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“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”
— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at Human Rights Council.
#HRC55
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A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and fell apart (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/inside-stability-ai-em…

Inside the rise and fall of AI’s open source king and his $1 billion startup—and the bad breakup with key investors Coatue and Lightspeed
Stability AI, led by CEO Emad Mostaque, emerged as one of the first high-flying startups in the generative AI boom, garnering a $1 billion seed valuation. Within months the relationship with investors broke down and spurred a campaign to oust Mostaque, who resigned on Saturday.

X/Twitter finds my activity suspicious. Of multiple accounts. Because I am using VPNs? Because I don't post? Because I am logging in every few months? I haven't even used my delete script on those accounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1-z6LbX5w

My dream workbook is here! Thanks, @… . #YAY

How Allegro reduced latency outliers by 82% by switching to #XFS:
https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/03/kafka-performance-analysis.html
"'Using a com…

Unlocking Kafka's Potential: Tackling Tail Latency with eBPF
At Allegro, we use Kafka as a backbone for asynchronous communication between microservices. With up to 300k messages published and 1M messages consumed every second, it is a key part of our infrastructure. A few months ago, in our main Kafka cluster, we noticed the following discrepancy: while median response times for produce requests were in single-digit milliseconds, the tail latency was much worse. Namely, the p99 latency was up to 1 second, and the p999 latency was up to 3 seconds. This w…

Welp I finally ordered the office chair I’ve been wanting for over 10 years and my wife “gave me” (ie: go ahead and order one) on my birthday a few months ago.
I’m kinda psyched. Says it ships 4/15 so at least SOMETHING good will happen on Tax Day 😂
I’m feeling this article by @…:

Chair Life
My office chair, which was your basic Staples Special, blew its pneumatic cylinder a couple of weeks ago, and in the interim I’ve been using Athena’s desk chair, which I don’t lik…

"The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban."
And user used workarounds hurting newspaper visibility. Bad choice. But going to be repeated in CH 🤦

Come on. This push to summarize all webpages and written content with #AI is ridiculous.
See this example from #Arc Search - in what world is this an adequate summary for an 8,000 word article that takes 43 minutes to read?
The amount of detail, specificity, narrative, and actual arguments that get lo…

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-nature-protection-farmers-protests-7b222f346d4898e32766b230da781385

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed , underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections..Monday was supposed to be the day the member states gave their final approval to the plan. But what was to be a mere rubber stamp following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze has now been indefinitely postponed. It …

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).