Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.
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Last Notes npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1x76…2qpx At least for frequentist statistics npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 (Please share) Do you use encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, or Element? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1jgd…w59t what a great paper! Heart rate monitors are classically often about keeping heart rate down, so it is nice to see someone else thinking about this! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Looking for a data science contractor/gradstudent to compile some US historical air quality data (roughly one day of work, maybe less?) Send me a PM with contact info & portfolio if you're interested. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Barcelona has banned Airbnb. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Night light installed npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 This morning has been one of those heroic moments in science where through arduous labors I successfully improved the accuracy and precision of a p-value by a factor of ten npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 There are *so many* tech researchers could learn about safety, regulation, transparency, and accountability if only we looked outside of computer science. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "how has safety science dealt with power? How has it constructed the role power plays in the creation and breaking of npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1md8…lhh6 Phew. Looking forward to learning more from legal analysts who are good readers of the court. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1e3q…6rmt welcome back! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 It seems like every few months, someone comes to me and proposes a new kind of measurement: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 This software grants sexual assault survivors access to anonymously monitor their sexual assault evidence kits, thousands of which are stuck in a backlog. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub12gx…4rqj John, thanks for the recommendation. I know Ed Baptist through Cornell, but I haven't gotten around to reading the book yet. I see that it's available in audiobook form which is great; I'll add it to my queue! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1gt5…g9em oh cool, thanks Ben! I haven't ready any Piketty, so maybe this is the time to start! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Listening to the BBC radio drama "Exile" that commemorates the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, I'm gripped by this tale of refugees who fled violence and took the only lifeline they had — an offer from venture capitalists trying to save their failing colonial endeavor. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Last year I wrote a story about pesticides in the Pajaro Valley, California. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1azz…6e0k this is really helpful. The work stands without it. The paper is famous and foundational to many many other papers but is mostly context for this article. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub17ns…h6qj it's definitely a tough one, since the paper is well known, and the fact that it has been called into question may not be as well known npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Scientists: I'm about to submit a paper that cites work by Francesca Gino, where the other co-authors have noted she was the only one who worked with the data. They are looking into it, considering a replication study, and there are some somewhat similar conceptual replications. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "The [Washington] Post does to a content creator what news organizations complain Perplexity does to them. This is what news organizations have long done to authors, scientists, researchers, experts, theorists, and people who have useful experiences or ideas: extract, repurpose, and exploit." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 A good man is hard to find, and Marshall Allen was one of them. From missionary and pastor to investigative journalist, he brought boundless curiosity and tireless care for people in need. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub17u8…uhnv Writing with so much clarity about a terrible experience is never easy, especially while it's ongoing. I'm grateful to you for all the work this has entailed. Thank you. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub14wp…cl6q in an environment where the question is which regulation rather than whether regulation, a/b test transparency is one of the few that has a chance to make companies more profitable through compliance npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1tg5…s42t yes, from my reading, this law is designed to grow transparency into feature toggles, both small and large, so long as they apply to at least a thousand people npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Next year, a new MN law will require tech firms to report results from experiments involving > 1000 people. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1lxu…3k0u Hi Peter, any follow-up? I'm not affiliated with the project, but given the level of research you did, it seems like you're interested in these topics? I'm sure they would appreciate the encouragement! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1thr…f40k thanks! it was a day outside on a boat, and I was able to help a friend splash their boat- so it really couldn't have been better! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Ok, now it’s summer. Enjoyed a fun day helping a friend launch their boat, rig it, and sail it back to Ithaca from its winter spot in Seneca Falls #OutdoorMoments npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 This extraordinary building in the shape of a double-headed snake and spider, is a new museum that chronicles the history and art of Cameroon's Bamoun kingdom npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Sometimes caring about reliable science involves thankless maintenance work that no one is willing to pay for, and no one cares about unless it doesn't get done, and then they're very upset. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 It's Volunteers Week in the UK, a week for celebrating people who keep society going by volunteering time, emotional work, leadership, and physical labor. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Someday, I hope, tech companies & products will be evaluated on the actual outcomes of their products and not just their press releases. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "The International Rescue Committee is developing aprendIA [with OpenAI], an AI-driven educational chatbot platform that delivers personalized learning experiences that crisis-affected communities can access—in particular, teachers and parents. aprendIA will deploy educational interventions quickly in diverse humanitarian contexts and at scale via messaging platforms commonly used by clients" 👀 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1tya…wjjs thank you for all your work to serve the state of PA with quality journalism. Is there a list of other Spotlight PA folks on the fediverse? I would love to follow them. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Today I am grateful for conscientious objectors who gave their lives over the centuries to establish paths for people to choose not to participate in the violent parts of a conscripted military. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1eng…5znn didn’t Roosevelt testify in one of the cases? It was a huge tragedy and I gather helped motivate part of the later rationale for the FDA? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Enjoyed meeting @npub1y4n…25mf in person, for a fascinating conversation about maintenance, sustaining public goods, AI regulation, water, and open data- thanks for meeting up Luis! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Reading about the link between betting and online harassment toward athletes. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 For context on the emergence of the Safe Sport initiative, see this excellent 2021 article by Jennifer Gerson for the The 19th. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub17u8…uhnv This is so exhausting and frustrating and boring for being so predictable. Thanks for doing this, and for continuing to be willing to do this again and again. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Impressed with the International Olympic Committee's approach to protecting athletes from the harassment that accompanies their broadcast lives. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Going to be sitting with this story for a long while I think. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 ELM-> SFO npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1k6l…90ar absolutely, and also the opposite, as evidenced by the fact that this critique of this idea has been published in America Magazine, the Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 John also worked on this profoundly important documentary on the history of scientific racism by the AAAS Dialog on Science, Ethics, and Religion called "Science as Mastery: A Story about Race & Power" npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 "Some questions have earned their place in the landfills of science & society. Questions that toy with genocide, like those that dance around racial or gender inequality, should not be tolerated." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub12q6…w2yj Temtop are pretty experienced with the regulations, etc, so I expect they have some plan on this — I expect it's worth dropping them a note to find out more npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Good news — the EPA updated the air quality index on May 6th. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Multiple leading publications including Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Outside Magazine have been paying an AI content farm to write low-quality fake articles from fake humans. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 This article is fascinating, showing how Jeffersonian ideals about computing were invoked alike in the 1990s by liberals who want to appeal to business & conservative voters— and by conservatives who want to dismantle public goods in education and knowledge npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Reading Marc Aidinoff's article about the politics of decentralized technology and its grounding in the idea of the yeoman farmer: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Dellville bridge, first built in 1810 and most recently rebuilt in 2019, after a case of arson npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Why would a lab focused on tech and society invest so much time on equity in science? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Excited to join a White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence, representing my work with Neil Lewis Jr., Elan Hope, and the AAAS on a 2050 strategy for faculty diversity, as part of a larger STEMM strategy. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1zcj…w9g6 grat question! It's not STS, but some of this will be covered in Greg Epstein's upcoming book "Tech Agnostic" in October: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757138/tech-agnostic-by-greg-m-epstein/ npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1hde…de0r <3 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1rjz…4qvh sorry to hear about Maplins- I relied on them for tech when I lived in the UK! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Now it’s time to overhaul my own bike. Adding a new, more reliable bottom bracket after three tears of all year commuting and ultra endurance riding in central NY winters npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 In the middle of a tough day, the neighborhood kids stopped by and asked for help with a stuck bicycle chain. I doubt they realize it did me more good than them <3 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1jgd…w59t lol sigh yeah, that's a bed they made for themselves npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1kaq…nvvg <3 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Holding on to the hope that love, curiosity, and the desire for human understanding can be more powerful than hate and manipulation. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Fascinated by folk theories from Amazon help staff about how the company's logistics systems work. