deborahh

deborahh, 10 months ago to ai

So, did you hear about the mental health crisis hotline that replaced its human volunteers with a chatbot, when the humans started to unionise?

It's a little more complex than that. Also, a week later they had to shut it down, 'cause people were getting dangerous AI advice ... So an effective hotline was just shut down totally :-(

These folks break it down for you here:

#chatBot #AI #dystopia
Via @emilymbender https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110646517431222039

deborahh, 5 months ago to random

I love the deeply human tone of Tim Mak's @timkmak news from Ukraine and other active war zones.

I'd say "enjoy" but actually, today you might need to cry.

Today's newsletter:
The other Russian war the world forgot.
https://counteroffensive.substack.com/p/the-other-russian-war-the-world-forgot?r=evf5

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

Wow.

Florida measles vaccination rate is 90% … but it is so virulent that 97% is needed for herd immunity.

But sure, eliminate the measles quarantine.

Folks, stay out of Florida, please.

Measles is dangerous, 1 in 1000 may die, sterilization can result, and it also can erase all the other acquired immunities you rely on!

deborahh, 9 months ago to random

A reminder about hashtags:

Please use camelCase when writing hashtags.
It allows screenreader software to properly parse the hashtag so it makes sense to visually limited users.

Don't be lazy and use the all-lowercse suggestions your client app suggests :-\

Like this: #livingWageForAll
Not: #livingwageforall

deborahh, 8 months ago to random

The WHO on Friday urged countries to strengthen their surveillance and reporting of COVID-19 amid the spike in hospitalizations in the last month, primarily in European nations.

“The virus right now is reinfecting millions of people each week. We don’t have a good gauge on how many reinfections or infections there actually are because surveillance has declined. But we do have some indications on trends of impact.”

• the W.H.O.

#covid19
https://globalnews.ca/news/9919665/covid-infections-northern-hemisphere/

deborahh, 5 months ago to random

Wow. This seems truly evil, democratically speaking 😡

/cc @GottaLaff https://c.im/@shansterable/111433319250574090

deborahh, 8 months ago to random

"A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule. While … unwanted for infectious diseases, it can stop autoimmune reactions like those seen in MS, type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, or Crohn’s disease, in which the immune system attacks a person’s healthy tissues."

@noondlyt https://mastodon.social/@noondlyt/111066765579869735

deborahh, 11 months ago to ai

"As co-leader of Google’s small ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was one of the authors of an academic paper that warned about the kind of AI that is increasingly built into our lives, ... The clear danger, it said, is that such supposed 'intelligence' is based on huge data sets that 'overrepresent hegemonic viewpoints & encode biases ... #AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male, comparatively affluent & focused on the US & Europe.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

deborahh, 6 months ago to ai

Very disturbing:

TL;DR: Hotline workers unionise, get replaced by AI, within weeks helpline is shut down for safety reasons. A client says "I would have died, had I had that advice early in my illness".

"the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace human volunteers with a chatbot--and why the datafication & automation of mental health services are an injustice that will disproportionately affect the already vulnerable."

@JB611 #AI #chatbot https://dair-community.social/@JB611/111237905570862404

deborahh, 8 months ago to random

Wow. For some reason, more people in hospitals and Long Term Care homes started contracting #covid19 as soon as the mask mandate was lifted? 🤔 That's weird.

@onoutbreaks https://mstdn.ca/@onoutbreaks/110996703096154054

deborahh, 7 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

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deborahh, 3 months ago to random

👀 Biden puts conditions on military aid:
Countries receiving aid must comply with international humanitarian law.
https://mstdn.social/@TomSullivan/111903429197888206
#usPol #Gaza

deborahh, 10 months ago to random

Eww. 😤

"Facebook is the best human research lab ever. There’s no need to get experiment participants to sign pesky consent forms as they’ve already agreed to the site’s data use policy. A team of Facebook data scientists are constantly coming up with new ways to study human behavior …

The experiment ran for a week — Jan 11–18, 2012 — during which hundreds of thousands of FB users unknowingly participating may have felt either happier or more depressed than usual"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=32bc8be8197c

deborahh, 9 months ago to random

Very cool. Free banned e-books in the US 👉

@heidilifeldman https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/110749876353356737

deborahh, 10 months ago to random

🤢🤢🤢

"Andrew Tate, a “manosphere” influencer who has been indicted for rape and human trafficking, tweeted that he earned more than $20,300 in revenue from Twitter. Tate was originally banned from Twitter and later reinstated under Musk."

@tchambers https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110709499282169831

deborahh, 4 months ago to random

Not new, but in case you miseed it:

The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
#bookstodon #libraries #librarydon #enshittification

deborahh, 7 months ago to Luddite

Ok, seems I'm nit thebonly one reconsidering the rile of Luddites.
A long and bloody story on the 19th c origin of the term, here:

@pluralistic #luddite #AI #AGI #LLM #labour https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111131779215095565

deborahh, 9 months ago to random

Hillary Clinton wanted to talk about her article on authoritatianism, called The Weaponization of Loneliness. Nobody expected her appearance to fall on Indictment Eve. ;->

@GottaLaff https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/110891104966203765

deborahh, 9 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

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I find local & fedi timelines overwhelming; I use themed LISTS. Read more at:
https://mstdn.ca/@deborahh/110712869940867899

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@GottaLaff (for #USpol)
& follow folks who follow them.

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ex:
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Ice Cubes or Ivory (iOS)

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PS: be findable: set "make me discoverable" to Yes

#searchMastodon #search #fediTips

deborahh, 7 months ago to books

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

#books #whatToRead #sciFi #SFF #bookstodon #hopepunk #librarydon

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Hand holding: "The simple gesture can limit the impact stress has on our autonomic nervous system, which regulates unconscious bodily functions such as pupil dilation. When people feel they are under threat, holding the hands of a loved one calms parts of the brain responsible for vigilance and emotional response."
https://mstdn.social/@KayJanes/111920823979219964
#trauma #nervousSystem

deborahh, 3 months ago to Toronto

11°'C (58°F) today, Feb 9th, in #Toronto is a record high temperature for this date - highest it's been in 86 years.
#climateEmergency

deborahh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

There's no shortage, right now, of things you could be doing. Without a 'north star,' it can be overwhelming.

But when I can align what I do with what I love, I find peace amidst the hard work - and peace with the work that must be left to others.

This has been my sanity-saver in recent years. It's an important strategy, because the pressure to Do Do Do will only grow this year.

What do you love?
https://abiggergame.today/namewhatyoulove/

#lifecoach #blog

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

Yikes:

"a fraudulent attempt to use US copyright law to take down an article I’d written which was critical of a fake PR firm, “Mogul Press”. I was shocked to see how they did this – they copied my text into a fake website, then filed a takedown notice at Google claiming my article had copied theirs"

@danneidle https://mastodon.social/@danneidle/111947148617979864

deborahh, 1 month ago to random

""Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."

😖

"Mothers are blaming themselves for their 'failures' in this pandemic — for failing to be the perfect worker who doesn’t let her kids distract her … for failing to be the perfect mother who sacrifices work to meet her kids’ needs, for failing to be the perfect wife who never gets angry & always defers to her spouse.

As a sociologist, it’s easy to see how that blame is deeply misplaced…"

@Npars01 https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/112152943564444074