Belinda Barnet

Belinda Barnet

@manjusrii.bsky.social

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Snr Lecturer digital media @ Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher.

The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii

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Have you ever been in a hurry to do something but you have to “select all the images with fire hydrants” first? That’s the future of AI. You’re dying on an intersection somewhere but need to train an AI with bicycle pics to get to a human on your phone

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You cannot debate someone who can lie with a straight face, and who probably believes his own lies. Biden is getting overwhelmed by the sheer audacity of the false statements. This, for Trump, is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Biden keeps looking surprised when trump makes stuff up. Sort of stunned by it. This will be used against him

So 40% of Australians don’t accept the science. How embarrassing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only 60% of Australians accept climate disruption is human-caused, global poll findswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: French survey of 26 countries finds fewer Australians than global average agree that climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity

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Townsen Hicks M, et al. ChatGTP is bullshit. Ethics Inf Technol 2024; 26:38. Just, you know, in case you need to cite it somewhere

Can we just admire the title (and sentiment) of this new journal article for a minute link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

Can we just admire the title (and sentiment) of this new journal article for a minute link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

Rebranding their own integration of OpenAI products as “Apple intelligence” is a genius marketing move. And it is absolutely a marketing move.

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Columbia Law Review took the whole site down instead of making this law review article available. PDF version available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1vC1-...

This potentially impacts every person (and parent) that bought a Taylor Swift ticket out there, btw. “Ticketmaster yet to confirm if data breach has occurred or if customers in Australia impacted. t.co/DGrAbXRi2B

Ticketmaster yet to confirm if data breach has occurred or if customers in Australia impactedt.co The notorious ShinyHunters collective is claiming hack of personal details of 560 million global customers

Of course it is. “Meta this week appointed a group of outside advisors to provide guidance on its artificial intelligence strategy. The four-person advisory group is composed entirely of White men. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/...

Meta created an AI advisory council that’s composed entirely of White men | CNN Businessamp.cnn.com Meta this week appointed a group of outside advisors to provide guidance on its artificial intelligence strategy. The four-person advisory group is composed entirely of White men.

TFW you realise you SLEPT THROUGH the biggest solar storm in decades and missed the opportunity to watch/enjoy it

In the next episode of People Who Huff and Puff About Free Speech But Quietly Ban Things, we have

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@manjusrii.bsky.social www.euronews.com/next/2024/05...

Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky board, calls Musk’s X a ‘freedom platform’www.euronews.com How and why he left the board remains a mystery.

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“AI is the sedimentation of the status quo” is such a great way of putting it.

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

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i love this website

Bluesky is a long game to translate Linear A and revive the spirit of Minoan Crete

Imagine paying $257 to see a US man fired by Fox News and a billionaire who is literally suing Australia for $300 billion talk about how the “elite” are supposedly suppressing you

Mass student protests and sit-ins tend to be on the right side of history. Even if they weren’t: responding to student protestors by suspending them is…it’s just wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/n...

Columbia Protesters Take Over Building on Campus as Deadline Passeswww.nytimes.com University officials had started suspending students that refused to leave an encampment on campus, hoping to ease the situation. Instead, it appeared that the protest was expanding.

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If you can’t quite quit Twitter, give this a read. Cameron uses the same method I use for crossposting across multiple platforms. It gives your audience the option of following you wherever they feel most comfortable. webcam.substack.com/...

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🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work? In Current Opinion in Psychology, @dgrand.bsky.social & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%! We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnet

Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnetwww.theguardian.com The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast This battle was never about the removal of a single violent video for Elon Musk – it was always going to turn into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives featuring Musk as the free speech antihero fighting Woke Governments of the World. At least, that is how he wishes to portray it to his more than 180 million followers. Musk on Tuesday responded to an interim court order from Australia’s eSafety Commission requesting that X hide graphic and distressing videos of the recent Sydney stabbing within 24 hours with a Wizard of Oz meme: it’s all shits and giggles over at X. In further posts, he took aim at the eSafety commissioner, claiming she wants “authority over all countries on Earth”, after labelling her a “Commissar” for requesting the removal of the video in the first place, which depicted an attack that the NSW police have since classified as a terrorist incident. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

My piece for @GuardianAus today: “Musk was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnetwww.theguardian.com The X owner was always going to turn the video removal request into a glib culture war fought with 4chan-style memes and late-night missives

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columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

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Okay well turns out nothing cures imposter syndrome like going through immigration The guy was like "A literary festival? Why were you invited?" and I almost said "I genuinely don't know" before recovering my composure and declaring "I'm an AUTHOR."

If anyone is still sceptical that X has become about 3000% more toxic in the last couple years, thought I’d share these comments from last night (NB: I’m ok. This is just the new normal on X)

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Calling a person "cisgender" is also banned by the Free Speech Absolutist: www.sbs.com.au/news/article... As are criticisms from employees: www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/e... And writing critical articles: www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04.... So violent videos are fine, as long as you don't offend Elon.

Elon Musk says 'cisgender' will be considered a slur on Twitter. Here's what the word meanswww.sbs.com.au Mr Musk's comments come as Twitter is threatened with large fines if it doesn't deal with online hate in Australia.

Content rules: Kid posting location of Elon’s jet = banned Graphic video of boy attacking someone with a knife = should not be not banned and you’re a commie for requesting we remove it

We should learn from the aftermath of the Westfield attack, where a false name for the attacker was trending for 24 hours: don’t rely on internet detectives during a news event. Particularly on X, where moderation is now thin (and “verification” now unreliable)

Absolutely beautiful article on autism by Grace Tame in The Saturday Paper. “It’s neither a tragedy nor a blessing. It’s not even a condition. It’s a neurotype. In the words of autistic actress and advocate Chloé Hayden, autism is “different, not less”. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

National Autism Strategy a start but there’s much more to dowww.thesaturdaypaper.com.au On the eve of Autism Acceptance Month, the clue to 30-down in the Hobart Mercury’s giant crossword was “competent”. The four-letter answer was “able”. It got me thinking about how the construct of “di...

Twitter was wrong. Funny that.

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