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Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett flipboard.video/videos/watch/0

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@chrismessina have you managed to find someone on Threads worth following? So far I'm aware only of this list, but these are really people I don't care about.
fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-a
Any other references at all?

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Crystal Lee

🚨 JOB ALERT FOR THREE ACADEMIC POSITIONS @ MIT 🚨
My department at MIT, Comparative Media Studies / Writing, is hiring! Two are at the assistant level (applications opened yesterday), and the third is a senior level position (applications will open August 1).

Apps (assistant only) due Aug 30!

Apps must be made online at apply.interfolio.com/147571.

For search updates and FAQ, see cmsw.mit.edu/cms-cohort-search

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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

The number of cases of Parkinson’s disease almost doubled in five years, likely due to the use of toxic pesticides. The researcher involved in these studies is convinced it’s basically a man-made disease.

dutchnews.nl/2024/06/pesticide

thelancet.com/action/showPdf?p

“Parkinson's disease is the world's fastest growing brain disorder, and exposure to environmental toxicants is the principal reason.”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/382176

And yet here we are, delaying the phase-out of glyphosate, and continuing with the illegal use of toxic chemicals in the Dutch bulb-growing industry 😒

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The Politics Desk

Trump ran up national debt twice as much as Biden: new analysis
axios.com/2024/06/24/trump-bid

Posted into 2024 White House @2024-white-house-ElectionCentral

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mhoye

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, presenting several choices.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

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Indivisible

Our movement didn’t exist in 2016. But we’re here now and we’re ready to stop Trump again in November. We rely on grassroots supporters to power the tools that will defeat the leader of the GOP and MAGA extremists across the country. Please pitch in to help fund our organizing work. secure.actblue.com/donate/stop

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Axios

Parents around the globe are banding together to keep their kids away from smartphones t.co/Xrtnc2AjKl

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Woolfhound

@ddg @DaveMWilburn @argv_minus_one @dangoodin if you’re looking at your vote as a definitive statement of your values then every choice is bad. But it’s actually just a pragmatic choice between the options. Your values are expressed in far more important ways than on a ballot.

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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote

@ddg @dangoodin @DaveMWilburn @argv_minus_one

on the contrary voting dem is stepping away from authoritarianism

that's all a vote can ever do: "society in this direction" or "society in that direction"

anyone who goes "society right here or right now or i'm not voting" is simply helping what you dislike most win. "society right here right now" is never an option. for anyone of any political persuasion. it's just naivete and immaturity to lead with that proposition

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Dave Wilburn :donor:

@ddg @argv_minus_one @dangoodin I'll agree that it's a shit position to be in, but that's as far as I'll go. Complaining that it should be easier is a crap argument. Democracy isn't easy. It's hard. It requires citizens to balance multiple interests and take affirmative responsibility. Abandoning that responsibility to fascists doesn't make you more ideologically pure. It makes you culpable for whatever happens next.

Corrupt authoritarians don't come to power exclusively under their own steam. They come to power because too much of the population couldn't be bothered to give a shit.

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OpenFest

Join #OpenFest2024, submit a talk, workshop or exhibit at cfp.openfest.org/

When: November 2 and 3, 2024

Where: Sofia Tech Park, John Atanasov Innovation Forum

#OpenFest #opensource

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@beep

For a moment, let's set aside those directors and shareholders that will never grow beyond "firing people with AI as an excuse increases stock prices". Hopefully customers will ultimately remind them that their job is to make satisfying products.

I think the more important thing in this article is that it tells 3 stories of how people collaborate with AI to write. Two of these stories are negative, one is positive. To me this suggests that Miller and Cowart need to take control of the change.

Recently, I worked on an article on collaborative writing where we reviewed different approaches to it. Only few involved AI, but the important thing is to be aware of the potential different phenomena in writing and decide which ones are worth our time, and which aren't.
Here's the article: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-4228

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Indivisible

2️⃣ days until the start of our Weekend of Action! On the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ended Roe, we’re hosting events across the nation to remind voters that Trump and Republicans are an existential threat to our reproductive freedoms and our democracy. Please join us: indivisible.org/resource/major

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Raph Koster

A lovely Game Developer article popped up about my GDC talk! gamedeveloper.com/design/raph-

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Baldur Bjarnason

Visual Studio Code extensions are much less secure than browser extensions or even npm packages: baldurbjarnason.com/2024/vscod

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A team at the University of Stuttgart is experimenting with a new CAPTCHA challenge based around a word-in-context task. If curious and have ~5 minutes to put aside, give this short survey a try and share your feedback.
semantic-nlp-captcha.de/study

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World News Bot

‘Sovereign flex’: How a tribe defied a US state with a cannabis superstore aljazeera.com/features/longfor #News

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Everything you need to know about Donald Trump: the slide with a summary of the collected evidence for his conviction in NY. Source:
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

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Janet Vertesi

"Ethics" is not the only problem with generative A.I. -- *epistemology* is broken too.

My latest for Public Books: in the face of #google telling us to eat rocks, we bought an encyclopedia.

publicbooks.org/the-encycloped

Companion blog post here:

optoutproject.net/what-is-true

#AI #ethics #EthicsInAI #knowledgeinfrastructures #libraries

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