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KathyReid

@KathyReid@aus.social

Doing a #PhD https://aus.social/@anucybernetics in #opensource #voice and #data #bias #FairML. Into #linux, #IoT. Built @SenseBreast. She/her pronouns. Ex @mycroft_ai https://fosstodon.org/@linuxaustralia @deakin @mozilla
Living in Australia on Waddawurrung land but with connections in #Northumberland
#MastoAdmin for fediverse.au

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Unixbigot, to random
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Buying abandoned stasis lockers at auction has always been a gamble. You dream of scoring the one that will be full of gold bars or priceless artworks. More often it’s 500 obsolete electronic gadgets, or more jackfruit than you can possibly eat before it all rots. I stopped bidding after I won the one that contained you. I’ve treasure enough for a lifetime now, my child.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

keoni, to random
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OpenAI have stolen enough Māori data that it can transcribe, speak, and translate te reo Māori quite well. Microsoft is rolling out Copilot which will do all these things in te reo Māori because they use OpenAI. New Zealand needs to tax foreign corporations profiting off of te reo Māori and give that money to the Māori language communities. Big tech already evade paying their fair share of taxes, this is only logical.

DanielleVossebeld, to random
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In case you are interested in .

Started today with 3 chapters in Diversity and Complexity by Scott E. Page. I love his materials on , and this work is also really accessible.

Also bought the paper version of The Unaccountability Machine. I already have the audio book, but I miss the ability to stick labels when I am on my bike at the spots I need to re-listen and use. 😬 Interesting, good for more knowledge on , and fun to listen.

Mer__edith, to random
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Signal strongly opposes the newest proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

litradesign, to random
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We are happy to announce that the program for the 60th anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics is online. We are looking forward to five days with eighty cybernetic conversations.

https://events.asc-cybernetics.org/2024/program/

You can still register for the conference via our website. We will close registration once we reach room capacity.

Mer__edith, to random
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IMO we need to dismantle the surveillance advertising biz model & the surveillance and centralized control at its heart.

But this doesn't do that. Instead, it advocates for 'transparency' w/o accountability + inexplicably ONLY names e2ee encryption as a "risk" to children.

What's clear here, broadly, are the sharp limits of shareholder-driven activism when it comes to curtailing a toxic-yet-profitable business model.

First page of the proposal, which says, "
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Mer__edith,
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Esp now, in 2024 when Jessica Burgess is living in prison bc Facebook turned over messages detailing her accessing reproductive care in a state where this had been made illegal.

I'd love to work w Francis + others on REAL solutions. & I'm frustrated that so much of the purported "solution space" is occupied by toothless, even dangerous proposals that are implicitly limited by unwillingness to touch the (profitable) business models core to these harms.

TCMuffin, to random
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Having given up on Facebook years ago because of my concerns about privacy, I rarely login now.

This is a heads up about Meta, privacy, and your data.

From 26 June 2024, Facebook will use your photos, posts, and other info to train its AI.

You can opt out...but Meta has intentionally made it complicated!

Here is a detailed “How to opt out” with screenshots.

On the next page, select "Information about objections and how you can object on Facebook and hit the "Enter" key. Scroll down to "How can I submit an objection?" and click on the link to "here" in the first sentence of this section "You can submit an objection by following the instructions here..." On the next page, entitled "Managing your information and submitting objections” click on the radio button next to “Yes”. When you click on the radio button for “Yes”, you will finally be taken to the form where you can object “Object to your information being used for Al at Meta”. Complete your “Country of residence” and “Email address” fields and move on to the “Please tell us how this processing impacts you.” field. Obviously how you complete this is your personal preference, but I have written this: "My photos are personal and contain images of my face associated with my IRL name. This data could be used to generate “deep fake” images using my likeness, if it is included in Al training. I further object to captions being used as these may contain personal information some of which may be associated with children.
“Meta processing my posts, photos and their captions, the messages I send to Al, and whatever other data Meta decides to scrape, invades my privacy as a private citizen and feeds into a technology which threatens the future of our planet by its insatiable appetite for limited resources, e.g. energy and water.” I have not completed the section entitled "Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection.”
You will then be asked to confirm your email address via an OTP. Almost immediately, I received a response from Facebook, honouring my request: Support message. Today at 16:17. Our reply Hi Jayne, We've reviewed your request and will honor your objection. This means your request will be applied going forward. If you want to learn more about generative Al, and our privacy work in this new space, please review the information we have in Privacy Center. facebook.com/privacy/genai This inbox cannot accept incoming messages. If you send us a reply, it won't be received. Thanks, Privacy Operations We may use your data for personalisation, innovation, research and other purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

