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#Developers, #programmers, #innovators, unite!👊

All #builders are called to “Hack the Capital!”🧑‍💻

Are you ready?🎯

(Disclaimer: No harm is involved, only innovation!)

hacktm.ro

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@HackTMro#hacktmhackathon is the biggest software & hardware #hackathon in South-Eastern Europe, powered by @Banat_IT and held in Timisoara, Romania, on May 12 - 14.

Why "Hack the Capital!", since Bucharest is Romania's capital? 🇷🇴

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This year, Timisoara has been nominated as one of the 3 European Capital of Culture🇪🇺, so the organizers extend this nomination and called it the “Capital of Hackathons”.🔥

culture.ec.europa.eu/policies/cultu…

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As a society, we must ensure that the #AI systems we are building are #inclusive and #equitable. This will only happen through increased transparency and #diversity in the field. Using already "dirty data" is not the way

Using biased data to train AI has serious consequences, particularly when data is controlled by large corporations with little #transparency in their training methods

For fair & #equitable AI we need Web3 democratized & agendaless data for AI training

The use of flawed #AI training datasets propagates #bias, particularly in #GPT-type models which are now widely hyped but are controlled by compromised #Web2 MNCs who have a poor track record in #privacy, protecting civil #liberty & preserving free speech

mishcon.com/news/new-claim…
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Finally, the #GoldacreReview is published! (During Parliamentary Easter holidays, mid-ping-pong on the #HealthAndCareBill...)

It's 221 pages - each PDF page is a double page spread - so this could be a lo-o-o-ong [Thread].

Here goes...
First point to note, in the Terms of Reference (p5), is that this is about "access to #NHSdata by #researchers, #commissioners, and #innovators" - i.e. #Planning and #CommercialReUse - so it is directly relevant to the operation of millions of people's #NationalDataOptOuts... Terms of reference for the review  1. How do we facilitate a
"185 wide-ranging recommendations for us to explore", says @sajidjavid (p6). Gulp! Time for some coffee...

"systems that ensure #underrepresented groups are well represented" may (partly) refer to this "landmark review", which got off to a slow start:

gov.uk/government/new… The far-reaching independent review into potential ethnic bi
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2018 WEF talks about #MindControl Ultrasound
1. Controlling the #Brain with #SoundWaves
How does it work? Image
2018 WEF talks about #MindControl Ultrasound
2. What Social good can come of it?
3. Is it Safe? Image
2018 WEF talks about #MindControl Ultrasound
4. What are the biggest #Ethical #Challenges?
5. How #Dystopian could it get? Image
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researchgate.net/publication/35…

Overcoming #EpistemicInjustices in the biomedical study of #ayahuasca: Towards #ethical and sustainable #regulation. New paper for “Cultural context and ethical issues in the therapeutic use of psychedelics” special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry 🧵1/
We (me and non-tweeter 🇧🇷 PhD lawyer Konstantin Gerber) reviewed 4 decades of biomedical research about the sacred and ancient vine of the Amazon, documenting how biomedicine systematically commits a specific kind of injustice: against indigenous people as givers of knowledge. 2/
The powerful concept of epistemic injustice was introduced 15 years ago by Miranda Fricker (University of Oxford) and greatly helped us frame and analyse some past and current trends in ayahuasca research, which is also important to psychedelic science in general. 3/ Image
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The #BigChocoSale is here! But not as you think.. read on to learn more about how the chocolate industry has hit new lows in 2021 and find out how you can help.

#Ethical #Chocolate
A 🧵 #chocolate #impact

On 1st October an 18.5% drop in the main crop price of cocoa in Ivory Coast was announced which will lead to millions of smallholder farmers falling further below the poverty line. It’s not a sale it’s #TheBigChocoSteal (2/7)
This fall in income for cocoa farmers will likely lead to increased inequality and vulnerability including more children working illegally on cocoa farms (3/7)
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‘The Trojan Horse Scandal and the Problem of Equalities in Britain Today’.

The event examined the scandal from a broad range of perspectives, engaging with debates on #equalities, #liberalism, and #Britishness.

northernnotes.leeds.ac.uk/the-trojan-hor…
It also provided an opportunity to discuss and generate a dialogue about the significance of the 'Trojan Horse’ scandal and the duty placed on schools after the scandal to promote Fundamental British Values (FBV) in the promotion of #democracy.
Speakers analysed how both are reproducing narratives of racial discrimination & inequalities in a context that is informed by minoritising communities, #problematising specific religious #values, & essentialising the signification of social, religious, & cultural identities.
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"#Data: a new direction" - a public consultation by @DCMS on "reforms to the UK’s #DataProtection regime":

gov.uk/government/con…

The consultation ends on 19 Nov 2021, and you can respond by e-mail to DataReformConsultation@dcms.gov.uk or online here:

dcms.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4P… Image
A quick sample of initial reactions...

We're clearly going to be hearing a lot about #LegitimateInterests, as well as #commercial and #public ones. The real question being, how do this Government's interests actually align with YOURS?

140+ pages on a Friday is a lot to digest, but @lilianedwards' "penumbra of often futile determinedly populist ideas largely not evidence-based" seems entirely consistent with @DCMS's Drunkard's Walk through #data and #ID this past year...

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It is very important in this period of humanity to take a serious look at what is happening in the world friends.

Watch this video first in its entirety & reflect upon current situations critically.

🙏

odysee.com/@AfterSkool:7/…
#Menticide is here & with it, a new attempt to establish a "#TechnoTotalitarian" rule over the lives of American citizens.

The final variant of #Coronavirus could very well be the manifestation of a #NewWorldOrder under #totalitarian rule.
That may sound absurd, but what is very concerning is that many talking heads in the media & even public figures are now making very carefully worded emotional appeals to logic to further induce a totalitarian #masspsychosis.
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I am ready to talk about the #silencing of over 25,000 psychologists in Australia with regards to the safeguarding of children. We are threatened, harassed, coerced to provide only one #therapy to children or else! They tried to force me into this I said NO. Any journalists???
I am ready to talk to journalists, lawyers, bloggers and am now writing a book on this topic/issue. I am ashamed of my colleagues and the board who wilfully ignore the immature prefrontal cortex, the autistic brain, and their own ethics and guidelines #rogd #gender #transgender
I have not been able to speak openly about this until now as I have been continually #silenced, harassed, threatened, coerced by other #psychologists #therapists, my board, governing agencies and other professionals. It’s time to reveal what is happening to clinicians worldwide
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I am trained in #developmental #psychology and #neuroscince. I have been screaming the #teenagebrain is #underreconstruction from the rooftops! Am totally ashamed of my peers who wilfully ignore this. #neuroplasticity #frontallobes #psychologists #gender #rogd #trans #detrans
The teenage brain is under reconstruction. The prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until minimum aged 25. A bit longer for males. The prefrontal cortex is largely responsible for: decision making, planning, organisation, focusing, impulsivity, aka executive functions
Managing emotions, predicting consequences of one’s choices and moderating social behaviour. This is #science #facts Anyone who says otherwise is brainwashed by #ideology Shame on any professional who ignores this #gender #trans #detrans #shame
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As @life_is_art___ has pointed out, the #ARHQ & #KaiserHealth (plus others!) are studying patients without clear consent. The #CommonRule was changed in the CURES Act. It allows for something called #AlternativeConsent.

It's easier for researchers! 🤔
rethinkingclinicaltrials.org/chapters/desig…
Just a few screenshots from the description of #AlternativeConsent:
You can obtain consent from patients WITHOUT THEIR DIRECT KNOWLEDGE if the study is deemed
*minimal risk* to the patient.
Who determines such a thing?

No doubt, #ForcibleTapers were done w/#AlternativeConsent.
You'll find that in re: #AlternativeConsent, there's great discussion about preventing patient bias in trials.

They are allowed to dodge consent to avoid that *bias*. This cannot be #ethical. @process_x was right when she warned us about the changes made to the #CommonRule.
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Critical thread on "Self-Spreading #Vaccines"

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for #Health Security: Technologies to Address - Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, Oct 9, 2018

#biosurveillance "biological disruption" "bioterrorism events #bioengineering
"As a subset of infectious #disease emergencies, global catastrophic biological risk (#GCBR) is a special category of risk involving #biological #agents—whether naturally emerging or reemerging, deliberately created & released, or #laboratory engineered & escaped—..."

#COVID19
This "could lead to sudden, extraordinary, widespread disaster beyond the collective capability of national & int. orgs & the #privatesector to control."

"Global catastrophic biological risk", "transformational surveillance technologies"

#Foundations #CorporateConsolidation
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Hello 👋 new followers. Feel free to introduce yourself.

Me: A top strength of mine is “input” Others in pics.

I tweet A LOT. I tweet long threads with links to articles, with highlighted screenshots, links to others’ tweets. I hold onto info & reference past yet “futuristic”
You have to know the past to understand patterns and see possibilities as well as navigate past barriers for the future.

If you like control or boundaries, run now as I promise you I will be 🤯 for you.

If you like creativity, expression, innovation, equity, ethics, welcome.
I am going to constantly run around the world finding interesting concepts & facts, be passionate & outspoken on justice/equity, re-use old tweets to explore new facet in new thread.

I’ll shape shift & if you try to pin me down or box me in, you will be frustrated.

All me:
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Follow this ~ thread ~ of how we can help. And come join our global #gentleprotest movement...

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👀 Watch our 4min animation (made with & gifted by @WovenInk) explaining who we are, what we do & the impact our unique #gentleprotest approach to #craftivism has already had since 2009 😍👇

✨📖Read our book #HowToBeACraftivist (now in paperback & ebook in your bookshops, libraries & link here).
Full of the theory, practice, honest case studies & voices of craftivists around the world who we’ve helped create real positive change.

Signed🤓👉craftivist-collective.com/Paperback-How-…
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 10/29/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/dai…
Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science

statnews.com/2020/10/27/aki…

#science #sexism #virus
Waiting for the Help That Was Promised in Eastern Kentucky | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/news/us-journa…

#stimulus #COVID19 #help #kentucky
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So it turns out that not only is @zoom_us' #FacialRecognition #algorithm so #racist it chops black people's heads off...

