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Immediately booked a hotel (with free cancellation option!) for the @… 2024 now that dates and venue are official[1].
This is a lesson I learned in 2022, due to some concerts that happened in town in parallel all the hotel prices were stupendously high when I tried to book two or three month before the conference.
[1] see

Polls show Trump winning key swing states. That’s partly a failure of the press
Early polls have little predictive power but one of the things the numbers suggest is that the journalists are not getting the truth across to citizens on some key points (or if they are, that truth is being ignored).
🔸The poll respondents claim that one of their big concerns is the #economy.
If that’s the case…

PrivComp-KG : Leveraging Knowledge Graph and Large Language Models for Privacy Policy Compliance Verification
Leon Garza, Lavanya Elluri, Anantaa Kotal, Aritran Piplai, Deepti Gupta, Anupam Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19744 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19744
arXiv:2404.19744v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data protection and privacy is becoming increasingly crucial in the digital era. Numerous companies depend on third-party vendors and service providers to carry out critical functions within their operations, encompassing tasks such as data handling and storage. However, this reliance introduces potential vulnerabilities, as these vendors' security measures and practices may not always align with the standards expected by regulatory bodies. Businesses are required, often under the penalty of law, to ensure compliance with the evolving regulatory rules. Interpreting and implementing these regulations pose challenges due to their complexity. Regulatory documents are extensive, demanding significant effort for interpretation, while vendor-drafted privacy policies often lack the detail required for full legal compliance, leading to ambiguity. To ensure a concise interpretation of the regulatory requirements and compliance of organizational privacy policy with said regulations, we propose a Large Language Model (LLM) and Semantic Web based approach for privacy compliance. In this paper, we develop the novel Privacy Policy Compliance Verification Knowledge Graph, PrivComp-KG. It is designed to efficiently store and retrieve comprehensive information concerning privacy policies, regulatory frameworks, and domain-specific knowledge pertaining to the legal landscape of privacy. Using Retrieval Augmented Generation, we identify the relevant sections in a privacy policy with corresponding regulatory rules. This information about individual privacy policies is populated into the PrivComp-KG. Combining this with the domain context and rules, the PrivComp-KG can be queried to check for compliance with privacy policies by each vendor against relevant policy regulations. We demonstrate the relevance of the PrivComp-KG, by verifying compliance of privacy policy documents for various organizations.

Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over for threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline. 
“We are mere days away from a partial government shutdown on March 1.
Unless Republicans get serious, the extreme Republican shutdown will endanger our economy, raise costs…

Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over the threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline.  “We are mere days away from a partial government shutdown on March 1. Unless Republicans get serious,…

Zionism is antisemitic.
#zionism #antisemitism

red.
URGENT: German police have announced they are shutting down the Palestine Congress and demanded delegates leave immediately. They have threatened to use force and already arrested one of the organizers, Jewish activist Udi Raz. He is the third person to be arrested today, two of them Jewish. The announcement comes after police stormed the speakers' stage just 20 minutes after the congress had begun, shut down the organizers' livestream and then broke into the control room and shut off the pow…

Find The Warmest Spots
Happy Caturday!
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this look of sincere concern. Read about them all on the post here:

Find The Warmest Spots - Ellie Kennard
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this […]

Substack shooting itself in the foot again.
Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions ‘Plummet’ Due to Follow Feature
https://www.thewrap.com/substack-follow-feature-problems-subscriptions-down/
p.s. Toward the end of Metacurity's time on Substack, I was adding around 300 new free subscribers per month. Because of the switch away from Substack and moving to a new domain (Google was actually the top source of new subscribers, and it's taking time to regain that search engine growth), new subscriber growth has dropped dramatically. Please consider signing up for our free daily emails at Metacurity.com.

House Republicans convene to push host of conservative bills as threat to oust Mike Johnson stagnates – live
The House is back in session with Republicans looking to denounce Biden over immigration policy and a bill to allow oil production on protected Alaskan land

#Project2025 focuses on packing the next GOP administration with extreme loyalists to former President Donald Trump. 
The plan aims to reinstate #ScheduleF, a Trump-era executive order that makes federal employees fireable at-will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil service protections.
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A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration
Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust policy and staffing proposal for a potential second Trump White House — and its extreme agenda represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more.  Project 2025 focuses on packing the next GOP administration with extreme loyalists to former President Donald Trump.  The plan …

Hey, it's Harry Dunn – former Capitol police officer and current Democrat for Congress in Maryland’s third district.
Unfortunately, I'm no stranger to a barrage of attacks.
On January 6, I was attacked physically and verbally by violent insurrectionists. They hit, kicked and punched us. They sprayed us with bear spray, pepper spray, WD-40. They yelled racial slurs at me and my fellow officers of color.
And the attacks from MAGA-extremists have persisted. When I test…