List of easy and fast to read references for scientists to get started with #deeplearning :
https://olki.loria.fr/blog/dl4scientists/
#mastodon is rich of people / thinkers who analyze & reason about privacy, the role of online platforms, data, society: @Calimaq @nitot @Framatophe to name a few.
Note that nothing proves that these accounts are actually owned by the real / known / IRL personalities - apart from your trust in their nodes admin (mamot.fr & framapiaf.org); and that is perfect, it should stay like that, it's a pretty good compromise btw privacy threats & anonymity.
The OLKi project http://lue.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/open-language-and-knowledge-citizens-olki is an interdisciplinary project that aims at making AI research on language data more open, transparent, ethical, explainable and respectful for citizens