Ghazi @curiousmind@social.cleverlibre.org

And this reminds me that I really wish we had classes & curriculum in basic education that gave a tour of flaws & limitations in our brains & sensory apparatuses.

Teach folks about optical illusions, sleight of hand, close-up magic, statistical reasoning, cognitive bias, logical fallacies - a survey of the many ways things might not be what they seem and show the utility of doubt & skepticism & verification. I feel like this stuff is really hard for folks in general

As AI tools for writing become more common, let me throw one more worry into the mix: that students who write well without AI assistance may be falsely accused of #plagiarism by teachers using imperfect tools to detect AI-assisted writing.

#AI, #MLL

la planète brûle

نشرت شبكة "فوربيدن ستوريز" للصحافيين الاستقصائيين الأربعاء نتائج تحقيق أجرته حول نشاط شركة إسرائيلية أطلقت عليها اسم "خلية خورخي". وخلص الصحافيون إلى أن الشبكة متورطة في القضية التي استهدفت مقدم البرامج في شبكة "بي إف إم تي في" رشيد مباركي المتهم بالخضوع لتأثير خارجي. وقال التقرير إن الشركة تدير مشروعا ضخما للتضليل وتورطت بالتلاعب بالانتخابات في 33 بلدا ثلثاها في أفريقيا.

#jorgeTeam
#israel
#spying

https://youtu.be/LG6eHF1stZA

Another thing that makes me happy. My first publication this year got materialised on a mug. Can’t wait to drink tea using this mug. Cheers everyone!
#publicationmug
#goldphotocatalysis

From the #Pfizer oncology medical team: #Pharma companies should take steps to ensure #openaccess to medical research.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40487-023-00220-z

"Pharmaceutical companies need to regularly communicate to patients all essential info about their medicines…Companies will need to make sure patients have access to & awareness of relevant info. This can be achieved by ensuring medical info is freely available to the reader, & working with publishers to facilitate open access (free) publications."

Happy #caturday

So much this:

C'était il y a 10 ans : Aaron Swartz se suicide le 11 janvier 2013 à l'âge de 26 ans !

It was 10 years ago: Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013 at the age of 26!

Reddit, Open Library, RSS, Creative Commons, academic papers free of charge, open-access, transparency,...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

#aaronswartz #opensource #openaccess #opendata

how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

"#Facebook will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebooks revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with #CambridgeAnalytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President Donald Trump's election campaign." Frankly, the amount is too small, and should instead be more crippling to Meta. If it's not punitive enough to strike abject horror industry-wide, it's insufficient https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/meta-to-pay-725-million-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-lawsuit/

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/