timnitGebru

timnitGebru, 1 day ago to random

"Heavy rains and flooding in Rio Grande do Sul since last week also have left 130 people missing, authorities said. More than 230,000 have been displaced, and much of the region has been isolated by the floodwaters."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-brazil-is-still-reeling-from-massive-flooding-as-it-faces-risk-from-new-storms/ar-BB1m3M62

timnitGebru, 2 days ago to random

Another festival is coming celebrating the 33rd "independence" of Eritrea. Because Eritrea's current condition is the epitome of independence. As the Eritrean minister of (dis)information notes, every festival celebrating PEACE in any diaspora community obviously has one very important component, always, and that is the presence of a genocidal army 👇

timnitGebru, 2 days ago to random

My deep appreciation for David Yambio and the whole @refugeesinlibya crew. What you see publicly is not even 5% of what they do. May they get the resources and support they deserve. No one should see the daily horrors they see and experience with zero care from the world.

ZekuZelalem, 3 days ago to random

Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today.

This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so.

"Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise.

The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army.

Please compare with the 2022 citation for 🇺🇦 journalists.

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citations and Awards Journalists and Media Workers Covering the War in Gaza In recent years the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. This year, the Board recognizes the courageous work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.

timnitGebru, 3 days ago to random

Does anyone remember an analysis from way back in the day that showed that the term “neural networks” was associated with the least likely papers to be accepted to NeurIPS? Like the term highly correlated with paper rejections, before everything became deeplearning?

timnitGebru, 5 days ago to random

What these companies do to whistleblowers is too normalized.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/boeing-whistleblower-dead-joshua-dean-45-sudden-severe-infection/

timnitGebru, 9 days ago to random

Seeing organizations whose leadership has been asked for simple apology and accountability from Palestinian leadership of organizations who have worked on this for decades (who they have shamelessly been dismissing), and doing everything they can to sidestep that call instead of doing the simple thing of apologizing and creating accountability structures. Interesting logic 🤔

timnitGebru, 10 days ago to random

Like clockwork, I see a need to re-up 👇

White people stop making this (whatever this is) about you challenge 2024 (mission impossible).

timnitGebru, 10 days ago to random

In 5 minutes @alex and @emilymbender will work through a backlog of #FreshAIHell. Join on this link.

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

timnitGebru, 10 days ago to random

I didn't know that University of Southern California had the audacity to cancel the main ceremony and keep the satellite ones but good on my sister @safiyanoble for saying that she won't have anything to do with that.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-28/commencement-speakers-boycott-usc-satellite-ceremonies

OmaymaS, 11 days ago to random

Apparently the wealthy tech people believe their way of writing and communication is the best way. They are the reference!

They'll drag the Nigerians in the thread just because they dared to mock the "delve" argument!

timnitGebru, 12 days ago to random

""What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore).""

Nothing to see here.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

timnitGebru, 13 days ago to random

"Panel will advise Department of Homeland Security on deploying artificial intelligence safely within America’s critical infrastructure"

LOL. Ok. Because that is obviously what OpenAI has been doing, prioritizing safety, and can advise others to do the same. They will advise the government on how to guard against the devil kind of "magic intelligence in the sky" as Sam Atlman called it, while him and his friends raise the $7T required to save humanity from it.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board-7dc47b78

timnitGebru, 14 days ago to random

We got a quick second with #MeToo & #BLM and have to live through a life time of backlash because we had a little air time.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new-york-court-of-appeals-judges-harvey-weinstein-1235881583/

timnitGebru, 14 days ago to FreeSpeech

"Said: Do you reject the interference of a foreign leader saying you must crackdown on Americans exercising their right to demonstrate

Patel: I wouldn’t equate that to interfering"

#FreeSpeech

timnitGebru, 14 days ago to random

Free speech all over the US right now!

USC canceled their commencement ceremony because they rightfully got called out for telling the valedictorian that she won't have her commencement speech, because she said something in defense of Palestinian lives on social media. So instead of apologizing and reinstating her, they decided to just cancel commencement instead. Very logical.

timnitGebru, 15 days ago to random

This article is basically an illustration of our TESCSREAL bundle, Eugenics and AGI paper.

"And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.

“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

I’m taking the liberty of putting it in quotation marks, though I can’t be sure those were his exact words....Maybe he said “quiescent,” or “docile,” or maybe “powerless.” Something, certainly, along those lines."

https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/

timnitGebru, 16 days ago to random

A very warm welcome to the one and only @TawanaPetty to our instance! ❤️

timnitGebru, 17 days ago to random

"While many others decided to leave the city, my family and I stayed put. We were hoping that the war would end soon, believing that maybe the international community would intervene to stop this madness, but the suffering of the Sudanese people was seemingly ignored."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68796620

timnitGebru, 17 days ago to random

It is truly heartbreaking to hear what is happening to the Eritrean refugees who protested in Germany. They escape unimaginable horror only to face repression at their destination for which they had to give up everything and endure horrible torture to get to. Then you have various German police collaborating with Eritrean regime agents to target these people. People on whom investigations have been opened have their family reunification plans halted.