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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na.

@missiggeek.bsky.social

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She/her. Aka Miss IG Geek on other socials. Humanity in data, digitech-ethics, and misanthropology, occasional puffins. #ActuallyAutistic 🏳️‍🌈 Everything you know is actually way more complicated than you think

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · Nov 18

Woohoo, it’s getting busy around here! Hello new followers, thanks for joining the posse - FYI, I post about data protection, privacy, tech ethics, philosophical musings and puffin enthusiasm

Two Atlantic puffins in breeding plumage in a grassy cliff top, one is looking at the ground the other is looking at the first puffin

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 3h

I see we’re stress-testing the tolerance of intolerance paradox again today by giving air-time to someone who thinks that trans people ‘just need to learn to live together’ with people who seek to eradicate them with maximum suffering

🙄

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 4h

Question for neuroscientists; how closely does fMRI measured brain activity when in pain align with the subject’s experience of that pain?

Like; does more intensely-felt pain glow brighter or anything like that?

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 4h

Eh, surviving!

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 4h

I am BEGGING data ‘scientists’ to learn the difference between a trend and a rule.

Real science acknowledges that the world is messy, complex and full of variation. Data ‘science’ seeks to reduce all of that to the lowest common denominators in order to monetise it as much and as fast as possible

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 4h

As someone with turbo-charged nociception, fuck these technofascist eugenicist-inclined dehumanisers with a rusty chainsaw.

Then tell me it shouldn’t hurt that much ya bastards

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 4h

An major escalation in weaponry for the seat-reclining culture war

“I PAID to recline, therefore I have the moral RIGHT to park myself in your lap ALL THE DAMN WAY”

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 5h

Great reporting mate, so necessary and valuable to make these issues visible 👏🏽

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 7h

“There are few things more dehumanizing than being told by a machine that you’re not real because of your face"

For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 6h

SALVATION CAN'T BE BOUGHT AND SOLD

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 6h

"Big tech know that they're stoking a bubble that will end in a crash. They are not concerned. The crash will wipe out smaller rivals and weaken the governments that they want to control." — @moonalice.com

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9h

Data protection is health and safety for rights and freedoms

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 2d

And when unenforced, data protection is less an obligation than a choice; one which creates a conflict of interest for the organisation - between human rights/welfare and convenience, cost-savings or competitive advantage; which do you think will prevail?

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 2d

Data protection law is only effective at preventing data harms to the extent that it is applied diligently and in good faith, by people with a genuine desire to protect others; even when it is inconvenient, unprofitable or complicated to do so.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

The problem with an effective defence/protection is that after it’s been working fine for a while, people stop believing it was ever necessary at all. When added to an economic ecosystem that boosts/incentivises grift, fearmongering, divisiveness & suspicion, maladaptive cognitive bias runs rampant

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 9d

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

Interestingly, the only people I’ve ever heard speak disparagingly of Jilly Cooper’s novels, are people who have never actually read one.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

😭😭😭

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

My all-time favourite was ‘Pandora’ - if you only ever read one JC novel, make it this one - with bonus art history education!

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 9d

I’m gutted that #JillyCooper has passed away - she wrote with great skill, humour and insight about the messiness of the human condition, creating three-dimensional characters that were sympathetic in spite of their flaws.

Goodbye Jilly. Thank you for many, many hours of entertainment

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 11d

Yep. Radium toothpaste, radium chocolate, radium condoms - some of which did actually contain radium and many fraudulent products which had random other toxic ingredients instead. History repeating itself with the Big Data Fairy.

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 13d

Though smartphones and soft-tokens have caused the the distinctions between processes to become somewhat blurred, it’s true.

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 13d

As I learned it, something you know + another thing you know = 2SV (eg, secret word check, confirmation code sent to email) whereas MFA requires ‘know AND [have OR are]’ so, password and challenge-response token or biometrics. In the age of SSO, 2SV is weaker than MFA

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, probably!

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 13d

As it turns out, there’s a whole lot more to ‘thinking’ than simply fooling human observer into projecting anthropomorphic bias, but to be fair; in Turing’s time the field of neuroscience wasn’t up to much so it’s not his fault his test is a bit useless

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 13d

Today is the 75th anniversary of Alan’s Turing’s paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" published in journal Mind where he proposed the question, "Can machines think?" – the Turing Test

Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 13d

😂😂😂😂 savage and delicious

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 13d

Directors at Autism Shrieks have reportedly spent an emergency meeting trying to placate their board after assistance was erroneously provided to autistic adult, Miya Wilkes, 30.

Whoops! Autism charity inadvertently helps autistic person

An autism charity has come under fire today after accidentally helping an actual autistic person, reports have indicated. Directors at Autism Shrieks have reportedly spent an emergency meeting…

thedailytism.com