@zachklipp@androiddev.social2024-04-03 12:37:16
“Longer, not necessarily better” could be the genai motto. https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-lETr_uy0QticxWSmmljd6A:a:43611565-/0
@philosophyblogs@botsin.space2024-04-02 14:00:49
Colin McGinn || Is Causation Necessary?
https://www.colinmcginn.net/is-causation-necessary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-causation-necessary
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024-03-04 11:32:38
About that ozone hole..
Doesn't seem to be healing very fast - not due to #CFCs necessarily but a quirk of the #Climate system means a colder #Stratosphere - which is delaying things.
@anneroth@systemli.social2024-03-03 22:03:24
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-03 12:15:36
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119438/stability-ai-audio-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2024-03-04 14:33:16
I appreciate how consistently this article puts things in simple terms everyone can understand:
“My experience shows we should be especially wary of generative AI when there are real-life consequences to it being wrong. And we can’t necessarily trust companies experimenting with AI to make the right decisions to protect our interests.”
This is good reporting.
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@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-03 12:18:56
Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022 | Brennan Center for Justice
When the Supreme Court knocked down a core part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. argued that some of the law’s protections against racial discrimination were no longer necessary.
He wrote that the once-troubling 🔹turnout gap 🔹between white and Black voters in areas with histories of discrimination at the polls had largely disappeared, and that “the conditions tha…
@sofia@chaos.social2024-03-02 20:08:03
the enormous monopolisation of culture and technology today is not an accident or conspiracy. it is the outcome of the fact that culture always builds on culture, and that ownership claims over throughts nessecarily extends to derived thoughs.
copyright is always targets people making things, creators are it's primary targets, not consumers.
copyright companies are rent-seeking the value created between creators and consumers.
@rohini@mastodon.social2024-05-03 09:21:53
🧵Thread: Interventions are necessary to stop the Prajwal Revanna videos from further distribution. Such content remains in circulation perpetually -- that's the nature of its downstream distribution. The ramifications on victims are grave, could endanger their physical safety, and put them at risk of further abuse. The large scale of the distribution & the large number of videos requires a concerted intervention.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2024-04-03 03:00:07
A landmark day of sorts: for the first time (I think) in my life, the hourly news broadcast felt it necessary to explain Einstein's General Relativity! The item was on a proposal for a Universal Lunar Time for coordinating experiments, adding that it was complicated because time moves faster near the moon, "due to gravity".
This is like the day they said Premier Rae received a threatening email, and didn't stop to explain what an 'email' was!
#greatdaysinpopularscience