“Social media was once about connection; it’s now about performance."
https://getpocket.com/collections/is-social-media-making-us-stupid
"As models improve their performance when scaling up, they may also increase the likelihood of unpredictable phenomena, including those that could potentially lead to bias or harm."
"social bias emerges with enormous numbers of parameters. “Larger models abruptly become more biased.”"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/
"Advantage plans give health insurance companies much more power to deny coverage — and those denials are being based on predictive algorithmic tools rather than medical personnel."
#retirees #healthinsurance #algorithm
https://www.theverge.com/23664533/medicare-advantage-healthcare-algorithm
The doors were locked.
The teachers were armed.
TN expanded firearm access.
The police arrived in minutes.
Covenant school had everything that MAGA GOP assured us prevents & stops mass shootings. And 3 babies & 3 adults were murdered in seconds.😳
IT’S—THE—GUNS
#GunReformNow
"What we can do is continue to live with love every day. To show gentleness and compassion to everyone, including ourselves. To reject their venom wholesale, and be wholly, independently who we’re meant to and want to be."
#Politics #MentalHealth #OnlineHarassment #FamilySupport #GenderEquality #WomensRights #WomensEmpowerment #DepressionAwareness #MentalHealthAwareness #PublicLife #PoliticalAttacks #MediaCoverage #MentalWellbeing
"There are people among us, led by Donald Trump, who hate our form of government because it tolerates people who are not straight, white, or Christian having economic and political power."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/dead-school-children-are-a-sign-of
Hey #lawfedi how is everyone here not arrested?
https://twitter.com/SMB_Attorney/status/1642203644048097295?t=guJaXqk-ywx0YUZCR6fNNg&s=19
"Google finds more Android, iOS zero-days used to install spyware" via @BleepingComputer
Not sure. You might run into an actual tribal prince or princess in Philly...I did! She's a nurse! And gorgeous.
With 200 or so tribes, I mean, there's some royalty? No one knows for sure.
This guy is trying to photograph them.
“The idea that you can rely on looking for bad grammar or spelling in order to spot a phishing attack is no longer the case. We used to say that you could identify phishing attacks because the emails look a certain way. That no longer works.”
"It’s a system that doesn’t work for the centers, doesn’t work for the teachers and doesn’t work for the parents."
https://19thnews.org/2023/03/day-care-waitlists-child-care-strain-parenting/
"One day after the ratification of the 15th Amendment, Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first Black American to vote in an election under that amendment."
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/03/31/on-this-day-in-1870-thomas-mundy-peterson/
"2023 has already set a grim record for attacks on transgender rights. As of March 27, state lawmakers in the US have introduced at least 430 anti-LGBTQ laws—which is more than in the past five years combined."
https://getpocket.com/collections/whats-at-stake-trans-rights-2023
"“The thing that strikes me is that security should be baked into everything we do, not a paid-for service,""
"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Citizen's Ultimate Job Interview
Presented by: The Philadelphia Citizen
Moderated by:
6abc's Jim Gardner"
https://6abc.com/mayoral-debate-philadelphia-citizen-ultimate-job-interview-jim-gardner/13028127/
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia