Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I switched to Linux a few months ago, I use Linux Mint and even made it a dual boot, but I've literally not had to use windows at all.
https://www.linuxmint.com/

Mint was easy to install and has a very friendly and active support forum
https://forums.linuxmint.com/

It's super similar to Windows, to the point that if you press the windows button on your keyboard and type "excel" it brings up the open office equivalent

KAFKAESQUE: Students at Emory University built an AI study tool. They pitched it to the university at an entrepreneurship competition. They won "grand prize" and $10,000 to build the tool. They built the tool.

The school's Honor Council suspended them for cheating and for building API support into the tool, which is what they pitched

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher #openai #genai #ai #aisafety

BREAKING: Israeli officials seize AP equipment, cut live feed citing new media law https://t.co/OwFQc29ot5

Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory

*puts on family violence policy hat*

*puts on IT hat*

*puts on medical ethics hat*

*puts on data analyst hat*

*puts on anarchist hat*

10 more days to apply! Postdoc position: Working on fair AI and interested to combine normative and empirical research? Come work with me other Leiden colleagues on fair educational assessment in the age of AI.

Deadline May 31st.
For more details:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q2/14810-postdoc-position-for-project-fair-educational-assessment-in-the-age-of-ai-fair-assess

@academicchatter @dutchacademics @politicalscience @histodons @philosophy

Microplastics content in human testicles already at 0.03% by weight.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#microplastics #plastics #pollution

Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered feature for Windows 11 called 'Recall,' which records everything you do on your PC and lets you search through your historical activities.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-recall-ai-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

🚨 The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas leaders, for crimes against humanity.

Foreign Secretary David Cameron must now resign over his complicity in Israeli war crimes, which the UK Government has ignored clear and overwhelming evidence of throughout the last 7 months.

Smoking Fentanyl Linked to Toxic Brain Damage in First Reported Case https://www.sciencealert.com/smoking-fentanyl-linked-to-toxic-brain-damage-in-first-reported-case #science

The Latest | France and Belgium support ICC request for arrest warrants of Israel and Hamas leaders

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/israel-ap-hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-ebrahim-raisi-b2548506.html

Government must cooperate with ICC Netanyahu arrest warrants – and end arms sales to Israel now!
https://labouroutlook.org/2024/05/20/government-must-cooperate-with-icc-netanyahu-arrest-warrants-and-end-arms-sales-to-israel-now/

“This is seismic. The government has to immediately make clear it will fully support this process and halt arms sales to a state whose leader is facing prosecution as a war criminal.”
Ben Jamal, Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

@Miro_Collas @Thebratdragon @david_megginson @pneumaculturist @countcol

Y'all, I know this thread has gone off and on the rails a couple of times, and is kinda noisy, but damn it's been good fun, and I've learned so many new tidbits!