2024-06-06 08:01:29
A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for MSN.com (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/…
A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for MSN.com (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/…
Not having this on the PBS is just more ageism and medical misogyny: Calls to include newer menopause drugs on PBS, as $60-a-month cost for treatment adds up
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-01/menopause-medications-hr…
Hey #gamedev folks, are you interested in sharing your #game #development knowledge in a multi-day event? Sure you are! There's still time to submit a talk to the
I stopped using Adobe software a few years ago, I just didn’t use it enough and was happy with the iPad and Mac alternatives.
I don’t do enough graphics design work to justify subscriptions (not even Figma that everyone loves)
Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at $100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/amazon-buys-indian-vid…
Sleeping schedule? Is that some kind of app?
LinkShare: AI Assessment Design Framework : https://mglinks.org/2024/06/06/linkshare-ai-assessment.html
Nothing like pushing a bit of waveform processing to the GPU (instead of AVX on the CPU) and getting a 40% boost in WFM/s on the ThunderScope for my test setup.
And there's still more optimization potential.
The Military’s Myth of Black Freedom | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-06-01/militarys-myth-black-freedom
All my Mastodon clients keep crashing when I'm nearly ready to post.
It's driving me up the wall.
Daniel Drack from #FullStackS at #Area41 earlier this morning.
His conclusion from software development security: «Automation is key!»
(Also had some horrifying numbers about how limited source code versioning usage still was in enterprises!)
Achievement unlocked: made a pub switch from forró to Sepultura. #brazilianFolkMusic
Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception
The anti-abortion movement has quietly worked to redefine the meaning of “abortifacient”, or drugs that induce abortions, for years.
In 2014, the US supreme court permitted Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned chain of craft stores, to avoid covering their employees’ morning-after pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) because their religious beliefs deemed them abortifacients
– even though scientists disagre…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Two women from Samos, Bitto and Nanion, do not like to meet #Aphrodite by her own rules. They desert to the other side, which is not good. Queen Aphrodite, hate these fugitives from your kind of sex."
Greek Anthology 5.207
🏛 Mirror case, women bathing before a statue of Aphrodite o…
Nick Madrigal Sustains Hand Fracture
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
Our project ADA Bayern is all about solving real problems in the public sector through team work, with the help of easily usable cloud infrastructure, and most importantly by learning from each other.
Our role is to bring in the data skills, the public servants bring the expertise of their field.
Currently we are looking for new problems to solve. Read more in this week's newsletter post.
It would be helpful if 19th through 23rd Street had bike lanes immediately approaching Mission St even if they don’t otherwise have bike lanes. I’m frequently stuck behind cars waiting to turn for the entire light cycle, and there’s no space to filter through to the front due to parked cars.
Thought inspired by https://www.instagram.com/p/C…
In strange, interesting news, a Hostel TV series is in the works starring Paul Giamatti and Eli Roth is returning as director, writer and executive producer https://www.fangoria.com/original/hostel-tv-series
50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley, billy kreutzmann on drums, tony saunders on bass. great audience tape by louis falanga, can even hear saunders vocalizing off-mic in places.
1st set:
To paraphrase Talleyrand ("It is not a crime, it is a mistake"), #RishiSunak's decision to helicopter in and out in the middle of the remembrance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, having told a UK television channel he would be free to be interviewed then, was worse than a mistake, it was an error.
#Greenfiber schreibt auch Ex-Kunden an.
Vor einem halben Jahr gekündigt und sie pflegen augenscheinlich ihre Datenbanken nicht. Bin froh, kein Kunde dort zu sein.
https://www.
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week https://nebula.tv/videos/hai-why-the-us-drops-147-million-worms-on-panama-every-week
Ça fait plusieurs semaines qu’au boulot je nage entre des Keycloak, des Tyk, des frontend #AngularJS et mine de rien ça avance, on va pouvoir décommissioner tout un bazar de serveurs qui a plusieurs années, hors support, non maintenu, bref une cata ambulante 🖖🏽
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Seems like the news is reporting famous people getting new felonies everyday. Let's play!
#ComedyTVOrMovieCharacterFelonies
Live Europese verkiezingen: Kabinet met PVV kan volgens Omtzigt reden zijn voor stemmenverlies NSC - #Trouw
https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/live-europes
Helping a student who just finished their BA towards their first conference submission, and just enjoying the overall awe and joy 🤩 #academicChatter
1/3 Andere schwärmen von ihren Kindheitserinnerungen an Besuche im #Freibad.
Meine Erinnerung ans Freibad sehen leider anders aus, obwohl meine Mutter oder auch mein Großvater meinten, mir etwas Gutes zu tun, wenn sie mit mir ins Freibad gingen. Menschenmassen (in meiner Erinnerung war das Bad immer voll) wenig Distanz zu anderen Menschen, Lärm, Duschen, die sich wie Nadelstiche auf der Kop…
Bericht: Selenskyj kommt nach Deutschland
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj soll einem Bericht zufolge am Dienstag nach Berlin kommen. Dann werde er eine Rede im Bundestag halten, berichtet die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ohne Angabe einer Quelle. Dafür müssten die Abgeordneten zu einer Sondersitzung zusammenkommen. Die Zeitung verweist zudem auf die vom Auswärtigen Amt veranstaltete Wiederaufbaukonferenz für d…
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Tome & Tome Again
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion are essential for good research practice and to support a positive research culture. We have compiled a list of resources to support knowledge in this area.
View here https://zurl.co/qPS3
You know your bug report and patch made an impact when upstream adds to their instructions:
> - Please only make changes or add data to locales you're familiar with.
#Gentoo
129gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. http://bit.ly/3usoe #CO2
"Those elected should be a class apart." A class apart? That's the very definition of 'elite': a choice or select body, 'the best part', from French élite "selection, choice," from Old French eslite, past participle of elire, elisre "pick out, choose," from Latin eligere "choose".
General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice
I took a wrong turn into a mobile home community somewhere in San Jose. Small scale, of course, immaculately tended, acres of blooms--it was like wandering into Munchkinland.
What I have on my shoulders where I keep all my most cherished memories. #Wordle
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Voortzetting van bestaande marketingstrategie van Toyota maakt engineers overbodig https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/nieuwe-verbrandingsmotor-toyota-maakt-ev-overbodig-6902464
Anders als bei der @… wird bei den digitalen Humanist:innen gerade grundsätzlich hart überzogen und zum Teil betont, dass dann ja keine Fragen mehr möglich sind. Timeboxing wäre nett, dann wird das weniger frontal, und das täte diesem Slot und den Themen gut #bibliocon24
I solved Word Waffle in 12 Moves. Can you too?
https://wordwaffle.org/
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First Time Playing Stardew Valley: No Spoilers Please! Pt 3
LIVE NOW 🔴🕹️ #Twitch
New Daily Digest available in a few minutes here:
https://ph-st.github.io/icymi_philosophy/digest/dailys/digest20240606.html
I just learned that something happened with macOS Bartender app.
I quitted the app and disabled the start at boot.
I have also revoked the Accessibility and Screen recording permissions.
I am wondering if anyone is monitoring for traffic from Bartender
and could share what they've noticed. 🙏🏿
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Thank you.
[Underground hangar. Tarrant is still beaming the wall.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/351 B7B1
"World's first video of 56 transition controls for a triple inverted pendulum : 3-body problem"
#futurology <…
I'm a little bit disappointed that #ScavengersReign on #Netflix hasn't been released in Germany and there isn't any news if it will.
