I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit. blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

Here is my resignation letter in it’s entirety. My words:

Y'all, Michael's pairings of poetry and art are nourishing for the soul. A breath, a pause in your day ✨ open.substack.com/pub/mrmichaelw…

I didn't realize there's a growing startup industry in selling Trust and Safety as a service. I'm glad this work is gaining more attention and traction, but also wonder what prevents companies from TnS-washing? wired.com/story/trust-an…

From Ethics, Tech + Public Policy for Practitioners, I'm still struck by Rob Reich's encouragement to strive for "moral ambition". Especially on social media, rife with ambition of all sorts, in a world where we can be ambitious for anything — why not strive for moral ambition?

Everything is horrible. And I have to meet deadlines. How to function in this individuated world with so much collective suffering?

My last message before my Slack was deactivated

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📢 Are you fed up with the binary discussions between AI existential risks and AI social/ethical risks? Then read my new manuscript 👇🏻. Feedback very welcome. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07836…

Here's to subverting the myth of zero-sum leadership scientificamerican.com/article/is-the…

Slack shows Hunger Games style tribute to the fallen on days where employees are laid off

What is there left to say? They displaced 1.4 million people to Rafah, now they are attacking it by air and land. What else do I need to do to convince you that Palestinians are human beings? That no one deserves this? If you don't see it by now, you never will.

Nice, clear overview from Matt Marshall on the tradeoffs between open-source and closed LLMs. Plus this article gets concrete about actual use cases from enterprise companies like Walmart, Intuit, and Shopify.

imagine if we had a fraction of the current outrage around Google's Gemini "going woke" over the past years when generative AI consistently produced racist stereotypes (which most generative AI still does)

reading about Computer People for Peace, an activist org that grew from the 1960s anti-war movement: CPP was against “the use of computer information systems as a means of social control”, “corporate racism” and “the role of automation on rising unemployment” timely then and now

Instead of getting caught up in which AI tool to learn (as it will inevitably change), creative teams should focus on the following key areas: 🧵

Important: This new calling feature is ENABLED by default and will reveal your IP address to your callers! To opt out, go to settings->privacy and safety->direct messages->disable calls IP address will potentially identify you so especially important for pseudonymous accounts.

15 data workers from 4 continents developing and delving into distinct research questions alongside their co-workers. That is the **Data Workers' Inquiry**, and I'm excited for you all to meet our co-researchers, hear their stories, and support their demands on June 20!

Ok so what're y'all's favorite Trader Joe snacks and treats? I severely sprained my ankle about 6 weeks ago and just started walking again 🤘 Celebrating tomorrow with my first grocery store run since this all started! 🥳

something i can't stop thinking about is how vehemently young people do not want to enter the world as it exists, and their willingness to challenge and contest it.