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Ni te lo pienses. Deja tieso a quienes apoyan un genocidio.

Último día para reclamar la devolución de las entradas del Sónar, del fondo proisraelí KKR www.publico.es/culturas/ult...
Último día para reclamar la devolución de las entradas del Sónar, del fondo proisraelí KKR
En el momento de la publicación de este artículo no consta ninguna publicación en Instagram o TikTok avisando del cierre del plazo, más allá de su propia web.
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June 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
davsarper.bsky.social
How not to do digital sociology
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Apr 27
the zimbardo prison experimental but at massive scale with llms
sarahagilbert.bsky.social Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 26
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
April 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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newyorker.com
In 2015, the game designer Davey Wreden declared that there is “a culture where violence is understood . . . to be the central means of problem-solving” in video games. His new game is a rebuttal, prizing dialogue and contemplation over heroic acts.
The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche
Davey Wreden found acclaim in his twenties, with the Stanley Parable and the Beginner’s Guide. His new game, Wanderstop, grapples with the depression that followed.
nyer.cm
April 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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ec.europa.eu
Help shape the EU guidelines on general-purpose AI (GPAI) models under the AI Act.

We invite all stakeholders and citizens to share feedback by 22 May in a targeted consultation.

More info: europa.eu/!qt4Ypy

#EUHaveYourSay
A computer screen displaying code with an overlay text reading 'AI ACT - Public consultation to clarify rules for general-purpose AI models', alongside the European Commission logo.
April 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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datacontroversies.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
www.nature.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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datacontroversies.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me | Shaf Hussain
Our work is dangerous and the pay only gets worse, while the CEO has just sold £15m in shares – we deserve better, says Deliveroo rider Shaf Hussain
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March 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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vallapalestina.bsky.social
NO OTHER LAND gana el Oscar a la mejor película documental 👏✌🏾 @nootherland.film

La 🎬📽️ refleja la resistencia del pueblo palestino a abandonar su tierra frente a décadas de opresión israelí, maltrato, destrucción y limpieza étnica.

#Oscars2025 #Oscar #PalestinaLibre 🇵🇸
March 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
You first.
February 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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davidbeavan.bsky.social
🚨 Calling all who care about digital research! 🚨 Share examples of the impact Research Software Engineering or RSEs have had on (your) research. Help us build an evidence base and a bright future for the field. Deadline: Fri, 14 Feb ⏰. Share & spread the word! 🙌 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
oh, this is out and they make me sound like an angel but a really good read

“We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future,” Birhane says

www.fastcompany.com/91238006/how...
How Abeba Birhane is cleaning up AI’s dirty data
“We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future. These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it's racism, sexism, or encoding of stereoty...
www.fastcompany.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace.

We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet.

(Better with sound).
December 10, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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karengregory.bsky.social
"Test it on people. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Throw it away and start again cheaply, if it doesn’t work. Tweak it again. And so on, and on, for as long as you provide the service."
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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karengregory.bsky.social
Digit wins new five-year ESRC grant to examine the UK’s digital work ecosystem:

digit-research.org/news_article...
Digit wins new five-year ESRC grant to examine the UK’s digital work ecosystem • Digit
The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded Digit £8.3million for a further five years to study the UK's evolving digital work ecosystem. The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Wo...
digit-research.org
November 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM