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New 📄: Rights for Those Who Unwillingly, Unknowingly and Unidentifiably Compute!

People's devices are silently co-opted for collective computation which promises data confidentiality. But what happens when ppl don't agree with the computation's ends? osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4ugx 🧵

> Since Pines' Demon is predicted to play an important role in a wide range of phenomena, such as in particular kinds of and , the work has important implications for material .

> Usually in science, a "demon" is a hypothetical opponent for scientists and philosophers to argue against in a thought experiment, but Pines' Demon is quite different.
It's actually a type of – a discrete unit of waves among rippling through a population of electrons . Plasmons have been described as the analogue of an sound in a classical gas.

Have Observed a 'Demon' Plasmon in Strontium Ruthenate
sciencealert.com/physicists-ha

@freemo
And the last thing you'd be thinking back then it was if you're photogenic or not.

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Thank you mastodon people. You just made me win a dinner.
When I told my friend I was going to post this here she asked me not to do it, because "it would start a war". So, I bet with her a proper dinner (not pizza or burgers) that this post would have 2 comments or less. :blobhappy: :kirby_happy: 😋

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'New Scientist' is carrying an interesting article this week on gravitational memory, which also has an electromagnetic counterpart.

There are tests planned using "short pulses into very long antennas".

Some background here:

helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/c

#physics #cosmology

@piou
I've been seeing your posts for some time now, and there's one thing I feel obliged to clarify:

Les mastodontes ne sont pas des mammouths. 😃

@trinsec
That's why The Brave New World needs the 'gammas' and the 'deltas'. 😒
Just saying... 😏

@freemo @jimvernon

"The promiscuity between banks and tax administrations is now so complete and shameless that they no longer are able to hide it."
(quoting a journalist friend of mine)

My comment was: "As I see it, money as debt can only be advantageous to the creditors, right?"

Disclaimer 1: I'm not an economist, I only took two semester courses in economics during the first two years of my undergraduate degree.

Disclaimer 2: It is not my wish to start a discussion about 'capitalism' vs 'socialism'. 😅

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Elliot Reid, Peter Sellers and Benny Goodman arrive in Washington to perform at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, April 1962.

@Pat @freemo
Is that recursive recursive logic? Or a gambit? Because it's making me nervous. 😅

@freemo
"1) I havent seen the barbie move"

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The #BBC Proms is underway and French horn player Felix Klieser will be making his debut on August 2 playing Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4. The German virtuoso performer was born without arms, so he plays the instrument with his left foot. He spoke to the BBC's Access All podcast about his exceptional career.

bbc.com/news/disability-663347

#Music #ClassicalMusic #DisabilityPrideMonth

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@svetlyak40wt

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