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When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. Unlike Tigrayans whose sisters were being raped & parents murdered, I didn’t know exactly what was happening on the ground & who to believe. But I saw the genocidal speech targeting Tigrayans on social media, particularly from Eritreans, in Tigrinya. 🧵
I told people at Google about this, and asked them to build language technology and at the very least, have basic moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, any concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to even be acknowledged. The same VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper and setting the stage for my firing, however, commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena.
But contrary to his claims and Yann LeCun’s lies saying that “95% of hate speech on facebook is removed by ‘AI’,” all social media is essentially 4chan in these languages and contexts.
We have now spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
We collaborated with content moderators like Fasica to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators.
Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years, and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded, and moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
I will never forget the genocidal mania among the Ethiopian intelligentsia. It was a popular genocide, with your “progressive” diaspora falling over themselves to deny and justify it. The least we can do is raise awareness about what has happened and what is about to happen.
More importantly, we have put out a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on all social media platforms, further setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia and Eritrea: dair-institute.org/blog/tigray…. Please send it over to anyone who will listen & can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war.
All 153 states parties to the Genocide Convention are obliged to act to prevent genocide under Article I. Maybe something viable on Fedi is to raise this at MEP (members of Euro Parl) level to officially call on Facebook/TikTok/Twitter/YouTube to urgently implement moderation by people with genuine local expertise in order to prevent genocide.
Any followers feel free to forward to your MEPs or other politicians like @marinetondelier .
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#Vance: "If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire #world from the strategic #disaster that was the American-led invasion of #Iraq."
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So he is blaming Europe for the US completely destroying Iraq? Does he also feel the same about Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.? I would like to hear Jordan Peterson reply to this.
If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire #world from the strategic #disaster that was the American-led invasion of #Normandy in 1944.
Except Europe had been fighting since 1939. They were indepently defending & standing against the spread of fascism & the Nazis... In 1941, 2 years after the war began & after an attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered the war. Since Europe had been fighting for an extended period the US was positioned to lead from strength ... The attack on Iraq, the US war on terror, is solely the responsibility of US foreign policy...
It seems real obvious today though that the notion of beating back fascism & the nazis is considered a "strategic disaster" by an enormous segment of the global population...
The problem with Iraq is that they were the exact opposite of terrorist or even an enemy. The deputy leader, Tariq Aziz, was a christian so hardly a Muslim extremist government. Iraq was actively fighting a war against Iran on behalf of the US prior to the invasion and the US was supplying Iraq with weapons for that. If you think back to the time, in all the photos of Hussien after the start of the war there were lots of British AIr Force behind him. This was because the British had the contract to provide defence for Iraq and the RAF ran the Iraq Air Force. So Britain backed the invasion of a country they were contracted to defend. A country that was armed by the US. Hussein wanted to sell oil to Europe in Euros which the US saw as a threat to the US economy. I am not going to continue but there is no defence for what the US did and that others assisted does not make it any better, it simply makes other's complicit.
Regarding WWII, it was 4 days after Pearl Harbour that Germany declared war on the US and dragged them grudgingly into the conflict. Having enough problems of their own the US had no need to get involved in a conflict that they had made a point of keeping out of especially now they had a war of their own to focus on. Germany wanted to side with Japan but Japan was not really interested. It is also worth mentioning that far from stopping any spread the US became great allies of the Soviets who attacked Poland with Germany thereby starting WWII and were equally socialist. It was Italy that was faschist not Germany. Nazi is an abreviation of National Socialism.
Nazi is an abreviation [sic] of National Socialism.
The emphasis for the Nazis was on the National. They wanted a nationalist society: i.e., they were national socialists. They didn't want us to see ourselves as just people, like millions of others all over the world. They insisted that we see ourselves as a nation. They thought that a national identity was absolutely essential.
The Nazis, of course, were always rabidly opposed to what is normally called "socialism."
There were large numbers of people here in the US who were horrified when Germany declared war against the US. The Nazis here in the US (who really did wave swastika flags and give fascist salutes) had made an uneasy coalition with pacifists to oppose US entry into WWII. Their figurehead leader, Charles Lindbergh, confidently told us that, come what may, the US could not possibly defeat Hitler.
