Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇
bkacsmar.bsky.social
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇
@bkacsmar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.

My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security

https://bkacsmar.github.io//
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Yeah. They found much higher rates of diabetes in the descendants of residential school survivors in Canada.

CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy | CBC Radio
Nutritional experiments were performed on intentionally malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools in the 1940s and ’50s. These experiments are directly connected to Canada’s Food Guide, ...
www.cbc.ca
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.

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September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is too real right now
September 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Oh and coincidentally, huge all-purpose models also have more environmental impact than smaller models. (Was thinking of @sashamtl.bsky.social's work but here's a recent overview of this topic: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...)
Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM