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We're planning a fascinating tutorial at WACV in Tucson (Tohono O'odham land) Friday on biomedical & medicine data protection w @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @stanford.edu researchers! Data privacy in: -Medical Digital Twins, LLMs & Agents -Machine Unlearning -Indigenous Genetic Biodata - & more!

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AI conferences rarely do land acknowledgements but there are important links. Computer vision research is used in all sorts of surveillance tech. The CV conference I'll attend soon will be on Tohono O'odham land where border surveillance systems are installed. prismreports.org/2024/07/22/e...

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A workshops at the computer vision conference I'll attend soon attempts to address this doozy of a problem in surveillance AI inaccuracy, described euphemistically: "Computer vision methods trained on public databases demonstrate performance drift when deployed for real-world surveillance."

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I hope to see some southwestern migrating hawks while in Tucson soon including the Black Hawk, Gray Hawk and Zone-tailed Hawk! hawkwatch.org/raptor-id/ra...

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1/6 As a vegetarian-turned-pesca-turned veg again for 35+ yrs, I have lots of questions about why Oregon lawmakers are spending time on a bill to ban octopus farming, which does not exist here. What are the ties to Effective Altruism, x-risk & Longtermism? www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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Some Dead Moon Night plans are in the works for October's celebration of PDX's best DIY punk rock band! This early audio story of mine commemorates the 1st DM Night. Talks w punk legends Poison Idea’s Jerry A, Mudhoney’s Steve Turner, DM’s Kelly Halliburton & more! redtailmedia.org/wp-content/u...

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Japanese indigo prints from Modern Domestic in North Portland, ready for a cold wash in preparation for a bedspread I'll sew soon

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Baseball spring training could not come at a more welcome moment, one that is crying out for happy diversion. It's too early to care about whether the Mets will make it all the way this season; I'm just thrilled for another one!

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Having some friends over tonight, a great reason for a homemade bread treat...Taste Soleil filled with smoked gouda, sharp cheddar, cumin seed, roasted tomatoes, shallots and (duh) garlic.

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Real research requires data that AI systems do not have like data from interviews & other qualitative info that does not already exist or is not digitized. I'm reminded of data co execs I heard on a podcast who referred to content of journalistic articles as scrape-able because it's "just data."

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Data protection and accuracy problems are two main reasons why businesses are not sold on using AI agents, despite interest and testing. [According to a WSJ survey covered in @runtime.news] www.runtime.news/big-business...

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from @alondra.bsky.social "The purpose of AI is not scale or efficiency. The purpose of AI is people. The second fallacy ...is that AI requires a tradeoff – bw safety and progress...and between rights and innovation. But each of these is a false choice." www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

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Questioning the premise here. When you divorce you are likely to have more and/or different types of sex than when you were married. GenXers (including yours truly) are in the age range in which we divorce, rethink relationships, shift attitudes, etc, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...

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a lot of SNL sucks but this sketch mocking AI podcasts and 'educational tools' is pretty dead on www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4r...

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"Synthetic data therefore intensifies a pre-existing lack of accountability... entrenches and compounds surveillant practices...such as in the development of medical AI...migration of models...to state deployment in law enforcement & military contexts." ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Kitty admiring the gorgeous flowers I received yesterday

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Snow day like any other day for this dude.

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Terms like "objective metric" are used [commonly?] in tech specifications. Don't believe the hype. The idea that a metric or that tech specs built on values derived from such metrics are "objective" fails to recognize multitudes of subjective decisions baked into supposed "objective" measures.

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Always relevant youtu.be/UDr25zjd4yM?...

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Insurance company logic regarding cost of scan test to detect signs of cancer: Negative test results: labeled as "preventative," no charge Positive test results: labeled as "diagnostic," this is gonna $$$ cost $$$ you

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I'm very grateful to all those who have chipped in a few bucks to support my ongoing Portland Police Drone and other government algorithmic and surveillance tech research. Here's how you can chip in, too: www.patreon.com/c/redtailrep...

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Just filed for another batch of Portland Police case reports involving drones. The info should shed light on a growing type of police drone use here. If you appreciate this important investigative journalism - I do it in my personal time -- consider supporting it! www.patreon.com/c/redtailrep...

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1/4 An important area of Portland police drone use deserving of more research is data policy. The procedures written by the police themselves exempt exigent & warrant related drone use from restrictions on recording & transmission of images of private locations ("residence, yard, enclosure").

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The Brutalist is a great film. Saw it recently in 70mm. Even if you can't see this (gorgeous) version, the narrative and ideas addressed in the film (subtly, metaphorically) are provocative, beautiful, disturbing and ripe for our time. And, no, it didn't seem too long - I was captivated throughout.

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Gearin up for the rawk show.

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Some helpful analysis here regarding risks of AI agent interoperability with other systems. Thanks @mmitchell.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social and team.

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Important rule inside the @arizonastateuni.bsky.social Tsosie Lab studying Indigenous genomic equity and justice in biomedical and genomics medicine research.

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Actually, EU AI Act DOES NOT BAN all uses of emotion recognition: It prohibits workplace & school use, & use in social scoring & predictive policing, but doesn't specifically ban use in vehicles. As of 2024, EU REQUIRES Advanced driver distraction warning systems (they employ emotion rec) in cars.

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Check out my talk at Portland's Techno Activism event about my investigative research of the city's police use of drones, what they own, where they're flown, how, and surveillance policy implications: vimeo.com/1053161964

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