Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Pulling together the diverse types of binding data compiled, @ofornes used our ExplaiNN system (with input from @NovakovskyG ) to explore the relative contribution of the diverse IRF4 target sites observed … 8/12
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.20.492818v3

Idaho 🥔 COVID-19 current stats for Sat Jan 21 2023

Cases: 514,326
Deaths: 5,344
Recovered: 0
Active: 5,122
Tests: 3,246,238
Doses: 2,854,279

#covid_idaho
https://covid.yanoagenda.com/states/Idaho

@catsladder @dannyblast @Carsh

He activado el poder recibir donaciones de Ko-fi sin saber muy bien cómo funciona el asunto, pero he puesto el botón en el pie de página de mi web. Acepto sugerencias 😂
https://elehachezeta.wordpress.com/

How to get academics all hot and bothered with just ONE SENTENCE !

Do you have a better sentence 🙂?

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp
@OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Nice Illustration to unterstand #mecfs and #longcovid!

Thank you #MEAction for this!
Retweet to increase #awareness

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable

This is as clear a reminder as any that--as Timnit Gebru and others have been at pains to stress--what we think of as "AI" is frequently guided by humans in explicit ways, and that this invisible human labour is disproportionately done in the Global South and/or by underpaid and undervalued workers. *They* are the ghosts in the machine.

It's notable that Sama's slogan is "The Soul of AI."

(HT to @annaleen for the link)

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

If this is true*, OpenAI decided that in order to build their product, they needed to take action illegal w/in the US so outsourced that ... and then took possession of the illegal images.

*Reporting also includes OpenAI's denial

Image CW: mention of child abuse & more

Perhaps I am missing something but isn't it strange that more than one editorial in Nature doesn't list the author(s)?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00084-3

#chatGPT #chemistry #academia #publishing #PhD #chemiverse #science #publishing #librarians

Turns out that OpenAI, the AI company founded and funded by a billionaire whose lifestyle has been financed by an African blood emerald mine, uses African (specifically Kenyan) labor in yet another horrifying way. Holy FUCK. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

[ I saw more air filters in one day in @Davos than in 3 years in any other public place. And mandatory PCR testing!

Meanwhile they talk about equity and human rights. The same people who, like @DrTedros, avoid these tools from reaching everyone. ]

https://twitter.com/Iamgoingtosleep/status/1615624940178534402

the models aren't ethical and the models don't do everything by themselves. the incredible human toll of training LLMs that nobody needs https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Since we're currently in a backlash of "HEY YOU SMALL CREATORS, YOU JUST PUSH YOUR GOODIES ALL YOU LIKE BECAUSE WE'RE ALL FRIENDS HERE"...

Buy my books. Er, please. They're REALLY good.

Well, three of them are. One is more a labor of love which could probably stand some revision. But the rest - WHOOO DOGGIES, that's some good learnin'! And readin'! Maybe even a touch of inspiration here and there.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BMW41K8Q/allbooks

#history #teachers #edutooter

Today’s piece about Elon Musk’s Twitter by @caseynewton @zoeschiffer @alexeheath is incredible.
The level of dysfunction inside that company is much worse than what I could have imagined… https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

As a marketer, I found this bit particularly chilling: