Paulo Rubem
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Paulo Rubem
@paulorubem.bsky.social
Direito e Ciência Política
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If you are a journalist, community scientist, or academic who cares about these issues, I encourage you to join the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, which works to advance, support, and defend independent research on technology and society:

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Manifesto: The Coalition for Independent Technology Research - Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Society needs trustworthy, independent research to relieve the harms of digital technologies and advance the common good. Research can help us understand ourselves more clearly, identify problems, hol...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Technologically speaking, we live in an age of miracles.

In the last few years, we finally got malaria vaccines; we finally got an antiviral that prevents HIV infections with 95-100% efficacy.

But it all means nothing if people don't know it and don't use them.
November 7, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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I have not yet seen any explicit discussion of how intervention effects are defined in networks. Is there anything beyond "we change node A that correlates with node B and if B changes it was because of that"?
November 8, 2024 at 7:52 AM