Becca Ricks

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Becca Ricks

@baricks

Research, art, public interest technology. ☺︎ Public interest tech @ Data & Society. Previously: open source research @mozilla @HRW @ITP_NYU. she/her.

Katılım Eylül 2008
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Becca Ricks
Becca Ricks@baricks·
Hi! After 16 years of posting on this platform (🤡), I'm closing up shop here and stepping away. You can find me over at Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/barick…) and Mastodon (@beccaricks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@beccaricks) where I'll be posting more regularly.
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Leon Yin
Leon Yin@LeonYin·
Our methodology is inspired by Aaron and @dmehro’s Jalopnik piece on Uber and a Lyft fares and @dcalacci’s Shipt calculator SMS bot that offers pay transparency to Target gig workers. jalopnik.com/uber-and-lyft-… dcalacci.net/papers/Calacci…
Aaron W. Gordon@A_W_Gordon

Really proud to work with @LeonYin, @natlungfy and @DeniseDSLu on this one. Imagine having to constantly tap a button in an app all day to find out if you're allowed to work. That's what Uber/Lyft drivers in NYC had to do all summer (and Lyft still does). bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

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Veena Dubal
Veena Dubal@veenadubal·
Incredible data journalism. This Article shows exactly what "algorithmic wage theft" looks like. We need more than the minimum wage & data transparency: we need new laws of work to prevent algorithmic wage discrimination. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
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Tech Won't Save Us
Tech Won't Save Us@techwontsaveus·
DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series exploring the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are desperate to build more. In Part 1, we examine where “the cloud” came from and how it expands Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s power. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/data-v…
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Bellingcat
Bellingcat@bellingcat·
Great news! Bellingcat just launched the new Online Investigations Toolkit. In the toolkit you can discover tools for everything from satellite imagery analysis, to social media scraping, transportation tracking or archiving research material. bellingcat.com/resources/2024…
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Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith·
NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o @GaelVaroquaux, @SashaMTL and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane@Abebab·
was wating to have everything in order to make proper annoucmenet but alas, i need help so here we are. got some grant & should be starting a research lab soon focused on AI accountbility & I'm looking for someone who could help design logo & artwork for the website. hit me up
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Dhruv Mehrotra
Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro·
NEW: Armed with a fanny pack full of radios, WIRED investigated reports of a secretive surveillance technology being deployed at the DNC. Here’s the story about what we found: wired.com/story/dnc-hidd…
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Mozilla
Mozilla@mozilla·
🎉 New Grant Opportunity for #MozillaAlumni!📢 Today we open applications for our Alumni Connections Grants; a program built to support Mozilla Fellows and Awardees as they continue their critical work on issues that directly affect the future of #AI and the health of our internet⤵️ mzl.la/3XckM1V
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Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant·
If you haven't yet read Ted Chiang's essay on generative AI and art, get on it. For my money, it's one of the best things written on AI, period—it gets to the heart of what's so dismaying about AI in a single haunting sentence: "It reduces the amount of intention in the world."
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Reuters Institute@risj_oxford·
Meta is shutting down CrowdTangle, a tool popular among researchers to investigate disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. @mozilla says over 50,000 people have signed letters and petitions asking Meta to stop or pause its plans - via @darakerr @NPR npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-…
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Joseph Cox
Joseph Cox@josephfcox·
New from 404 Media: we got a massive leak from inside Nvidia (emails, Slack chats, documents) which show how it created a yet-to-be-released AI model. The leak shows that Nvidia scraped YouTube en masse, had clearance from highest levels of the company 404media.co/nvidia-ai-scra…
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Jack Hardinges
Jack Hardinges@jhardinges·
📣 Introducing the eight initiatives now supported by the Data Empowerment Fund. It's a great group, empowering people with data to tackle the climate crisis, advocate for fair work, govern artificial intelligence and address other critical challenges: #initiatives" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dataempowerment.fund/#initiatives
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Deborah Brown
Deborah Brown@deblebrown·
Work update: I’m humbled and excited to be starting as deputy director @hrw to lead our technology & human rights work. I’m lucky to continue working alongside brilliant colleagues like @a_bacci @samdubberley @notzachcampbell in this new role
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