserve traditional, spiritual and moral values” and “risks to Russia’s economy posed by the West’s global climate agenda.””
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/russia-war-with-no-end

This is an outstanding reply to, and analysis of that Pamela Paul column in the New York Times that began this way:

"A paper that says science should be impartial was rejected by major journals. You can’t make this up."

Dave Karpf, an academic, takes it apart. He also testifies as a particiant in the peer review system. Worth your time.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/pamela-paul-cancel-culture-grifters?utm_medium=ios

#nytimes #journalism #peerreview #science

We lost our blue check mark on Twitter. We’ll always have it in The Wayback Machine… https://web.archive.org/web/20230420025328/Twitter.com/internetarchive

An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, according to the new study.

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training-nuclear-1850324249

Two more weeks to apply for these positions!

The media, at least those that are even bothering to cover it, are truly missing the forest for the trees. The disaster of the bird site is not its garbage performance and functionality “clunkiness.” It’s that it’s a goddamned misinformation fascist propaganda engine. That’s it. That’s the story. I’ve been trying to get journalists to cover it. Guess I have to do it myself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/technology/elon-musk-twitter-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

1/3 🎉Today, members & close EDRi friends are coming to Brussels to celebrate @edri's 20th anniversary.

We'll be joined by the EU Commission's Executive Vice-President @vestager & @signalapp 's President @Mer__edith and many more speakers.

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3/3 Join our celebration by sending us your birthday wishes, favourite memes or positive visions for the future at➡️brussels@edri.org.

💙And support our work by becoming a monthly donor: https://edri.org/take-action/donate/

Folks, I encourage you to not work for @OpenAI for free:

Don't do their testing
Don't do their PR
Don't provide them training data

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110029104362666915

Very excited to announce that we have 4 new vacancies (3 PhDs & 1 postdoc) at IViR in Amsterdam in my new research group on law and governance of quantum technologies, focusing on questions related to law and digital infrastructure.

PhD - Governance of Access to (Quantum) Computing;

PhD - (Quantum) Data Governance and the Law of Sensing and Measurement;

PhD - Law and Innovation in Quantum Technologies;

Postdoc - Constructing the Field of Quantum Technology

https://www.ivir.nl/law-and-governance-of-quantum-technologies/

:blobcataww:

"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at www.davidmbird.com."

https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/

#birds #wildlife #critters

And LOL @ Brad Smith bragging "It has been the case that with each passing day and week we have been able to improve the accuracy of the results" (from BingGPT).

MSFT and OpenAI (and Google with Bard) are doing the equivalent of an oil spill into our information ecosystem. And then trying to get credit for cleaning up bits of the pollution here and there.

that college student the New York Times just published for no good reason once compared criticizing transgender people to criticizing Nazis, because of course he did.
https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/a-new-york-times-guest-essay-exposes

@becha I'd be happy to! Could you mail me about it? (vanhoboken at uva nl)

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