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Joanna Bryson
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Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html .. more

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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 19
thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.
j2bryson.bsky.social Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 5
One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%.

The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.
garymarcus.bsky.social Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5
Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 18m
I heard from someone there that a major civil society group "noted that ICE is comprised of untrained recent hires who are uncoordinated. But it was also noted that the Twin Cities is to be ICE’s training grounds to become a well-oiled Trump enforcement machine." But I can't get them on the record.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 18m
I heard from someone there that a major civil society group "noted that ICE is comprised of untrained recent hires who are uncoordinated. But it was also noted that the Twin Cities is to be ICE’s training grounds to become a well-oiled Trump enforcement machine." But I can't get them on the record.
davidgilbert.bsky.social David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1h
Incredible account from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social of the ineptitude of the Trump's ICE force.....which would be funny if it wasn't also the reason why those idiots are just so dangerous

www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 27m
This stuff is so cool. I was working on a model of it 20 years ago, but now I’ve forgotten the point of my model. Still seems important to understanding culture and international affairs, maybe corporate psychology …

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27m
Why Iran's communication blackout could become permanent

Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before. Restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-irans-communication-blackout-could-become-permanent/a-75487555
Why Iran's communication blackout could become permanent
Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before. Restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert.
www.dw.com

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Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social · 1h
‘Dear Enemies’ Are Made When A Song Sparrow Learns To Sing
www.forbes.com/sites/rebecc...
‘Dear Enemies’ Are Made When A Song Sparrow Learns To Sing
When a young male learns from a neighboring adult male, chances are that tutor and tutee will become “dear enemies.”
www.forbes.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1h
Incredible account from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social of the ineptitude of the Trump's ICE force.....which would be funny if it wasn't also the reason why those idiots are just so dangerous

www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1h
AI systems aren't even countable, unlike humans. I mean, maybe distinct foundation models are, but they get augmented by guardrail-based "persona", distilled, extended, and then projected into 2B personalised interfaces with a joint memory. Capital, capital, capital.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1h
You mean Europe's explicit Trump strategy done where Trump can see it. And how the heck can the FT say we already lost. Did the Netherlands & Belgium lose WWII because blitzkrieg? What was the rest of the 1940s about?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2h
agree with Faine. It isn't closet dualism to observe that our moral and legal system is entirely based on the requirements & limits of apes: prestige, liberty, jail time, wealth, children, fidelity, "fighting words" you name it. AI is capital, not labour. @theophite.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2h
@faineg.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social I read a bunch of Weizenbaum because invite 4 special issue 4 the centenary of his birth. I didn't see anything like this, though I did discover a lot I hadn't known. Like MLK jr., his pacifism isn't mentioned much. ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2023): Special Issue: Fostering Societal Values in Digital Times – Peace, Care, and Tech Regulation | Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4h
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToo
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.
buff.ly

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
1) We don't have time to read every link. Give us a good highly condensed abstract.
2) If you frequently repost someone else's high quality reposts, mention them VERY occasionally as a good follow.
3) again, try to defend everyone's time, including in mentions, but maximise information.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
About the 10th skype I've run into about the event, the first to explain the war crime.
Back when twitter was new people used to explain to each other the importance of being (and following) good filters. It's not obvious to everyone how crowdsourced human computation works.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
There seems to be a lot of hybrid economic warfare against Germany. The US being antirealist about the EU is not making the EU weaker, but could MAYBE bolster populists I guess. Probably not while the UK keeps demonstrating what happens outside.
jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15h
From the French Foreign Ministry:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15h
From the French Foreign Ministry:

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17h
"Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination"

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210633

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 19h
Not simply promoting crypto but eschewing prosecution of platforms that enable terrorists and criminals: DAG Blanche memo says that DOJ "will not pursue actions against the platforms that these enterprises utilize to conduct their illegal activities" www.cov.com/en/news-and-...

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 20h
My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution
Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20h
Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.
katzish.bsky.social Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d
What’s this old thing

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20h
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 21h
Good architecture is a posterchild public good: non-rival and non-excludable. Had great fun using the economics toolbox to study why developments look rather underwhelming and simulate what policies could lead to more beautiful cities. @bsoeberlin.bsky.social github.com/Ahlfeldt/DPs...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 23h
Trump has just effectively taken control of Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.

You should assume that anything you say on these sites, publicly or privately, is being seen by the regime and can be used against you.
Former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick named Meta's president
Meta Platforms on Monday named former Trump administration official Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, boosting the company's lobbying efforts in the U.S. capital.
www.reuters.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@argohdes.bsky.social who knew there could be ANY "upside" to an internet shutdown... #indyref #brexit #scotland @libdems.org.uk @snp.org ^^^

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 1d
Have been reading Varoufakis's 'Technofeudlism' recently, which points to QE as a distinctive driver of massive alteration in tech stock valuation, when money was made available to bank to loan so biz's motive to create profit was taken away.

Screenshot from finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett...
2021-2022: Stock prices took off following the 2020 COVID-19 bear market as zero interest rates and trillions of stimulus dollars were used to get the economy going again. By 2021, the economy started to feel the fallout of all that liquidity in the system. The inflation rate jumped to 9% and the S&P 500 declined roughly 25% by the latter half of 2022. Screenshot from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett-indicator-hitting-level-seen-182400883.html

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@pettter.bsky.social As I remember COVID, digital/video conference stocks soared as people saw the economy was NOT declining as expected, so everyone thought digital was undervalued. I remembered that as happening before ChatGPT was released –though obviously not immediately, so maybe that IS it.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
"This is actually extremely troubling because it means that every ICE employee has a $50K incentive to help ensure that Trump (or JD) is re-elected."

I'm not sure why @bwyble.bsky.social's post that said that hasn't gone viral, so I'm reiterating it as well as RTing it.
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d
ICE recruitment is going well.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
I'm wondering about the two unlabelled "busts" on this graph. We know what happened 2007/8, but what was happening that got reversed by the (premature?) release of #ChatGPT? Was it the @ec.europa.eu – #DSA, #DMA, and #AIA?

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 1d
We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin:
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | LinkedIn
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Journal of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, published by University of Chicago Press | Founded in 1950, the B...
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