Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @BrownUniversity | Research Affiliate @Harvard | Ex @PennEngineers | (Geometry ∩ AI)∪(Climate ∩ Health)

Opinions my own.

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

🔴 CAREER UPDATE / I AM HIRING 🔴

After several months of being extremely annoying to everyone who knows me, I have big news: this fall I'm joining Brown University as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Computer Science!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out

🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: https://t.co/D6whnBEhW4

🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET

Livestream details will follow.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Exactly. We have companies that have unleashed malware and viruses world wide, whose CEOs should be arrested and prosecuted, who have somehow been able to change this crime into a marketing gimmick instead.

[steve hsu @hsu_steve]

Michael I. Jordan, machine learning demigod, UC Berkeley

... the young people who work at these companies operate in a world [Silicon Valley, Berkeley, etc.] where these kinds of discussions are commonplace. Many of them aren’t really engineers; they come from the humanities, philosophy, or other disciplines. They’re 25 years old, they’re naive, they don’t do engineering work, they’ve never worked at large companies where real products are developed for real people, with discipline. And they get together, a bit like in Parisian cafés in the 1920s, to talk about these grand science-fiction ideas. When these young people resign, they know they’re going to attract attention. It allows them to feel virtuous and to be seen as very important figures. They claim to be giving up money, but in reality, they already have their stock options. So all of this is a grand moralizing performance that doesn’t serve the real objective it claims to pursue. There’s a great deal of naiveté here, which goes hand in hand with a certain cynicism…

https://t.co/GwP9zcz7vZ

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

AGAIN: I implore diplomats and UN personnel present in Palestine, conscientious Israelis, and anyone who can, to go to the West Bank and to peacefully be there, where Palestinian communities are.

Protective presence is absolutely needed.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

Show this clip to anyone who says Iran is run by religious lunatics.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Olympics gold medal level of mental gymnastics exhibited here to defend a eugenicists. Literally just trying to come up with anything when faced with hard facts. And these are the academics whose research and stuff we're supposed to take seriously.

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

🔴 CAREER UPDATE / I AM HIRING 🔴

After several months of being extremely annoying to everyone who knows me, I have big news: this fall I'm joining Brown University as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Computer Science!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🎬 A must-watch documentary
on how militarism, extractivism & technology turn entire regions into intoxicated pacified fiefdoms for exploitation. Palestine and every Indigenous people resisting, are crushed the same way.
https://t.co/N7HXRJ02jj
https://t.co/6V2StnZahx

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

Finally, thanks to the handful of people who let me think out loud at them for months without once telling me to stop. I'm super glad where it landed 🙏🏻

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

🔴 CAREER UPDATE / I AM HIRING 🔴

After several months of being extremely annoying to everyone who knows me, I have big news: this fall I'm joining Brown University as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Computer Science!

[Claudio Battiloro 🦋 @clabat9.bsky.social @ClaBat9]

Thanks to everyone who helped me get here, especially @francescadomin8 and Paolo Di Lorenzo: your mentorship and advice made me who I am. And thank you to Joseph Hogan, Francesca Beaudoin, and Brenda Rubenstein for your kindness and for taking a chance on me.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

Now more than ever.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

These soldiers were literally caught on tape raping a Palestinian. Their initial arrest sparked the infamous “right to rape” protests. Apparently the protest succeeded in its aims of total impunity for torture and abuse of Palestinians.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The response of one of the most prominent, pro-Trump conservative activists in America to 160 school girls being massacred in Iran is to say that if they were alive "they'd be alive in a burka."

There is a sociopathic, genocidal sickness on the right. This is what it looks like.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Shameless people stealing everyone's data then complaining about other people stealing from them 😂

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

> be me
> name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered")
> hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease
> raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot
> write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions
> realize open-source developers are building better models for free
> Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path"
> translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!"
> Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report
> tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Solidarity, Jairo. In this contribution to our special issue “The Academic Question of Palestine” Jairo reconstructs his ordeal and the institutional machinery he had to face for criticizing Israel’s annihilation war in Gaza, before being denied tenure. https://t.co/O6K5GXvpk5