DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was "very, very worried" in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
I’ll be very honest. I am feeling multiple sides to this.
On the one hand I’m very glad to know there are people who support me and the trans community. Great job on realising the trans person might not be up for someone coming up to them.
On the other hand, I don’t always want to be clocked as being trans. Sometimes I just want someone to see me as Jae and not as me being trans. Sometimes having someone notice I’m trans is actually hard to deal with.
👻“One night, researcher Vic Tandy was working very late, alone in his lab. He started feeling very anxious and had a strange sensation that he wasn’t alone in the lab. From the corner of his eye, Tandy saw a moving gray cloud that disappeared as soon as he turned around. The vision scared Tandy enough to hurry home and not return until it was daytime.”
https://theleonardo.org/history-ghost-frequency/
The US DOJ says it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more, evading ~$50M in taxes (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/30/feds-charge-bit…
I just fell for a very scary #aprilfools in a Facebook group for Icelandic Geology, which is usually a place for serious discussion - hell, they remove pictures that were obviously done by entering restricted areas or ask about how to circumvent police barricades.
But today, they accepted a post "Katla started to erupt today 🌋 Confirmed 👆"
Some things you just don't joke…
An interview with Chris Moran, the Guardian's head of editorial innovation, about its new "Deeply Read" list, which uses an "active time spent" ranking metric (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/20…
#Datenhörnchen:
Warum die flauschigen Helden des Internets den Durchblick haben
Im digitalen Dschungel des Internets gibt es eine Spezies, die oft übersehen wird: die Datenhörnchen. Die flauschigen Kreaturen haben sich in den Tiefen des Cyberspace angesiedelt und sind zu wahren Helden geworden, wenn es um Datenschutz und Sicherheit geht. Doch warum sind gerade sie so wicht…
I just fell for a very scary #aprilfools in a Facebook group for Icelandic Geology, which is usually a place for serious discussion - hell, they remove pictures that were obviously done by entering restricted areas or ask about how to circumvent police barricades.
But today, they accepted a post "Katla started to erupt today 🌋 Confirmed 👆"
Some things you just don't joke…