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part-time poster | researching privacy in/and/of public data @ cornell tech and wikimedia | writing for joinreboot.org

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hal@harold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my lab just wrote a whole paper about this: arxiv.org/abs/2605.24245 it's not just biohacking/health content that is risky; it's basically ANY topic you can think of where user generated content like reddit, facebook, wikipedia, etc. is important!

Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content

Deep-research agents, i.e., systems that rely on multi-agent pipelines to iteratively retrieve, synthesize, and cite Web content in order to produce structured reports, are rapidly replacing tradition...

arxiv.org

404 Media@404media.co · 2mo ago

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com · 9mo ago

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia. Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts. Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites

A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do

indicator.media

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · last yr.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

hal@harold.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder that a key part of the privacy harms from genetic information is the fact that *we all share genes with our relatives*! Deleting or refusing to share genetic information protects your family in addition to yourself oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...

oag.ca.gov

hal@harold.bsky.social · 2y ago

hi world! are you interested in writing stories about campaign finance (or understand how money flows)? 🗣️📈DATATALK📈🗣️ is a platform for asking natural language Qs of FEC data that I've been working on with folks at Stanford, Big Local News, and the Brown Institute datatalk.genie.stanford.edu

hal@harold.bsky.social · 3y ago

does anyone know anyone / have experience doing archival research into the Manhattan Project? I have a (now passed) family member who claimed that he was a part of the project but refused to tell family members any details about what he did there

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 3y ago

If you live in AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MI, MN, NH, NM, PA, RI, VA, VT, WI, or WV, you have a Dem senator co-sponsoring KOSA and you can call their office right now to register your opinions. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/5/blackburn-blumenthal-introduce-bipartisan-kids-online-safety-act

The Kids Online Safety Act has been cosponsored by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), John Cornyn (R-Texas.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Roger Marshall (R-Miss.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · 3y ago

Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3y ago

“‘The Social Network’ made me want to get into entrepreneurship”is like “‘Wall Street’ made we want to get into finance,” and overlaps heavily with thinking the point of “Scarface” and “Fight Club” is that Tony Montana and Tyler Durden are super cool guys with awesome lives you should emulate.

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3y ago

It’s quite terrifying how profoundly mindless these tech bro pseudo-prophets are - apparently incapable of understanding the world around them beyond the silliest level of superficiality, and yet enabled to have an outsized influence on the lives of future generations.

Screenshot of a tweet from Sam Altman @sama: “i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let's get that movie made! (i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)”