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Rakibul Hasan

@rakib062.bsky.social

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Privacy, safety, and human rights. Assistant professor of Computer Science at ASU. https://persue-lab-asu.github.io/

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · Mar 12

"It's got everything -- it's cheaper than humans, the noun-verb agreement is mostly right, it never comes up with an unexpected idea, and it's cheaper than humans!" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’

As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output

www.theguardian.com

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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · Feb 28

Students hate AI slop courses, as they should!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/universit...

Outrage as university says AI tutors will run lectures in course

Three AI programs are set to replace lecture slides in a university course this semester.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Feb 25

a lot of eugenicists in the early days, and then during the cold war when uni's got huge influxes of cash it was all from the DoD and related MIL, so the computing researchers who thrived were the ones who could stomach taking blood money. it arguably shaped that+later generations of researchers

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Feb 25

after 4 years the "critical" tech community will be comprised of objectively uncritical computer scientists who "defiantly" use words like "ethical", "participatory", or "human-centered" in proposals to train hegemonic algorithmic systems, because that's the form & extent of their hashtag-resistance

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Feb 25

the tech stack musk is using is incidental. computer scientists who happen to be interested in LLMs will make careers out of the next 4 years chasing the idiosyncrasies of the implementations of these systems, condescendingly dismissing the study of the political movement animating all of this shit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Feb 24

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

There Is No AI Revolution

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Taylor Moore @taylormoore.bsky.social · Feb 12

Incredible updates from Hulu

From an email from Hulu announcing changes to the subscription: "We are clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even in our 'no ads' or 'ad free' subscription tiers."

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Feb 5

it took a year and a half but my first reader cover story is finally out!

it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors.

but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵

Cook County’s web of surveillance for electronic monitoring

Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago’s Steven Levitt to create a program that could “match” people on EM to reported crimes.

chicagoreader.com

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Feb 6

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 6

In irony too funny for words, Anthropic asks that you please don’t use AI in your job application.

No, really!

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Irony too funny for words

Oops

open.substack.com

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Jennifer Goodland, Revolution Nerd @libraryjenn.bsky.social · Jan 29

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.

ALSO.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jan 24

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

Graphic comparing Microsoft 365 "Personal" to "Personal Classic." The sole difference is $30 more a year for AI.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Jan 22

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Jan 21

Use Signal to talk about protests
Use Signal to talk about your wordle score
Use Signal to talk about abortion
Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club
Use Signal to talk about parties
Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care
Use Signal to talk about the weather

Use Signal

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Jan 17

... the only solution right now would be to spend another full day on chat/phone support. Otherwise, just wait. They rolled this out without permission, and they HAVE AN INTERFACE FOR USERS TO DISABLE IT, they just aren't letting most users access it without jumping through endless hoops.

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Micah @rincewind.run · Jan 16

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

Micah @rincewind.run · Jan 15

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

“'And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.'

'Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an' then lyin' aboot it.'”

Micah @rincewind.run · Jan 14

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Jan 17

"You also have confirmed that unless users go through a similar set of support, that took me six hours today, there will never be any way to turn this off."

Google: "Yes."

He later followed up/said instead that there eventually will be a way (no timeline).

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Jan 17

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

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Rakibul Hasan @rakib062.bsky.social · Jan 14

Congratulations to you and team

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Doug MacMillan @douglasmac.bsky.social · Jan 14

I've spent the past year obsessed with how police are using facial recognition. What I found: Police in 12 states have used these tools to find and arrest suspects when they have no other evidence, leading to wrongful arrests

wapo.st/4fQYlXn

🧵 what I learned from 1,000 docs & dozens of sources ->

Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches

Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.

wapo.st

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · Jan 5

Before people start whining about why they specifically need a cup of coffee to be delivered to them by a person scraping pennies to survive, let me remind you that the streets are public and cities have to deal with lots of expensive problems caused by your selfishness and laziness.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jan 5

The huge excitement right now about AI in schools really needs tempering with some historical reality-checking. It won't be "different this time" because the tech is only one part of a bundle of financial and political desires, as tech in schools always has been.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jan 4

TOP 5 EDTECH FAILS!

1 The LA schools chatbot,which it turned out couldn't do what its vendors claimed and possibly spilled student data everywhere after millions of public funding www.the74million.org/article/chat...

L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data

LAUSD investigators interviewed a former head software engineer who exposed privacy flaws at ed tech company AllHere.

www.the74million.org

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · Jan 4

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · Jan 3

So it appears Apple has "agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then shared with third parties and used for targeted ads."

But it was "unintentional," so don't worry about it...

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.

arstechnica.com

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Dec 22

When you're really innovating *and* you don't fit the White Male Scientist Default, the paradoxical thing you have to do is learn to cultivate a massive protective wall around you and stop taking the feedback of all the 'experts' who think they understand everything that could be your future.

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Dec 22

Health data security is not healthy.
"Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023" www.statnews.com/2023/12/21/h...

Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023

At least 116 million individuals were impacted by large and numerous health data breaches reported to federal regulators this year.

www.statnews.com

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · Dec 21

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 20

Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.

F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea

Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.

www.nytimes.com

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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · Dec 18

You should never be in a room with police for more than an hour. If they read you your Miranda rights, you’re a suspect. Shut it down. Demand a lawyer. This is just some of the advice I got from a retired FBI Special Agent, and two renowned false confessions experts.
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