@paulwermer@sfba.socialThis is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThis is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFree idea: somebody should make a periodic publication that reports on current events without bias or influence.
A newspaper, if you will.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTitans GM: Must remove Chiefs bias in HC search https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47528974/mike-borgonzi-remove-chiefs-bias-titans-coach-search
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI tried taking a selfie with a wide angle lens but it keeps coming out like this
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.”
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets,
targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as its inaugural “media offender of the week.”
It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight against the First Amendment
-- what Trump, in his first term, labeled “fake news.”
The Republi…
@smashtie@mas.toThe problem with downhill skiing, not usually mentioned by the commentators, is the "bib bias". The best athletes get a random bib from 5-15, which is the sweet spot: surface snow has been scraped, but not broken up, and prior runners have set a line and given critical information about where the bumps are to team mates. So your chance of winning if you are not top 10 is significantly lower. Which seems a bit unfair.
@servelan@newsie.socialNike probed by Trump appointee over claims of bias against white workers | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/2/5/nike-probed-by-trump-appointee-over-claims-of-bias-against-white-workers?traffic_source=rss
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Steady-#Klimacrew
Wie neutral sind KI-Systeme bei der medizinischen Diagnostik?
Eine Studie zeigt, dass selbst auf Expertenniveau arbeitende Systeme #Krankheiten übersehen und dabei ma…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/rfk-jr-anti-christian-bias-hhs-survey-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p176#a251202p176
@cdarwin@c.imHouse Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program.
Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change
—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations
—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.
But rather than counter the allegations…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic open sources a method to score AI model political evenhandedness; Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66% (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/anthropic-bot-bias-data
@anneroth@systemli.socialIch schätze, dass einige etwas übertrieben finden, wie sehr ich darauf rumreite, dass #DigitaleSouveränität ein problematischer Begriff ist.
Großartiger Text dazu, und aktuell zum Iran:
"..the current wave pushing digital sovereignty as the key to ending dependency on American and Chinese technology is negligent of its Eurocentric bias. Despite democrati…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI notice that the new "Media Bias" website that El Cheato is pushing is feeding tracking information on those making reports to Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Google, and others.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe White House launches a media bias tracker on its site for news reports the president disagrees with, citing outlets like The Washington Post, CNN, and more (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/28/trump-media-criticism/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThe 2026 Contract Reality: George Pickens vs. CeeDee Lamb https://insidethestar.com/the-2026-contract-reality-george-pickens-vs-ceedee-lamb
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Normalcy bias: it's not cool to overreact.
https://www.okdoomer.io/its-not-cool-to-overreact/
saved 2023-08-22 https://
@doktrock@toad.socialOf interest to experimental petrologists, upcoming virtual workshop "to discuss and plan to address systematic bias in predictive models caused by the way trace element partitioning data is currently published." #geology #geochemistry ⚒️
@annsev@troet.cafe
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Companies are bureaucracies, therefore companies are AIs. So are governments, civil service departments, universities, charities, local councils, sports clubs and hobby societies. The world has been running on AI for thousands of years."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/artif
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialKönnte confirmation bias sein, aber irgendwie häuft sich bei mir der Eindruck, dass Software schlechter wird. Excel ist langsamer als früher, wenn es um große Tabellen oder Autovervollständigung geht. Die App der Badischen Zeitung muss häufiger neu gestartet werden. Pixums Fotobuch-Software vergisst regelmäßig die Einstellung für das Grid. Usw.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhite House launches new 'media bias' tracker on site (Ashleigh Fields/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/white-house-launches-new-media-bias-tracker-on-site/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p51#a251129p51
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThis BBC article talks about the "class ceiling" in the arts, with both structural obstacles and prejudice against those who are not white and middle class. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql4gvrxdq7o
However, it fails to address the assumption that arts are luxury…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWriting unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThe Hidden Bias That Controls Every Decision You Make
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAl9qHb3FI
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe White House's "media bias" page has "Media Offender of the Week" and "Hall of Shame" sections, with CBS News making the inaugural Media Offenders list (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-media-offender…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… yeah, I always feel awkward boosting things that might give them an 11ty bias but someone in the community might want to pitch in!
