The biggest problem is not Western journalists being unable to enter, but the fact that Western media doesn't respect and value Palestinian journalists. My colleagues and I risk our lives every day to report on this genocide . No one knows Gaza like we do, and no one understands…

white people will invade and destabilize your countries for decades, fund genocidal apartheid states, and then call your people 'hostile and insane' for the fallout of the mess they created

This is terrifying.

Not the headline... I'm familiar with the science. No, what's terrifying is how far I had to dig through my news notifications to find this story.

What's terrifying is that this headline is not #trending on every social media platform.

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So apparently the whole debacle was a lot worse than I originally thought.

One of the worst things with the “copyright holders are rent seekers” argument is the view on art it betrays. They see each work as an empty property waiting to be occupied and exploited. But no, a part of us already lives there and there’s no room for disrespectful ghouls.

A 🧵 on my favorite, influential works on 'Data Measurements'

🚂 Datasets drive AI progress
📚 But... massive datasets remain impenetrable & poorly understood for *years*
🔍 Data forensics uncover their mysteries

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However, Abeba Birhane Vinay Prabhu had already shown this (and more) in 2021, simply by querying the search portal.

Multimodal datasets: misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2110.01963

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....audits can be more impactful if they are focused on a specific behaviour, and audits can't understand all possible societal impacts of AI. This paper won one of two Distinguished Paper awards at SaTML Conference. 🏆 Great work by the team! Reporting by Gautam Kamath. (3/4)

In this paper ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2401.14462 co-authors incl. Abeba Birhane of @tcddublinscs conduct a systematization of knowledge by surveying & sorting the vast lit on auditing, examining different kinds of audits and organizations doing them. Recommendations/takeaways include... (2/4)

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The Cass Review couldn't be bothered to talk to actual trans people so they used AI generated images to stand in for trans people.

When a student loan is canceled, Treasury stops collecting principal & interest on it. That’s it. Nothing else happens and it has no discernible effect on anyone other than the borrower having more money to spend, save or invest. NO ONE ELSE PAYS FOR IT. Not you. Not me. NO ONE.

Irish scientists who care about diversity in STEM... this is a diversity in STEM issue

Reminded of this quote from Abeba Birhane and Deb Raji:

For us, critique is service. We critique because we care. — Abeba Birhane & Deborah Raji (2022)

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Mocking the civilian survivors of a genocide is next level evil. There’s no way to spin this to justify such grotesque and racist dehumanization.

This is what supporting Israel looks like.

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