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So much this:

C'était il y a 10 ans : Aaron Swartz se suicide le 11 janvier 2013 à l'âge de 26 ans !

It was 10 years ago: Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013 at the age of 26!

Reddit, Open Library, RSS, Creative Commons, academic papers free of charge, open-access, transparency,...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

#aaronswartz #opensource #openaccess #opendata

how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

"#Facebook will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebooks revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with #CambridgeAnalytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President Donald Trump's election campaign." Frankly, the amount is too small, and should instead be more crippling to Meta. If it's not punitive enough to strike abject horror industry-wide, it's insufficient https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/meta-to-pay-725-million-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-lawsuit/

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

When your AI/code works too well ...

More & more convinced that making key public goods - transport, waste, health, education, social media, energy etc - non-profit commons may be the most important climate strategy of all.

With privatisation shareholder profit determines all the decisions & policies of these providers - not what is best for planet & people. If we as a society agree that these should just be realms for the common good, not for profit, then sustainable policies can be adopted swiftly, at every level

#Commons

Telehealth startup Cove asked users about their migraine symptoms, diagnoses, and family history.

Their answers went to #Facebook and #Google.

Read the full findings with @STAT at https://mrkup.org/telehealth. #MedMastodon

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

#Introduction #Introductions Hello all, I’m Paul & I’m a scientist, writer & STEM educator.
I work in #HealthResearch in the UK, mainly #ClinicalTrials. I’m currently managing a small phase I vaccine trial and my interests are #Pharmacovigilance & #Safety. I also teach clinical research professionals & postgrads on this topic.

My passion is #SciComm. I write for #MedicalNewsToday (link in bio) & I’m also a children’s & YA author 📚. I love introducing children to STEM subjects! 👨🏻‍🏫

Postdoc position! Pls boost!

Want to devote your expertise in data science to accelerate the pace at which new medicines are found?

Join our lab at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, USA to glean insights from biological images!
More info: http://broad.io/mlcbpostdoc

The Broad Institute provides a uniquely stimulating environment to advance and apply data science in collaboration with MIT, Harvard, and hospitals. (1/2)

"The insidious nature of such generative #AI models is that they produce plausible sounding #health information in a smooth conversational style, that is at best is generic in nature and at worst completely fictional. The problem is that most people cannot tell the difference between the two." The #ethics of AI is going to be a topic that won't gain traction until either normies start dying in numbers, or techbros start getting sued into oblivion. https://medium.com/@guruduth.banavar/chatgpts-deep-fake-text-generation-is-a-threat-to-evidence-based-discourse-c096164207e0

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