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Extremely Hardcore by Zoë Schiffer: 9780593716601 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"Zoë Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess." — Matt Levine, Bloomberg...PenguinRandomhouse.com
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Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there
Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeoverZoë Schiffer (Platformer)
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A brilliant, timely LSE blog by @brembs
“…the Fediverse’ provides tools and technologies that are ideally suited to bring scholarly societies out of their digital caves and into the 21st century.”
“The root of their names contains their essential function, as described in 1660 for one of the first such societies, the Royal Society:
“Their first purpose was no more, then onely the satisfaction of breathing a freer air, and of conversing in quiet one with another, without being ingag’d in the passions, and madness of that dismal Age”.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/11/30/the-fediverse-is-an-opportunity-learned-societies-cant-ignore/
#academia #research #academicchatter #socialmedia
The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…Impact of Social Sciences
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Know somebody who insists women’s soccer is boring?
When researchers disguised the gender of players in game highlight reels, viewers judged female players to be just as entertaining and skilled as male players.
#Sports #GenderEquality #WomensSports
We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising results
A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.The Conversation
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Quicksilver “Holiday Night Fever” :60 | Capital One
You can tell by the way Santa uses his walk he earns 1.5% cash back on every purchase with the Capital One Quicksilver card. Give yourself the gift of cash b...www.youtube.com
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This Janet Jackson BASSLINE breaks laptops
Rhythm Nation's bassline is a cyber-security threat! | 🚀 Watch this video ad-free on Nebula! ...youtu.be
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My Social Portal / Relatica · GitLab
An independent mobile and desktop client for Friendica written in FlutterGitLab
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The OpenAI saga isn’t over just yet
A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy endingCasey Newton (Platformer)
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If like to know why no one is talking about the abuse allegations against Sam Altman by Annie Altman, his younger sister.
Annie Altman Abuse Allegations Against Sam Altman, Explained | The Mary Sue
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sister Annie has seemingly come to social media multiple times, most recently in October 2023, with allegations about him.Teresa Jusino (The Mary Sue)
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Avi Loeb, the Harvard Physicist Who Thinks It’s Always Aliens
Transcript: More than a decade ago, scientists identified and described a new disease known as “Nobelitis,” in which “some Nobel laureates may consider that their award is a certificate of competenceRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Rebecca Watson does a great job taking Avi Loeb apart. Unfortunately, he'll just disregard anything anyone says, because they're all "toxic critics".
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/29/hes-done-rebecca-watson-takes-on-avi-loeb/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8EiH3wpTM
He’s done: Rebecca Watson takes on Avi Loeb
Loeb gets a quick filleting from Rebecca. I know exactly how Loeb would respond, if he were to even notice, because he posted a rant 4 days ago. The culture of superficial toxicity poses an existen…Pharyngula
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"Cheech & Chongs's new CBD gummies"
Yes! Where do I get them?
Seriously, after listening to Loeb's unhinged rant complete with a pointless and inapt analogy, I cannot see anyone respecting him INSIDE his discipline any more.
I noted the men in the conference call were having a hard time suppressing smiles the more unhinged he got. The women mostly looked horrified as he scolded the foremost expert in the field, a woman.
Loeb is a really sad case of a scientist gone bad.
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The Washington Post Editorial Board makes a false equivalence: Feminism is like Andrew Tate. You just have to compromise on the views of the person you marry.
Fuck that.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/whatever-happened-to-compatibility-and-love/
Whatever happened to compatibility and love?
Every once in a while, some conservative dweeb gets upset at the fact that liberal women do not like conservative men and definitely don’t want to have sex with them. It’s a tiresome tr…Pharyngula
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What I wrote in the New York Times about Trump's authoritarian plans
The stakes are high, and so are the oddsDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
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Trump wants to militarize and deploy the so-called administrative state against Americans, not dismantle it.
Republican ideologues who rant about destroying the administrative state want its power transferred to private institutions and corporations who are not accountable to the democratic process.
"A measure of a functional society is that bureaucracy should be boring!...
The fact that the constitution requires public employees to take an oath to the constitution itself, rather than to the President, should be an obscure piece of Founding Fathers trivia rather than a consideration in thinking about how the next President will rule."
~@donmoyn
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-i-wrote-in-the-new-york-times
#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republican #Corruption #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Politics #USPol #USA
What I wrote in the New York Times about Trump's authoritarian plans
The stakes are high, and so are the oddsDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
♲ @mkwadee@diasp.eu:#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn for February 15, 2021 - GoComics
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“OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets | WIRED UK”
So, as you might guess, I think generative models are both less functional than claimed and harmful where they are functional.
But I also specifically distrust OpenAI and Microsoft as companies. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/openai-custom-chatbots-gpts-prompt-injection-attacks
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.Matt Burgess (WIRED UK)
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Nobody should use Instagram. Or Facebook. This turns my stomach.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-instagram-video-algorithm-children-adult-sexual-content-72874155
Instagram’s Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children
Content served to WSJ test accounts included risqué footage of kids, overtly sexual adult videos and ads from major brandsJeff Horwitz (The Wall Street Journal)
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There used to be a myth that toxicity in social media was due to recommendation algorithms optimizing for ad views. This was obviously mistaken to anyone who actually worked on these products but now we have multiple proof points.
It turns out asking users to pay instead of showing them big brand ads actually did nothing to stop apps like Substack and Twitter/X from being home to white supremacy and antisemitism. In fact, it encouraged it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
Substack Has a Nazi Problem
The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.Jonathan M. Katz (The Atlantic)
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My visit to the Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy, blew my mind. Why? The hundreds of photos I took speak for themselves, go see them now.
Opened a year and a half ago, the museum is a new and little known geeky gem packed with all sorts of vintage computing hardware and stuff. It's run by a non profit group of passionate collectors, enthusiasts, and makers who also do outreach and education activities.
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"Not the absence of regulation, but its pervasiveness, made the mid-20th-century U.S. telephone network the envy of the world," writes Richard John for the Atlantic.
We need similar industry-aiding oversight of 21st century communications. Restoring the FCC's Title II authority over broadband access services is a start.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/tech-regulation-bell-system/676110/
The Groundless Fear of Regulating Big Tech
Major internet companies pretend that they’re best left alone. History shows otherwise.Richard R. John (The Atlantic)
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The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860,000 Historical Images: Download Medieval Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, William Blake Illustrations & More
Back when we last featured the New York Public Library's digital collections in 2016, they contained about 160,000 high-resolution images from various historical periods.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Building a NetBSD ramdisk kernel
When I used OpenBSD, I was a big fan of bsd.rd: a kernel that includes a root file system with an installer and a few tools. When I invariably did something bad to my root file system, I could use that to repair things. bsd.rd is also helpful for OS updates. And there is only a single file involved.
On NetBSD however, there is usually no netbsd.rd kernel installed, or
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Truly, the only remaining benefit of ex-Twitter, is watching Elon Musk get up every morning and step on a rake that hits him directly in the face.
Elon’s Censorial Lawsuit Against Media Matters Inspiring Many More People To Find ExTwitter Ads On Awful Content
We’ve already discussed the extremely censorial nature of ExTwitter’s lawsuit against Media Matters for accurately describing ads from major brands that appeared next to explicitly neoNazi content.…Techdirt
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Plus, they haven't used all the 90's TV personalities yet!!
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Level Design #madewithGodot✨
Project files are available for download to patreon supporters:
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Now Avi Loeb suggests that UAPs are 250 million year old ships built by a Permian civilization. He's wacko.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/27/avi-loeb-has-an-opinion/
Avi Loeb has an opinion
The greatest mass extinction in the history of the world took place 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian. 99% of all species died off at that time. Avi Loeb has an idea. Popular opinion…Pharyngula
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“And if I had a slice of ham I could have a ham sandwich if I also had some bread.”
This may replace my now go to favorite “if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle” retort to ludicrously speculative what ifs.
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•I guess its a question about ease of implementation vs. consistency.
I would not mind reopening posts again because I would not expect to see them too often in my timeline - things are just swooshing by anyway... But I don't really use filters that much (yet?) so I am probalby not the most opinionated person in this case.
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