Heather Tal Murphy
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Pretty stunning: *No* major estimate of climate change’s financial costs includes the cost of these wildfire smoke days, @MarshallBBurke tells me In other words, any estimate you’ve ever read of climate change’s costs did not include the cost of this https://t.co/FoCCzA7OMG
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this is a great piece on how TikTok shapes the aesthetic of food / restaurants. Instagram forced food to make for pristine, dramatic static images, now, TikTok requires moments of motion and "activation" because of video
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Everything is cheesier, saucier, and drowning in caviar.
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I talked to @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai about Congress asking tech execs to advise on AI oversight like today's hearing “Government is supposed to be a balance on industry. If industry is writing the laws, then we have no balance" (TG) https://t.co/mTtM9aKc25
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate on AI like ChatGPT as regulations and oversight are being considered.
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Happy book birthday to the great @henrygrabar for PAVED PARADISE, a totally entertaining book that transformed the way I look at my city. Don't take my word for it—here's a WSJ rave https://t.co/TYu1FONQUi
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Turkey’s construction boom made families and politicians wealthy through a system rife with patronage. Our investigation in the aftermath of the Feb.6 earthquake reveals just how fatally shaky that system was. With @RebeccaRuiz @nimetkirac
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Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was.
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His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. Stunning reporting here. @propublica
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Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me...
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Goldman Sachs just dropped a BIG piece of research- as many as 300 million jobs could be affected by AI. The following job sectors are at the greatest risk: -Administrative: 46% at risk -Legal: 44% at risk -Architecture and Engineering: 37% risk More 👇
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A thorough and even handed article on our @spawning_ work in @slate by @heathertal We've been calling for an ideal of opt-in only training since 2017, but there is no legal requirement for AI companies to follow that. Our opt-outs offer a practical and
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Two musicians brokered a deal to save 80 million images from Stable Diffusion. Are they enablers or heroes?
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#BREAKING: The DOJ has sued @Google parent @alphabet, accusing it of illegally abusing its dominance in digital advertising and violating the Sherman Antitrust Act — It's the 2nd major antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by DOJ More on @axios
https://t.co/NqmWM2vKpv
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It's the second major antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the DOJ in the last three years.
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New on the role of DNA in the Idaho murders: I learned what prompted police focused on their suspect and why there was no mention of forensic genealogy in the affidavit even though the technique was used. This has implications far beyond this case.
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Investigators found suspect Bryan Kohberger with the method that solved the Golden State Killer case. But they aren’t saying so.
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Without warning or explanation, Musk has suspended @washingtonpost journalist Taylor Lorenz. Lorenz did not link to accounts tracking private jets or publish Musk’s location She reached out for comment for a story https://t.co/IMhYeootsz
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The biggest tech companies in the world imagine a future where AI will replace a lot of human labor. But this vision ignores the fact that much of what we think of as “AI” is actually powered by tedious, low-paid human labor.
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How AI innovation is powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.
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The backstory: How anti-vaxxers came together with a young conservative legal movement-groomed judge to kill the travel mask mandate -- while also calling into question the CDC's regulatory ability to combat a future public-health crisis. w/ @heathertal
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The mask rule on planes and public transportation has been targeted by the travel industry and Republican lawmakers. In the end, it was brought down by a little-known nonprofit, a conservative judge...
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How a single federal judge killed the CDC's transportation mask mandate -- and what the Biden administration is going to do about it. @heathertal and I joined @mikebarb on The Daily to sort it out. https://t.co/gWtcDzTMLx
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An obscure lawsuit in Florida could endanger the federal health agency’s ability to intervene in future crises.
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24 hours ago, a federal judge vacated @CDCgov mask mandate on airplanes This was deeply disappointing CDC scientists had asked for 15 days to make a more data-driven durable decision We should have given it to them But I'll continue to follow CDC guidance & mask up on planes
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At DCA, going through (empty) security maskless and agent tells me he won’t let me through without a mask. I tell him mandate was overturned CDC issued a statement confirming and he said it didn’t apply to TSA. Something about TSA enforcement extended to May 8? True?
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My 2022 goals are just "Go a place!" and "Do a thing!" and I'm not sure I'll get to check either off the list.
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