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Adrian Zidaritz
@adrianzidaritz.bsky.social
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data scientist | author of https://aibluedot.com | founder of https://sd-ai.org
PhD Mathematics UC Berkeley '92

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muellershewrote.com
Of course they lied to Congress. And now there's no one in the DoJ that will do anything about it. Keep calling them out on their lies. We're the only check on them now.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 30
WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?

BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee.
March 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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rod2ik.bsky.social
L' #Union #européenne annonce 1,3 milliards d'euros dans l' #IA #AI et la #cybersécurité : voici ses objectifs

www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-nume...
L'Union européenne annonce 1,3 milliards d'euros dans l'IA et la cybersécurité : voici ses objectifs
Bruxelles prévoit une énorme enveloppe de 1,3 milliard d’euros pour les secteurs technologiques stratégiques entre 2025 et 2027.
www.lesnumeriques.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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mwyarbrough.bsky.social
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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iai.tv
Is the truth about quantum computing actually that it’s beyond the hype? | iai.tv/video/the-tr...

Scott Aaronson tells us what’s really going on with the quantum computing revolution.

#techsky #philsci 🧪
The truth about quantum computing
Quantum computing has turned into a phrase that the tech industry will sprinkle on almost anything to help raise funds and generate sales. As a result, there is a tsunami of hype about what quantum…
iai.tv
March 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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danielkostic.bsky.social
The submission deadline is on 01 April 2025, don't forget to submit your work on networks! @philsci.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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erantal.bsky.social
Postdoc opportunity in #AI ethics! Join a new project on Algorithmic Bias based out of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics. #philsky #philsci ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship In Algorithm Bias | Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
ethics.utoronto.ca
March 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Is "unusual" really the best the New York Times can do?
March 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
This is a sad but interesting question. How many grad students will leave and where, if anywhere will they go ?
gabestur.bsky.social gabestur.bsky.social @gabestur.bsky.social · Mar 29
Live here and am in grad school here. I have one class where 13 out of the 15 in it are leaving the state or country at end of semester.

That funding loss will really impact the summer where the population is half that so it’s about $2k per person.
March 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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alondra.bsky.social
Video is now available of the AI Policy and Governance Working Group December panel at The British Academy on shaping viable AI futures mailchi.mp/391dada272b8...
Poster for panel: shaping viable futures – human agency and artificial intelligence. Pictured: The Honourable Chi Onwurah, Member of Parliament representing Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West in the House of Commons and Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. Ms. Dorothy Chou, head of Policy & Public Engagement at Google DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company. Prof. John Tasioulas, Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Dr. Julian Bleecker, an engineer, software developer, product designer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The panel was moderated by Dr. Alondra Nelson, the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kristophergphillips.com
Check out this great lineup for the @theaapt.bsky.social Talking/Teaching series!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS AAPT TALKING/TEACHING JOIN US TO TALK ABOUT TEACHING PHILOSOPHY EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY ON ZOOM 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET FEB. 26 USING SOCIAL ANNOTATION IN PHILOSOPHY COURSES CHAEYEON LEE & DR. STEVEN BROWN MAR. 12 TEACHING AROUND AI (OR "THE DEATH OF THE COLLEGE PAPER") DR. ANDRÉ DE AVILLEZ MAR. 26 ASSIGNING PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS INSTEAD OF ESSAYS DR. CLAIRE LOCKARD APR. 9 HOW TO TALK TO STUDENTS ABOUT CHATGPT & CITATIONS DR. KRISTOPHER PHILLIPS APR. 23 PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR REGULAR SUBSTANTIVE INTERACTION ONLINE DR. MEGAN FLOCKEN MAY7 USING SIMULATIONS IN APPLIED ETHICS DR. STEPHANIE ADAIR MAY 21 TEAGLE & TRANSFORMATIVE TEXTS DR. DAVID LIAKOS PHILOSOPHYTEACHERS.ORG/TALKING- TEACHING
February 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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nathaliesmuha.bsky.social
It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains and sectoral applications.

Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
AI is reshaping democracy – impacting decision-making, power, and governance. How do we navigate these changes?

Join us on 27 March for our next AI Debates event, chaired by Timandra Harkness, as experts explore AI’s role in democracy.

Book your free ticket: bit.ly/BLDemocracyAI
A group of students working at the British Library
February 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social
More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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pressgazette.co.uk
Researchers at Cambridge University's Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy have published a report urging the UK government to implement transparency requirements for AI companies and to exercise "caution" on copyright exemptions for AI scraping
www.mctd.ac.uk/policy-brief...
Policy Brief: AI, Copyright, and Productivity in the Creative Industries
In this report we examine the impacts Generative AI may have on the UK's creative sector’s workforce and productivity and provide policy recommendations for the Government.
www.mctd.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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brockm.bsky.social
The age of human tyranny was cruel—but flawed. AI tyranny will be perfect. It will know you better than you know yourself. It will shape your reality before you resist. And if we lose democracy now, we may never get another chance to win it back
The Final Despotism
When Technology Rewrites Human Freedom
www.notesfromthecircus.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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brennancenter.org
AI will transform our democracy. Now is the time for states to set up guardrails to protect personal data, improve transparency and ensure election security.
An Agenda to Strengthen U.S. Democracy in the Age of AI
Federal and state policymakers must rise to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to safe, secure elections and responsive, accountable governance.
www.brennancenter.org
February 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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brockm.bsky.social
Democracy isn't just about voting—it's about collectively seeking truth. @shadihamid.bsky.social's "democratic minimalism" dangerously ignores this, paving the way for autocracy in the age of AI and misinformation. My new piece on why democracy without truth is no democracy at all.
The Perilous Incoherence of Democratic Minimalism
When Truth Becomes Optional, Tyranny Becomes Inevitable
www.notesfromthecircus.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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nacholib.bsky.social
And who they didn't like
February 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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samillingworth.com
🌊 Internal tides speeding up in warming oceans

A new study finds that global warming accelerates internal tide speeds, impacting marine ecosystems and energy flows.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#ClimateChange #MarineScience #SciComm 🧪
Accelerated internal tides in a warming climate
Internal tides are accelerating globally due to intensified stratification from climate warming.
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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simonlohse.bsky.social
Final CFP for a special issue of @jgps.bsky.social

"Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science"

philevents.org/event/show/1...

Submission deadline: *March 31* for #philsci approaches comparing scientific disciplines.
February 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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iai.tv
“The idea that consciousness is constituted by some kind of sense-data or qualia becomes an artefact of a view left behind,” argues Ron McClamrock.| https://buff.ly/3ei6aFN

Tap to read more about why we should turn our attention to the lived body.

#philsci #consky
Merleau-Ponty and the embodied self | Ron McClamrock
Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological philosophy suggests the search for the self and consciousness need not be focused on the space within our skulls, explains Ron McClamrock.
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February 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
Scientists, #HPS scholars & experts help protect NOAA: Join me in signing this open letter calling on Congress & the Trump admin to ensure that NOAA & its sub-agencies remain fully funded & staffed, & that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected
act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk
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Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...
act.ucsusa.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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hoposjournal.bsky.social
In the latest #HOPOS issue, Paul Redding answers the questions on everyone's mind:

Did Hegel map out key features of Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy of mathematics?

And could Hegel have helped Peirce with his criticism of Cantor on the continuum?

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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beckettws.bsky.social
Who is working on helping explain the role of technology in what's happening with the federal government agencies? How can we put our expertise on the social and technical dimensions of infrastructure to work for the public?
February 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM