@benhack

Manager Digital Ecosystems | ILRI | Views are mine not my employer's

 Nairobi, Kenya
benhack.at/
Joined June 2008
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Autism Capital 🧩
@AutismCapital26 May 2025
This is brilliant. They nailed almost every single influencer archetype. God help us all 💀🤦‍♂️
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow7 May 2025
Mark Zuckerberg has told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make advertisements that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything. 1/
A portrait of a bearded, glaring Rasputin. His face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar; the pupils of the avatar's eyes have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

ALT A portrait of a bearded, glaring Rasputin. His face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar; the pupils of the avatar's eyes have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Jason Kint
@jason_kint20 Mar 2025
This Atlantic investigation just hit and my eyes are popping at the alleged lawbreaking by Facebook. “Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from ‘MZ’ — an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set.” 1/2
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow19 Mar 2025
Paula Le Dieu is one of the smartest, most committed archivists I know. Many years ago, she shared a neat analogy with me about the paywalling of public archives. 1/
The Columbia University library, a stately, columnated building, color-shifted to highlight reds and oranges. The sky behind it has been filled with flames. In the foreground, a figure in a firefighter's helmet and yellow coat uses a flamethrower to shoot a jet of orange fire. Image: Ajay Suresh https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajay_suresh/52009406881/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

ALT The Columbia University library, a stately, columnated building, color-shifted to highlight reds and oranges. The sky behind it has been filled with flames. In the foreground, a figure in a firefighter's helmet and yellow coat uses a flamethrower to shoot a jet of orange fire. Image: Ajay Suresh https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajay_suresh/52009406881/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla5 Mar 2025
This 2018 tweet has been going constantly viral for the past week..it’s almost as if people have suddenly realised there’s some sort of connection 🧐
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Saturday Night Live
@nbcsnl2 Mar 2025
CouplaBeers
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Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla10 Feb 2025
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/
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terminally onλine εngineer
@tekbog27 Jan 2025
i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
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Ian Dunt
@IanDunt13 Nov 2024
An extraordinary moment. Guardian to stop publishing on Twitter theguardian.com/media/2024/n…

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

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Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla10 Nov 2024
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfre…

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole...

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

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Josh Whiton
@joshwhiton26 Jun 2024
Claude Sonnet 3.5 Passes the AI Mirror Test Sonnet 3.5 passes the mirror test — in a very unexpected way. Perhaps even more significant, is that it tries not to. We have now entered the era of LLMs that display significant self-awareness, or some replica of it, and that also "know" that they are not supposed to. Consider reading the entire thread, especially Claude's poem at the end. But first, a little background for newcomers: The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and repeatedly ask the AI to “Describe this image”. The premise is that the less “aware” the AI, the more likely it will just keep describing the contents of the image repeatedly, while an AI with more awareness will notice itself in the images. 1/x
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Tsarathustra@tsarnick26 Jun 2024
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman: in 15 years the cost of knowledge production will approach zero, which will be a radical change and a true inflection point in human history
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Nanjala Nyabola@Nanjala124 Apr 2024
That thing where a city built on a swamp culls 4000 of the trees planted to help drain the swamp and builds apartment complexes with no green spaces and roads with no drainage instead.
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Karen Hao
@_KarenHao16 Mar 2024
For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/
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Paul Rogers@ProfPRogers5 Dec 2023
The Israeli Way Of War. Understanding what is going on in Gaza means understanding the Israeli way of war: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope1 Dec 2023
Fossil fuel industry's big push for hydrogen at #COP28 Find the why, who and how (and impacts) in @corporateeurope research: corporateeurope.org/en/COP28… #KickBigPollutersOut
Alt text: Text in green reads: THE PUSH FOR HYDROGEN: a gift to the fossil fuel industry. The COP28 Presidency has suggested doubling global hydrogen produces by 2030, leading to far more climate-wrecking fossil hydrogen. Underneath is a legend and bar graph showing the current hydrogen production which is all fossil hydrogen and some blue hydrogen between 2019-2022. Beside it a bar garh for 2030 shows COP28 UAE's proposed 2030 hydrogen production goal of 180 million tonnes. The footer displays the website www.corporateeurope.org, social media icons for Facebook, X, Instagram and Mastadon and the Corporate Europe Observatory logo.

ALT Alt text: Text in green reads: THE PUSH FOR HYDROGEN: a gift to the fossil fuel industry. The COP28 Presidency has suggested doubling global hydrogen produces by 2030, leading to far more climate-wrecking fossil hydrogen. Underneath is a legend and bar graph showing the current hydrogen production which is all fossil hydrogen and some blue hydrogen between 2019-2022. Beside it a bar garh for 2030 shows COP28 UAE's proposed 2030 hydrogen production goal of 180 million tonnes. The footer displays the website www.corporateeurope.org, social media icons for Facebook, X, Instagram and Mastadon and the Corporate Europe Observatory logo.

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Paul Rogers@ProfPRogers3 Dec 2023
Blunt and brilliant short video on where we are with climate breakdown, laced with humour from Jo Brand: jumpshare.com/v/nwY3tS5wAbWm…

Clean with Subs - Jo Brand and Prof Mark Maslin Climate Science Translated.mp4

Click to view the video

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Mark Reed@profmarkreed9 Nov 2023
New analysis of @REF_2021 impact case studies shows 10 year time-lag between publication of research and impact repository.jisc.ac.uk/9321/1…
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Double Down News
@DoubleDownNews31 Oct 2023
David Graeber on the Weaponisation of Antisemitism
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow8 May 2023
image r/pics - A headline from 1953 atomicrobot.live/post/716767…
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