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Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

Grönland gibt's nicht, Liechtenstein ist verschwunden, von Neuseeland hat niemand was gehört
TAZ: Grünspan im Eismeer
Immer mehr Länder fordern geografische Anonymität und möchten mit sofortiger Wirkung von der international regulären Weltkarte gestrichen werden.
https://taz.de/Die-Wahrheit/!6091936/

Die Wahrheit: Grünspan im Eismeer
Immer mehr Länder fordern geografische Anonymität und möchten mit sofortiger Wirkung von der international regulären Weltkarte gestrichen werden.

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Randomly reminded of the pet mice my family had when I was a kid.
We'd always get them in pairs and they had the weirdest names.
I've probably forgot a few but...
Breyah and Ghibou (named by me as a toddler, they asked me to name them and used the next two bits of babbling i made)
Rosie and Sarah (nothing super weird there)
Davina (feminized form of David) and Bextra (banned COX-2 inhibitor, a close cousin of Vioxx)
Ammonium Nitrate or Annie for sh…

Wir waren heute in einem Naturschutzgebiet unterwegs auf einem schmalen, dicht bewachsenen Trampelpfad, an dem kaum zwei Menschen aneinander vorbei gehen hätten können, als wir von fünf Männern auf Motocrossmaschinen überholt wurden.

Es kommt selten vor, dass ich jemandem spontan Böses wünsche, aber mein erster Gedanke war, bitte sterbt einfach bei eurem "Sport". Ich konnte den Gedanken nur schwer abschütteln, ich will so nicht sein, aber so waren meine Gefühle.
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Couple of notes, #DailyMail
1. Obviously the story's overblown scaremongering, used here purely as a stick to beat the gov with;
2. IDK the details, but it sounds very much like the standard NHS protocol for anonymised mass data, it's not "Let's look up Jonathan Harmsworth's doctors notes, so as to embarrass, understand & predict, blackmail or manipulate…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06151 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOS_…

Zerrow: True Zero-Copy Arrow Pipelines in Bauplan
Bauplan is a FaaS-based lakehouse specifically built for data pipelines: its execution engine uses Apache Arrow for data passing between the nodes in the DAG. While Arrow is known as the "zero copy format", in practice, limited Linux kernel support for shared memory makes it difficult to avoid copying entirely. In this work, we introduce several new techniques to eliminate nearly all copying from pipelines: in particular, we implement a new kernel module that performs de-anonymization, thus eli…

If you are what you eat, I guess that makes me a cheese danish.
-- Anonymous

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…