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Researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not.) SEEKING WORK! Member
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If you are in a position of power, speak up and change minds.
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This is the sort of thing the attackers make: synthetic copy of the target's voice which then reads out their home address, other text, and then posts the audio in a video to Twitter. Twitter has barely acted on the doxing, which clearly violates policies vice.com/en/article/93a
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I pointed this out to a male colleague, a number of yrs ago - he didn’t believe it happened! 🤦🏼♀️ I specifically told him to watch for it when we where in a meeting with our male boss.
My colleague was stunned & apologetic after witnessing what I’d pointed out.
#EveryDaySexism 😡
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Here's a tip for #MenInSTEM: interrogate your own biases. Watch out for the deeply enculturated ways you have been taught to regard women as less intelligent and capable than you. It's likely in ways you don't even realise. #WomenInSTEM
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By reverse, men have to understand that whenever they open their mouths, they have the unfair advantage of being assumed competent and knowledgeable. By both other men and women too - we are enculturated in this as much as you. #WomenInSTEM #MenInSTEM
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Men can use this advantage to support #WomenInSTEM instead of simply benefiting from it. 1. Listen (I mean really listen) 2. Think about your assumptions before arguing or disagreeing 3. Amplify and acknowledge. #MenInSTEM
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Don't believe me? Here is more about the credibility gap. What I'm asking #MenInSTEM is to understand and believe that you - yes you personally - contribute to this. Recognise and eradicate this in your own behaviour. tedxmilehigh.com/gender-credibi.
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This means women are always on the back foot, having to justify and argue about why their expertise is valid, and why they are the best judge of their own experience, while men have to do - precisely nothing. They are credible by default. #MenInSTEM
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Women report, and repeated studies confirm, a gender credibility gap. This means that a woman's expertise and experience are doubted in the first instance. Men's expertise and experience (even when they don't actually have any!) Is believed in the first instance. #MenInSTEM
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Here's a tip for #MenInSTEM: interrogate your own biases. Watch out for the deeply enculturated ways you have been taught to regard women as less intelligent and capable than you. It's likely in ways you don't even realise. #WomenInSTEM
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These footprints in New Mexico might rewrite the history of the peopling of the Americas. #ScienceMagArchives
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This Sunflower Door in Prague features glowing ironwork flowers & is topped with an oculus of tulip-patterned stained glass. Designed in Secession/Art Nouveau style by Osvald Polivka & Vaclav Haver in 1900, it’s at Hastakska 1072/6 Old Town
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"Getting a complete fossilized insect is really rare, but getting a fossil of an insect from this long ago, that has this much detail, is pretty amazing and exciting." (From 2021)
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The failure of technology enterprises to hire social scientists in sufficient numbers will be seen by historians of the future as a tragic flaw of 20th & 21st century civilization...
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Yep. Hire. Anthropologists.
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I've seen a lot of people looking at the decisions in privacy coming out of Europe and going 'oh no how can you improve your products without tracking users without their consent?!?'
Lol buddy you could try talking to your users and then listening to them instead.
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Hire. Anthropoligists. We are "people systems" experts.
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To change the architecture of a software-intensive system ensconced in a large organization, you often have to change the architecture of the organization.
And ultimately, that is a political problem, not just a technical one.
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It's funny how folks talk about community development, but that conversation rarely includes the arts.
That has to change. We're not going to broadband our way to stronger communities. The arts have always been the missing link.
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Everything’s fine
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BREAKING 
: Scientists say a piece of the sun’s surface has broken off at the northern pole
‘A first-ever event’
: Scientists say a piece of the sun’s surface has broken off at the northern pole
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I think it's so short-sighted to think that books are dead. This rot must not be allowed to spread.
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Breaking twitter fast to howl to #librarytwitter that Vermont State University is coming for the books: vtdigger.org/2023/02/08/ver.
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This is tragic. Be very worried when they take away books like this.
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Absolutely not, this is crazy, what a disaster: Vermont State universities plan to eliminate libraries as physical spaces, along with the books: twitter.com/LeahAtWhatPric…
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Humans are cooperative and ONLY live in grouos. Hire Anthropologists.
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Neanderthals are thought to have lived in small groups of 25 or so people, but a trove of ancient elephant bones suggests they worked in much larger groups to hunt huge animals newscientist.com/article/235755
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Nope.
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Can we abstract emotion via algo?
"What came to us is, can we abstract things like expression or movements as early indications of volatility? "livemint.com/market/stock-m
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Do you want to read a comic book where a cartoon polar bear teaches you about Greenland's geology? I thought you did: govmin.gl/publications/g
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Hire. Anthropologists.
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TAKE HER UP ON THIS OFFER, PEOPLE OF TAIPEI.
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I'll be in Taipei next weekend. Anyone want to meet up and play some @tiltfive? DMs are open.
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Except that they all have different definitions of "safety," which tend to make wrong assumptions about people, and are likely to benefit #tech companies more than the public good.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith says that the whole industry is leaning into AI safety, “and that’s a good thing.”
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See also Applin and Fischer 2015: posr.org/w/images/b/b5/
Final: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/74394 #AI #algorithms
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Microworkers are the invisible labour making technological innovation possible. For @theleaduk I wrote about why AI won’t replace human labour, because it’s powered by it.
thelead.uk/ghosts-behind-
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Data. Not 'knowledge.' Knowledge is reasoned by humans. AI doesn't do that, or context, with any remarkable result.
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Couldn't be more excited to see this new #AI-powered #search capability become available for broad use. This is the beginning of a fundamentally new way to interact with the world's collective knowledge. twitter.com/satyanadella/s…
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Harvard is shutting down prominent social media influence scholar Joan Donovan's project at a time when such research is getting both more essential and more difficult.
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What was done to is frightening. We're in a race to study how and why social media is so vulnerable to misinformation so we can make these systems safer. We need her research, and we need HER. What a black mark for academic freedom.
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Don’t look away. As universities take $ from big tech (or hope to), we will see more and more of this. And it will fundamentally shape how we understand the world, how we live in it, and our ability to resist. Solidarity, .
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This is a bad fantasy. Always ask yourself which people stand to gain with these arguments--and how much $$$
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founders/vcs are making a huge mistake by applying generative AI to healthcare delivery
GPT3 isn't going to replace your doctor, but it will change how healthcare runs.
Let me explain:
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'Clean structured data' is a techno fantasy.
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if LLMs can assist in turning this mess of data into clean, structured data, you can unlock the ability for healthcare to use tools as simple as Tableau or Looker that the field has yearned for for a generation.
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