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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.bsky.social |
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Cognitive scientist at the intersection of complex adaptive systems, afro-feminism, AI ethics, algorithm/dataset audits, and decolonial approaches to tech. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists"
www.politico.eu/article/fren...
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potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝
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new hat arrived today ☺️🖤🩷
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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I mean, what's wrong with me
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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not sure what I was thinking lol
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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or pure stupidity
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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officer at airport security (to the crowd in the line): pls leave everything in your bag. don't care what it is, just keep it in me (obviously joking); unless it's explosives or chemical powder officer:
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Nails Nathan
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Again, selectively ignoring blatant corruption and the criminalization of the press because “oh well that’s just Mississippi, they should move out the state lol” is how you signal there’s no commitment at all for a true politics of solidarity, commitment to principles.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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can't get any more dystopian
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade it… AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune for… folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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what stage of dystopia is this
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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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We gotta redirect funds from the carceral state back to the people man. Ain’t no way they should be able to afford a Trap Music Proofreader.
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Sam
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Late stage capitalism is creating a more fascist techno hellscape every day when we could be transcending the need for labor instead. Neither oligarch party is going to save us. They are puppets of Billionaires. We must organize and resist or it will only get worse.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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that's unfortunately true
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e (they/them)
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the thing most people, sadly, seem to not understand is that this is win/win for firms. even if you fire everyone you actually need, you then hire others to do the same thing and pay them less. people assume ignorance where there is malice, it's very sad.
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Yell In a War
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ha ha ha joke’s on you now you have labor costs to undo everything AI fucked up about your products and services
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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companies and firms do not implement AI products to make work easier, better, or more enjoyable for the average worker but to cut labour costs and reduce staff
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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Captain Hurley
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"...to develop". So much public money is spent on worthless tech marketed at director level as being an opportunity. No data, no, but you're going to be a pioneer, no, we haven't built it yet, this gives you the opportunity to be there at the beginning! No track record of success, no - not yet!
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Winifred Burton Updates
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Some of the nihilism I'm seeing on the skyline is why Black people say y'all wouldn't last an hour as us, btw.
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Faine Greenwood
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this very much includes public social media
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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pls don't be nasty in my mentions
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noah s. mckinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺
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Every single tech tool I use—from flashcard makers to LMSs—is selling AI as hard as it can right now to administrators, tech directors, curriculum developers, etc., because they know how quickly this bubble bursts the moment we wise up. What I don’t get is why I have colleagues who fall for it.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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"Los Angeles agreed to pay a start-up company, AllHere, up to $6 million to develop Ed, a small part of the district’s $18 billion annual budget." what a sad waste of money that could have done so much good if spent on actual educators and resources like libraries
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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EdTech is where higher education institutes, government bodies & tech corps are pushing AI so hard yet with no evidence of the benefits (plenty of evidence against it). this report is another evidence that should caution all pushing AI into education to just STOP and evaluate the evidence
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Audi HD
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Thinking a "simulation" is anything more than drawing pictures after calculating measurements is insane. Quit falling for this shit, there isn't a world inside the computer, it can't DO anything goddamnit.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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glad you see why I prefer not to be described as "AI influencer"
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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for sure hence why I'm not disparaging all influencers. AI influencer however has come to signify bros that peddle hype often with little care for empirical evidence
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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puts me in the same bucket as folks that engage in 0 empirical research & popularise hype and corp pr
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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with all due respect to influencers, pls don’t describe me as “AI influencer”
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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kinda mad how the so called godfathers of AI managed to convince seemingly smart people within AI field & many regulators to buy into the absurd idea that a sophisticated curve fitting (to a dataset) machine can have the urge to exterminate humans
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A.R. Moxon
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It is astonishing and dispiriting how many people out there are gleefully eager to demolish society for no gain other than the coddling of ignorances and satisfaction of bigotries that are their sole comforts from a world full of horrendous problems they've created.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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despite all the hype, this recent work shows that LLMs are not good at abstract reasoning arxiv.org/abs/2406.11012
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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"Secret deal to let benefit fraud squad snoop on pupil data" schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-sec...
Pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down” Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me
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nige
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i drive a tiny car to compensate for my giant penis
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Marco Rogers
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Is there a way for me to see when someone has added my profile to their starter pack? Clearly it's already working. I'm getting a small influx of new followers today. I would really like to be aware of where any attention is coming from. This is a big thing that Twitter never took seriously.
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Sara Baker
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This can't be said enough.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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lol, this is not a boomer issue (millennial here) it's a privacy, surveillance, rights (the rights to not have your data harvested) issue
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Dheeraj DeeKay
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This bs has become so mainstream in India. And yet I purposefully walk away when they refuse to give me physical menu.
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Nick Drage
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This is an *excellent* summary of issues around data centre and power requirements for AI. IMHO an especially good piece because of how often it uses comparative statistics, not something I've seen elsewhere AFAIR. Also... what happens if a data centre is built, and the power supply just... isn't?
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G1Yang2001
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Not to mention, but what about people who don't have smart phones like the elderly or people who left their phones at home? How are they going to scan a QR code if they don't have a phone with them? Are they just gonna shoot beams from their eyes and scan it like they're a Transformer?
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Bill
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So on board with you on this. To the point that if a restaurant doesn't have a menu, they don't get my business. I will get up and walk out.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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*convenience
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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please, your comments about dirty menu, self-service, or tips are irrelevant here. my concern is the gradual normalisation of surveillance under the guise of convince
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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most ppl think you're just being annoying and fail to see the justification for your refusal. ofc, it is made to appear as benign and efficient by design while the surveillance element is viewed as a byproduct
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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the most frustrating thing that makes refusing to use qr code/download app is the absolute lack of awareness on how the whole endeavour of this digitisation/automation is all about data harvesting (& surveillance by extension)
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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ah, the IMF. ofc
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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that's different and totally fine
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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word
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alexandxor
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"can you bring me a phone"
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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shitty shit
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