We’re excited for the release of II member @lucab.phd ’s upcoming book, "Hidden Influences: How Algorithmic Recommenders Shape Our Lives." It's a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how recommender systems work and how they can be improved. bit.ly/3NgQZnG

the three stage of research

you probably know your social feeds aren't random. but why you're suddenly getting cat memes isn’t always obvious. often, it's due to it's recommender systems. in our new MEAP, hidden influences, @lucab.phd shares his take from working with 'em at Twitter. get it half off: hubs.la/Q03XnNbz0

Heading back from NeurIPS after a very intense week. Some personal thoughts: * the conference is huge, with 29k attendees total (including virtual). It’s very overwhelming especially if you have fomo * at the same time it’s also very humbling to be surrounded by so many great minds

the aftermath

blue tron is the best tron

my ai will write my review so your ai can score it

My contribution for the @techpolicypress.bsky.social and @datasociety.bsky.social series “Ideologies of Control” where we explore the relationship between power and democracy

LLMs are powerful tools that are being used to automate more and more tasks. When nuances are important—such as in content moderation—we should ask a lot of questions about their impacts on human rights. @ecnl.bsky.social wrote a great report, where I offered some comments. Read it below:

I wrote about Algorithmic Audits for Harvard Business Review! hbr.org/2025/03/what...

per my previous email

Hulu that's not how words work

earthquake?

The Italian Data Protection Authority @gpdp.it t has requested information to DeepSeek to confirm what data is collected and used. A similar move happened with ChatGPT in 2023, just before incognito mode was introduced. www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/...

wow they didn't even change the subject of the email

Comments on the second draft of the European Commission GPAI Code of Practice are due tomorrow am EU time. The document is an important step in the operationalization of the AI Act, together with the harmonized standards by CEN and CENELEC Some (random) interesting bits in no particular order:e

How do I get in in this research group?

going in 2025 like

In late October the @ec.europa.eu released a draft of the Delegated Act of Article 40 of the DSA, which mandates data sharing with external researchers. My thoughts on why it matters for @techpolicypress.bsky.social . Special thanks to Justin Hendrix. www.techpolicy.press/data-sharing...

the existence of Washington, D.C. implies the existence of Washington, M.A.R.V.E.L.

Looking forward to seeing folks today at the workshop @ #RecSys2023! facctrec.github.io/facctrec2023...

are you at KDD? come say hi! I’ll be speaking at the EvalRS workshop about responsible RecSys

gay lasers, activate!

i finished watching neon genesis evangelion and i only have one question: wtf??

actual bluesky today

new water just dropped

USA rest of the world 🤝 06/06

imessage adding auto audio transcript for voice message hoping whatsapp will do the same so the app will finally be usable again with europeans

embeddings are such a fundamental tool of the modern ML stack except no one takes the time to explain them in at the right depth read this great piece by @vickiboykis.com to know everything you always wanted to know about embeddings but you were too afraid to ask!

this is so sad to see. i remember talking to the team and they were so proud of giving data to academics for free and in turn that made twitter even more relevant

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PSA: @imightbemary.bsky.social is now here too, go follow her!

good morning

i think i got the worst possible notification in the history of the other app

i think i have both peaked and i’m somehow in big trouble

imagine a place where everything is cake, but cake is actually pork that place exists and it’s spain

lmao did they just turned off search entirely on the bird site?

hello darkness my old friend

infinite electricity glitch

it was an honor to spend the day at the Center for Algorithmic Transparency at the European Commission Joint Research Center to meet the team and talk DSA

then: hope the email found you well how the email found me:

no one: absolutely no one: europeans:

me signing for the second social in 6 months

POV: you are about to drink and proceed to extend the light of human consciousness