@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)
@timnitGebru
Personal Account Author: The View from Somewhere Mastodon @[email protected] BlueSky http://timnitgebru.bsky.social Also on LinkedIn. Less here
I'm finally on Blue Sky. bsky.app/profile/timnit…. Seems like more and more people are there rather than here. And with Elmo's impending power explosion, who knows what's gonna happen here. LMK what your profile is there so I can follow you there.
Never will I forget how the world treated this genocide and how the so-called "human rights" Ethiopians and Eritreans opining on everything and anything were cheering on this genocide. theguardian.com/global-develop…
The opportunity gap in AI is more striking than ever. We talk way too much about those receiving $100M or whatever for their jobs, but not enough those asking for <$1k to present their work. For 3rd year in a row, @ml_collective is raising funds to support @DeepIndaba attendees.
In Scientific American, @asmelashteka & I ask: "In the age of unbridled AI hype, with the likes of Elon Musk claiming to build a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” how did we come to have less reliable speech recognition systems than we did before?" 🧵 scientificamerican.com/article/replac…
I play a game with ppl about claims wrt “AI.” I show them quotes from a few different decades & ask them to guess which decade it’s from. Turns out “machines that, think, walk & are conscious” were always a couple of years away. As the saying goes, fool me twice, shame on me.
They have been warning us about AI since the 70s.
Actual title: #Sudan gold production jumps to 64 tonnes despite ongoing conflict Real title: #Sudan gold production jumps to 64 tonnes DUE TO ongoing conflict That's also likely an underestimate, as much of #Sudan's gold is smuggled. #KeepEyesOnSudan share.google/u6FE60bxh6rtMl…
Resurfacing this thread and op-ed since neither DODGE nor AI Hype seem to be on the decline.
In Scientific American, @asmelashteka & I ask: "In the age of unbridled AI hype, with the likes of Elon Musk claiming to build a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” how did we come to have less reliable speech recognition systems than we did before?" 🧵 scientificamerican.com/article/replac…
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
These media companies and universities who are too happy to march head first into the most fascist incarnation of states think that they will come out winning in the end? Do they know that people need to exist for them to make money?
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
A personal update. bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/07/…
For the culture* *but miss me with the Black Excellence stuff dropbox.com/scl/fi/txi8yhg…
Worth noting, I think, that the organization behind Canary Mission is entirely based in Israel. Its staff is in Israel. Its board is in Israel. So ICE was using information to make these arrests from an Israeli company.
NEW: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team—referred to internally as the “Tiger Team”—rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."
Fun quotes from history, shared by @timnitGebru on Friday at @jamcoders ... Herbert Simon (1950s): "there are now [...] machines that think, that learn and create. [...] their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until [...] the range of problems they can…
In Damian Marley's (Bob Marley's son) song, look at one of the signs in minute 1:06 of the video "Stop the Genocide in" and the rest of it is blurred out. The level of censorship and persecution w.r.t. to this live streamed genocide.... youtube.com/watch?v=AQhU3p…