..but @Twitter's image processing #algorithms are #racist too:



It's getting to the point where we need an industry reboot; if #SiliconValley genuinely wants to build '#EthicslAI', it must delete 'em all and start again. Respecting #HumanRights this time.
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So @cabinetofficeuk (@GDSTeam) has updated the #DataEthicsFramework for government and the public sector today - the first version of which was published by @MattHancock in 2018, when he was at @DCMS:
gov.uk/government/pub…

Two obvious questions:

1) Where are the published...
...ratings for all of the government & public sector data projects / programmes that have been started since 2018?

A framework that neither demands nor provides publicly visible outputs surely fails on two of its own 'overarching principles'; #transparency and #accountability...
2) Other than "consult with your team leader", what happens when a project 'fails' the framework - say a national programme that doesn't do a #DPIA, or a body that employs a #discriminatory #algorithm?

An 'ethics' framework without meaningful #consequences ain't #ethical at all.
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That this tweet exists suggests the problem is not just a general "looking the other way".

The challenge must therefore be FAR more specific, e.g. why are *US medical professional bodies* not investigating fully, and striking off anyone performing such #illegal operations?
Once made aware by citizens of conscience - don't ASSUME knowledge: lodge formal #complaints, follow up & keep copies of all correspondence - if US institutions want to maintain #ethical credibility they will act.

If not, they'll be #complicit - with no "We didn't know" excuses.
The public duty lies with people who care - it doesn't need to be many, but they must take *appropriate* action. That's not just protest, nor writing articles, nor railing about them on Twitter - but finding out which body or bodies are empowered to act.

And making sure they do.
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The seven so-called 'ethical principles' are here:

biometricsinstitute.org/ethical-princi…

Many of which vendors are already #legally required to follow, and noting the completed mess they get themselves into over "ownership" in number two... 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ ImageImage
I wonder how many of the vendors following these 'principles' *wouldn't* sell their #biometric wares to @metpoliceuk? (And not just because they failed to win a contract...)

The thing is, if your 'principles' don't meaningfully alter / inhibit behaviour, then they aren't really #principles at all.

Much less #ethical ones...
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These are the #stories of #math that we celebrate, amplify and make central to the idea of #maths as a #objective #neutral #culture-free subject. #Math can do no #harm, and the #logical “pure math” thinking of #Mathematicians is worthy of emulation. But... 1/x
2/x ... "What about pure mathematics and mathematicians who merely prove theorems? Is there any #ethical component comparable to what you find in other fields of #science?" - R. Hersh in Experiencing #Mathematics
3/x One point of view: "there's no need for #mathematicians to have a code of #ethics, because what we do matters so little that we can do whatever we like."
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Forget #Coronil. Forget #Itolizumab.
There is a new player in town for #coronavirus and #COVID19 treatment. Introducing #Zingivir @Pankajakasthuri made from some herbs and mercuric and arsenic sulfide to fight the #pandemic. Sounds too good. But there are issues.
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They claim to have tested the product for safety in animal and cell lines. However, no data shown, only media mouthing. Half of the ingredients look like they make a good sambar chutney. But the drug manufacturer claim the following 👇#herbal #pseudoscience
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In a letter 😳😳😳 the CEO of the company asks the President of India @rashtrapatibhvn to start trials and clinical studies. This was in April 2020. Now fast forward to July 2020. Let's see how things went.
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Simon touches on a key point in his first item.

As with #falsifiability in #science, in #practice '#ethics' only work in the context of a #profession or #community *from which one can be #excluded*.

Those wishing to be #trusted as #ethical must stop issuing '#principles' and...
..setting up #EthicsBoards like @Google's or private courts like @Facebook's @OversightBoard (both demonstrating how poorly #BigTech grasps basic concepts like #justice, let alone #ethics, and how both - as #sovereign powers - have utterly misconceived #community) and start to...
...genuinely #professionalise.

Not in the shitty, self-serving, #cartel-like fashion of many companies & industry bodies in tech, advertising - and yes, DP & privacy - but in broader, deeper, more #connected ways that *could* deliver the #trustworthy #institutions of the future.
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Concerned #DeKalbCounty voting citizen here.
@tedterry1 Edward “Ted” Terry is *NOT* a good choice for County Commissioner District 6
Have q’s on any of the bullets below? Ask us. #VoteBlue but not no matter who!
#GApol #GAdems
Super District 6 Commissioner
#NoVote4TedTerry
Summary:
🚧 Super 6 Commish is his back-up plan after his failed #USSenate run
👩‍❤️‍👨 Believes #nepotism is #ethical when he appoints his girlfriend
🤢 Thinks being on tv’s @QueerEye makes him a hero (check his twitter bio) #HealthCareHeroes
🏢 Wants single family homes replaced with quadplexes (except his single family home)
🌲 Has a personal bias against pine trees, in GA
🤡 Uses political antics and strategies out of 🟠1’s book
🐀 Schemes system for unemployment $$$ after resigning as Mayor
#NoEthics #Corrupt
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