Anthropic plans to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1 per year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1a141c0c-f2b5-45de-a4d7-ed45eb37c0e1
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-…
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Liber [Dionysos], falling in love with her, took her [Ariadne] from there [the island of Naxos] as his wife."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 43
🏛 Dionysos and Ariadne crowned, Etruscan Red-figure pottery, 4th century BCE, Krater from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy
Travis Etienne, Jacory Croskey-Merritt and Javonte Williams for real? Plus, 2 trades fueling 1 contender https://www.nfl.com/news/travis-etienne-jacory-croskey-merritt-and-javonte-williams-for-real-plus-2-trades-fueling…
36 hours without food, and I’m feeling pretty good. I kind of want to keep going, but I’m running a workshop this afternoon and I don’t want to crash halfway through it.
I guess I should eat some breakfast.
(I have been drinking coffee, of course. I’m not an animal.)
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.
Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents,
including highly sensitive records that might contain information
that could reveal sources and people charged with national secur…
Heute konnte ich ein paar Gedanken zur Verfügbarbachung von Museumsdaten vorstellen beim MFG Baden-Württemberg (https://www.mfg.de/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/2259-level-up-vortrag-fuer-eine-kultur-de…
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-…
It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7
🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
Italic / Etrusc…
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K under the OSA for failing to provide information on the risk of illegal content; a UK minister says the government "fully backed" Ofcom (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/b