'The A.I. industry is built on grabbing our data — the output that humanity has collectively produced: books, art, music, blog posts, social media, videos — and using it to train their models, from which they then make money or use as they wish' nytimes.com/live/2024/05/2…

Reads very much like a GTA parody side quest of a tech company conference working with military and intelligence contractors theguardian.com/technology/art…

When people see visualizations showing their country as worst of the bunch compared to others, does this change their views on the government? Yes, though modestly. New #openaccess Comparative Political Studies paper w/Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij: doi.org/10.1177/001041…. #polisciresearch 1/

We're hiring 2 data scientists to work w/faculty and students in our new Social Science Data and Computing Lab. Master’s preferred, but BA/BS + strong evidence of relevant skills also encouraged to apply. Pay begins at $83K. Apply/share with your students!
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Mexico’s outgoing president set out a new strategy which he called ‘hugs, not bullets’. Five years later, violence is worse than ever ft.com/content/fe04c6…

A typology of successful misinformation interventions: nature.com/articles/s4156…

'Anatomy of forensic journalism' - great documentary on how OSINT journalism is becoming more relevant and critical youtube.com/watch?v=cxwgFF…

Happening on Thursday: the Data Lab's roundtable on social media. Come and hear experts talk about what kinds of data we can and cannot get our hands on at the moment. 🤷 More info: datalab.socialsciences.ku.dk/events/navigat…

The recent crisis in Georgia is a response to the government's attempts to pass a punitive ‘Foreign Influence’ bill, which could force media, human rights, and monitoring groups to shut down. This is seen as a direct attack on democracy and freedom in Georgia. 20/27

i think i've had enough

Ukrinform has gathered information from open sources on how many foreign volunteers and from which countries died for #Ukraine .

insanlar R'da uzun uzun install.packages, library yazarak yükledikleri bir ton paketi

x<-c('plyr', 'psych', 'tm')

require(x)
lapply(x, require)
do_call('require', x)

şeklinde kolaylıkla yükleyebilirler

Using new data and a narrative approach to study political pressure on the Federal Reserve captures personal interactions between US Presidents and Fed officials, from Thomas Drechsel nber.org/papers/w32461

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A 17th c. Mughal imagining of a Mexica temple and, growing out from beside the shrine underneath it, a nopal tree, from a Persian translation of an Ottoman Turkish translation of (in part at least) Francisco Lopez de Gomara's book Historia general de las Indias (CBL T 560.79):

TikTokers are trying to help each other pay down debt by watching videos tiktok.com/t/ZPRK8sDM9/. Elena Maris hibby and I caught this practice early and wrote about it in our article on TikTok and mutual aid.

Read here in invisible hand: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…