Read 读
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Cowboys News: Diggs may not be cleared when camp starts, O-line already better than last year? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-news-notes-june-6-2024-trevon-diggs-offensive-line/
#music You Keep Me Hanging On
from Vol. 1 by chipmunks on 16 speed
https://chipmunkson16speed.bandcamp.com/track/you-keep-me-hanging-on
The last two months have been pretty busy, but I finally found time to post my report, written weeks ago, of my cross-country airplane trip to see the total solar #eclipse of April 8th: https://cosmicray.ca/wri…
🔊 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Grizzly Bear:
🎵 Mourning Sound
#NowPlaying #GrizzlyBear
https://open.spotify.com/track/0szSOfZVM3G5mWI1ogQjr7
The smashing spectrum of sheaves
Ko Aoki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03969 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.03969
Netflix is testing a homepage redesign on its TV app, replacing static tiles showing shows and movies with boxes that extend when the remote lands on them (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24172351/netflix-redesign-homepag…
ChatGPT Prompts for Busy Educators #tcea: https://mglinks.org/2024/06/06/chatgpt-prompts-for.html
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Simply Red:
🎵 Stars
#SimplyRed
https://open.spotify.com/track/75CgD6l7K4qMzZrn4CbZqz
https://rheworkdj.bandcamp.com/track/simply-red-stars-rhework
"Where there have been changes in tone from #Labour, they have come after being punished at the ballot box. Politicians who are more concerned about losing votes than children losing their lives shouldn’t be allowed near power."
https://novaramedia.com/2024/06/06/in-scotland-theres-no-excuse-to-vote-for-genocide/#:~:text=Where there have been changes in tone from Labour, they have come after being punished at the ballot box. Politicians who are more concerned about losing votes than children losing their lives shouldn’t be allowed near power.
The "professional" online social network also wants to be cool. I doubt this is the move #LinkedIn needs. But I doubt many recent #Microsoft decisions…
Kind if reminds me of #MicrosoftBob
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Two women from Samos, Bitto and Nanion, do not like to meet #Aphrodite by her own rules. They desert to the other side, which is not good. Queen Aphrodite, hate these fugitives from your kind of sex."
Greek Anthology 5.207
🏛 Mirror case, women bathing before a statue of Aphrodite o…
Bei unserem Projekt ADA Bayern geht es darum, echte Probleme im öffentlichen Sektor mit Hilfe von Daten zu lösen.
Derzeit sind wir auf der Suche nach neuen Problemen, die wir lösen können oder Fragen, die wir beantworten können. Projekte in Bayern können wir kostenlos durchführen.
Mehr dazu in meinem Newsletter.
https://buff.ly/…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05521 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
Regulators are concerned that the nascent AI sector is
“at the high-water mark of competition, not the floor”
and must act “with urgency”
to ensure that already dominant tech companies do not control the market, Kanter said.
“Sometimes the most meaningful intervention is when the intervention is in real time,” he added.
“The beauty of that is you can be less invasive.”
Kanter, now in his third year at the Department of Justice, has
alongside the …
Josh Jacobs On Raiders Offseason: 'You Want Me To Come Back On A Discount And Lose?' https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/josh_jacobs_on_raiders_offseason_you_want_me_to_come_back_on_a_…
We are having a huge mental health crisis among young adults aged 14-18 precisely because they are constantly demeaned, degraded & infantilized. Their basic civil rights are denied. They are constantly told to be afraid because they're idiots who are easily brainwashed and abused. They're told their brains won't work right for years...
Its abusive AF and nobody will acknowledge how harmful it is.
The Celtics crowd is the loudest hit dog hollerin’ I’ve ever heard 😆
Nach Scholz-Vorstoß - Jetzt auch SPÖ für Abschiebung Schwerstkrimineller #News #Nachrichten
Stromabschaltungen in der Ukraine
Der ukrainische Stromnetzbetreiber Ukrenergo hat neue Stromabschaltungen in zwölf Regionen angekündigt. Auf Facebook heißt es, die Stromabschaltungen würden Regionen wie Lwiw und Zakarpattia im Westen, die Hauptstadt Kiew, die Region Kiew sowie Odessa im Süden und Charkiw und Saporischschja weiter östlich betreffen.
Die Verbrauchsgrenzen sollen nach Angaben des Str…
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I will replace the (alleged) right to bear arms with the right to an Enchirito.
Alle Menschen brauchen dringend ein #Auto!
Dieses hier steht mit seit 4 Monaten abgelaufenem TÜV von Unkraut bewuchert in einem nicht als Parkfläche gekennzeichnetem, verkehrsberuhigten Bereich. Wann tut #BadOeYnhausen mal was?
