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Ali Alkhatib

2 months

I wrote a post - "AI Kremlinology".

I’ve been trying to dig myself out of a pretty deep depression for some time now, and while I still don’t feel like I’m out of it, I have at least found some sense of where some of this depression is...

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

30 days

something i can't stop thinking about is how vehemently young people do not want to enter the world as it exists, and their willingness to challenge and contest it.

BreakThrough News

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BREAKING: High school students from across Boston walk out of class to join the MIT student encampment in response to the increasing police repression. Eleven high schools, including private high school Boston Latin, have walked out to stand with Gaza.

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philosophy chair getting arrested, an econ prof getting her head smashed against concrete, a street medic being held down and tased, snipers setting up vantage points to shoot at ohio state students -all because of nationwide protests against a genocide- you SHOULD be radicalized

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Ali Alkhatib

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amazon shared your ring video feed with cops for years; even did it proactively and for free for a while to get cops hooked on invasive surveillance data.

60 Minutes

@60Minutes

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"Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning and you saw a news report that China had distributed 100 million sensors around the United States... That's precisely what TikTok is," Klon Kitchen, who worked in the U.S. intelligence community, said in 2020.

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 months

every few days i get a little consumed by anxiety about google scholar, worrying that someone at google will realize it still exists.

char 🐇

@char_bun

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so whats your plan for when google shut down google docs

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

on reddit someone posted a literal rock that came out of their ear after more than 20 years stuck in there (since childhood), and they seem to be stuck in a repeating loop, endlessly explaining to redditors the realities of having a doctor who fundamentally doesn't believe you

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4 months

it's genuinely really sad; people can't wrap their heads around why the doctor didn't set aside his disbelief and schedule an x-ray, or why the OP didn't go find another doctor after years of being told they were faking it this is how people stop wanting to talk to doctors!

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Ali Alkhatib

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1 month

tech people do the innocent "i'm just an innocent little baby and i didn't mean any harm" act when they face direct rebuke, but they return to their little swamp to make fun of consent when they find their in-group of other losers

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

this story reads like an allegory about chronic illness. but if it was intentionally allegorical i would've said "pebble in your head" is too heavy-handed 😭

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Ali Alkhatib

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15 days

the only problem with malware was branding, apparently.

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Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots

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Ali Alkhatib

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5 months

i'm ✨ bypassing congress ✨ and not paying my student debt

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4 months

people really think that living in the US means you can just walk into a doctor's office and be like "one x-ray please, i have a ✨hunch✨ about something..." but like... no, friend. maybe if you're mark zuckerberg and your name is on a building. but if you're a normal person no

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

got a reply (not gonna promote) that insists it's actually good to not take a patient with a rock in their head seriously because otherwise you'd have to take seriously 1000 other people who are ALSO suffering, but for whom it's not a rock literally what is wrong with you people

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Ali Alkhatib

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1 year

@badinfinity2 @ButNotTheCity imagine joking that you identify as a satellite in orbit around the earth and your teacher has an actual meltdown and makes your parents transfer you to another school

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

you deserve to have health care workers who take you seriously and believe you at a basic level when you tell them you're hurting or in discomfort ✨even if they look and don't find a fucking rock in your ear✨

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 months

how am i gonna find shit without scholar search??? i feel like i should be storing potable water in the basement or indexing academic publications or something

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

in this person's own contrived scenario, both a person with a rock in their head and ONE THOUSAND other people with other problems that have been causing them discomfort/pain are ALL collectively better served by being ignored by their doctors who the fuck IS benefiting then?

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Ali Alkhatib

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29 days

@Blooshier i'm 34.

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@thiteanish oh hi i'm such a big fan i never meant to upset you omg i totally respect you ✨

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Ali Alkhatib

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1 month

zoom unilaterally canceled and deleted pro-palestine events in 2020 during the initial lockdowns, just to remind you that big tech is not on your side.

