Joseph P. @tonic@qoto.org

hay, blind Twitter hive mind. Do we know anyone doing accessibility at Tompson Reuters, specifically working with Westlaw? There's a very, very frustrating bug in Westlaw search which is impeding legal research by blind lawyers and accademics, and TR support doesn't care.

Open AI is hiring a Killswitch Engineer - do you know anyone that has the required qualifications ? #hiring #openai #gpt #ai #meme

@emptywheel bringing the facts, and nailing the CJR/Gerth abomination to them

"We know that after Trump’s efforts to exploit dirt from Ukraine failed and Joe Biden became President, Russia expanded its invasion of Ukraine, trying to achieve by force what it attempted to achieve by coercing Trump’s “free” campaign manager and his personal attorney."

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/02/24/wink-where-jeff-gerths-no-there-there-in-the-russian-investigation-went/

hey there folks, i'm soliciting feedback on this this career planner app : https://app.brancher.ai/apps/4848e83b-e686-4dc0-8d4c-ffcc0d934f1e it matches popular "personality types" with careers and gives you loads of advice. I'm not a big fan of personality types, or business-school style things like this, but if you like self-assessments , would you kindly consider testing the app out and giving feedback ? #career #self #assessment #app #gpt #ai #free #help #hr #it #beta #test

Good on the folks at the Plain Dealer, both for making this decision and the way they announced it. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

If you get spot flea treatments for your pets... please don't let them swim in a lake.

It'll kill all the creatures in the lake, or a lot of them.

Appalling outbreak in the USA: contaminated bone grafts made by #Aziyo Biologics using cells from an 80-year-old man with apparent undiagnosed tuberculosis infected at least 87 patients, at least three of whom later died of TB.

Regenerative medicine has vast promise, but also potential dangers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605268/#bib10

In 2014 a French weather 'forecast for the year 2050' was broadcast to show the seriousness of global heating.

The forecast came true in 2022 already.

"Block, don't engage." - The mantra I remind myself of after realizing my phone's predictive text suggests "all the way off" after I type "fuck."

Republicans in Iowa are pushing a bill to roll back child labor protections.

It would allow kids as young as 14 to work certain jobs in meatpacking plants.

What if…and hear me out…we paid adult workers a living wage and gave them benefits instead of hiring children to work?

People who are annoyed that artificial intelligence makes a lot of stuff up and is often wrong and super certain about being right are going to be very annoyed when they meet humans.

Reportedly repression forces have been shooting at another antiauthoritarian feminist demo in Nazi Abad, southern Tehran.

Opposition to wind power and conspiracy theories are related? Who could have guessed?

Thanks to the research team around C. Obvious, PhD at the We-Sorta-Knew-But-Just-Wanted-to-Check-Institute in Tübingen! 🤭

No, seriously: Thanks for that research by Winter et al at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany and for making it #OpenAccess. This is important! ❤️ 💪

Paper 👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01164-w

Article 👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/the-moon-landing-was-faked-and-wind-farms-are-bad/

Master in chemical nanoengineering (theory + experiment)

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