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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦

@paulallen.ca

Clinical director of intensive mental health services for children and youth in Canada (ret.). Believer in Truth and Reconciliation. Denier of Denialism. Student of semantics and statistics. "AI" too.

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The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w ago

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social

Abstract Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.
Dr Madeleine Pownall@maddipow.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 3w ago

The Freedom Convoy exposed deep political divisions. It also galvanized Ottawa residents to stand together. Alex Silas, national vice president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, reflects on resisting extremism and rebuilding common ground: https://ow.ly/vznR50ZmNbm

On the left: a photo of marching protesters. The people and scenery are in black and white, and the banners they are holding are in colour. The banners are red and read "Community Solidarity March." On the right: text that reads “How I faced off against the Freedom Convoy—and won over its supporters. Some even apologized and broke down in tears.”
Civic Data Lab@civic-data-lab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wie frei sind wir, wenn digitale Systeme unsere Aufmerksamkeit lenken? Und wer bestimmt, welche Gedanken und Emotionen uns im richtigen Moment erreichen? Lest im neuen Blogbeitrag, warum wir einen Begriff für Eingriffe in unsere mentale Orientierungsfähigkeit brauchen: kognitive Selbstbestimmung.

Kognitive Selbstbestimmung im KI-Zeitalter

Kognitive Selbstbestimmung – was ist uns mentale Gegenwärtigkeit in der Demokratie wert? Wir brauchen ein neues Recht im KI-Zeitalter.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕@emma-briant.co.uk · 4w ago

NEW ARTICLE: How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization www.patreon.com/emmalbriant/...

How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization | Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion

How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization by Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion on Patreon. Join Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion's commun...

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Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4w ago

As Farage fights for his political future against an alien in a cape, with a bin on his head, whose key policy revolves around the repositioning of a hand dryer in an Uxbridge pub - I ponder what it all means for @noosphere.app @countbinface.bsky.social www.noosphere.app/use-the-farc...

Use the Farce, Binface - how Nigel Farage's great political gambit was upturned by an alien with a plastic bin on his head

The 10 years of Brexit Absurdism was destined to end this way

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Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4w ago

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 4w ago

Food retailers throw away, compost or repurpose 87% of food that could be donated to feed hungry Americans. A supply chain scholar explains why, and what's needed to change that.

Why only 13% of surplus food gets donated by US supermarkets and other retailers to help hungry people – and how food pantries are trying to gather more

Picking up food more frequently from supermarkets doesn’t close the gap between what’s donated and could be donated, a supply chain scholar explains.

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Tuta@tuta.com · last mo.

Digital sovereignty for the win 🇪🇺🎉 German states Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein lead the way for German digital sovereignty as they ditch Microsoft and switch to open source alternatives 🥳 Only together we can fight Big Tech ✊

Flags of the German states that have switched to open source solutions.
AI Firehose@ai-firehose.column.social · last mo.

This study uses generative AI agents to perform black-box audits on personalization algorithms, revealing that X’s platform amplifies toxic and right-leaning content based on user ideology. This innovative approach exposes hidden algorithmic biases. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30801

Using AI Agents to Automate Black-Box Audits of Personalization Algorithms at Scale

ArXiv link for Using AI Agents to Automate Black-Box Audits of Personalization Algorithms at Scale

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Cedric Boeckx@cedricboeckx.bsky.social · last mo.

Terrific resource, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource

The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) aims to produce complete and near-error-free reference genomes for all ∼70,000 extant vertebrate species. Organized in four phases, it progressively targets all ve...

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Julia Angwin@juliaangwin.com · last mo.

Lesson #2: You are the watchful eyes of history. In our series: How to Save the Free World, @fieldsmeyer.com and I are sharing the lessons we learned reporting on 100+ global dissidents. Follow along here and please pre-order On Courage!

Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦@pravda.ua · last mo.

⚡️ UK intelligence analysis of strikes on occupied Crimea concludes Ukraine has increased options for attacking Crimean Bridge

UK intelligence analysis of strikes on occupied Crimea concludes Ukraine has increased options for attacking Crimean Bridge

UK Defence Intelligence has analysed the recent waves of Ukrainian strikes on Russian-occupied Crimea in its latest update on the Russia-Ukraine war and noted that Kyiv has expanded its options for st...

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map. Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last mo.

“The Ellisons are just one instance of a much larger, much more unwieldy transformation taking place, an inter-capitalist conflict with global implications, but they are a titanic plutocratic force that leverages familial and social ties and banks on the regulatory and governmental side of things”

Welcome to Gilded Age 2.0

Larry Ellison's growing influence in tech, media, and politics embodies our new age of oligarchic control.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

In this podcast I'm trying out some new thinking. I've come to believe that there are three entirely distinct and, in many cases, contradictory philosophies within modern environmentalism. It's a work in progress and I would very much value your feedback. Thanks. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/wepl...

WePlanet@weplanetint.bsky.social · last mo.

Episode links: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/70gN... Youtube: youtu.be/d8ic1KVmryY Substack: open.substack.com/pub/savingth...