National Students for Justice in Palestine

@NationalSJP

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Columbia University has just announced that it will shift to a hybrid model for the rest of the semester

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i haven't even mentioned the mass arrests, the administration's incendiary lies, the totally belligerent behavior of university presidents and other political officials, or THE HUNDREDS OF BODIES FOUND IN MASS GRAVES WHERE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE CONFIRMED TO HAVE BEEN BURIED ALIVE

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

i'm tired of the AI papers that are always like "we made a system that can tell if you're gay, if you're cute, if you believe in god, if you're trustworthy, if you're memorable... uh UHHH but we're doing it to <shuffles papers, looks around> to... um... to STOP discrimination :)"

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 months

the idea that "china" distributed 100 million "sensors" around the US is so profoundly stupid that at the moment he said those words you probably should have canned this episode and interviewed the ancient aliens guy about hair care instead

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

it's okay if you have a VAGUE sense of why people are so excited that Dr @Alondra Nelson is going to be the deputy director for Science and Society in the Biden administration. but there are very specific reasons a lot of us are so excited that i want you to enjoy too:

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

😬😬😬 umm... talk to your kids about... uploading precise three-dimensional scans of their bedrooms to the whole wide world

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Ali Alkhatib

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1 month

the appropriate reaction to what we've been witnessing over the past 6 months, let alone decades, is not measured objectivity; it's trauma. you should be fucked up by what we see happening. that is the correct response look what they've done, and insisted we should be ok with it

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Ali Alkhatib

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29 days

@Blooshier you know what "you" means, right?

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 months

in an earlier version of this story, boeing had announced that he had died from a gunshot wound, but now the story doesn't seem to say any of that? so that's... uh.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 years

amazon, through ring, collaborates with cops to turn neighborhoods into surveillance states. so if you want to ponder the prospect of police murdering you and then using data from amazon to say you were emotionally aggressive when they killed you, then sure go for it.

Christina Farr

@chrissyfarr

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Huge news: Amazon has come out with a wearable & app to compete with Apple and Fitbit. It has some new features you might not expect: - emotion tracking - body fat % - points vs steps - it’s membership-based

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Ali Alkhatib

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1 month

@thiteanish what- no! so sad...

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@_alialkhatib

2 months

find a way to hold your tongue until you stop renting find a way to hold your tongue until you pay off your mortgage find a way to hold your tongue until your kids are through college find a way to hold your tongue until you retire find a way to hold your tongue until you die

Joe Shōgun

@BostonJerry

2 months

Columbia Faculty know a red line has been crossed. But they have to pay rent in NYC. They know that if they speak up or stand with the students they'll be treated just as harshly. And that's exactly how the administrators and politicians who sent the cops to do this want it.

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 years

@PDXzane @Pinboard was the goon hitting him with an inflatable bat or

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

my nightmare is an academic conf. causes a lot of people to get COVID, many people come out of the acute phase with brain fog, and the organizers congratulate themselves for "0 deaths" while cohorts of young people come to terms with the fact that their academic careers are over.

Ed Yong is not here

@edyong209

2 years

🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/

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1 month

it's a miracle of collective compassion for one another and determination not to let this genocide continue unabated that we're not all completely fucking feral.

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 years

the washington post removed something they wrote because it became a salient, opinionated, timely piece of writing entirely by accident and they're apologizing for having accidentally said something

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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The Post has removed a tweet pictured below, which was written Thursday and released through an automated program, because the subsequent news of President Trump’s infection rendered it tasteless.

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Ali Alkhatib

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there are several issues @MKBHD is prob also dealing with: one is his status as a tech reviewer. in the way that tech folks think journalists & reviewers are a kind of "public access PR firm", they're understandably (not justifiably) irritated by his reviews of their bad products

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i really hope this holds. it's going to be a long night, but everyone who watched what they did at columbia must understand the stakes.

People's City Council - Los Angeles

@PplsCityCouncil

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INCREDIBLE!!! PROTESTORS JUST STOPPED LAPD FROM ENTERING THE ENCAMPMENT!! STUDENTS ARE HOLDING THE LINE! WE WILL NOT VACATE THE CAMP!

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Ruha Benjamin is incredible. These students are incredible. Free Palestine

The Daily Princetonian

@princetonian

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BREAKING | 14 students and one professor have entered Clio Hall to begin a sit-in “until the student demands are met.” Around 200 protesters are present outside the building. Additional protestors present at the CPUC meeting in Frist Campus Center.

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4 months

@Kajel96536401

From the mildlyinteresting community on Reddit: I was told as a child by my doctor that despite my...

Posted by posh-u - 13,671 votes and 1,046 comments

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

she was alive. we heard her beg for help. surrounded by dead family. trapped in a car. she called and begged for help. israeli snipers watched the car, waiting for an opportunity to kill her if she tried to crawl out. now she's dead.

