Blue Miaoran 董渺然

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[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

@MA_Gagnon & I just dropped our new open access scoping review, and it’s about how researchers have been digging into internal corporate documents to find out what chemical companies don’t want us to know.

📑: https://t.co/oy9NGTUjt7...

📑: https://t.co/G2NOSX83Qs

#newpaper

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

In Shel Silverstein’s 1981 prediction about AI tools, my favorite part is the illustration of the baby doing homework inside a machine. It’s just like the 700 Indian engineers at https://t.co/NjGLu3Z2js pretending to be AI

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Breaking news: My co-authored paper with @MA_Gagnon has skyrocketed into the top 10% of most-viewed papers in the journal for 2023! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who read it, cited it, or accidentally opened.

Hard work wins. Caffeine survives. Sleep? Still pending.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Meta released an anonymous survey through Politico as “advertising partners.” I don’t even want to get into the questions in the survey, but the last one was so ridiculous, it made me laugh harder than today’s Ottawa storm that nearly blew me into a backflip.

[Keldon Bester @KeldonB]

"[@CBC's] investigation revealed how the veterinary industry, through exclusive distribution deals between pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, limits who can purchase and sell pet medications."
https://t.co/cy5MabffGI

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Clear transparency: To figure out how institution operate! To follow the money!

Fuzzy Transparency: The information provided does not reveal or indicate how chickens and institution of chickens actually behave.

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Fuzzy Transparency: The information provided does not reveal or indicate how chickens and institution of chickens actually behave.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Big Pharma middlemen are jacking up prices by as much as 7,736%, per the FTC and MorePerfectUnion

Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are marking up the prices of specialty generic drugs and have made over $7 billion in excess revenue in the last 5 years.

[Robin Mansell @[email protected] @Robin_Mansellx]

I’m nearly off this platform but some we want to reach are still here, I use it this time to encourage you to look at our report on Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy - it pushes hard against X type platforms and their power to harm. @MediaLSE

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

@MA_Gagnon & I just dropped our new open access scoping review, and it’s about how researchers have been digging into internal corporate documents to find out what chemical companies don’t want us to know.

📑: https://t.co/oy9NGTUjt7...

📑: https://t.co/G2NOSX83Qs

#newpaper

[Marc-André Gagnon @MA_Gagnon]

My latest paper with @Bluemediagrad : a scoping review revealing the secrets of the #chemicalindustry. To increase earning capacity, pervasive conflicts of interests and the systematic production of ignorance are central strategies for this sector.
https://t.co/zYoD39SgGu

[Cecilia Rikap @CeciliaRikap]

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This is a world-class integrated Master's programme on digital, socioeconomic & ecological issues w/a plural & interdisciplinary

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

AI's ability to make and assist important decisions is fraught: on one hand, AI *often* classifies things very well, at speed and scale outstripping any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other, AI is sometimes *very* wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful.

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[@nieborg.bsky.social @gamespacenl]

🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: https://t.co/5utycITR0b @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @bruce_mutsvairo @iamtommiii @artarriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun

[Keldon Bester @KeldonB]

"In plain terms, the law – and enforcement – is about protecting ordinary people who are sometimes unfairly exploited by powerful companies wielding the relationship imbalance to their advantage." https://t.co/lpdeEhf8zk

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Here’s why OpenAI’s “stored memories” feature is a security and privacy nightmare. And most people don’t even know it is now “remembering” things about you between chats, in addition to various things it may come across on the web.

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Ireland's Online Safety Code requires qualifying platforms to protect people, especially children, from harmful content involving cyberbullying, promotion of self-harm or suicide, incitement to hatred, violence, terrorism and child abuse material. https://t.co/oxHQDmBvXP

[Blue Miaoran 董渺然 @Bluemediagrad]

Microsoft Corp. and the UK Government have signed a five-year agreement, effective Nov. 1, to enhance access to Microsoft’s AI-powered products and services. https://t.co/E4uquvQlkB