tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@Daojoan
Seems a bit too far to me, just go back to the time when images still took some time to load one by one and you'll have a good compromise.
@Gina
The same people who are currently simply accepting that the content is harmless; of course there are dangers but they are not fundamentally _new_, and we solve it the same way we've always done it: by writing rules about what's allowed, and rules about how to object if the empowered ones make bad decisions.
Of course the details then become incredibly tricky and tedious to decide, but that's more manageable because it makes it a large number of small problems.
Also I think it's always better to explicitly have a right than to just get away with acting like you have it: currently there's not really much formal protection for LGTB status information in many parts of the world, just the fact you'll have to offer Google very good money to get it.
@zipkid
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this is a really interesting example of the toxic positivity that is pervasive, even in my own writing. everybody wants to have a CTA and a solution at the end of their talk. nobody wants to write a thing that just says "dang this is a big intractable problem" and kind of shrug at the end and look at the audience and say "what do *you* think we should do?" when that is often the state of the art and further claims are unjustified by the evidence
@bitprophet
No, everyone wants the Cherenkov Telescope Array!
@glyph
> If I ever have boys, they'll be dangerous men, they'll smile at dogs and children and be tonic to friends
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More than "Deep Fake": Draft for "Digital Violence" Law Presented
With three new criminal offenses, civil claims, and a significant expansion, Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig wants to take decisive action digitally.
#Datenschutz #Deepfake #DigitalServicesAct #IPAdressen #Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz #Netzpolitik #news
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🇺🇦☺️ Car drivers showed a video of the Defense Forces ground drone letting their car through.
Robot carries provisions to the front. On the outskirts of Dobropillya.
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HUGE error by the @ec.europa.eu. Big tech must tell the public everything about energy, water and other used resources in their data centers.
They use our common resources and we must know how they use it to take informed decisions.
It's time to #resistAI
#AI #KI #dkpol #StopBigTech
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions?CMP=share_btn_url
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To go along with news of 3 senior execs leaving OpenAI is this story about why some of its investors are unhappy with Altman’s leadership.
• He doesn’t have equity in OpenAI, so tries to get the company to invest or purchase services from startups he’s invested in to monetize his CEO role.
• He is ambivalent about an IPO and some investors also don’t think he’s the right fit to be CEO of a public company.
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Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter
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"Fires used to die down or even die out at night as temperatures dropped and humidity increased, but that’s happening less often.
It’s not just the clock that is getting extended. The calendar is too. The number of days with fire-prone weather increased by 44%, which effectively added 26 days over the past half century."
https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-climate-change-hotter-drier-maui-los-angeles-42ecbce3440d8d387a5617cc2d1e65a8
#wildfires
@kallekn
I praktiken är det typ redan 13 årsgräns på alla sociala medier, för Folkhälsomyndigheten rekommenderar sen 2024 att föräldrar ska
> Välj åldersanpassade appar, program eller spel som inte innehåller reklam, algoritmstyrning eller okänt eller olämpligt innehåll.
vilket typ innefattar allt utom kanske några icke-federerade insatser riktade mot små barn.
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Short of cash railway chooses most expensive way to decarbonise*
https://railcolornews.com/2026/04/17/romania-orders-12-hydrogen-trains-siemens-mireo-plus-h-to-enter-service/
* - assuming it’s even green hydrogen
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It’s hard to convey the current state of things in Minneapolis right now, in part because we ourselves don’t really know. Abductions are •way• down. We’ve seen close to zero of the random, chaotic smash-and-grab kidnappings ICE was perpetrating in Dec and Jan. We still see their vehicles. There are still deportation flights — they •are• still taking people, albeit it in a less visible and maybe more targeted way.
And…
@grimalkina
Regarding giving advice: in undergrad one person my study group was having a conflict with their family, and asked us for advice. I was convinced that they should go meet the family and talk it out.
Some days later I heard the outcome: the talk had gone badly to the point that this student locked themselves in the toilet and called the police for help getting out.
I've not been terribly confident about advice on how strangers will behave since.
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The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what ECB board member Isabel Schnabel memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature
#climate #iran #us #trump #oil #energy #inflation #economics
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Maine became the first state in the US on Tuesday to call for a temporary halt to the construction of large data centers, as the power-hungry facilities driven by AI demand are straining local electric grids.
A bill was passed by both legislative chambers and now heads to Democratic Governor Janet Mills. If she signs off on it, it will become the first statewide moratorium impacting the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-maine-pushes-for-first-statewide-pause-on-ai-data-centers/a-76784015
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A jury finds that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/livenation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-antitrust-trial-rcna273714
http://mediagazer.com/260415/p19#a260415p19
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"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]
Accordingly, this article does not provide a definition of the term “AI” but rather explores various ways in which the idea of AI has been used to organize how people understand our world, allocate resources, and relate to each other."
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Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
