Anyone interested in disinformation should def check this out:

Nope. Don't like this one bit. I cheered when Apple blocked creepy ad tracking. I feel like an idiot now that it's become apparent that they were primarily doing this to reduce competition.

Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/cli…

Machine learning systems, explained. comic v/Randall Munroe

At Twitter, there’s chaos & noise Created by ownership ploys, For it & such places, Today’s public spaces, Are billionaire narcissists’ toys

Sorry bro theverge.com/2022/10/28/234…

"We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text,” Bender told me when we met this winter. “But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.” " nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Another Dutch so-called "fraud prediction" algorithm has ruined people's lives. This time in Rotterdam: young single mothers that did not master the Dutch language were called for social welfare fraud investigations. When will European Commission intervene? My written questions 👇

🌐 @Mozilla is joining the Fediverse in 2023! Tune into the discussion with Steve Teixeira 🦊, Anouk Ruhaak [email protected], Tarunima Prabhakar, Darius Kazemi and moderator AX Mina about opportunities, limitations, and scaling methodology of @Mozilla's move to the Fediverse NOW. 🔽 youtube.com/live/BZcXifUT0…

One thing that came up in this discussion was the need for a privacy-aware analytics suite that allows mastodon users to set define own metrics. Joshua McKenty and I started building such a tool over here: herdwise.io. Would love your input!!

If you're neuro-diverse, and/or have sensory sensitivity / sensory processing challenges, what piece of clothing bothers you the most?

Want to know what @Mozilla is up to with the Fediverse? 🤔 Check out this insightful panel discussion between Anouk Ruhaak [email protected], Tarunima Prabhakar, Steve Teixeira 🦊, Darius Kazemi, and AX Mina to find out! Watch the full video here. ⏬ mzl.la/fediverse

The capitalists are not OK.

CHIRON blog: big data research & communities! This week Anouk Ruhaak [email protected] on what prompts communities to evolve & how change can impact the validity community consent over time. Read of her post here: sagebionetworks.pubpub.org/pub/dnontbk4 And browse the whole series here: sagebionetworks.pubpub.org/chiron

I was excited for this week’s Community Health Interests for Researchers & Oversight Networks (CHIRON) post long before it was written: Anouk Ruhaak [email protected] & Joon-Ho Yu team up to explore social license to operate, proposing a novel pathway to community consent sagebionetworks.pubpub.org/pub/x775yqz5

How do we address the community impact of biomedical research? Anouk Ruhaak [email protected], Joon-Ho Yu & Meg Doerr explore “Group Licenses to Operate” – a process of community engagement & consent that would permit research to progress in lock-step with group interests sagebionetworks.pubpub.org/pub/x775yqz5/r…