this Friday is the 16th annual More Joy Day!  

"In the interest of spreading more joy, I’m proposing that on January 13, 2023, we each engage in one act, either online or physical space (or both!), which brings joy to another person, in the hopes that that person will spread that joy further, and exponentially onward." https://sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/704293714247467008/more-joy-day-2023-is-coming
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I’ve seen some concern over whether moving from Twitter to Mastodon would make it harder to track breaking news.

Since joining, I’ve learned about a Brazilian coup, followed journalists live posting the mess of a Speaker of the House vote, and tracked multiple AI and Apple centric tech stories.

I think it’s going to be alright.

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So the people at Koko— an online mental health intervention laminate that licenses itself out to other platforms to make use of (Tumblr, facebook, etc.) have apparently just admitted that they tested gpt-3 assisted mental health interventions on some 4,000 people in mental health crisis, without said people's informed consent.

See here: http://web.archive.org/web/20230107210632/https://twitter.com/RobertRMorris/status/1611450197707464706

And followup "Clarification" thread here: http://web.archive.org/web/20230107191117/https://twitter.com/RobertRMorris/status/1611775514590740480

Now, at this point, I really shouldn't have to explain to people why this is… very very bad on a number of levels, but to those who maybe still don't get it, and to anyone ever even THINKING of doing anything like this, PLEASE read the "Digital Futures in Mind" Report:

https://automatingmentalhealth.cc/recommendations

This report was funded by the @mozilla foundation, and coordinated by Piers Gooding, with further authorship by Jonah Bossewitch, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Leah Harris, James Horton, Simon Katterl, Keris Myrick, Kelechi Ubozoh, and Alberto Vásquez Encalada (and by way of full disclosure, i wrote the foreword).

It covers the promises, pitfalls, and outright depredations of the Existing interventions in the "AI" assisted mental health space, while also examining and interrogating the proposed use cases and laying bare their implications.

There are several things in the references you should take in, too, but if nothing else PLEASE take the time to read the report itself.

This is a mess that didn't need to happen, and definitely doesn't need to be repeated.

RT @sdshamshel@twitter.com

Former white supremacist turned antiracist R. Derek Black with a crucial explanation of a fundamental part of white supremacy: bodies in a room. https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1611477590526644235

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sdshamshel/status/1611727332435234818