Quds News Network

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BREAKING: 12 days after being missing following an Israeli shelling on her family car, the body of the six-year-old girl Hind Rajab, along with the bodies of five of her family members, have been found in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City. Medical sources reported that

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

the deputy director of science & society for the Biden administration is going to be one of the world's most deeply respected experts on the history of science, medicine, technology, & importantly *history*. someone who's created so much of the language we use today. that's big!

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

Dr Nelson wrote *Body and Soul* - a history of grassroots organizing, an under-appreciated story of the Black Panther Party opening health centers and fighting for medical rights as a central plank in the fight for civil and human rights.

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1 year

i don't believe anything at twitter is competently automated anymore. at some point in the middle of the night someone will roll out of the bed they share with 3 co-workers and start manually deleting verified statuses one by one. and then somehow it'll cause a server to go down.

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

we're so hosed if the CDC is hiding replies pointing out that masking is good and that the best way to prevent long covid is to take measures to prevent covid in the first place.

Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD

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Someone just shared with me that ⁦ @CDCgov ⁩ hid this comment. When I attempt to view the original, Twitter claims that it was hidden by the post’s author. It was not, and I stand by it.

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

Dr Nelson wrote *The Social Life of DNA* - honest to god one of the landmark pieces of text for anyone thinking about the history of science and how science projects racism through genetics and DNA.

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Ali Alkhatib

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and btw if you are that's ok

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

> The difference between a smartwatch and an ankle monitor is, in many ways, a matter of context: Who wears one for purported betterment, and who wears one because they are having state power enacted against them? ❗️ this piece by @hypervisible is a must

The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ali Alkhatib

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@MKBHD there's also race. i'm not the right person to discuss racist patterns of tech coopting blackness, and also.. this feels different from some of the stuff i've read (that wasn't about emulating an individual like this). still, @DocDre , do you have any thoughts (or pointers)?

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Ali Alkhatib

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this characterization of tiktok is just too staggeringly stupid to speak to in any organized or coherent way. it's like it's designed to flatten the surrounding area with confusion and bewilderment

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

just wanna remind people of this article on data poisoning by @_KarenHao

How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change.

www.technologyreview.com

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Ali Alkhatib

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2 years

[interview at ivy league] so where do you see your work in 200 years?

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2 months

every westerner's journey to recognizing the genocide against palestinians seems to avoid acknowledging the humanity of the tens of thousands of palestinians who have been brutally murdered, instead taking every detour until israel brutally murders a white person they recognize

CBS News

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Chef José Andrés said the 7 aid workers killed by an Israeli airstrike were "targeted deliberately," and he believes the conflict in Gaza is "not a war against terrorism anymore" and instead, it's a "war against humanity itself." Israel blamed the strike on "misidentification."

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CEOs of google, anthropic, microsoft, & openAI nobody from community organizations; nobody from advocacy orgs like WGA or @amazonlabor , who have been fighting over how AI is used in their labor; nobody from @DAIRInstitute or any independent research orgs

Top AI CEOs will meet at White House

CEOs of top AI companies will meet Thursday with Biden administration officials.

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

6 years

Flickr is the world’s largest source of Creative Commons photos by far, and virtually all of it is going to be deleted in February.

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Flickr goes from 1 TB of free storage to just 1,000 photos and is handling this transition in the biggest nightmare scenario for a free service. Download or they delete them for you.

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(addendum: she's written and done so much more but i can't say strongly enough what a relief it is to be able to genuinely say "you know the incoming official on this topic? she's written many landmark works on this stuff that you should read". god. what a relief)

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 months

i haven't liked a bunch of replies to this thread but if you shared what you've been going through, i want you to know that i appreciate taking the time to write it down, and i'm trying to get around to reading them all. it's just been a pretty rough couple of days. but i see you

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

probably the biggest stumbling block we talk about in intro to data ethics courses is that "informed consent under duress" isn't a thing

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Ali Alkhatib

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@Blooshier good luck with that then

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@redditships lol imagine being conned by someone less than half your age into believing there's an old Moldovan tradition of buying 5 Peloton bikes for the in-laws who will then be tormented by demons if they don't immediately pawn it off

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i hope in some time we can acknowledge that it was at least somewhat strange that the west engineered things after world war II such that palestinians got punished for the holocaust that germany perpetrated.

