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Joanna Bryson
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Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html .. more

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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 19
thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.
j2bryson.bsky.social Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 5
One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%.

The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.
garymarcus.bsky.social Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5
Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 7h
1) We don't have time to read every link. Give us a good highly condensed abstract.
2) If you frequently repost someone else's high quality reposts, mention them VERY occasionally as a good follow.
3) again, try to defend everyone's time, including in mentions, but maximise information.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 7h
About the 10th skype I've run into about the event, the first to explain the war crime.
Back when twitter was new people used to explain to each other the importance of being (and following) good filters. It's not obvious to everyone how crowdsourced human computation works.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 8h
There seems to be a lot of hybrid economic warfare against Germany. The US being antirealist about the EU is not making the EU weaker, but could MAYBE bolster populists I guess. Probably not while the UK keeps demonstrating what happens outside.
jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 12h
From the French Foreign Ministry:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 12h
From the French Foreign Ministry:

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13h
"Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination"

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210633

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15h
Not simply promoting crypto but eschewing prosecution of platforms that enable terrorists and criminals: DAG Blanche memo says that DOJ "will not pursue actions against the platforms that these enterprises utilize to conduct their illegal activities" www.cov.com/en/news-and-...

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 16h
My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution
Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h
Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.
katzish.bsky.social Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23h
What’s this old thing

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17h
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 18h
Good architecture is a posterchild public good: non-rival and non-excludable. Had great fun using the economics toolbox to study why developments look rather underwhelming and simulate what policies could lead to more beautiful cities. @bsoeberlin.bsky.social github.com/Ahlfeldt/DPs...

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 19h
Trump has just effectively taken control of Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.

You should assume that anything you say on these sites, publicly or privately, is being seen by the regime and can be used against you.
Former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick named Meta's president
Meta Platforms on Monday named former Trump administration official Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, boosting the company's lobbying efforts in the U.S. capital.
www.reuters.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@argohdes.bsky.social who knew there could be ANY "upside" to an internet shutdown... #indyref #brexit #scotland @libdems.org.uk @snp.org ^^^

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Dr Joe Baker @jsbaker.co.uk · 1d
Have been reading Varoufakis's 'Technofeudlism' recently, which points to QE as a distinctive driver of massive alteration in tech stock valuation, when money was made available to bank to loan so biz's motive to create profit was taken away.

Screenshot from finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett...
2021-2022: Stock prices took off following the 2020 COVID-19 bear market as zero interest rates and trillions of stimulus dollars were used to get the economy going again. By 2021, the economy started to feel the fallout of all that liquidity in the system. The inflation rate jumped to 9% and the S&P 500 declined roughly 25% by the latter half of 2022. Screenshot from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett-indicator-hitting-level-seen-182400883.html

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@pettter.bsky.social As I remember COVID, digital/video conference stocks soared as people saw the economy was NOT declining as expected, so everyone thought digital was undervalued. I remembered that as happening before ChatGPT was released –though obviously not immediately, so maybe that IS it.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
"This is actually extremely troubling because it means that every ICE employee has a $50K incentive to help ensure that Trump (or JD) is re-elected."

I'm not sure why @bwyble.bsky.social's post that said that hasn't gone viral, so I'm reiterating it as well as RTing it.
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d
ICE recruitment is going well.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
I'm wondering about the two unlabelled "busts" on this graph. We know what happened 2007/8, but what was happening that got reversed by the (premature?) release of #ChatGPT? Was it the @ec.europa.eu – #DSA, #DMA, and #AIA?

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 1d
We're no longer posting on twitter. Since we wanted to ensure our authors continue to receive as much coverage as possible for their work, we can now also be found on linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | LinkedIn
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Journal of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, published by University of Chicago Press | Founded in 1950, the B...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@maurogilli.bsky.social listening to this guy in a chatham context, reminds me of your course I audited subscribepage.io/mineralwar can't find him on social media
Mineral War: China’s Global Grab for Critical Minerals
Get a free chapter from Mineral War, the inside story of how China seized control of the world’s most strategic minerals.
subscribepage.io

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@boringai.bsky.social welcome back!

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Is it for no reason when Peter Thiel considers it evidence of the apocalypse that he can’t hide his money? If you don’t believe in public goods you don’t believe you can destroy value either.

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sakanaai.bsky.social @sakanaai.bsky.social · 1d
Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings

We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.

arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 1d
I can't read Chinese, but my family has old genealogy documents I've always wanted to understand. Claude and Gemini helped me build an interactive reader to explore the calligraphy character by character.

I can finally read my great-grandfather's epitaph. Try it:
davidbau.com/archives/202...
Screenshot of Chinese calligraphy reader web application

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
timobrien.bsky.social Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas, Powell Vows to Stand Firm
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump admi...
www.bloomberg.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d
ICE recruitment is going well.
Background checks don't happen until after people start work, one official said, as HR rubber-stamps applicants in days. Training was slashed from 16 weeks to six, with sit-ups eliminated because recruits couldn't handle them.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@chrisschmitz.ai

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@willgervais.com peace prize

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday, Netanyahu joined Hungarian extremist PM Viktor Orbán's re-election launch via video, alongside German & Austrian far-right parties AfD & FPÖ, which are officially boycotted by Israel over their antisemitism

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Netanyahu joins Germany's AfD, far-right Europeans in backing Orbán as campaign begins
The AfD and Austria's FPÖ Are Boycotted by Israel Over Their Antisemitic Roots and Members. Launching an Uphill Re-election Bid, Orbán Invited International Far-right Allies to His Illiberal Fidesz Pa...
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