Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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We're so fucked.
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern."
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https://www.europesays.com/1458715/ Lazy Sunday – Put the kettle on, stick some bread in the toaster and share with us your plans for today. #CasualUK #UnitedKingdom
is that Coventry Cathedral?
I am not sure some fedi services do I think. Would be a useful feature perhaps.
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Russell Wilson Not Expected to Play in Steelers Season Opener vs Falcons: Report https://www.newsweek.com/sports/nfl/russell-wilson-not-expected-play-steelers-season-opener-vs-falcons-report-1950282?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Person in Missouri caught H5 bird flu without animal contact https://arstechnica.com/?p=2048150 #science
@compost@regenerate.social
That too, well sometimes victims of abuse are also poor as they are exploited by the rich
@compost@regenerate.social
You can use the money to fund help and support for sex abuse victims
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#Jenin, West Bank
A dog stands on a street that was torn up by bulldozers during an Israeli raid in the centre of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty
Tell me what you see, Help,! 1965!
Thank you for your kind and supportive words
Same here, but the fact this is no longer the case shows that having money suggests a person could be devoid of morals and ethics,
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- Getting started: https://kitten.small-web.org
- Tutorials: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/
The easy deployment bit isn’t ready for public use yet but I’d be more than happy to help you with that should you need it. Good luck + looking forward to seeing your site and when it’s ready :)
So folks the moral of this story is, if you are honest and hard working but want to get in to politics you have few prospects, if you are a patheitc slimeball who is in it for yourself and no one else, you will rise the ranks.
Not really want we want from our political class, there are some good, honest MP out there who are probably held back by the system.
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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/peter-hendy-ex-network-rail-chair-threatened-firm-engineer-euston-criticism
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#21_January_2024_(Boeing_defects)
The UK's railroad minister, in his previous job, threatened to deny contracts arbitrarily to an engineering company unless it bullied a worker into ceasing to raise safety concerns. In response, the company fired him. I am not competent to judge the validity of those …
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Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
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So at some point I want to make a personal website for my academic career; who am I, where did I study, where do I work right now, what do I research, how do you get in touch with me, etc.
BUT I refuse to faff about any tools or platforms for making websites, or doing any fancy stuff whatsoever; I'm gonna code this website by hand out of HTML and CSS, and it will consist of nothing more than static text, images, links, and formatting. I refuse to "build it beautiful", blech.
This is all well and good, but I'm worried about HTTPS. My browser refuses to connect to any non-HTTPS website, and clearly I'm going to have to make it happen on my website, but unlike composing the site and getting it hosted, I have no idea what's involved in getting my website certified (as evident from the fact I don't even have the vocabulary to properly articulate what I'm talking about).
Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. (Boosts appreciated.)
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New Publication at the Open Journal of Astrophysics: "The future of cosmological likelihood-based inference: accelerated high-dimensional parameter estimation and model comparison" by Davide Piras (Université de Genève), Alicja Polanska (MSSL) , Alessio Spurio Mancini (Royal Holloway, London), Matthew A. Price(UCL) & Jason D. McEwen (UCL)
I agree, we don't always need new laws.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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