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Announcement: #socialcoop member Nathan Schneider has a book that recently went open access!
[[Governable Spaces]]: Democratic Design for Online Life
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.

https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/legislation/ranking-member-thompson-introduces-legislation-to-ensure-no-secret-service-protection-for-convicted-felons-sentenced-to-prison

Steven Spielberg joins Biden campaign, shifts focus to Democratic National Convention | Marca
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/presidential-election/2024/04/27/662c1fe622601d950d8b45a4.html

Steven Spielberg joins Biden campaign, shifts focus to Democratic National Convention
Steven Spielberg, the renowned filmmaker, is taking a break from the silver screen to lend his expertise to the Joe Biden campaign for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

The US FTC claims in an administrative complaint that H&R Block steered customers to higher-cost online tax filing products and made them difficult to downgrade (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/23/24081404/h-r-block-ta…

FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade
H&R Block gave customers the runaround to downgrade services but “seamlessly” let them upgrade, the FTC alleges in an administrative complaint.

This article by a former OpenAI employee makes a powerful case that AI exploits the same clever game design that can make Furbies, dinosaurs, and even triangles seem sentient. It's not about modeling a brain's complexity; simpler systems can ironically feel more intelligent.
https://www.

Ukraine and Taiwan stand together against disinformation. Ukraine in Flames #591: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/ukraine-and-taiwan.html

I'm looking at Irish population estimates (for a project on fertility) and this popped out. How female cohort size changes between 15-45, for cohorts from 1961. It tells quite a story.
#mastodaoine #demography

"for Republican lawmakers, criticizing university presidents for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism is a useful political issue with the potential to deepen divisions among Democrats — one that, unsurprisingly, they have pursued vociferously."
thing is, Democratic *voters* are not divided. 75% disapprove of Israel's actions in Gaza!

Monitoring Wandering Behavior of Persons Suffering from Dementia Using BLE Based Localization System
Marcin Kolakowski, Bartosz Blachucki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19704

Monitoring Wandering Behavior of Persons Suffering from Dementia Using BLE Based Localization System
With the aging of our populations, dementia will become a problem which would directly or indirectly affect a large number of people. One of the most dangerous dementia symptoms is wandering. It consists in aimless walking and spatial disorientation, which might lead to various unpleasant situations like falling down accidents at home to leaving the living place and going missing. Therefore, in order to ensure elderly people's safety it is crucial to detect and alarm the caregivers in case of s…

Think Fast, Think Slow, Think Critical: Designing an Automated Propaganda Detection Tool
Liudmila Zavolokina, Kilian Sprenkamp, Zoya Katashinskaya, Daniel Gordon Jones, Gerhard Schwabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19135

Think Fast, Think Slow, Think Critical: Designing an Automated Propaganda Detection Tool
In today's digital age, characterized by rapid news consumption and increasing vulnerability to propaganda, fostering citizens' critical thinking is crucial for stable democracies. This paper introduces the design of ClarifAI, a novel automated propaganda detection tool designed to nudge readers towards more critical news consumption by activating the analytical mode of thinking, following Kahneman's dual-system theory of cognition. Using Large Language Models, ClarifAI detects propaganda in ne…