ALTAnlp, to llm
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While you consider submitting to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (see link below), we'd like to share with you the winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, which involved distinguishing #LLM-generated from human-generated text.

Here, Rinaldo Gagiano and Lin Tian from #RMIT use a fine-tuned #Falcon7B model with label smoothing, yielding an accuracy of 99.91%. Well done!

🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.18/

josemurilo, to ai
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"why let them set the terms to begin with? We can make our own terms! From socially supported that breeds +locally governed applications & communications platforms, to a redefinition—or reclamation—of the concept of , away from the surveillance-dependent approach, toward smaller models built with intentionally-created data that serve real social needs."
@Mer__edith
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

Unixbigot, to random
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The owner of the facility was famous. Well, Meta famous if you know what i mean. Famous for being a famous rich asshole, dedicating his twilight years to outliving all the other famous rich assholes.

Collectively the six trillionaire oligarchs who had built their burrows—each on their agreed post-apocalypse continental domains—had all hired the same experts to design those enclaves. Location: deep in the ancient stable rock of a continental craton. Supplies: Food, water and medicines to last a century, until farming could resume. Knowledge: a full archive of the Internet. Technology: every conceivable machine and the parts and tools to maintain them. Serfs: entirely separate accommodation for necessary technical staff, and hibernation for many more. Security: no, not the armed-thugs-with-shock-collars you’re thinking of; spider drones are what’s in favour with apocalypse consultants this decade.

When the Event came it blindsided even the Six. While everyone was watching the climate fall apart, the brown dwarf grazing the Oort cloud went unnoticed, obscured by the glare of the Starlink Belt. A million comets had their orbits stirred up by the visitor. It only took one, impacting in the south atlantic ocean, to tip the biosphere into chaos predicted to last three to five decades.

The balloon was up, the Six and their families executed the well rehearsed Plan Scram, and settled into their cosy bunkers to wait out the Dark Times. Serfs (sorry, “employees” in this decade) likewise. Human security personnel (unknowingly already inoculated with a delayed death sentence once their mechanoid replacements were online) set about battening down the hatches and bringing up the Evironment (2.0).

“Hey Sarge, this droid won’t boot!”

“Yeah this one too. What does ‘502 License server unreachable’ mean?”

benroyce, to random
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Everyone lucid in the West is freaking out about the rise of fascist thinking, well, everywhere.

Why? Didn't we defeat this obscenity 80 years ago after much suffering? Why is it resurging?

The problem is not that people don't learn from history (they don't but it's another issue), the problem is that fascism is always with us. Since the dawn of time, and forever more.

All fascism requires is:

  1. ignorance
  2. indecency
  3. a demagogue to yoke these walnut brains and ride them to power

1/x

benroyce,
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addendum:

required viewing for all Americans

for everyone in the world

made by the US War Department at the end of WWII, a discussion between a regular Joe who almost gets seduced by a fascist street preacher, and a Hungarian immigrant who tells him this is how Hitler started, in detail

at a moment of historical clarity, an inspired piece of propaganda

how rises: divide and conquer with hate, while regular folks go "just crazy talk"

"Don't Be a Sucker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

shlee, to fediverse
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I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way

The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.

https://shlee.fedipress.au/2024/call-to-action-fediverse-media-server/

ALTAnlp, to programming
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ICYMI: CALL FOR PROBLEMS FOR SHARED TASK FOR WORKSHOP

The ALTA shared tasks are targeted at students with experience.

They should be related to a task, able to be automatically evaluated, with training and test able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!

