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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8h ago

Zenodo is being blasted by bots these past few weeks, probably related

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last wk.

So glad AI exists to help us do science, save time & money... 🫨 > Zenodo is currently experiencing slowness and intermittent outages due to heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. We are aware of the problem, and our team is focused on stabilizing the service. Thank you for your patience

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14h ago

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 16h ago

A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h ago

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

Thieves in the Temple

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · yesterday

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Google Sorry... We're sorry... ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. See Google Help for more information.
@rainypoesia.bsky.social · yesterday

Saw the documentary today. Powerful. I’ve already shared on social media and with students — and I’ll keep sharing when someone tries to tell me that AI is harmless—

Lauren Woolsey@cgsunit.com · yesterday

Do you want to read up on topics that are covered in the Ghost in the Machine documentary? I'd start with Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social, who also covers the legacies of eugenics that the documentary begins with. My lengthy reading thread: tbsky.app/profile/cgsu...

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 2d ago

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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Brett Codes@brettcodes.bsky.social · 2d ago

can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reminder as we discuss AI safety: Deregulation (or allowing corporations to "self regulate") only masks another kind of trickle-down economics — one where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses for everyone else.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2d ago

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Columbia University bans all electronic devices in required courses in its Core Curriculum. This is the way! I’m rarely proud to be a Columbia graduate, but this is great:

Columbia prohibits electronic devices in all Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization sections

Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d ago

The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future. To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal. Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 3d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Read the words of disabled experts— journalists, tech and disability scholars, technology policy experts— on why Meta's "crip washing" of their surveillance tech pervert glasses is, in fact, bad for us all.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 3d ago

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...