Month: October 2024

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Tragedy of the (data) commons

The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models.

Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.

Connect with Shayne via his website.

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It Could Happen Here - Charlie Kirk vs College Students

Garrison dissociates at a Charlie Kirk x Vivek Ramaswamy rally and wonders if it's even worth it anymore.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html 

https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/immigration/new-york-city-free-one-way-plane-tickets-migrants-fact-check/536-c6e7168f-7f16-4bf9-97cd-33389729869c
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/nyregion/nyc-hotels-homeless-shelters.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/kamala-harris-afghanistan-withdrawal-report
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/oct/15/byron-donalds/fact-checking-misleading-claims-about-black-wage-g/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2024/07/02/how-did-black-americans-do-economically-under-trump-biden/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-trump-administration-embraces-the-saudi-led-war-yemen

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/saudi-arabia-arms-deal-trump-what-to-know/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/

https://www.wabe.org/charlie-kirk-vivek-ramaswamy-tangle-with-georgia-state-students-at-tour-stop-in-support-of-trump/

https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NLP-Teen-Survey-Report-2024.pdf 

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This Machine Kills - 377. The Real Cost of Uber/Lyft’s Driver Lockouts

First we have an update on an old startup as Worldcoin changes its name to World and redesigns its Orb to be more than just an eyeball scanner but also now an identification service called Deep Face. Repeat the satanic mantra after me: World, Orb, Deep Face. We then sit back as Prof Ed walks us through an in-depth investigation into how Uber and Lyft used driver lockouts—preventing them from logging on, seemingly at random and for long periods—as a cynical response to minimum pay laws in New York City. This regulatory arbitrage and brutal optimization resulted in significant impacts on drivers and major savings for the companies. ••• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Gets a New Name, and New Hardware https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-17/sam-altman-s-worldcoin-gets-a-new-name-and-new-hardware ••• How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-uber-lyft-nyc-drivers-pay-lockouts/?srnd=phx-technology Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)
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CBS News Roundup - 10/24/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Prosecutors recommend resentencing of the Menendez brothers in the 1989 killings of their parents that would enable them to be eligible for parole immediately. Star power comes out for Vice President Harris in Pennsylvania as former President Trump campaigns in Arizona and Nevada. President Biden to apologize for 150-year abusive Indian boarding school policy. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - The End Of The World As Fred Knows It

Fred Kaplan has won a Pulitzer, been nominated for another, and he's covered the national security community for years. So he finally decided to just throw out the rules of non-fiction and write a novel ... about the end of the World, or almost the end of the world. A Capital Calamity is a tale of impending armageddon not with a bang nor a whimper, but because of a consultant. Plus, airlines have finally addressed the on-again-off-again no-smoking sign in a rather stupid way. Also on the show, Trump is close to winning because incumbents the world over are getting "schlonged."


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Consider This from NPR - Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?

This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collective progress in slowing biodiversity loss.

Can they successfully turn those plans into action against what the United Nations is calling "humanity's senseless and suicidal war with nature?"

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Consider This from NPR - Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?

This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collective progress in slowing biodiversity loss.

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Consider This from NPR - Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?

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1A - Meet The Christians Pushing Back On Christian Nationalism

The ideology of Christian nationalism holds that the United States should be closer to and informed by Christian principles. It's been more present in American politics lately, being referenced openly by elected officials and candidates alike.

But what is Christian nationalism? Who follows it and what is its purpose? Why is it different from Christian faiths, including evangelical Christianity?

We talk to three Christians who are making it their job to push back against this movement from a religious point of view.

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