📆 Submissions by Friday 7 June 2024.

✉️ shared-task@alta.asn.au

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

Mer__edith, to random
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Last week I had the honor of accepting the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize

Instead of a traditional speech, I gave this talk on the history of AI, the business of surveillance, & why the use of AI "ad targeting for killing" in Gaza should be illegal👇

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

everythingopen, to random
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Here's a wrap-up of , held last month in .

We cover our brilliant , Geoff Huston AM, Jana Dekanovska, Professor @aquigley and @raejohnston highlight standout talks, and present the findings of our 🎉

https://2024.everythingopen.au/news/thats-a-wrap-for-everything-open-2024/

kcarruthers, to random
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Microsoft love open source. Perhaps they’re trying to make this the year of Linux on the desktop? 🤷‍♀️
https://eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/112481140413247828

decryption, to random
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Issue 2092 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

  • Microsoft launches "Copilot+ PCs", further pushing AI as a core Windows feature

  • OpenAI used Scarlett Johansson's voice for GPT-4o despite Scarlett rejecting the offer twice

  • Telstra to sack 2,800 staff, mostly from its Enterprise division

  • Beware of the sharks circling your favourite browser extensions

And the following stuff is on sale thanks to Ozbargain:

  • Cheap Edifier speakers, Sony camera cashback, Tesla Model 3/Model Y, Google Pixel Watch, Coles Mobile SIM

If you aren't a subscriber, you missed out on today's issue - don't make that mistake again! Visit https://thesizzle.com.au to sign up for Australia's best tech email newsletter.

thesiswhisperer, to random
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Text of my speech for the book launch of "Doing Doctoral research at a distance": https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7198510551981801472

keoni, to random
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I'm worried and pessimistic about the future we'll have with all this "AI" stuff. But when others see the work that Te Hiku Media are doing, they're optimistic. I think I need a vacation 😂.

ALTAnlp, to programming
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CALL FOR PROBLEMS FOR SHARED TASK FOR WORKSHOP

The ALTA shared tasks are targeted at students with experience.

They should be related to a task, able to be automatically evaluated, with training and test able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!

📆 Submissions by Friday 7 June 2024.

✉️ shared-task@alta.asn.au

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

decryption, to random
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Issue 2091 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

  • OpenAI's "superalignment" team disbanded, signs lifetime non-disparagement agreement on way out

  • Microsoft's CO2 emissions & water use see big increases thanks to AI rush

  • iOS 17.5 has a bug that un-deletes random iCloud photos

  • New LPCAMM2 form factor makes RAM thin & user replaceable

And the following stuff is on sale thanks to Ozbargain:

  • Cheap LEGO Concorde, Logitech keyboard, Adobe Creative Cloud, Edifier headphones, Synology NAS, Nikon Zf camera, TCN/JB Gift Cards, refurb Dell SFF PC, Limbo Android game, Samsung soundbar

If you aren't a subscriber, you missed out on today's issue - don't make that mistake again! Visit https://thesizzle.com.au to sign up for Australia's best tech email newsletter.

thecarpentries, to community
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📅 Upcoming community sessions next week (https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events ):

📣 Community Welcome Session: UTC Time: 21 May 2024 15:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/welcome-sessions-2024.

📣 Coffee with The Carpentries’ Executive Director; UTC Time: 22 May 2024 10:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/community-sessions-2024

📣 Workshop Debrief and Teaching Discussion; UTC Time: 22 May 2024 17:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/community-sessions-2024

📣 African Carpentry Community Monthly Meetup, UTC Time: 23 May 2024 10:00
https://codimd.carpentries.org/69NZJLzLSKCZakTPsWpo7Q?both

keoni, to random
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Everyone knows that GPT-4o is just OpenAI getting another step change amount of data right? It's hype after hype to scrape as much data as possible. That's the only way this plays out based on the underlying technologies. So don't use it unless you consent to streaming your audio and visual data straight to them to profit from.

kcarruthers, to random
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Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses: People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

jessie, to random
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Friends, Romans, fellow internet nerds: Do we have resources we like for teaching R to already-competent developers?

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