Canadian Statement on the Decision for IFLA WLIC 2024 to be held in Dubai https://librarianship.ca/news/canada-ifla-dubai-2024-en/

"We, the Canadian bodies undersigned, are united in our concern that Dubai has been selected by the Governing Board to be the host of the World Library and Information Congress for 2024. While we fully acknowledge that a range of considerations has been weighed by the Governing Board, we do not support the decision."

🎯 What happens when a philosopher, a psychologist, and a computer scientist walk into a bubble tea bar to talk about Explainable AI?

Only one way to find out!

🎉 Join us at the *MAIN EVENT* for the #HCXAI workshop at #CHI2023 with our invited speakers Andrés Páez, Tania Lombrozo, and Tim Miller

✨ We're so excited for this crossover episode of the XAI multiverse!

w/ @Riedl @hal @jweisz

#AI #ML #XAI #ExplainbleAI #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #HCI #UX #academicchatter #academia

Heard the phrase "stochastic parrots 🦜" and curious what that's about? Familiar with our paper and interested in developments in the past two years?

Join me, @timnitGebru @meg and Angie + guests for Stochastic Parrots Day, March 17:

https://bit.ly/ParrotsDay23

1/2 I already posted here about that Larkin Poe concert I attended, but it lingered in my mind so I blogged about it; not just the show, but Rock&Roll’s embedding in this troubled time, drama and love and sound quality and masking and advertising:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/04/Larkin-Poe-2023

Also here are a couple more pics that I didn't post last time.

If this policy is true, anyone with enough money to run a verified Twitter bot farm can buy the suppression of any account and bury any story they dislike.

That’s the end. Right there.

#Twitter