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MariamCook

@MariamCook_

Into machine learning and the future of democratic participation and decision making. Views mine or yours

 UK, Europe, Earth
Joined December 2008
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SWITCH (formerly Women 2.0) (@SwitchtheFuture) profile pictureSWITCH (formerly Women 2.0)@SwitchtheFuture13 Jan 2022
The poet and activist is the first Black woman to appear on a US quarter. buff.ly/3tn6q1E
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bbc.co.uk/news/business-5757…
Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters ft.com/content/cad45ac2-3778… via @financialtimes
I've received about 10 of these Royal Mail scam texts lately. Please beware everyone....
ᴇᴍᴍᴇʟɪɴᴇ ʜᴀʀᴛʟᴇʏ (@EmmelineHartley) profile pictureᴇᴍᴍᴇʟɪɴᴇ ʜᴀʀᴛʟᴇʏ@EmmelineHartley21 Mar 2021
I mentioned yesterday that I’d been scammed out of every penny I had. Thought I’d post what happened in case it helps anyone avoid being in the same position. Please save the lectures, I don’t think it’s possible for me to feel any stupider 🤦🏻‍♀️ #royalmailscam #safeaccountscam
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Online event: What We Owe Each Other: a new social contract Monday 01 March 2021 6:00pm to 7:15pm Hosted by LSE Festival: Shaping the Post-COVID World lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festiva…
The devastation of the Mauritius oil spill is still unaddressed aje.io/j95qm via @AJEnglish
BBC | Would you eat chicken grown in a lab?bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
BBC Radio 5 Live - Naga Munchetty - Would you eat chicken grown in a lab?

BBC Radio 5 Live - Naga Munchetty - Would you eat chicken grown in a lab?

A Californian company has become the first in the world to sell cultured meat.

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"A third of Americans live in or near poverty" podcasts.google.com/?feed=aH…
Democracy depends on justice, education, trust, healthy debate, citizen agency, wellbeing and hope. Sustained grievances and divisive language break down its possibility.
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'liquid fertiliser, ready less than a week after it begins its life as food scraps, is sold in tankers or large vats for industrial use; or in smaller bottles... often by the same supermarkets whose scraps form the fertiliser’s raw ingredients' #waste rethink.ft.com/articles/star… @FT
'The public live & breathe the economy every day. If their first response to statistics such as unemployment rate is “that doesn’t feel right” (common response in focus groups) then perhaps it’s economists who are missing something' ft.com/content/ac72d19d-c567… via @financialtimes
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"The public needs to understand economics better for democracy to thrive, but that’s not enough. Economists need to understand the public better, too."
Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace theguardian.com/cities/2016/…
Margaret Hodge calls for ban on social media anonymity theguardian.com/society/2020…
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1)Break down online abuse into libel (falseness)& threats, 2)Block content/prosecute poster(via identities mapped in background to pseudonyms as per CST recommendations), 3)If matter has truth respond politely with defence, 4)Leave 99.9% anonymous/pseudonymous posters to continue
"letting military artificial intelligence proceed without human supervision raises troubling ethical questions." 😡 Read more: newscientist.com/article/226…
Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them | New Scientist

Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them | New Scientist

A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions

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New Scientist (@newscientist) profile pictureNew Scientist
@newscientist5 Dec 2020
Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them bit.ly/2JLj1XJ
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Lib Dems and Leave .EU fought regulator to resist data inquiry opendemocracy.net/en/opendem…
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner ft.com/content/5528eab4-ac19… via @financialtimes
Internal doc reveals campaign against EU lawmakers >'responding to the planned Digital Services Act it seeks removal of “unreasonable constraints” to Google’s business model &to “reset the political narrative” around proposed legislation' ft.com/content/d9d05b1e-45c0… v @financialtimes
Opportunity to invest in #renewableenergy / #GreenEnergy #UK
Bristol Energy Coop (@briznrg) profile pictureBristol Energy Coop@briznrg19 Oct 2020
Bristol has always been pioneering, and we are proud of our latest project to create the city’s first hydro-electric generator. We plan to fund this project with investment from our latest share offer, and we’d love you to be involved. Capital at risk. bristolenergy.coop/share-off…
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