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Some changes to Google‘s AI principles.

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Information about the federal workers' resistance. Link to a Verge article with a picture of a "doge" dog on orange background.

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"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.

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Great idea - light maps for theatres. Lighting can be a barrier for folx. The link comes with a picture that shows a mind map, with bubbles of design requirements, and a few design ideas. All visual. Might benefit from a text version?

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In welche Unternehmen haben die Großspender der AfD investiert, wo sind sie leitend involviert? (VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)

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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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Accommodations are sometimes simple measures that can benefit many

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Indie Book Spotlight is one of the few big accounts that regularly posts new authors, and might be the only chance of discovery some people get. Help her out, buy a book. Send her some money on Ko-fi. If you can't do that, pass the word along.

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Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:

submitted 26 days ago • 99 comments

The deferred resignation agreement that is used to get rid of federal employees.

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Your annual reminder to donate to archive.org

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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How to make AI more climate friendly - the Chinese way

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He’s Führious.

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IMPORTANT The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline "Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year @evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

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Social Media is so much more than doomscrolling and hate. It can be a safe haven for marginalised communities

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This is really important if you use google workspace for anything sensitive or creative (client names, student grades, any original writing, etc). The embedded LLM content scraper may put you at risk even if it is apparently turned off.

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Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde

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In Sex Is a Spectrum, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social explains why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male. Bringing clarity and reason to a contentious issue, this lively book is out May 6. Preorder yours: bookshop.org/p/books/sex-...

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Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about all the fine art in the Palisades not protected inside the Getty Villa.

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New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

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Happy Covid Day, I guess.

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Listen, did you ever had a bad boss, a terrible person, at a job that you can't, for whatever reason, quit? Did you learn to delay, obfuscate, frustrate, and otherwise fuck up that person just to the line where you could keep your job? Congratulations, you have the tools to resist authoritarianism!

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Meta has repeatedly deleted our articles, including ones about Instagram's censorship and disproportionate moderation against trans people. It put a "fact check" warning on an article we did about hurricane helene AI spam proliferating on the platform www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

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Facebook’s free speech era is off to a shaky start.

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Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? Ah, yes. The Ministry of Empowerment. And here's a rager of a blog post on this: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments

Great introduction to UX reviews, useful for designing HCI assignments and walking students through practical processes

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State of these two whoppers. I live in a bit of Britain where everybody speaks Welsh apart from the English immigrants. Things are going to start getting spicy if Reform start deporting all the retirees back to Reading.

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I think it's funny how no one questioned the identity of the deeply unflattering caricature of Jeff Bezos. And I wonder how much of a role that played in getting the cartoon killed. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Great advice for academics, too. Writing is thinking is writing

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Data set alert for social and political data scientists. Spotted via @mirya.bsky.social

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Fantastic news!

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