After the US and its allies did defeat Hitler, comprehensively, and hung all the Nazi leaders, the America First Committee and the German American Bund quietly disappeared from view, but the Americans who dedicatedly worked against the war effort from the 1930s on, did not change their opinions. They just moved into other already existing organizations like the KKK, and formed new groups like the John Birch Society. Powerful government officials, including J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy, were part of this. They shared Hitler's racism (though not always with such emphasis on Jews), but they were most worried by the movement to diffuse power rather than concentrate it.
The Nazis, now and 100 years ago, were convinced that we all need strong leaders to trust and obey. They may be shy about advocating dictatorship, but that is really what they want because that is what they think we absolutely need.
Trump, Vance, and Musk are part of the same tradition as the America First Committee and the German American Bund. During the 1930s, people like them admired Hitler. Now they admire Putin and Victor Orban. It's still Nazism, only the names have been changed.
"Nazi is an abreviation [sic] of National Socialism." ...words strung together in service of an agenda much like "partial birth abortion". A poorly or uneducated population is prey to just this kind of manipulation. There's far more than one so nazis !!!
"The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to the Allies, but otherwise lacked comparable coordination and ideological cohesion." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_p…
"Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy between 1922 and 1943, when Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Italian Fascists imposed totalitarian rule and crushed political opposition, while simultaneously promoting economic modernization, traditional social values and a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascis…
Xenophobia can come with the American character for sure, it's not a character trait that should be nurtured however especially in a country made up of a diverse & non-indigenous population...
Seeing as Hitler was a personal friend of Lenin and closely allied with Stalin up until 1941 I fail to accept that he was opposed to socialism and would not have called himself a socialist if he had been opposed although like all politicians he did what suited his purpose rather than what he believed. Whilst you are self flagellating over US Nazis remember that the Scottish National Party who are only a few seats short of control ATM were pro Hitler in the late 30s.
National Socialisms? I think we can stick to one thanks. Although in Ukraine they have rebranded to Social Nationalism to be more cuddly. Yes, as I said, Japan was anti west but not allied with Germany as most people imagine.
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This is what EM & those of his ilk want... "Próspera, located on the island of Roatán, is one of the most prominent ZEDEs and has been described as a modern iteration of the charter city model, initially proposed by former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Paul Romer. The idea behind charter cities is to establish new urban areas with governance structures that attract investment by ensuring rule of law, economic freedom, and regulatory efficiency. Próspera's model follows this logic, offering streamlined business regulations, lower taxes, and private arbitration for dispute resolution. It has also been heavily influenced by the Charter Cities Institute (CCI), a Washington, DC-based organization that promotes the development of such special jurisdictions worldwide.[10]"
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ya know... it took me a long time to realize it, in spite of a very wise comrade constantly warning me over and over again... when you're always eager to support community, when you trust others blindly, you will unfortunately sometimes end up hurting the community. the wolf sometimes appears in sheep's clothes. be careful the strangers you embrace with open arms.
a whole lot of you just welcomed an abuser and sociopath into our music community. once a upon a time, i might have made the same mistake.
@buffyleigh i let myself calm down and think about the best way to approach people about the mistake they've unintentionally made. like i said, i've been very prone to making the same mistake myself in the past. in the spirit of community and hospitality you make a leap of faith and give people the benefit of the doubt. but sometimes its not bad to do some research first 😀 perhaps the community needs a dossier for their new friend... 🤔
this was a *big* problem on the underground rave scene in my old region (made worse by the copious amounts of drugs consumed and that the abusers often had access to resources such as drugs, cars/vans and sound equipment so were able to get deep into the scene).
Its got marginally better these days but only because folk have been mostly forced straightedge (also they got older and many have kids so are worried about their safety)
@vfrmedia yeah sadly this is the case with a lot of music scenes. its a reflection of the hegemonic culture. sexism on the macro level reflects on the micro level, even within subcultures who ostensibly refute such things. as an enthusiastic pothead, i would like to think people can get fucked up and not treat others disrespectfully, but sadly that seems to often times not be the case.
my experience was drugs simply amplified both the good and bad aspects of people (in the same way that if you feed poor signals into your amplifier it will sound rough in the loudspeakers), but what saddened me was it seems it was only *after* the cops/govt clamped down on all the drugs use and passed new laws that folk took a look at themselves and realised WTF was happening on the scene (so the prohibitionists won a battle even if the war is pointless)
just 10 years ago we had the centrist neoliberal governments almost turning a blind eye to partydrugs (especially new psychoactive substances) but the "drug-bros" fucked things up by not self-regulating so it all got locked down hard (particularly new DUI laws which can get folks licence suspended 1+ years even if unimpaired but with metabolites in their blood, so anyone who drives now has to go straightedge - but there's still heavy levels of alcohol use on the scene..)
@vfrmedia 1 year suspension is not sctrict by so-called-US standards. DUIs here will bankrupt most people. but either way, its unfortunate it took state intervention to fix the problem (or did it even fix the problem?)
its 1 year for first offence, 3 years for any repeated incident, a fine (proportional to income) and *11 years* higher insurance premiums. Cops also are crafty and pick people off mid week when they may be sleep deprived..
It partly fixed the problem - but has brought folk back to alcohol (you can buy an alcotester which works like a vape in reverse and that shows quite accurately if you are clear to drive - no such harm reduction device yet exists for other substances)
@vfrmedia oh wow. yeah thats a terrible attempt at a solution. monetary fine proportional to income is better than here. here the fine is steep enough to destroy most people but the cost of having fun for the wealthy.
Britain is /far/ more car-dependent than it should be so getting a licence suspended is a big life setback (as are the raised insurance premiums and many insurers who will refuse to quote). So this now confines a lot of partydrugs use to folk in cities with good public transport / walking / cycling (which means there are still OD's and health problems) and others just get a taxi to venues and get boozed up (with accompanying risks of violence and harrassment)
@vfrmedia oh interesting. i would say the same regarding the necessity of owning a vehicle here in the states, but thats funny bc i was under the impression (and i think most americans are) that the UK is more like the rest of the europe e.g. personal vehicle not needed.
you can get away without a car in London, SE England (I did not have one when I lived there), other places in Northern England like Manchester/Leeds/Sheffield and also more populated areas of Scotland, but outside these a car is often required (especially for work, many jobs still require in person attendance and there's more work in fields like construction/maintenance than office jobs these days (lots of those jobs got offshored)
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the US should just shut off access to social media for europe.
1. it would be actually good for peoples nerves 2. EUrocrats will instantly BEG to get it back 3. nobody would return to the mass media nonetheless, it's obvious they are in lock-step with the governments
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The problem with ML-based translation software, which is basically all translation software at this point, is that some languages are just not very well resourced/documented.
Like, there is no true consensus among the Persian diaspora on how to romanize Farsi, with most just defaulting to ad hoc Finglish.
This basically causes Google Translate to confidentially spit out total nonsense from time to time, based on super limited datasets.
Text-to-speech software like Narakeet struggles also because Persian script has implied vowels that are represented with optional diacritics instead of characters.
It's not dissimilar to Japanese furigana, where you really only show it if you're writing something ambiguous. Otherwise, native speakers usually have enough context to pick up what word you meant anyways.
But most translation software is used by non-native speakers of a language, who have no way to pick apart these inaccuracies.
Like, I'm super grateful for how much translation software has improved in my lifetime, but the little “Hey, our automated outputs might not be 100% totally correct” disclaimers really ought to be more prominent for certain languages.
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Christians beware. If he's coming after academia's tax exempt status for pushing back against his agenda, then he has no choice but to also come after churches who don't support him. You're next! #USPol
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At the very least the fact that Elon is heavily involved presents a conflict of interest.
i can log in to any of my servers right now and find suspicious login attempts from russia. zero evidence elon or doge is doing anything nefarious other than rooting out fraud. he has everything to lose and nothing to gain by sniffing around government systems
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The American and Argentinian right-wing governments have used a similar approach to reduce public spending and regulation by eradicating whole government agencies and departments.
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if you clean up your diet and remove toxic ingredients, eating anything like this leads to instant regret. mentally accepting that you can't eat 95% of what's in the grocery stores is a challenge
« le gopak, une danse traditionnelle exténuante où il faut sans cesse sauter, s’accroupir, s’asseoir sur ses talons et tendre les jambes en pointant les pieds »
« En décembre 1934, un tireur isolé assassina Kirov à l’extérieur de son bureau. Même si personne ne put directement accuser Staline, il était quasiment certain que cet assassinat avait son approbation tacite. Dans les années qui suivirent, les amis proches de Staline furent arrêtés les uns après les autres. Ce fut le début de la grande purge au sein du parti ; à la fin des années 1930, des centaines de milliers de personnes perdirent la vie. La quasi-totalité des collaborateurs les plus proches de Staline furent torturés pour leur soutirer des aveux. Après ces séances de torture, Staline écoutait avidement les tortionnaires lui raconter les comportements désespérés de ses amis, si courageux autrefois. Il riait en apprenant comment certains s’agenouillaient en pleurs, suppliant qu’on leur accorde un entretien avec lui pour lui demander pardon de leurs péchés et avoir la vie sauve. Il semblait se délecter de leur humiliation. »
« Quand la plupart des gens ont rencontré Joseph Staline (1879-1953) pour la première fois au début de son « règne » sur l’Union soviétique, ils l’ont trouvé étonnamment charmant. Bien que plus âgé que la majeure partie de ses lieutenants, il les encourageait à le tutoyer. Il tenait à être totalement accessible, même à l’égard de ses subalternes. Lorsqu’il vous écoutait, c’était avec une intensité et un intérêt incroyables ; et il vous transperçait du regard, comme s’il percevait vos pensées et vos doutes les plus profonds. Mais sa caractéristique première était de vous faire croire que vous étiez important, que vous apparteniez au petit cercle privilégié des révolutionnaires. »
“It’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.” So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President. The backdrop is a week of turmoil on financial markets triggered by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
The decision to apply (and then partially rescind) hefty tariffs on European allies — combined with a barrage of harsh statements about Europe from Vance, both public ones and leaked private messages — has left many on the Continent wondering whether America can still be thought of as a friend.
Vance’s answer: yes, provided European leaders are prepared to assume a more independent role on the international stage, and to be more responsive to their own voters, especially when it comes to the question of immigration.
“I love Europe,” Vance tells me in a wide-ranging interview from his office in the West Wing, showcasing a diplomatic side that has not always been front and centre. “I love European people. I’ve said repeatedly that I think that you can’t separate American culture from European culture. We’re very much a product of philosophies, theologies, and of course the migration patterns that came out of Europe that launched the United States of America.”
Europe’s leaders are a different matter. Take Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who, in a recent interview with the American TV programme 60 Minutes, charged Vance with “somehow justifying” Russia’s invasion of his country.
Vance counters this by referring to his condemnations of Moscow’s actions since 2022. But he adds: “I’ve also tried to apply strategic recognition that if you want to end the conflict, you have to try to understand where both the Russians and the Ukrainians see their strategic objectives. That doesn’t mean you morally support the Russian cause, or that you support the full-scale invasion, but you do have to try to understand what are their strategic red lines, in the same way that you have to try to understand what the Ukrainians are trying to get out of the conflict.”
“I think it’s sort of absurd for Zelensky to tell the [American] government, which is currently keeping his entire government and war effort together, that we are somehow on the side of the Russians.” That kind of rhetoric, Vance says, “is certainly not productive”.
Beyond Ukraine, the American Vice President worries that European leaders are still failing to reckon with 21st-century realities on immigration, integration, and security.
“It’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.”
Vance says: “We’re very frustrated — ‘we’ meaning me, the President, certainly the entire Trump administration — that European populations keep on crying out for more sensible economic and migration policies, and the leaders of Europe keep on going through these elections, and keep on offering the European peoples the opposite of what they seem to have voted for.”
Immigration is at the heart of Vance’s palpable frustration with European leaders. He argues that, as in the United States, open-borders policies handed down from on high are poisonous to democratic trust. As Vance notes, “the entire democratic project of the West falls apart when the people keep on asking for less migration, and they keep on being rewarded by their leaders with more migration.”
Europe’s other blind spot, Vance says, is security. “The reality is — it’s blunt to say it, but it’s also true — that Europe’s entire security infrastructure, for my entire life, has been subsidised by the United States of America.” As recently as a quarter-century ago, “you could say that Europe had many vibrant militaries, at least militaries that could defend their own homelands”.
Fast-forward to today, Vance says, and “most European nations don’t have militaries that can provide for their reasonable defence”. True, “the British are an obvious exception, the French are an obvious exception, the Poles are an obvious exception. But in some ways, they’re the exceptions that prove the rule, that European leaders have radically underinvested in security, and that has to change.”
Vance’s message to the Continent, he says, is the same one delivered by Charles de Gaulle at the height of the Cold War, when the French president insisted on a healthy dose of independence from Washington. De Gaulle “loved the United States of America, but [he] recognised what I certainly recognise, that it’s not in Europe’s interest, and it’s not in America’s interest, for Europe to be a permanent security vassal of the United States”.
What the Vice President had not made clear before this interview is that he would prefer to see a strong and independent Europe precisely because it could then act as a better check against the foreign-policy missteps of the Americans.
He says: “I don’t think that Europe being more independent is bad for the United States — it’s good for the United States. Just going back through history, I think — frankly — the British and the French were certainly right in their disagreements with Eisenhower about the Suez Canal.”
Vance also alludes to his own experience as a combat veteran of the Iraq War. “Something I know a little bit more personally: I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq.”
Bottom line: “I don’t want the Europeans to just do whatever the Americans tell them to do. I don’t think it’s in their interest, and I don’t think it’s in our interests, either.”
Talking about the UK specifically, Vance puts great emphasis on the place it occupies in the affections of President Trump — with a trade deal highly likely as a result.
“We’re certainly working very hard with Keir Starmer’s government” on a trade deal, Vance says. “The President really loves the United Kingdom. He loved the Queen. He admires and loves the King. It is a very important relationship. And he’s a businessman and has a number of important business relationships in [Britain]. But I think it’s much deeper than that. There’s a real cultural affinity. And of course, fundamentally America is an Anglo country.” Thus, “I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of both countries”.
Other European states are likely to reach new trade arrangements too, though the climb might be steeper. Already, “with the United Kingdom, we have a much more reciprocal relationship than we have with, say, Germany… While we love the Germans, they are heavily dependent on exporting to the United States but are pretty tough on a lot of American businesses that would like to export into Germany.”
The administration’s lodestar will be “fairness”, Vance says. “I think it will lead to a lot of positive trade relationships with Europe. And again, we very much see Europe as our ally. We just want it to be an alliance where Europeans are a little more independent, and our security and trade relationships are gonna reflect that.”
As financial markets have whipsawed in recent weeks, it has not been clear what success looks like from the administration’s point of view. I ask Vance how he will judge the tariff policy in the long term. “What we want to see is lower trade deficits, really across the board,” says Vance. “Sometimes, a trade deficit makes sense. Like, America doesn’t produce bananas. So obviously, we’re gonna be importing bananas, not exporting bananas. So with certain product categories and maybe even with some countries, a small trading deficit can be justified.”
The status-quo system as a whole, however, is intolerable from the White House’s point of view. “What the global trading system has led to,” complains Vance, “is large and persistent trade deficits across product categories, with the gross majority of countries really using the United States [home market] to absorb their surplus exports. That’s been bad for us. It’s been bad for American manufacturers. It’s been bad for workers. And God forbid, if America ever fought a future war, it would be bad for America’s troops.”
But before he became a politician, Vance was a venture capitalist. Has he had heart-sinking moments watching his own portfolio sink into the red in recent weeks? He sounds unfazed.
“Any implementation of a new system is fundamentally going to make financial markets jittery,” says Vance. “The President has been very consistent that this is a long-term play… Now, of course, you have to be responsive to what the business community is telling you, what workers are telling you, what bond markets are telling you. These are all variables that we have to be responsive to” in order to “make the policy successful”.
