Little cat resting outside a rug store in Esfahan, Iran. 🐈😊

Hi friends! Let me know if you'd like to catch up in/around #neurips2024

After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data

Two exciting internship opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🎉 With FATE in NYC: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... With STAC (and collaborators in FATE) in NYC or Redmond focusing on AI evaluation and measurement: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

Really interesting new paper out of Stanford medicine. On a new set of previously unseen diagnoses, chatgpt scored an average of 90% + explained its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got 76%. Those randomly assigned not to use it got 74%. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

Palestinian starter pack

This app is finally giving early Twitter days and I'm here for it, hiii friends it's been too long 🥲

I want to create an incubator that funds atproto/bluesky experimental projects to the tune of $5k-$10k dev grants. I am sorely tempted to call it “Chemtrails”, because it seeds the ATmosphere Hit me with your best ideas!

Fairness definitions differ across groups! For white respondents, fairness = "proximity'' to assigned school. For Hispanic or Latino parents, fairness = "same rules'' for everyone. Cool work by @nilou.bsky.social + students

mental health break? you bet it did

Dunno if I’m doing this right,,, but lemme know what accounts need to be added to the #BlackExcellence Starter Pack. Journalists, Professors, Scientists, Musicians, Writers,,,

Ok here are some amazing Social Computing researchers (mostly post-phd for scope). They work on making platforms, like this one, better. go.bsky.app/869xER3

New #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Experiencing severe #CSCW2024 fomo, hi friends 👋🏼 Also, this is cool new by Merrie Morris "prompting considered harmful" cacm.acm.org/opinion/prom...

I’m at #CSCW2024, which feels like the right place to use Bluesky for the first time! I’m recruiting PhD students to UW HCDE who want to think about digital safety from a sociotechnical lens.

Many models produce outputs that are hard to verify for an end-user. Our new #emnlp2023 paper won an outstanding paper award! 🏆🎉 We show that providing a quality estimation model, can make a user better at deciding when to rely on the model. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.169...

Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the waist down his mother says in a statement to CNN. I have verified with GoFund Me that this fundraiser has been setup by his family. Donate Here www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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People critical of celebrating Kissinger's passing should understand that in a way it's honoring him, given how much he adored death.

Henry Kissinger “was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.” www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-...

You have GOT to be fucking kidding me with this

The deepfake crisis for women and girls has grown tremendously. It isn’t mentioned in most AI discourse, even though it’s the primary use of deepfakes by far. Now, it is being used to victimize dozens of teen girls. The perpetrators include their male classmates www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

FOIA documents: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide if US visa applicants' social media posts are "derogatory" to the US, as part of immigration enforcement (Joseph Cox/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

Loving this history of flight attendants' unions, rooted in their explicit feminism. I knew women cabin crew have been treated appallingly over the years but even I was not prepared for some of the stuff in this article.

BREAKING: A judge has blocked Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub's attempt to prevent an a new NYC minimum wage for delivery drivers. Now, the $18/hr rate for 60,000 New York City delivery workers can move forward.

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

This is terrible 😢 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Since 2020, I’ve been at the epicenter of a wide-reaching campaign to intimidate social media platforms into backing away from their investments in safety and security. It worked. New from me (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/o...

apparently in Alabama there’s a law that says if you plan to do something in another state that would be illegal to do in Alabama, that is itself a crime. essentially allowing prosecution for a phantom conspiracy, where no one ever planned an actual crime.

Banksy has a big heart, sometimes when the sun hits just right, it shows

“hey what should we call our new space laser project?” scientist who has never been social media once: “idk call it illuminati”

"Your ideas are radical" Bro, I just want everyone to have food, water, shelter and healthcare

Black people are asking that the mass media can have the guts to call it racist when a white supremacist writes a manifesto saying he's slaughtering us because we're Black & the publications are like meh...sounds like a tall order don't know if we can do that one.

🚨🏳️‍⚧️ opportunity to participate in trans technology research: we're looking for trans participants for a PAID research study. Primarily seeking folks in the SF Bay Area for an in-person design workshop this summer! screening survey: http://bit.ly/transtechdesign 🏳️‍⚧️🚨

Meta handed over the messages so ….

me: Historically, people married for survival and socioeconomic factors. Marriage for love is relatively recent her: Hold my Rumi

Talking about a 'schism' between 'AI ethics' and 'AI Safety' is an ahistorical misframing. Here's why: https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f

Honestly, twitter was a way to completely avoid your fb/insta community 😅

I see your AI generated fruit bus and I raise you vans that drive around neighborhoods in Iran selling fruit and veggies.

Moderation is key to a successful social media platform. Having racist shit yelled at me isn’t discourse and I am not weak for not wanting it.