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"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
2. The report is about enshittification – how digital products and services keep getting worse – and how to stop it. --> www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!
Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
wint @dril drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, 18:20 09 May 14
2 years of seeing my friends and colleagues in the climate movement doing this has radicalised me
Was Recruitern und Akademikern dabei nicht klar ist: Selbstverantwortliches Arbeiten; autonome und autodidaktische Lernfähigkeit; Projektplanung; Kommunikations und Teamleitungs Skills durch Lehrerfahrung; emotional ein bisschen abgebrüht/stoisch sein... Akademiker sind ne lohnende Investition ;-)
Im Postdoc mit dem Ausstieg hadernd, sagte mir ein Professor: "Super! Wir brauchen überall intelligente Leute!" Hat mich 7 Jahre in der Wissenschaft gekostet, bis das mal jemand so klar sagt. Nach 5 Jahren in der Freiheit: So sehen das Arbeitgeber in vielen Fällen auch so... (v.A. im policy Bereich)
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult
really excellent assessment of House GOP claims about EU fine of X, showing just how seriously hollow the claims of censorship are.
jordan & musk & friends overreach when they put out such patently tendentious reports, which could be boiled down to: don't you ever touch american platforms!
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
Was bei den Epstein-Files auch klar wird, wie gut vernetzt misogyne Männer auch aus Forschung und Lehre sind, und wie wirkmächtig. Es ist nicht "a bissl Sexismus" an Institutionen, es sind Netzwerke, die aktiv Frauen verhindern, desavouieren und v.a. feministische Frauen.
And, by the way, I am "perverse", as this is (still not) fascism!
But, hey, what do I know? I am not some Ivy journalist who has never studied fascism or the far right.
The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse".
Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
This is very much the view I am coming around to.
And one reason it can be frustrating to see how much research is focused (for many understandable reasons) on the content and not the structures…
Reason number #5017 that Hailey was a fantastic engineer (shipping trending topics from scratch in 2-3 weeks) and I'll miss her.
🚨(Software) Update:
In my PhD, I had a side project to fix an annoying problem: when you ask 5 people to label the same thing, you often get different answers. But in ML (and lots of other analyses), you still need a single aggregated answer. Using the majority vote is easy–but often wrong.
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Ich habe als hashtag #ProfessurHaben gewählt, weil Professorin "sein" für mich kein Identitätsmarker ist. Ich bin auch nicht "dankbar" dafür, dieses Amt ausüben zu "dürfen". Es geht nicht um Identität, Privileg oder Dankbarkeit. Es geht für mich um Arbeit ( #Arbeiterkind ist ein Identitätsmarker 🙂).
Je must read voor het weekend
This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.
Fascinating little data science project showing how "The rich get richer" is expressed in code.
On Google Maps, restaurant survival is increasingly decided by code. Google Maps has evolved from a directory into a demand-shaping platform. laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...
When you learn about "controlling on a post-treatment variable", you begin to see it everywhere. Today's example: do coalition governments that take longer to form work quicker when they take the reins? doi.org/10.1111/1475... (1/n)
In case you were wondering...
The news that #X has suspended the #EU's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious.
And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a […]
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
More nonsense. X faces liability under the 🇪🇺 Digital Services Act for (1) deceiving users by selling blue ✔️ for "verified" users (2) inadequate ad transparency, and (3) researcher access to data. The Commission has not moved past investigating how X handles unlawful content or Community Notes... 🧵
And what does this say about all the social media research based on Twitter/X, which has helped fuel the moral panic about the role of social media in contemporary politics?
