NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o Gael Varoquaux, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

"Computers and Automation" - such a rich digitized archive of computing culture from 1960s - 1980s, including some nice material for something I'm working on for benchmarking and evaluation in ML.... archive.org/details/bitsav…

Well well ☁️🌩️☁️ EU cloud regulation is hanging in the air Will dive in and share some thoughts - brb

Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I got the call? What the award means to me? What I’m working on now?—bc I asked them to accurately recount my response to Q1 or to not quote me at all. 1/

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“[Sam] Altman’s entire job is to keep us all fixated on an imagined AI future so we don’t get too caught up in the underwhelming details of the present,” David Karpf writes. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

South of Gaza City: 2022 vs. last week Recent image via Planet

This is the true AI doomerism. Not the stuff about a rogue AI enslaving humanity, but rather using AI as an ideological tool to justify the capitalist nihilism of maximum extraction by claiming its the only solution for planetary collapse.

Hi friends and tweeters. My book is finally out with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social and it is open access for all. If you want to know what “the cloud” has done to your digital civil liberties and your democracy, check it out! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548069/…

Translated by Ahdaf Soueif, Letter to an Israeli Soldier embodies a rare poetic collaboration between Mahmoud Darwish and Muin Bseiso. Written by the two Palestinian poets while under Israeli siege in the summer of 1982 in Beirut, this collaboration captures an enduring essence

DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series exploring the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are desperate to build more. In Part 1, we examine where “the cloud” came from and how it expands Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s power. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/data-v…

In honor of Nobel Prize Week, please enjoy my favorite tweet of all time

Hinton really said "I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman" ....at his Noble Prize press conference for UofT 😭

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the inventors of Microsoft Word's "Track Changes" and "Comment" functions, for their work championing the literature that "takes place in the margins," celebrating the hidden iceberg that dwells below the tip of life

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.

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Well this sounds like exactly the right moment to ban English and discourage international students

Incredible data journalism. This Article shows exactly what "algorithmic wage theft" looks like. We need more than the minimum wage & data transparency: we need new laws of work to prevent algorithmic wage discrimination. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…