RT @OCCRP@twitter.com
The EU required companies to disclose their owners, helping reveal countless cases of corruption — but a Luxembourg businessman filed a lawsuit that overturned the rule.
We investigated who he is — and why he might have an interest in corporate secrecy. https://www.occrp.org/en/beneficial-ownership-data-is-critical-in-the-fight-against-corruption/this-luxembourg-businessman-got-europes-corporate-registries-shut-down-but-whose-privacy-was-he-protecting#story--https-cdn-occrp-org-projects-zipper-flourish-en-story-1824743-index-html-slide-0
RT @Stephen_Lynch@twitter.com
@jathansadowski@twitter.com Every two years:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Stephen_Lynch/status/1629756127461384194
@Robotbeat @nntaleb well, you're comparing failures in expertise with pretence for experience. I would avoid mixing the two https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/chatgpt-ai-language-human-computer-grammar-logic/672902/
@Hovedorganet do you have any specific methodological objections, or are just sharing a pressing opinion? #dkwhatever
RT @curious_founder@twitter.com
In 1912 Popular Mechanics wrote:
The furnaces of the world are now burning 2 billion tons of coal a year. When this is burned.. it adds about 7 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere..
This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and raise its temperature.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1629190724989390848
RT @franakviacorka@twitter.com
🇷🇺 is implementing a hybrid occupation of Belarus. 12,000 soldiers are stationed on our territory. Their goal - military control over Belarus. Through Lukashenka, Moscow controls the vertical of power. 🇷🇺 propaganda dominates in media. Our culture & language is being destroyed.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1628023967477903362
RT @moylato@twitter.com
Press freedom in the EU 🗞️
RT @muhammadshehad2@twitter.com
2\ Extremely dangerous: the #Israeli company's head, who served in the Israeli army, bragged about their main work of sabotage; hacking into the phones of top officials; & creating 10,000s of fake accounts to spread disinformation.
Full article:
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20230215-israeli-firm-boasted-of-meddling-in-more-than-30-elections-worldwide
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1626734618463375362
RT @ruchowdh@twitter.com
My op ed about the last days of Twitter is out. It was sad to reflect on all that could have been. I write this piece not just as a commemoration but as a warning - we need better systems of tech oversight https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-ethics-algorithm-biases/673110/
RT @meduzaproject@twitter.com
Христо Грозев заявил, что британская полиция не пустила его на церемонию BAFTA, объяснив это «угрозой общественной безопасности»
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/meduzaproject/status/1626583443189661701
RT @muhammadshehad2@twitter.com
The full article is a must read by a true mensch:
"Keeping a Jewish majority while maintaining control over millions of Palestinians is impossible if democratic values are important and essential."
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-731720
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1626353782048100352
Here's the chart that really matters.
Average Mastodon posts per month are going up.
Here's a comparison:
* Sept 2022: ~460M posts
* Dec 2022: ~573M posts
* Feb 2022 (so far): ~678M posts
This is a dramatic upswing in posts, and indicates that activity on Mastodon is continuing to increase.
The chart tells the story. The jump is dramatic.
RT @random_walker@twitter.com
Relevant essay by @Abebab@twitter.com and @rajiinio@twitter.com explaining why critique is service https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-models-critique/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1624065381148119040
@Robotbeat @nntaleb good point, but got is it related to ChatGPT? Is it supposed to be the expert? Why?
A note to myself: Remember Sergei next time you think there's no resistance in Russian
RT @Den_2042@twitter.com
“I took a decision to die here, on my home soil, without someone else’s blood on my hands.”
Russian conscript soldier Sergei Gridin, 20, has hanged himself on a belt after learning about upcoming deployed to Ukraine.
Translation of a suicidal note. Full text. Thread.
1/5
RT @ruchowdh@twitter.com
Watch Bing chat go slowly unhinged - @acidflask@twitter.com and I were messing around with it and asked it questions about me.
First response. Already factually incorrect currently but sort of true… but wait what’s that on the lower right?1/
RT @peard33@twitter.com
The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk https://www.wired.com/story/the-scramble-to-save-twitters-research-from-elon-musk/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned via @wired@twitter.com
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/ #fedi22