Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Americans want different candidates for president: Poll https://t.co/Ux3Aufk1T2

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. It is critical that user privacy is not sacrificed in favor of filling the pockets of corporations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

"On occasion I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke someone not to invest a billion dollars in this idea immediately" — Charles Babbage, 21st century venture capitalist

very good paper ("the first extensive study of empirical license use") on the current state of dataset licenses and sources in machine learning https://www.dataprovenance.org/paper.pdf describes "a crisis in license laundering and informed usage of popular datasets, with systemic problems in sparse, ambiguous, or incorrect license documentation" including license annotations on dataset sharing platforms that are "often labeled as more permissive than the author’s intended license"

A team of researchers wants artists to be able to fight back against their work being used to train new AI models.

Read all about their efforts:
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/11/11/meet-nightshade-a-tool-empowering-artists-to-fight-back-against-ai

How states are guiding schools to think about AI https://t.co/iJLh3TpyZp

Americans are stressed out. While exercise is a proven way to support mental health — which made evolutionary sense for our ancestors — it's not the only way to de-stress. There are other options we often overlook. https://t.co/hkEqrBtgZj

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Over and over we’ve been told self-driving cars would solve our transport problems only for them not to deliver.

In 2023, Waymo and Cruise promised us their services had finally cracked the code — but a new scandal in San Francisco shows they deceived us once again. We need to stop falling for their fantasies and take real action to fix our transport system.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/self-driving-cars-still-arent-the

#tech #cruise #waymo #sf #transport

TIL that 10 years ago Disney attempted to trademark the centuries-old Mexican holiday "Dia de los Muertos" for merchandising purposes. They requested exclusivity on education, entertainment, and "frozen meals consisting primarily of pasta or rice". https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/08/disney-trademark-day-dead-festival-pixar

#Antisemitism has traditionally come from the far right in the United States, but not any more.

A team of researchers has looked at trends, including the correlation between flare-ups in Israeli-Palestinian conflict and increases in antisemitic attacks.

https://theconversation.com/antisemitism-has-moved-from-the-right-to-the-left-in-the-us-and-falls-back-on-long-standing-stereotypes-215760

#uspolitics #news

Are you unhappy about journal processing times at the usual suspects? Then consider sending your manuscript to Digital Society: https://www.springer.com/journal/44206

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin

Understanding the complexities of the lead-up to the Israel-Hamas war is required in discussing the conflict, former President Barack Obama said.

"You have to admit that nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree." https://t.co/RMEwUuP96B

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Congressional Democrats grow critical of Israel’s war effort https://t.co/0tUODFoesU

Why young people can't get enough of subtitles https://t.co/STDhSTiUpD