"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)
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"Following years of failed efforts, Massachusetts is on the verge of banning revenge porn. The state Senate voted 38-0 yesterday to send compromise legislation passed unanimously by the House earlier this week...
"Currently, Massachusetts and South Carolina are the only states in the country without laws criminalizing the distribution of sexually explicit media of someone without their consent...
"The bill would also cover AI-created images"
Most migrants likely wouldn’t say they’re fleeing climate change.
They’re escaping war, economic uncertainty, social instability and the like.
But climate change multiplies those threats.
It’s not a coincidence that 95% of conflict refugees in 2020 came from global-warming hot spots.
A 2021 study by researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico found the movement of low-income farmers from Mexico to the U.S. not only tripled during times of drought but …
Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--It's unclear how many LockBit victims are covered by the FBI's 7,000 decryption keys
--Microsoft makes changes to Recall following searing criticism,
--Lending Tree latest victim of data theft from Snowflake service,
--NYT source code leaked on 4chan,
--Cleveland shutters City Hall following a cyber incident,
--Hacktivists' are DDoS'ing European political parties,
--NHS appeals for blood donors following Qilin hospital attacks,
--London police arrest two alleged smishing blasters,
--Researchers find millions of malicious VSCode extensions,
--CoinGecko suffers another breach,
--Norway recouped $6m from Axie Infinity breach,
--so much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/unclear-many-lockbit-victims-covered-fbis-7000-decryption-keys
Got the #XCrawlClassics PDFs today—LaSalle’s truly knocked it out of the park. Not just a campaign-specific sourcebook, it contains lots of extras to slot directly into a regular #DCCRPG game.
• 10 new classes? Check.
• Rules for elven chain? Yep.
• Flying death piñatas? You betcha.
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Most migrants likely wouldn’t say they’re fleeing climate change.
They’re escaping war, economic uncertainty, social instability and the like.
But climate change multiplies those threats.
It’s not a coincidence that 95% of conflict refugees in 2020 came from global-warming hot spots.
A 2021 study by researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico found the movement of low-income farmers from Mexico to the U.S. not only tripled during times of drought but …