📰 Spain takes a big step towards a more inclusive technological future with #ALIA 🗣 @martorellBSC talks about how #ALIA promotes linguistic and cultural diversity through #AI at Oxford Insights ➡ bsc.es/Zyr

Coming back to this thread because agency and consent feeling even bigger than ever.

See this? This is a hill we should pick a fight on. AI detectors are shit and no one with two brain cells to rub together should use them to make a decision that affects someone's life.

There's nothing in the (1.5 page) OpenAI for Countries safety/security doc about how OpenAI will ensure "the freedom for people to choose how they work with and direct AI" or "the prevention of government use of AI to amass control," two stated aims of the project to begin with.

Apparently Japan Post is debuting the most obvious improvement in addressing for last two decades: address virtualization. You sign up with them and get a short alphanumeric code. Their DB holds a pointer to physical address. If you move, you tell them, pointer changes.

Patrick McKenzie AthenaHealth sets your username as "FirstInitialLastName" and you can never change it, though your last name might change If you want to message within the system, you just have to know the username, which may involve remembering a maiden name from 10 years back

It has been interesting to watch the drivers of Los Angeles slowly discover that Waymo will always yield

community college non credit continuing education classes are so sick

meghan its so weird being the one person in a friend group who isnt depressed i straight up feel like this

FINALLYYYYYYY

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Doing all they can to make America as dangerous as possible...

A future of data sharing for "the public good is not science fiction," but a "tangible possibility," Kevin Frazier of UTexasLaw argues in a recent essay about building trust-centered data infrastructure. buff.ly/Belk2bQ

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

It's actually a bit more mixed than this makes out. Cuomo's coalition is of the very poorest and very richest

For years in any NYC focus group you hear the same lament: the wealthy can ride out price rises, the poorest get government subsidies and aid (even if poorly delivered), the middle class gets squeezed to death. Seems like that's who delivered Zohran the win last night.

This actually looks quite different by household rather than personal income, so I thought I ought to share for transparency

Mamdani's success in the New York City mayoral primary reflects in part the many Jews (in the city with the world's largest Jewish population) who are appalled by politicians who ritually support Israel even when it is committing mass atrocities in Gaza. trib.al/MlIt97s

If we’re not developing tools to help us overcome the most significant challenges that humanity faces (food, climate, peace), then we’re wasting our time. We need to measure what matters and build goals for new AI capabilities that we actually want. aspendigital.org/report/intelli…