Notices by tante (tante@mastodon.social)

Same story again. Most AI med-tech assumes whiteness and maleness as default. That's not the future we were promised.
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"If the algorithm is basing most of its knowledge on how skin lesions appear on fair skin, then theoretically, lesions on patients of color are less likely to be diagnosed." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/machine-learning-dermatology-skin-color/567619/
https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1036324621509963777

RT @mtsw@twitter.com
hi I can answer this one.

Because self-driving tech, which does not work yet and is unlikely to work in the near future, is actively being used to FUD other kinds of badly needed transit projects and instead direct the money to continue to pay for roads for private vehicles https://twitter.com/teasri/status/1034873379625594881

“Universal Basic Income and Blockchain” might be the worst take on both blockchain and UBI. From ridiculous assumption down to everything being a transaction this thing is libertarian crack. https://medium.com/futuresin/universal-basic-income-and-blockchain-aa3f5a06485f

This is going to end in a huge clusterfuck. The examples look good enough to enable all kinds of horrible abuse.
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NVIDIA's new vid2vid is the first open-source code that lets you fake anybody's face convincingly from one source video. prior "face2face" stuff was either cartoonish or proprietary. interesting times ahead... https://github.com/NVIDIA/vid2vid
https://twitter.com/genekogan/status/1031864094314450944

RT @neoliberal_dad@twitter.com
Neoliberal: Actually the Nordic states are extremely capitalist aside from their generous welfare states

Me: Cool can we also become extremely capitalist with a very generous welfare state or whatever?

Neoliberal: That’s socialism, which has failed every time it has been tried