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Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonc

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

Justice Ministry freezes assets, accounts of ex-Supreme Court chief after failing to comply with court order: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/24/justice-ministry-freezes.html

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Key Senate Democrats seek meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over
💥 'Supreme Court’s ethics crisis'💥
The senators are asking Chief Justice John Roberts
⭐️to "ensure" that Justice Alito recuses himself ⭐️ from certain cases.
Recusal is mandated when a reasonable person would have doubts about the judge's ability to be impartial in the case
-- a condition long surpassed in #Alito

Key Senate Democrats seek meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over 'Supreme Court’s ethics crisis'
Two top Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked to meet with Chief Justice John Roberts to address "the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis" following reports that controversial flags flown at the Capitol building by some supporters of former President Donald Trump on Jan.

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I see you. I hear you! Thank you for piping up! Keep making noise! (GAWD, I need you.) https://happyfedi.better-than.tv/@happ…

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🏈 @… #NFL
Via Riley McAtee @RileyMcAtee
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The Chiefs got a badly needed pass catcher, yes, but in this trade the Bills got something they are even more desperate for:
The feeling of drafting at pick 32.

Very excited to see this collaboration between 2 of the most interesting research & scholarly communication infrastructure initiatives out there. This stellar cast of scholars & infrastructure builders will undoubtedly be pushing the limits in fascinating ways. This is a project worth following. Bravo!
From: @…

COPIM (@copim@hcommons.social)
The second pilot project is: Database as Book and Lively Community Archive: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-book-launch which will build a “database as book” to support an emergent collective of critical STS scholars in Kenya in collaboration with the Research Data Share Collective, African Minds, and Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).

Dang! Forgot to mention on this week’s @…
Today May 25th is #InternationalDroneDay
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Founded by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan (in Montreal I think?)
But now gone legitimately global 🌎 🦥

Drone Day Events
Events around the world for Drone Day

I'd be interested in a general upwelling of feeling to abolish ICO and rely on the Civil Court with zero cost suits for individuals to bring TORT cases against offenders, which would also allow joint litigants.
#RegulatorsImpedeRegulation