@[email protected]

ML & privacy research. CS PhD. Amateur chef. Mother. Clothes horse. Endlessly curious. She/her/you can call me Al.

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

I’m slowly dialing back my presence here, and trying out Mastodon. Not ready to pull the plug yet, but expect to soon. If I followed you here and you have your Mastodon on your bio, I’ve hopefully found you already, but come find me at [email protected] if not.

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

https://t.co/HjdTNxVZBl

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

@jonathankoren And yet you are on Twitter. Just saying. (Do you have an account elsewhere? I’m migrating off.)

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

@kevinriggle Gonna miss you! I’ll email.

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

@LeaKissner Pro tip: you can crib off the countless NYT and WaPo articles about you.

[Nataliia Bielova @nataliabielova]

I am unfortunately not on my way to @acm_ccs...

But please RT - I am looking for motivated postdocs to work on #privacy #web #darkpatterns #GDPR with me!

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

Reminder to exercise your right to export your data from Twitter. Even if you are planning to stay, now would be a smart time to have backups. There will probably be failwhales coming, you don’t lay that many people off that fast and get stable infra.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The first study to show improvement in long-term outcomes after Paxlovid—including less #LongCovid, deaths, hospitalizations and complications—is a major advance. I've reviewed and contextualized it here
https://t.co/bugfFk44sh

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Let me summon the ghost of Parler here as well: they were booted off of AWS for *not having an effective abuse management process.*

Irrevocably break Twitter's content moderation, and the cloud providers will reduce your bill to $0 for you.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Further, I've spoken with a number of folks over the years who until recently worked at Twitter.

I'm not sure who needs to hear it, but these people aren't idiots. They're incredibly smart and capable. They weren't doing economically dumb things.

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

@LeaKissner Warm wishes to all of you. I’ve only been lucky enough to meet a few, but I’ve been uniformly impressed by the kindness and skill I saw.

[Yishan @yishan]

[Hey Yishan, you used to run Reddit, ]
How do you solve the content moderation problems on Twitter?
(Repeated 5x in two days)

Okay, here are my thoughts:
(1/nnn)

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

Hugops to all those still holding this platform together. I have tea. I have booze. (I have open headcount.) Bonne courage. This too shall pass.

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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https://t.co/ad9XTdVQhJ

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

@djcapelis It’s not the engagement algorithms that are driving me away, it’s the stated commitment (whether he understands or not) to making it a (worse) haven for misinformation, trolls, and nazis. I’ve flipped tables repeatedly on this site anyway, I’m kinda done.

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

So. Where’s everyone migrating to?

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

In January 2021, @amazon said it was cutting off donations to the 147 GOP objectors, calling their vote to overturn the election an "unacceptable attempt to undermine a legitimate democratic process"

Last month, @amazon donated 17.5K to 9 GOP objectors

https://t.co/Ay2ExZmnR0

[Jon Evans @rezendi]

"point to the possibility that Tehran has been getting at least some of its drone engines by having operatives systemically literally rip them out of aircraft in foreign countries … more than 130 Rotax 912s and six 914s have been stolen worldwide" https://t.co/20HUAQuYvQ

[@[email protected] @aleatha]

The three laws of effective decision making:
That which is not written down did not happen.
That which is not discoverable is not written down.
That which is written down in multiple authoritative places that disagree is not written down.