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @annsev@troet.cafe„Media Offenders“ - dazu sollten nicht jene JournalistInnen, die Trump wegen ihrer Berichterstattung erzürnen, stehen, sondern die Darth #Trump Andministration selbst.
Sie attackiert in einem fort die #Medienberichterstattung, verunglimpft und bedroht Medienschaffende.
Trump und seine…
@MolemanPeter@neuromatch.socialThis is a good example of survivor bias:
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/david-cameron-interview-prostate-cancer-kmtc2zj78
@servelan@newsie.socialHe took parental leave to care for a newborn with his spouse
Judge denies D.C. request to dismiss gay police captain's anti-bias lawsuit
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/01/23/judge-denies-d-c-request-to-dismiss-gay-police-captains-anti-bias-lawsuit/
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@detondev@social.linux.pizzatdor
@ruario@vivaldi.netBut in all seriousness, take it with a pinch of salt and check with the vendor directly if you really care. Checking this stuff is hard.
Honestly, at best I can really only say, "I *think* the others have not updated but I may be wrong."
Also expect bias when I talk about competitors [and expect the same from representatives of other browsers].
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Europeans’ ‘psychological bias’ to climate change risks slowing down progress, warns study"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at …
@teledyn@mstdn.caI love Cosmology. Nothing is more worthless than last year's textbook. Especially on the basics. It keeps the field humble.
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology – II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: the BBC plans to expand its editorial standards committee, diluting conservative board member Robbie Gibb's influence, and create a deputy DG position (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov
@cdarwin@c.imHere is a White House website falsely asserting that military personnel CANNOT refuse illegal orders
And falsely accusing Democrats of asserting Trump has issued illegal orders -- in a video which doesn't mention Trump
The felon doth protest too much
https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaTestar hordes bias - spännande att se resultatet
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/28/trump-media-criticism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p46#a251129p46
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageSpatially-informed transformers: Injecting geostatistical covariance biases into self-attention for spatio-temporal forecasting
Yuri Calleo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17696 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17696
arXiv:2512.17696v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The modeling of high-dimensional spatio-temporal processes presents a fundamental dichotomy between the probabilistic rigor of classical geostatistics and the flexible, high-capacity representations of deep learning. While Gaussian processes offer theoretical consistency and exact uncertainty quantification, their prohibitive computational scaling renders them impractical for massive sensor networks. Conversely, modern transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling but inherently lack a geometric inductive bias, treating spatial sensors as permutation-invariant tokens without a native understanding of distance. In this work, we propose a spatially-informed transformer, a hybrid architecture that injects a geostatistical inductive bias directly into the self-attention mechanism via a learnable covariance kernel. By formally decomposing the attention structure into a stationary physical prior and a non-stationary data-driven residual, we impose a soft topological constraint that favors spatially proximal interactions while retaining the capacity to model complex dynamics. We demonstrate the phenomenon of ``Deep Variography'', where the network successfully recovers the true spatial decay parameters of the underlying process end-to-end via backpropagation. Extensive experiments on synthetic Gaussian random fields and real-world traffic benchmarks confirm that our method outperforms state-of-the-art graph neural networks. Furthermore, rigorous statistical validation confirms that the proposed method delivers not only superior predictive accuracy but also well-calibrated probabilistic forecasts, effectively bridging the gap between physics-aware modeling and data-driven learning.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe French rightwing party UDR launches a parliamentary inquiry into the "neutrality, workings and financing" of state TV and radio amid accusations of bias (Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeWhat is bias but the broken autoimmune response of cisheteropatriarchy?
