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Alex Hanna-ween

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Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬🏳️‍⚧️ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · May 13

It's book press day! The AI Con is available where ever you find fine books! Check out thecon.ai for details.

@emilymbender.bsky.social and I think we wrote a damn fine book, and we hope you'll enjoy it too.

For a taste, check out the preview of Chapter 1, graciously published by LitHub.

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

As long as there’s been research on AI, there’s been AI hype. In the most commonly told narrative about the research field’s development, mathematician John McCarthy and computer scientist Marvin M…

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 5h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4h

I miss using a giant ass desktop. honestly I also miss VNCing into the machine in my home

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 4h

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h

revive the fail whale

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 6h

Go for it!

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

I think these people are the furthest from reading Puar than anyone. Right wing neocons would read her before white rationalists

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

Either giving a very specious, not-in-good faith argument of "so much for the tolerant left", or someone who hasn't thought this through

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

NGL I'd try it

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

Right. Crowing about eugenics and not knowing shit about eugenics is,,, a choice. And when do these chucklefucks care about slurs?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 8h

Who is this random

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, I'm sure he dabbles

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10h

Today Columbia University literally allowed an Israeli vigil with flags on its campus but not a Palestinian one.

And we caught so much flack for organizing a boycott of that institution. Imagine.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

Sorry he stands for all the white cis gays

Those are the rules

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

I would have taken that. At least jäger just makes you want to hate licorice, while white Russians make you hate ice cream for a time

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

Also my college group. A terrible mistake.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11h

This man is tossing us under the bus so he can eat shit after Iowa and angle to be the secretary of transportation.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 13h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11h

Airport achievement unlocked: taking a call from those cozy seats at MSN

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 11h

accidentally doing a genocide every time i clear my stata cache

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14h

yes, absolutely. really feel like its helping to architect our own professions' demise...

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 15h

was feeling discouraged seeing much pro-ai sentiment at a LIBRARY conference-from folks who have spent careers advocating for data privacy, information literacy, and responsible tech use-but the closing keynote from @alexhanna.bsky.social is giving me hope that we can resist "ai" in our info spaces

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