Irina Papazu

@chrbennike @weekendavisen Der er vel ikke een eneste rigtig måde at engagere sig på (din). Særligt ikke når det gælder en krise der omfatter alle livets områder.

... fra mit lydessay i dagens udgave af Avistid @weekendavisen weekendavisen.dk/avistid/techno…

Join the reception if you’re at #4seasst!

We found LOTS of words with increased usage in 2024. "Delves" got 25 times (!) more frequent. "Showcasing" and "underscores" -- 9 times more. Among more common words, "potential" saw an increase of 4 percentage points; "crucial" and "findings" -- 3 perc. points. 3/11

Massive, exciting news..! #DemocraticSituations has won the @STSeasst Freeman Award, to be presented at #4sEASST2024 next month. Congratulations to @communaut @IrinaPa & all the book's contributors. Of course, the book is 100% #OpenAccess, available to all matteringpress.org/books/democrat…

I’ve been incredibly depressed, distraught, sad, and upset since reading yesterday’s detailed report on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the IDF’s targeting apparatus during the war in Gaza. The killing of over 31 family members of mine in Gaza City and Rafah (the two homes I was raised in) can only be “logically” and “reasonably” explained by the use of these new and error-prone tools and systems. I know my family well and have kept in close contact with them since I left Gaza – they are not members of Hamas and have nothing to do with militancy. There was no militant activity at both homes when they were struck, one at night and one during the day. The damage was immense and horrendous, likely thanks to heavy-weight "dumb" bombs that killed children as young as three and four months old who were shredded to pieces, with most of the casualties losing their heads and limbs, crushed by the rubble and experiencing extreme burns. I studied intelligence analysis and operations and am intimately familiar with the complex targeting science and mechanisms. We are light years away from being able to trust machine learning and algorithms to make intricate and consequential targeting decisions that kill human beings. The pace of bombardment in the early stage of the war makes me confident that there was pressure across the target acquisition chain to produce names & locations quickly and continuously, making the report’s allegations that human analysts merely rubber-stamped “Lavender”-selected targets very credible. I strongly believe that my family was killed in Gaza as a result of AI-generated targeting that was fed faulty intelligence and erroneously honed in on my childhood homes due to random attributes that were flagged by machines - that is the only reason to explain why the Israeli military would choose to callously kill dozens of people, few of whom were young military-age men. Using Gaza as a testing field for new warfare “innovations” and technologies is immoral and criminal; these are human beings, not statistics.

"Vi insisterer på at ødelægge den gode og overvejende teknologi-optimistiske stemning. Det er nu - mens vi stadig har muligheden for at takke nej til teknologien i vores software og infrastruktur - at vi bør tænke klimaet med," skriver bl.a. @IrinaPa radar.dk/holdning/vi-ta…

Vigtig tråd 🐷 Vi er, I højere og højere grad, i gang med at bygge vores samfund på et fundament af døde dyr. Her sætter Mathilde Walter Clark et par ord på det. Hvad er det dog vi har gang i?

Mass killings are always shaped by the technologies of their time. We are in the era of AI. The result is a chilling combination of fine-grained surveillance deployed to justify massive blast zones. A single fighter becomes the excuse to knowingly kill hundreds. Read it.

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Regeringens hockeystav in action

BREAKING: scientists say there are signs that what's happening to Antarctica's ice sheets is in the worst-case scenario range 🧵

Jeg er medafsender på denne kronik i Information i dag, som kritiserer regeringen for sin forhalende klimapolitik og understreger behovet for etableringen af @dgforsk. information.dk/debat/2023/09/…

Over the last week I've seen a LOT of footage of flooding around the world. I thought I'd put them here in one place 🧵 #floods #ClimateEmergency #degrowth 1. Greece (1/13) twitter.com/us_stormwatch/…

Jeg har haft en lille finger med i spillet i en ny forskningsartikel sammen med Adam Veng og @Irinapa. I den viser vi bl.a., hvordan det klimapolitiske felt i Danmark har været præget af industriens interesser: tidsskrift.dk/encounters/art… #dkgreen #dkpol

@SiggeW @lottefolke Interdisciplinaritet er ellers et buzzword mange steder, så det ville næppe være kontroversielt at invitere andre fagligheder ind. Måske endda fagligheder på de problemområder I gerne vil tackle.

@lottefolke Arh, Lotte. Det er for billigt. Prøv at gå ind på hjemmesiden, please. Praktikerne er i vores kerne. Men vi udelukker ikke forskere. Gør Politiken det?

@SiggeW @JPYazdani Man kunne jo også inddrage anden forskning end statskundskab, tror jeg er pointen her, ikke inddragelse af praktikere

@JPYazdani Please. Gå ind på vores hjemmeside. Praktikerne er vores hjerte. Det er dem vi er der for! Vi er lige begyndt i dag. Bedøm os om 3 måneder😀 Alt kan ikke udkomme på vires første dag

Interessant at samle en masse statskundskabere i en politisk ‘neutral’ tænketank, der skal løse ‘vilde’ problemer. Bliver helt sikkert virkeligt vilde løsninger. Første projekt bli’r eftersigende en model, der kan klassificere problemers ‘vildhed’ fra 1 til 100. Vildt.

As almost every day has shattered previous records, this NH summer/SH winter is the hottest in observational history. And likely the hottest in over 100,000 years, since the Eemian warm period (interglacial), when the global sea level was 5-10 meters higher.

Hvem f er den professor i P1 morgen der snakker om hvor synd det er for dem på landet at de skal til at være en del af den grønne omstilling?! ‘Hvis den grønne omstilling betød at alle caféer og kulturtilbud i byen måtte lukke, så ville der nok også være modstand der…’

@MalteHauge @frantzen_mikkel Det var bestemt ikke min læsning

Lea Korsgård i Deadline siger på ca et minut noget af det mest problematiske jeg længe har hørt - både i forhold til klimakrisen og slaveriet. Vi har ikke brug for en moralisering i forhold til klima og forbrug. Og det var ved gud ikke et nyt moralsæt der afskaffede slaveriet.