I'm so confused how that bird site is still running. How hasn't it crashed or something by now?
Working at https://www.dair-institute.org/
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I would love for some of the amazing people laid off from the dumpster fire site to work on mastodon stuff.
Alex HannaReposting this on the new instance --
An #introduction:
I'm Alex Hanna, the Director of Research for the Distributed #AI Research Institute. I'm a #sociology PhD who has been studying #tech and society for over 10 years. I'm involved in #labor and #trans organizing, and am currently Chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice. I sometimes teach at Cal #Berkeley. The rest of my free time goes to #RollerDerby -- I skate, announce, and sometimes referee with Bay Area Derby in #Oakland.
Alex HannaFor those working at birdsite:
RT @linguangst: hey tech-folk: if your company is hiring and isn't owned by the human equivalent of a rotten pistachio, drop a link for the tweeple ⤵️
https://mobile.twitter.com/linguangst/status/1587930381168545792
Ralf RottmannI read this elsewhere: If trusted news outlets would start offering #Mastodon instances to their staff, that would bring some sort of verification and visibility. Think social.nytimes.com, social.heise.de etc. I'd love to read more from trusted journalists on the #fediverse and this could greatly help. (Again, not my idea but couldn't find the original author.) Boosts for visibility would be great. Reminder: Favorites don't help as on this other platform.
I hope the dude gets sued to the brim
Twitter Sued for Mass Layoffs by Musk Without Enough Notice
Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform -- half of its workforce -- which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.
dylanan #introduction: I'm Dylan, I work at DAIR as a research engineer.
Recently I've been thinking about popular narratives about AI, and how to (re)frame people's ways of thinking about ethics in AI/ML. I also think a lot about datasets, particularly wrt classificatory systems and data labor. I'm a swe by training, so I also spend a good amount of my time data engineering (and slowly learning frontend).
Outside of that, I'm also super into social dance, particularly #westcoastswing dancing 🕺
Dylan (@dylan) has set up a DAIR instance, http://dair-community.social.
We're starting out invite-only to keep growth manageable, but if you want to join, please fill out this google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVhQh4adSiFNl0G3t0kFQbPEU8_Gect4qaFBYF4CTnH5iuCw/viewform
I admittedly still don't know how this works and have in my TODO to spend time reading.
"in a GAN application on the facial composition of criminal profiles biases in gender may result in wrongful profiling."
From a paper on the topic of fairness. Because that's the main problem with a "GAN application on the facial composition of criminal profiles?"