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

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every little innovation in the AI world seems to be a revelation about some new stupid bad-faith interpretation of consent and ethics to justify stealing more shit.

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PSA: Don't let any Google docs setting be: "Anyone on the internet with the link can view", they're scraping these docs for AI.

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this story is fucking wild

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@TheOfficialACM

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@MKBHD @DocDre like my first thought was something related to digital blackface, but... that doesn't seem apt. is that the angle you would take in thinking about this?

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Ali Alkhatib

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i'm really sorry to do this on such short notice, but i'm postponing my talk at Columbia; @SW_Columbia are currently on strike for better pay, more comprehensive healthcare, and better practices around discrimination & harassment cases (namely, neutral 3rd-party arbitration) 1/3

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@nypost you gonna run a story where you mail her a check?

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Ali Alkhatib

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hi, some personal news: i'm now the interim director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at @usfca .

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 years

I'm tired of doing this there are so many better people to follow in AI who are doing earth-moving work - @ruha9 - @timnitGebru - @red_abebe - @mer__edith - @katecrawford - @math_rachel - @merbroussard - @safiyanoble - @karen_ec_levy - @AngeleChristin I'm gonna lose my f'ing mind

Prof. Dr Beth Singler.

@BVLSingler

4 years

29 men and 4 women... really?! Top Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow in 2020

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Ali Alkhatib

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i'm just saying i'm going to be using this in talks about how AIs manufacture their own representations of the world, and we're forced to resort to increasingly absurd tactics to be "seen" by them as they drift further from reality do whatever you want, but that's what I'M doing

Adrienne Shih

@adrienneshih

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Went to renew my Taiwanese passport, got denied because they couldn’t see my ears in my photo. Ran across the street to UPS to take new photos. They told me to put these on — a first for everything I guess

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4 years

@Skiminok @pjreddie there's no right way to do the wrong thing

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@halftes6 i remember seeing people from the EU being like "that seems creepy to share videos of a stranger's kid just because they're in your driveway" and people on here in 2020 were like "stop being a killjoy" or some shit like 🫠 what are we doing here

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lol i thought the point of making a mind map was to create an ontological mapping of concepts yourself. what are you getting out of it if a chatbot makes it for you?

Abhishek

@HeyAbhishekk

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ChatGPT can now create Mind Maps. No more wasting hundreds of hours making visuals for studying or simplifying complex ideas. Here’s how to do it for free in a few seconds:

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@adamsteinbaugh @Popehat in Nunes' obituary it's going to say that he spent a substantial amount of his professional life embroiled in a legal fight with a satirical twitter account using the persona of a cow. i honestly can't think of anything more depressing right now

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@TheHN1C if "u ok?" is too hard then yeah you're probably not in a position to help

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this comment is uniquely detached from everything you can plainly see in videos and photos from protests at columbia, yale, and elsewhere across the country. it's just police harassing, kettling, and arresting jewish and muslim students for standing together against genocide.

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

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BREAKING: The White House just released a statement on the protests at Columbia. And it’s terrible.

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with every "AI for social good" project these days i find myself asking if there are people who would've told me the insight the AI is offering if we'd bothered to ask them AI/ML seems designed to disregard existing knowledge in favor of recreating that knowledge computationally

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@redditships honestly good for her, good for the family, i wish they all had made a commercial about it, but otherwise solid work everybody

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doordash and uber are tech co's in the same way that a slumlord who makes tenants pay rent through an app is a tech executive. the thing that makes makes them rich is the coercive pressure, the information asymmetry, and the worker misclassification. you could do that by phone.

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@JeffDean @GoogleAI jeff, it's been hardly more than 6 months since you fired Timnit and then Margaret for reasons that strained credulity & fell apart under the most basic scrutiny. you can't possibly seriously expect me or anyone else familiar with this matter to send people your way, can you?

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@SnazzyQ as someone who researches and writes about this stuff (AI, data ethics, etc), i wouldn't use this stuff if at all possible (fwiw)

Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

4 years

amazon, through ring, collaborates with cops to turn neighborhoods into surveillance states. so if you want to ponder the prospect of police murdering you and then using data from amazon to say you were emotionally aggressive when they killed you, then sure go for it.

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every accusation is ... say it with me, class? every accusation is....

