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geoAI, ethics, citsci, GIScience, prof @ McGill
Never underestimate employers' tolerance of mediocrity
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Ana Brandusescu
7 months ago
Human care reduced to five categories, three of which were deemed expendable.
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Bookshelfie
7 months ago
#booksky
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
7 months ago
The squirrels in my neighborhood are so literally overburdened with food that i routinely find whole slices of pizza in roof gutters and crooks of trees. But a full sized croissant abandoned in the geraniums, that’s new!
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Ana Brandusescu
7 months ago
"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public."
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Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/?utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev
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Not what's meant by human-in-the-loop
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How Big Tech Got Scammed by an 'AI'
YouTube video by Slidebean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1tCcS9TqY&t=1s
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Vox Media Union
7 months ago
Only nine (!!!!) days left in our contract. We’re still here bargaining for a fair contract from Vox Media.
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Vincent Ledvina
7 months ago
Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska
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Ted Underwood
7 months ago
“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.” I have become totally shameless
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Ana Brandusescu
8 months ago
Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act New from me and
@resieber.bsky.social
for Data & Policy
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!
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ESA Technology
8 months ago
🌕 📷 Mapping the descent of a lunar lander, using nothing but data from an event camera – this is the next challenge presented to the space community by
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National Science Foundation stops
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
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Pablo Perez
9 months ago
"We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are 12 countries on the waiting list to become 🇪🇺 members. In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are" President von der Leyen
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Because a single hard drive for the cloud storage saves so much money.
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Preach! This means-ends flip also shows up in AI governance: "all that is required of civic participation in AI governance is an AI literate public." Accountability? Political influence? Unnecessary.
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WeRateDogs
9 months ago
This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10
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"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk"
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CAUT/ACPPU
9 months ago
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more:
www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
https://www.caut.ca/latest/2025/04/caut-advises-academics-against-non-essential-travel-us
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BRICS News 📄
9 months ago
🇨🇳 China imposes export controls on rare earths, threatening US tech and defense supply chains.
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"the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era" Let me fix that for you "the search product had fundamentally enshitified in the AI era"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NDAzMzY5NywiZXhwIjoxNzQ0NjM4NDk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVFVFQkpEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQUZGOTQ2MjMzOTM0NjI5QURDODEzNDRGQ0QwODBBOSJ9.g2Pj57IAuRue1QQiAlaOTEhlYtO4CumxIwre3di6lHA&leadSource=uverify%20wall
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A geosurveillance public private partnership that you might not be aware of. Add to that questionable accountability when you have to rely on the private sector to protect your privacy
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Ana Brandusescu
9 months ago
"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
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UNI Europa
9 months ago
“We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.”
@euronews.com
covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.
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Union asks Commission to reassess public contracts amid trade war
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted at a “strong plan to retaliate” to US tariffs.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/04/02/union-calls-on-commission-to-reassess-eu-public-contracts-amid-trade-war
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Ana Brandusescu
9 months ago
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of presentations and discussions on my research in academia and policy. One of the common threads is the need for pragmatism in academic research, now more than ever. Excited to share more soon. For now, I will be retreating to my writing cave 🧛🏻♀️
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I'm waiting for someone to say reinforcement learning can't be added to foundation models bc it's biased
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Margaret Mitchell
9 months ago
"OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases" - WIRED tested the video generator and found that it "stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools." So appreciative that journalists are running evals.
www.wired.com/story/openai...
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OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases
WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sora-video-generator-bias
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Resistbot
9 months ago
Introducing: Complybot! The first chatbot that preemptively complies so you don’t have to. Why resist when you can pre-surrender? Complybot: Because nothing changes if you do nothing!
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Daily Grail
9 months ago
A reminder that Curtis Yarvin and the far right stole the meaning of 'taking the red pill' from the Wachowskis, and it would be really great if everyone stopped using the descriptor 'red-pilled' for that new meaning.
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Marisa Kabas
9 months ago
Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.
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“‘Emergency’ doesn’t even feel strong enough [to describe the situation],” said the ISC minister, Patty Hajdu. “It’s so urgent that we do more together to figure out what this next stage of living with climate change looks like for remote communities”
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‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
Northern Ontario is seeing a ‘shorter window’ for ice roads that deliver vital supplies to remote First Nations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/canada-ice-roads-first-nations-indigenous-communities-climate-crisis
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"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is". Cancelling McGill prof's talk at her alma mater, NYU. NYU is obeying in advance
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"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is": Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
9 months ago
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
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Mystic Aquarium
9 months ago
We're excited to share about a new species that now calls the Marsh Trek at Mystic Aquarium home! The rare spotted catfish is genuinely one of a kind. This elusive freshwater creature has never been seen by most, some even argue its existence.
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Michael Wong
9 months ago
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
9 months ago
despite popularised beliefs, LLMs are not fit for medical applications. SoTA models produce "non-trivial levels of hallucinations" even w inference techniques like CoT & search augmented generation:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05777
of surveyed clinicians, 53% use LLMs daily & 91% encountered hallucinations
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Josh Shepperd
10 months ago
RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague.
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This is so sad. In addition to being an incredible scholar, Jonathan was a fearless advocate for justice, opposing those who would stand against it, including the university
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Margaret Mitchell
10 months ago
Really disappointed to learn of the politicization of NIST. NIST has been a bastion of stability in the AI world, respected across political and ideological lines for its ability to define standards & benchmark the state of the art. Many people I respect are now gone.
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/
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alix e. harrow
10 months ago
in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people
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Tim Onion
10 months ago
No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.
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Do they not realize that in Snowcrash, written by one of the authors they venerate, the corporations were the bad guys?
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
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Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dystopian-freedom-cities-dream-fueling-elon-musks-destruction/
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"the illusion of progress though the strata". Important to always uncover the assumptions baked into our sciences
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice
Kathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology’s founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes ha...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/16/rocks-and-racism-how-geologists-created-and-perpetuated-a-narrative-of-prejudice
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Human debiasing was better than computational debiasing. But now, neither are to be allowed?? For once I'm happy that retraining is so costly Buy a @wired subscription! They're doing amazing investigative journalism
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WIRED
10 months ago
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
https://wrd.cm/41tb6Ct
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Santiago Mayer
10 months ago
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
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drewtoothpaste
10 months ago
no. next question
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@rokhanna.bsky.social
do your own damn ads! Don't rely on AI slop.
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The Tennessee Holler
10 months ago
How it started How it’s going 💰 🤷🏼♂️
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