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Robustly improving LLM fairness in realistic settings via interpretability (arxiv.org)

12 hours ago | like_any_other | arxiv.org | newest

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Supreme Court Greenlights Online Digital ID Checks (reclaimthenet.org)

3 days ago | like_any_other | reclaimthenet.org | newest

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UK police working with tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network (libertyinvestigates.org.uk)

a week ago | like_any_other | libertyinvestigates.org.uk | frontpage

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As attention spans get shorter, so does the SAT – and soon the ACT (joannejacobs.com)

a week ago | like_any_other | joannejacobs.com | frontpage

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Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions (2022) (pnas.org)

a week ago | like_any_other | pnas.org | frontpage

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White people prefer white people on dating apps – but that could be changed (kansascity.com)

a week ago | like_any_other | kansascity.com | newest

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The Death of the Summer Job (financialpost.com)

2 weeks ago | like_any_other | financialpost.com | newest

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Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government (2017) (ssrn.com)

2 weeks ago | like_any_other | ssrn.com | newest

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Hong Kong bans 'seditious' mobile game about fighting communists (bbc.com)

2 weeks ago | like_any_other | bbc.com | newest

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4chan and porn site investigated by Ofcom over online safety (bbc.com)

3 weeks ago | like_any_other | bbc.com | frontpage

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France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown (reclaimthenet.org)

3 weeks ago | like_any_other | reclaimthenet.org | frontpage

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Crowds on Demand (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | like_any_other | wikipedia.org | newest

2

College English majors can't read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

a month ago | like_any_other | substack.com | newest

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Tinder has patented swiping and double-opt-in matches (2018) (axios.com)

a month ago | like_any_other | axios.com | newest

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Telegram CEO: French intelligence head asked me to ban Romanian conservatives (twitter.com/durov)

a month ago | like_any_other | twitter.com | newest

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You Don't Have a Right to a Bank Account (nytimes.com)

a month ago | like_any_other | nytimes.com | frontpage

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AI can guess racial categories from heart scans (theconversation.com)

a month ago | like_any_other | theconversation.com | newest

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UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom pressured to enforce censorship and surveillance (reclaimthenet.org)

a month ago | like_any_other | reclaimthenet.org | newest

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Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU (thejournal.ie)

a month ago | like_any_other | thejournal.ie | frontpage

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Odysee Drops Stripe for USDC Payments, Citing Censorship Concerns (reclaimthenet.org)

a month ago | like_any_other | reclaimthenet.org | newest

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Who's Afraid of Renaud Camus? (wsj.com)

3 months ago | like_any_other | wsj.com | newest

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EFF Says "We Cannot Allow a Country Within a Country" (Orania, South Africa) (centralnews.co.za)

3 months ago | like_any_other | centralnews.co.za | newest

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Ofcom: New rules for a safer generation of children online (ofcom.org.uk)

3 months ago | like_any_other | ofcom.org.uk | newest

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Senior GrapheneOS developer forcibly detained and conscripted (twitter.com/grapheneos)

3 months ago | like_any_other | twitter.com | frontpage

2

Lee Kuan Yew's Opposition to Trial by Jury (postcolonialweb.org)

3 months ago | like_any_other | postcolonialweb.org | newest

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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (npr.org)

3 months ago | like_any_other | npr.org | frontpage

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Bitchute blocks UK due to Online Safety Act (bitchute.com)

3 months ago | like_any_other | bitchute.com | frontpage

3

Defensive Democracy (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | like_any_other | wikipedia.org | newest

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Representation of the People Act 1981 (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | like_any_other | wikipedia.org | newest

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What no one is saying about the first city-wide facial recognition zone [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | youtube.com | frontpage

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Miami Beach mayor backs down from threatening theater over 'No Other Land' (latimes.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | latimes.com | newest

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Beware of Stephen J. Gould (2007) (lesswrong.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | lesswrong.com | newest

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Migrants to be tested on antisemitism under Coalition citizenship test (smh.com.au)

4 months ago | like_any_other | smh.com.au | frontpage

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Reconsidering the search for alternatives to general mental ability tests (sciencedirect.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | sciencedirect.com | newest

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BBC quietly censors its own archives (2022) (nationalreview.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | nationalreview.com | newest

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Immigration Accounts for Entire US Population Growth for First Time (newsweek.com)

4 months ago | like_any_other | newsweek.com | frontpage

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Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (telegraph.co.uk)

4 months ago | like_any_other | telegraph.co.uk | frontpage

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White nationalist books planted in little free libraries across Ottawa (cbc.ca)

5 months ago | like_any_other | cbc.ca | newest

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The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again (economist.com)

8 months ago | like_any_other | economist.com | newest