Nikki Wallschlaeger

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@KejeraL currently processing the knowledge that Israel built its military bases inside residential neighborhoods

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Ali Alkhatib

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hi! i recorded a talk about my paper at #chi2021 - "To Live in Their Utopia: Why Algorithmic Systems Create Absurd Outcomes" You can watch the talk here: i have sort of an odd request:

To Live in Their Utopia: Why Algorithmic Systems Create Absurd...

Read the paper at https://ali-alkhatib.com/utopiaIf you'd like to just read the script, you can find it at https://ali-alkhatib.com/papers/presentations/2021...

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Ali Alkhatib

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ML research is intellectual tourism. island-hopping from one domain to another without any real interest in the language, culture, or history of the people living there; taking photos, leaving garbage; jetting off to the next place. some destinations are more popular for a while

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Ali Alkhatib

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i'm super excited about @timnitGebru launching an independent research group. i think this is going to be the next wave of AI research: people studying harms that AIs project, with self-conscious attention on funding sources & power structures, & using governance/regulation vocab

Bloomberg

@business

3 years

Timnit Gebru says she was ousted from Google over her AI research. Now she has a plan to hold Big Tech accountable. via @BW

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Ali Alkhatib

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@ellievhall white guys feel more comfortable deplatforming "others" vs fellow white guys, which feels less morally palatable. so we see bizarre readiness to suspend women and people of color, but incredible reluctance to suspend white men (citing that they're newsworthy, established, etc)

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

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"i dunno, i've never been mistreated doing my research that fundamentally doesn't challenge power" is the wrong take please sit down.

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

2 months

inject this into my goddamn veins

Ranga.🇿🇼

@RangaMberi

2 months

“Let me stop you right there…” Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President @presidentaligy ; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate. Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!

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Ali Alkhatib

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every paper and article i see that promotes generative AI in any specific domain is wildly speculative about benefits and applications, and intransigently conservative about already-manifested harms. but ML is, at its core, "consume everything now, maybe spit out something later"

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Ali Alkhatib

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4 years

@tressiemcphd @LibyaLiberty > we are forced to watch him learn how to ride a bike. this is so true it hurts

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

3 years

if these 3 guys didn't deliver all the fucking food this year then they're not worth 3B each except by an accident of society.

Robert Frank

@robtfrank

3 years

DoorDash creating massive wealth today — Tony Xu, $3.1 billion. Andy Fang, $2.8 billion. Stanley Tang, $2.8 billion.

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Ali Alkhatib

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i can't put into words how angry it makes me to see someone ask "isn't chatbot therapy better than no therapy?" people deserve real care, and the whole "this or nothing" turd is especially threatening against a backdrop of a trillion-dollar tech company's cheap facsimile of care

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

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for years, SF has been an experimental lab full of unwilling subjects patiently trying to live and move around these growing pile of unaccountable autonomous vehicles, garbage taking up public space, and myriad bits of obnoxious surveillance tech people should do this more often

Dwight Rhinosoros

@rhinosoros

2 months

A Google driverless car torched in SF. 👍👍👍👍

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Ali Alkhatib

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3 years

i studied anthro for my undergrad - did digs in central and south america - before coming to stanford to join the cs phd program. i don't really know where to start, but let's give this a try.

Peyman Milanfar

@docmilanfar

3 years

Folks complain about ML algorithms drawing inference by learning from millions of examples. Archaeologists will reconstruct the complete history of life on earth from six bones and pair of sticks and I don’t hear anyone complaining

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

6 years

@Olivianuzzi when dad makes you call back to apologize for all the prank calls

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

2 years

price fixing tech company that tells landlords managing 40,000 units (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) to reduce supply says the problem isn't tech companies, but low supply i'm going to faint

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Ali Alkhatib

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@LibyaLiberty I shave before I go to the airport because I’m worried that looking like a scruffy Arab guy will get me more scrutiny but yeah white dudes forget they’re packing heat and missile launchers and it’s just like “lol whoops”

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

2 years

super thankful for that work on a Uyghur classifier that came out a few years back. i'm sure that went a long way toward stopping discrimination.

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Ali Alkhatib

@_alialkhatib

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it's worth underscoring what's happening here. the system is drawing on text based on your input. so when you say "take a deep breath", you're providing additional search terms; it's searching for those kinds of corpora that have that phrase, and generating words that follow

Chomba Bupe

@ChombaBupe

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An example of deteriorating AI research is this work: "Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results."

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