@MolemanPeter@neuromatch.socialRE: https://neuromatch.social/@MolemanPeter/115604657740821359
Survivor bias in this case is: only men that survived after screening report this and not the men that died despite the screening (sorry for the rather cynical way of wording). In additi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLargest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-doj-investigating-apparent/?id=129340693&entryId=129600588&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_c_3days_filter-2078,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_c_trending-1851&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_b_7days_filter-2077,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p142#a260127p142
@cdarwin@c.imAlarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.
@servelan@newsie.socialThe toy aisle is still full of gender bias. Here's how to navigate it these holidays
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-toy-aisle-full-gender-bias.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC board member Shumeet Banerji resigns, saying he was cut out of discussions that led to the resignation of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov
@primonatura@mstdn.social"The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods"
#News #Climate #ClimateChange
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaGjorde jobbets interaktiva AI utbildning. OM AI vore så smart som de säger har de antagligen inte använt AI för att ta fram underlaget. Först kommer användningsområden som att ex 'analysera saker en inte förstår' senare kommer varningen att AI inte kan värdera svar, att den har bias den inte är medveten om, att den kan hallucinera och att den bara jobbar med sannolikhet - inte förståelse. SEN kommer områden för användning som i anställningsintervjuer, lönesamtal och i framtaganden av…
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSupreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-mississippi-racial-bias-jury-2ad7c6c707471ec891eeee66decb4c1b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p71#a251215p71
@cdarwin@c.imDays after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Ali Javanmardi, VOA's Persian-language service advisor, is accused of censoring coverage of Iran's exiled crown prince due to a personal political bias (Laura Kelly/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5701358-voa-persian…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/5]:
- Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization a...
Haoyue Bai, Gregory Canal, Xuefeng Du, Jeongyeol Kwon, Robert Nowak, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09158
- Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA
Galip \"Umit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12118 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/111962593972369958
- HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs
Sun, Que, {\AA}rrestad, Loncar, Ngadiuba, Luk, Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112370274737558603
- On the Identification of Temporally Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence
Li, Shen, Zheng, Cai, Song, Gong, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15325 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112511890051553111
- Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications
Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112517547424098076
- Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric
Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03735 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113089789682783135
- Low-Rank Filtering and Smoothing for Sequential Deep Learning
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Nathanael Bosch, Agustinus Kristiadi, Philipp Hennig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113283021321510736
- Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113367101100828901
- Fairness via Independence: A (Conditional) Distance Covariance Framework
Ruifan Huang, Haixia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113587817648503815
- Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113683924322164777
- Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
Ishank Juneja, Carlee Joe-Wong, Osman Ya\u{g}an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392622871057
- Towards Human-Guided, Data-Centric LLM Co-Pilots
Evgeny Saveliev, Jiashuo Liu, Nabeel Seedat, Anders Boyd, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10321 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392688054204
- Regularized Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization
Shengyu Feng, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00277
- Generating Samples to Probe Trained Models
Eren Mehmet K{\i}ral, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113984059089245671
- On Agnostic PAC Learning in the Small Error Regime
Julian Asilis, Mikael M{\o}ller H{\o}gsgaard, Grigoris Velegkas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114000974082372598
- Preconditioned Inexact Stochastic ADMM for Deep Model
Shenglong Zhou, Ouya Wang, Ziyan Luo, Yongxu Zhu, Geoffrey Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023667639951005
- On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference
Wang, Liu, Chen, Light, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023688225233656
- How to use score-based diffusion in earth system science: A satellite nowcasting example
Randy J. Chase, Katherine Haynes, Lander Ver Hoef, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114516300594057680
- PEAR: Equal Area Weather Forecasting on the Sphere
Hampus Linander, Christoffer Petersson, Daniel Persson, Jan E. Gerken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114572963019603744
- Train Sparse Autoencoders Efficiently by Utilizing Features Correlation
Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Daniil Gavrilov, Nikita Balagansky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114589956040892075
- A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
Umit Yigit Basaran, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Basak Guler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114658421178857085
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