When I served as a staff writer @miamiherald.com (‘93-‘97) our photojournalists + reporters talked reverently of photojourno #CarolGuzy, who’d departed The Herald in the late ‘80s for the #WaPost. Fast forward: #Guzy is still a force of visual accountability. See her recent pic, via ZUMA Press👇🏾🥺

“AI risks entrenching racism and sexism in Australia, the human rights commissioner has warned, amid internal Labor debate about how to respond to the emerging technology.”

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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

How many people and children forced to starve in Israeli concentration camps did Israel execute today? Lowest guess I'll allow is 45 of which 27 children, because that's the lowest that figure has been for the past few weeks.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

please please please write to your MPs about this i am so serious please

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SadFM on the boat to the island, Disco Elysium

We did it before, we’re doing it now, and we’ll do it again. Big thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social @koltai.bsky.social @charleymaher.bsky.social @merelzoet.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk

You should. I’ve been directly impacted by their arrogance and made software .

The deference to them is part of the problem , computer technology is now civic infrastructure .

Infrastructure is political .

Race is infrastructure of the US

Racial experts should have always been involves

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Worth reading these reflections from Anna Rogers, Tal Linzen, Emily Bender, Sam Bowman, Chris Potts, Chris Callison-Burch, Ellie Pavlick, Yejin Choi, Iz Betalgy, and more.

For me, quoting friends at a conference in 2023: "I care about language. I'm not leaving NLP."

if you own a smartphone, good news!

they are harvesting your soul and using it to power machines that blow up children in the third world

the nazis are out here asking the big questions like “what if we programmed a missile to think and have subjective opinions on genocide”

hell has spilled over onto Earth

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23andMe has gone bankrupt and might now have to sell all their user data. what happens when Meta falls? Or Google or Amazon? what happens to all that user data? Who ends up owning the most comprehensive database about you, your life, your habits, and the most accurate model of your inner thoughts?

Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

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‪The Bellingcat challenge is back (and set by me this week)!

👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈

This week's challenge uses satellite images taken with Landsat 8 - but the colours aren't always 'normal'... 🛰️

Can you complete them? 🔍