Shefaly Yogendra, PhD
shefaly.bsky.social
Shefaly Yogendra, PhD
@shefaly.bsky.social
Provocative questions | Epistemologically open-minded | Polyglot | Portfolio Board Director via AI & Tech | Risk, Talent, Geopolitics, Governance | Writing a book
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All friends and followers in Cambridge- I'll be speaking on The Golden Road at Trinity today at 5pm: all welcome!
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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If a country halted co-operation with the international community on sharing counter-terrorism intelligence, while simultaneously reducing its own capabilities in domestic counter-terrorism, this would patently be a national security risk. The same is true of biological security.
February 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Hope is not a plan.
January 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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The fine comes after the authority found OpenAI processed users' personal data to "train ChatGPT without having an adequate legal basis and violated the principle of transparency and the related information obligations towards users."

www.reuters.com/technology/i...
Italy fines OpenAI over ChatGPT privacy rules breach
Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application.
www.reuters.com
December 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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It's #MementoMoriMonday! Here's a silver watch in the form of a human skull, c. 1660.

The watch is inscribed with: vita fugitur (life is fleeting), aesterna respice (look down upon a fallen thing), caduca despice (look upon eternity), incertita hora (death/hour is uncertain)
December 9, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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I read two essays on how AR devices will reshape user interfaces. Both argue traditional PC and smartphone UIs need rethinking, with generative AI playing a key role.

I believe Voice-based UIs combined with device’s ability to “see” what you see could be as game-changing as GPS was for the iPhone.
December 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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I'm really not one to moan about the patriarchy, but a male journalist friend has now been paid $1/word TWICE to write about a family recipe I made for him, by outlets that used to pay *me* to write for them.... 🙄 #hirewomen
December 5, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Readers, I did.
I have this random dream that only @shefaly.bsky.social will understand!

I want to buy a hapoos mango in a Desi store in Albuquerque New Mexico and post it online as Alphonso de Albuquerque! 😁
December 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Take off your mask, before you lose sight of your true self. 💙📚

Source: geni.us/XmzviTq
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM
The last 12 words. I think in poetry and music so here is the sentiment contained in those words, set to music by the incomparable APP.

youtu.be/kyDw_zbOZOk
December 2, 2024 at 10:38 AM
More folks need to read Isabel Wilkerson's doorstopper of a book "Caste" to see the thread through slavery, Nazism and Brahminical/ UC thinking connected elegantly (the writing).
This reflexive tendency among Brahmin & Brahmin-adjacent folks to find some sympathy with white folks in the matter of US race relations is tied to the caste system. I've had "highly educated" brahmin dudes justify their fear or disdain about black folks in ways I would never even dream of!
November 30, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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In September alone, there were more than 32mn visits globally to ‘nudify’ or ‘undressing’ sites. Activists hope that legislation could force Big Tech platforms to make it harder to access, advertise and monetise these products on.ft.com/4g5qY3I
November 28, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Regulators want information as EC President joins BlueSky. That the FT is providing context with the headline they are using is fascinating in itself.
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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You only communicated something when it feels you over-communicated. 💙📚
November 25, 2024 at 4:23 AM
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
November 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM