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Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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so someone sent me their paper, apparently inspired by my work, seeking my feedback. but i don’t have a paper with such title & never i have collaborated with a 'Singh'

Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte popular.info/p/pride-and-...

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

Massacring starving people as they queue for aid.

After 15 years of waiting… Mohammad lies beneath the rubble Born through IVF, he was his parents’ only child. His father ran through the streets of Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza, desperately searching for an ambulance to save his son after pulling him from under the rubble.

give it a read. it's refreshing

As usual, #Apple is flat-out lying, in the desperate hope of dragging out #DMA enforcement as long as possible… before it destroys their current business model 😂

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

free luigi and give him a nobel peace prize

Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.

Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980

The 12-person crew, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, expects to take seven days to reach Gaza.

🎓Higher Education🎓 Trump’s current assault on American universities is “McCarthyism on steroids,” says Dr. Daniel Geary, Professor at Trinity College Dublin.

"we need to be prepared for a world where it is impossible to tell real from AI-generated images and video, with implications for a wide swath of society, from the entertainment we enjoy to our trust for online content."

By the time #TeslaTakedown is finished, this image will live in infamy; cited as a cautionary tale by every history textbook, political science course, and business school curriculum in the world. #MuskMustFall

The Anthropic CEO’s position is quite cheeky. It’s basically “My company is working hard to replace humans with AI and someone should do something about all of these lost jobs”. Talk about starting a fire then yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty "The implication is that people can’t be trusted to narrate their own experience. In doing so, she revives a medical paternalism reminiscent of the Victorian physician prescribing fresh air and cold baths for hysteria. " www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e...

I'd much rather be scammed by some poor mom trying to feed her kids than the richest man in the world trying to add to his own wealth, but maybe I'm a sap.

O porque de mera regulação ou a educação midiática passiva serem insuficientes para conter a weaponização fascista da web e da IA. Precisamos de políticas de plataformas espelho públicas nacionais e de educação midiática ATIVA!

Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from wounds of same attack

"our counter-intuitive results demonstrate ways in which common interpretations of Large Reasoning Models may be anthropomorphizations or simplifications" arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775

The competition to be the most dangerous and ethically compromised tech platform is stiff, but Meta are in it to win!

the key to success in tech is moving fast enough to outpace the law or simply break the law in a smart way. all successful start-ups and tech companies are built on fraud and monopoly

headline construction masterclass

Google in six months: "We are seeing unprecedented usage of Gemini in Gmail. As we told you, everyone wants Gemini and we definitely don't have our thick thumbs on the scale"

An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST. Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.

this is why "diverse" training datasets doesn't inherently mean those communities end up being the primary beneficiaries of the technology

I hate these people, and I know someone is going to say that we should be trying to reach them, but I am sick of playing along with their bullshit. They knew, they didn't care until it impacted their community.

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

J.K.R did this

My grad student @raihanalam.bsky.social wrote about our new pnas paper on congressional stock trading in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/cong...

New fun short paper alert w/@raihanalam in PNAS! Learning about congressional stock trading reduces trust in congress, which in turn reduces citizens' own willingness to follow the law broadly. Ban it! Hope it helps @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Arab states are accusing Israel of weaponising hunger in Gaza, rejecting its new aid system as illegal. “Starvation is being used as a weapon of war,” said UAE envoy Mohamed Abushahab, speaking on behalf of 22 Arab League members at the UN.

The father of a primary school pupil was assaulted while dropping his child off at a school in Dublin's south inner city, beside an increasingly contentious anti-immigration encampment jrnl.ie/6719970

"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

who's going to FAccT this year

this!!!

Farage is the worst of people. I had two emergency abortions after my tiny babies died but did not miscarry. Without those abortions, I could have died. My fertility could have been permanently affected. If Farage gets his way, women will die. #AbortionIsEssentialHealthcare #Women'sHealth

this is why I love the president of Ireland

In Opinion “The leading A.I. giants are no longer merely multinational corporations; they are growing into modern-day empires. With the full support of the federal government, soon they will be able to reshape most spheres of society as they please,” Karen Hao writes in a guest essay.