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 I think 2024 is my year to invest time and energy into communities that may not get lots of attention or status, but which will attract decent folks who care about people and will create things that will still exist in two years npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Sad to see that the National Cycling League, with its bold vision of gender inclusive sport, cancel their 2024 year. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 This year is the 15th anniversary of the Miracle Whip social annotation layer for the World Wide Web. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub19m8…6akz: so interesting! NeurIPS submitters are a very particular subset of academia, and the conference has a ceiling of papers defined by the venue. Would be fascinated to see what the rates are elsewhere npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Every little free library is a microcosm of the indispensably-beautiful and important aspirations and tricky problems of Wikipedia, with an extra layer of mildew and insects npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1vmn…y7yl delighted to see that I'm not the only person who bicycles to workshops! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1rmg…v68m thank you for this- I think I'll pass in that case, so it's helpful to know. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub17el…welh valid answers should use tail recursion thx npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub17el…welh what's the term for having just enough computer science training that you know something is either a pun or a genuine gripe, or both, but you can't tell which? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Welp. I have a piece I wanted to pitch to WIRED, but they laid off their science editors/reporters and 2/3 of their diversity committee, so it's hard to know if/how to pitch them the kind of work they used to be famous for. 😔 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Also, it is the fault of Josh's talk that I am writing the following sentence into alt text: "cat dropping a beaker of chemicals before being launched by a trebuchet." npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub14e0…xl2y ooh, thanks! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1gsn…fchn is dropping some awesome insight on the causes of technical accidents/disasters at this National Academies workshop. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Extraordinary article by Nicole Lipman in N+1 about the super-sonic algorithm-driven pace and review funhouse of SHEIN fashion and its relationship to the TikTok algorithm. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 “If we are to consider the heavens, how much more are we to consider the the magnificent energies of consciousness that make whoever we pass on the street a far grander marvel than galaxies?” npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Remember folks: if you're tempted to take a photo of the eclipse tomorrow with your phone, make sure to give it eye protection: npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Update: I have been informed that this has been passed on to LinkedIn engineers. If I ever hear back, I'll follow up. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 For everyone who's asking "Is that real?" in response to my post, I'm probably new to you! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 I am finding LinkedIn's AI guided responses to be so insightful. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 > Your labor is not in vain, npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 It’s simply too risky and exhausting to have an online disagreement in 2024, especially when scholarly differences can escalate into something bigger with a real-time global audience. But the world of ideas is much poorer for it. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Historians of technology and STS folks: what's currently considered the best treatment on the idea of computers as weapons of war? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 With the news of the Lavender AI for choosing who to kill, I hope more folks read about the ideas behind it. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Earlier this week, the kind gentleman who planted the apple, pear, and plum trees in my backyard came over and showed me how to prune them. He talked about their history as a conversation- with trees as friends with minds of their own. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 How might machine learning get integrated into weapons used for hunting and how will it be regulated? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 We are grateful to all of the researchers who spoke with us for this study. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Me: is it time to take off my studded tires? npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 “Acknowledging the miraculous privilege of existence as a conscious being, consider the overwhelming odds against anyone’s existence” npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub16d2…4axn I'm going to try to start reading Klinenberg's "2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed", and I am hoping I can bear it. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1g77…m9c9 I'm so glad you found something that works for you! I'm very lucky to live very close to dairy farms and work at a university with its own dairy! npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 AI is a lot like milk. It's tasty, nutritious, easy to fake in dangerous ways, has disparate impacts for different groups, and can kill you if it's not prepared properly. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Someday, I would love to see publicly-funded university labs do routine testing of tech/AI safety questions. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 The reaction to Haidt’s new book is going to be such an interesting and demoralizing inkblot test npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1nd8…2zkd it's so heartbreaking watching 20th century public goods get destroyed piece by piece 💔 npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 Whittaker's article has me thinking about water rights in California. npub163cvjt4awndd9szfzzpv8ed720yyx98ee2ua288vpcw3eu57n6rs5tcgde J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @npub1ynl…873s it's such a hard and important issue. Thanks for sitting with and questioning the contradictions.