Anders als bei der @… wird bei den digitalen Humanist:innen gerade grundsätzlich hart überzogen und zum Teil betont, dass dann ja keine Fragen mehr möglich sind. Timeboxing wäre nett, dann wird das weniger frontal, und das täte diesem Slot und den Themen gut #bibliocon24
103gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is LOW wrt last 24h so you can run your wash etc now! http://bit.ly/3usoe #green #energy
A New World Ordure! Dat is de slogan waarmee o.a. de BBB – en andere Europese agri-industrie-gestuurde partijen – kiezers voor zich denken te winnen. Excretiating.
Story Bins: Virtual Edition #tcea #tceajmg: https://mglinks.org/2024/06/07/story-b
What I have on my shoulders where I keep all my most cherished memories. #Wordle
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From this valley they say you are going
I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile
They say you are taking the sunshine
That has brightened our pathway awhile
Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
But remember the Red River Valley
And the cowboy who loves you so true
I've been thinking a long time, my darling
#music
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: We'll use vitashock weapons. The blasts will be painful enough to drive them off without causing any permanent injury.
LAUREN: I'll get the guns from the armoury.[Exits]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/277 B7B2
A woman who claims to be the inspiration for the Martha character on Baby Reindeer files a $170M defamation lawsuit against Netflix (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-0…
As a #journalist, one needs to be very careful in certain countries. Which happens to correlate heavily with countries which would require more careful journalism.
Our #freedom depends on #FreedomOfPress
I’m about to make many #JavaScript developers feel very old. Apologies in advance.
https://mootools.net/
So one person in four has no working printer at home: enough that it's absurd for companies to expect everyone to, while also being few enough that it's not entirely surprising when they do...
https://neurodifferent.me/@ferrous/112557825598480415
🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Zoot Woman:
🎵 Blind
#NowPlaying #ZootWoman
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A2dPNaGmJxLdi3t0prhda
Bericht über US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine
Die USA werden der Ukraine weitere Militärhilfe im Wert von etwa 225 Millionen Dollar zukommen lassen. Das erfuhr die Nachrichtenagentur AP aus Washingtoner Regierungskreisen. Das neue Paket umfasst demnach auch Munition, die gegen Ziele jenseits der Landesgrenze auf russischem Territorium eingesetzt werden kann, um die Stadt Charkiw vor einem schweren ru…
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Linkshare: AI Literacy Framework #tcea #tceajmg: https://mglinks.org/2024/06/06/linksha
Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his personal assets to pay Sandy Hook families under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in a move that could end his ownership of Infowars (Oliver Darcy/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/alex-jones-assets-sandy-hook/
This looks pretty cool for #Blazor folks.
https://github.com/BlackWhiteYoshi/Blazor.TSRuntime
Online Course: Effective Math: K-2 #tcea #tceajmg: https://mglinks.org/2024/06/06/online-
Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag
Frankreichs Präsident Macron hat der Ukraine Mirage 2000-Kampfjets zugesagt. Die Ukraine hat eine Teilevakuierung mehrerer Städte und Ortschaften in der Region Donezk angeordnet. Die Entwicklungen vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.
🔗 http…
🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fehlfarben:
🎵 Ein Jahr (Es geht voran)
#NowPlaying #Fehlfarben
https://open.spotify.com/track/6mMUoEgOl1yuGMJ6dfHzh6
@… are there any plans to make a macro recorder for actions?
Oregon's First Pamplin Media sells to a Southern newspaper chain, and EO Media, which publishes 12 titles, closes five papers and puts up the company for sale (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-bru
The great tragedy of #aspnetcore is that it probably would have wider adoption if it stayed the course with MVC and Razor pages now that SSR is the latest trend.
The cycle returned to ASP.NET's strength, and Blazor had to pivot back to SSR to keep up.
Instead of being ahead of the curve, it's now behind it. 🤷♂️
Will Lewis criticizes reports that he tried to suppress stories on his ties to a phone hacking case and calls David Folkenflik an activist, not a journalist (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4e8aPu5
🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Anderson .Paak:
🎵 Celebrate
#NowPlaying #AndersonPaak
https://open.spotify.com/track/29bFmmZdmYstqJeEOweJoI
https://themastersschooljazzband.bandcamp.com/track/celebrate-by-anderson-paak