But Vance says the administration can’t govern for the stock market alone. “No plan is, you know, going to be implemented perfectly… We’re very cognisant of the fact that we live in a complicated world where nobody else’s decisions are static. But the fundamental policy is to rebalance global trade, and I think the President has been very clear and persistent on that.”
Even as adjustments and delays to tariffs seem to have soothed markets and allies, for now, the Trump administration is bent on applying its brand of shock therapy 2.0 to the international system. The goal, of course, is nearly the diametrical opposite of the original therapy: while shock therapy 1.0 goaded the world to follow America into adopting neoliberal globalisation and to follow Washington on its military adventures, this one is aimed at reversing both outcomes.
Yet it can be no less discomfiting to live through the change — not just in the policy orientation, but how it’s communicated: not least by a very-online Millennial Vice President who revels in online debate. Does he think he tweets too much? Eyebrows were certainly raised in Europe when he took the time to get into a Twitter dispute with podcaster Rory Stewart.
Vance laughs. “There are many blessings to this job. One unquestioned downside is that I very much live in a bubble. I’m surrounded by Secret Service agents. It’s very hard for a random person to walk up to me — in fact, it’s damned-near impossible. I see social media as a useful, albeit imperfect, way to stay in touch with what’s going on in the country at large… I probably spend way less time on Twitter than I did six months ago, and that’s probably good for me.”
All told, the Trump-Vance administration’s commitment to turning the page on globalisation as we knew it runs deeper than allies and adversaries alike might imagine. As Vance says: “We’re not on anybody’s side, we’re on America’s side.”
La question de l'usage est au cœur de toutes les discussions en France, car elle permet à des non-techniciens de transformer l'informatique en storytelling.
«Il faut utiliser la data pour créer de la valeur.»
Cette phrase vide permet de projeter l'illusion de compréhension d'une révolution qu'on ne maîtrise pas.
So why is Microsoft insisting on pushing out a feature it is very clear users just do not want? What is the point of it? It just does not make any sense. Recall makes no sense. It is one of rather many functions that Microsoft wants to force people into using.
Personally I also do not want Copilot on my computer and the idea that there can be a key on my keyboard that I can press that will enable by mistake it is not what I would think most people want.
I believe that there should be a very clear line between what is on your computer and what is in the cloud. Forcing people to log into a Microsoft online account to use their computer is crazy. Having people mistakenly enabling OneDrive is another disaster.
I guess this is all a great opportunity for Linux.
at a “retro games” store. (They even had wiiu, xbox360, and I think also ps3 systems
. )There was one more wiimote but it was the original model that didn't have a gyroscope so I did not buy it. Thank you for reading my blog post.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •But contrary to his claims and Yann LeCun’s lies saying that “95% of hate speech on facebook is removed by ‘AI’,” all social media is essentially 4chan in these languages and contexts.
We have now spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •We collaborated with content moderators like Fasica to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators.
Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years, and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded, and moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •See Fasica's report at data-workers.org/fasica/
I will never forget the genocidal mania among the Ethiopian intelligentsia. It was a popular genocide, with your “progressive” diaspora falling over themselves to deny and justify it. The least we can do is raise awareness about what has happened and what is about to happen.
You can find our work thus far on dair-institute.org/tigray-geno….
Tigray Genocide
www.dair-institute.orgTimnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •More importantly, we have put out a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on all social media platforms, further setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia and Eritrea: dair-institute.org/blog/tigray…. Please send it over to anyone who will listen & can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war.
If you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, Nuredin, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @ZekuZelalem
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Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again
www.dair-institute.orgTimnit Gebru (she/her).
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •chi25-921.pdf
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in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her). • • •@ZekuZelalem
All 153 states parties to the Genocide Convention are obliged to act to prevent genocide under Article I. Maybe something viable on Fedi is to raise this at MEP (members of Euro Parl) level to officially call on Facebook/TikTok/Twitter/YouTube to urgently implement moderation by people with genuine local expertise in order to prevent genocide.
Any followers feel free to forward to your MEPs or other politicians like @marinetondelier .
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