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Shruti Das

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  • This is a strong foundation for legal frameworks that support cocreation and citizen science.
    The Wikipedia Test. A free, easy-to-use rubric to help… | by Wikimedia Foundation Policy | Wikimedia Foundation Policy | Jun, 2025 | Medium
  • You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism
    You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism - YouTube
  • It is an internal quality of wholeness, born of self-sufficiency and an embodied sense of alignment.
    13 things I know about Shame - by Evan Hu - Wrinkly Figs
  • acknowledged that people may be skeptical of its findings because it was funded by Beyond Meat. Industry-funded nutrition research tends to end up with results that are more favorable to the industry than research without industry funding. But with limited federal dollars for nutrition research, it’s often the only way such studies are conducted, Dr. Gardner said.
    Is Fake Meat Better for You Than Real Meat? - The New York Times
  • Do code reviews differently. Instead of just checking if the code works, start a conversation with your team. What other approaches did they consider? Why did they pick this one? Make understanding the process as important as the end result.
    New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code | N’s Blog
  • Maybe finding out that someone is in our database might not be that sensitive. But finding out the value of a specific field might be problematic! In this case, we can adapt the definition of DP, and have the two databases differ only in this field for a single individual.
    Why not differential privacy? - Ted is writing things
  • Cummings and Desai argue that state-of-the-art machine learning models do not meet the GDPR’s standard: “most recommender systems (and many other types of machine learning models) memoize [emphasis added] individual data entries as they are trained, and thus are not sufficiently anonymized to be GDPR compliant.
    Differential Privacy: Issues for Policymakers
  • The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) has stood the test of time somewhat better. It allows for the release of information about students (high school grades or college discipline records, say) without consent: after the removal of all personally identifiable information provided that the educational agency or institution or other party has made a reasonable determination that a student’s identity is not personally identifiable, whether through single or multiple releases, and taking into account other reasonably available information
    Differential Privacy: Issues for Policymakers
  • But the prodigal tech bro’s redemption arc is so quick and smooth it’s barely a road bump
    The Prodigal Techbro - The Conversationalist
  • For reasonable doubt, you'll need show that C2PA's metadata can be easily forged and the metadata is unreliable. (If Narayen's attorneys are smart, they'll reference the Nov 28 CAI webinar on YouTube (from 16:37 to 17:32) where DataTrails explicitly demonstrates how C2PA is easy to forge with a few simple clicks. DataTrail's solution? They authenticate using non-C2PA technology. This shows that other experts also realize that C2PA doesn't work for validation, tamper detection, establishing provenance, or providing authentication.)
    C2PA's Worst Case Scenario - The Hacker Factor Blog
  • While the invasion has accelerated digitalization, it also threatens to upend it. By the end of 2022, the total cost of repairing Ukraine’s telecommunications sector, damaged by Russian attacks, was estimated at $1.79 billion
    Approaches to Digital Public Infrastructure in the Global South
  • what would mean that the the complex and dynamic US economy becomes something more similar to Saudi or Norway, where one industry is everything
    Broligarchy's Faustian Deal - by Agustin Rossi
  • Most importantly, remember, the status quo isn’t worth protecting. It’s so easy to be in reaction, on the defensive, fighting for the world we had yesterday. Fight for something better, something we haven’t seen yet, something you have to invent. Find a thousand collaborators. Include people you disagree with. Meet division with imagination.
    Thoughts for Inauguration Day - by Jennifer Pahlka
  • What kind of standards should apply to non-English content, and how can these standards differ according to different languages?
    The Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation