kyla

media studies PhD student @ucla; 2023-25 @hastac fellow; biometrics, critical data + AI studies, STS, computational media

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse https://t.co/loRIxVgm6e @pdimagearchive

[Ephemeral Media | ephemeralmedia.bsky.social @EphemeralMedia]

Digital Transformation: From Nature to Machine @solana artists in residemce x @ArtBasel #GenerativeAI #AIart #digitalart #ArtBasel2024

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Whole Foods workers say they’re surveilled, tracked to the minute, and have to work two jobs to survive.

Amazon bought the grocery chain in 2017. Now it’s like “walking around in the corpse of what used to be.”

So workers are organizing to form the first Whole Foods union.

[kyla @kylayein]

@rudenshiold wait …. #validating for me …

[hank gerba @h_gerba]

Bell Labs Record, February 1926.

"The Microscope as an Industrial Tool," bears a striking resemblance to Robert Hooke's 1665 "Micrographia," the first work to include illustrations based on microscopic observation, and the first major publication of the Royal Society.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly mapping the entire world to train a geospatial AI model whose most obvious use cases are for robotic navigation and possibly the military

https://t.co/9LbrYDw5r5

[kyla @kylayein]

@jennwvaughan @MSFTResearch hi jenn! i was wondering if there was an ABD requirement or if early PhD’s can also apply? :-)

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

Don't give your DNA to any company. The company can disappear, your data can be sold to anyone to do anything, and it's not only your data, it's also the data of your family members. #Privacy. Thanks for the quote, @zsk

https://t.co/jQnCsQiIx6

[kyla @kylayein]

@dcalacci great!! i’ll email you, thanks! :-)

[kyla @kylayein]

@dcalacci are you accepting external early PhD’s in your lab? :-)

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

#23andMe is planning to sell its most valuable asset—the very sensitive data of 15 million people. To whom? Chances are, to an insurance company or a data broker. That's one very good reason not to give your genetic data away; it can get sold. #privacy
https://t.co/njaXtOuzrK

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://t.co/PlfzVCZd4P

[Veena Dubal @veenadubal]

But this IS the competition problem. The more data you have, the harder it is for others to compete. Take Uber. How do you compete with a company that has the data to figure out the lowest take rates for consumers AND drivers??

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

"o1 appeared to mimic human-like thought. Phrases like “I’m thinking through” created a step-by-step illusion of thinking.

But this model isn’t thinking, and it’s certainly not human. So, why design it to seem like it is?" Indeed. #AIEthics

https://t.co/qzSg767D5s

[Mario Guglielmetti @mario_gug]

CNIL said that #tracking the inactivity of employees’ scanners was illegal and that the system set up to measure the speed at which items were scanned as “excessive.”
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Beware of the excessive speed as such (even if not tracked).
Al work management. Health https://t.co/u9zac1GvPR

[JITP @JITPedagogy]

JITP is seeking scholarly submissions at the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology for our forthcoming Issue 26, edited by @zmuhls, Asma Neblett and @kylayein

Submissions are due Nov 30

Read about the themed issue at: https://t.co/fwnh4OCbx7

[Veena Dubal @veenadubal]

“Are you a gig worker struggling to make ends meet? Do you feel the need to pursue multiple gig work jobs full-time to feed your family? Well, this U.S. Navy ad wants you to know, you can always quit and start building submarines instead.” https://t.co/WMgZ1CHJrC

[Veena Dubal @veenadubal]

Newsom vetoed an AI safety bill that created whistleblower protections & "would have required companies to test their models & publicly disclose their safety protocols to prevent the models from being manipulated to..wipe out the ..electric grid or help build chemical weapons."