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So…the “Slack will now train AI using your data” thing is not as much of a five alarm fire as I’d first assumed:
“We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.” ← GOOD.
“Data will not leak across workspaces.” ← Or so they say. They •are• training across workspaces, but sounds like recommender systems and not generative models, so…we’ll see. Seems fraught. Still, that public commitment does mean something — legal exposure, at least.

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I wish I could build an aggregator for photoblogs so that I can view pretty photos of people I like.
The pool of text-based blogs is somewhat small, but there's still plenty to choose from. And if people don't self-host, they tend to use semi-competent platforms that make things easy.
But when it comes to photography, people are scattered across various instagrams, flickrs and stuff and that complicates things A LOT, both in technical and cultural aspect.

ESPN says Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut game for the Indiana Fever was the most-watched WNBA game on ESPN platforms ever, drawing 2.1M viewers and peaking at 2.3M (Antonio Planas/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/caitli

Caitlin Clark's pro debut is most-watched WNBA game in ESPN history, network says
More than 2 million people tuned in to see Caitlin Clark’s WNBA debut Tuesday, making it the most-watched game in the league’s history across the ESPN platforms, the network said.

✊ The story of the northern California college that inspired campus protesters across America
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/cal-poly-humboldt-students-gaza-protest

"BASIC deserved better than to be dismissed and vilified by generations of so-called “professional” or “academic” programmers. Mark Jones Lorenzo’s “Endless Loop,” together with the myriad of available implementations of the language, and the collective impetus of retrocomputing fans to keep it alive in our memories, are the closest thing to a monument that it will ever get."

Voyager 1 & 2
My favorite piece of human engineering, historic achievement for mankind in many ways. Has boldly gone where nobody has gone before 😀
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-restores-communica…

NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft
NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever

eKichabi v2: Designing and Scaling a Dual-Platform Agricultural Technology in Rural Tanzania
Ananditha Raghunath, Alexander Metzger, Hans Easton, XunMei Liu, Fanchong Wang, Yunqi Wang, Yunwei Zhao, Hosea Mpogole, Richard Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09980

eKichabi v2: Designing and Scaling a Dual-Platform Agricultural Technology in Rural Tanzania
Although farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are accessing feature phones and smartphones at historically high rates, they face challenges finding a robust network of agricultural contacts. With collaborators, we conduct a quantitative survey of 1014 agricultural households in Kagera, Tanzania to characterize technology access, use, and comfort levels in the region. Recognizing the paucity of research on dual-platform technologies that cater to both feature phone and smartphone users, we develop and …

Could Belgium's historic labour law for sex workers usher change across Europe?
The law is the first in Europe — and the world — to provide sex workers with social security provisions such as pensions and maternity leave, as well as an official employment contract.

Could Belgium's new sex workers labour law set an example for Europe?
The law is the first in Europe — and the world — to provide sex workers with social security provisions such as pensions and maternity leave, as well as an official employment contract.

Methane Emission From a Cool Brown Dwarf
Jacqueline K. Faherty (American Museum of Natural History), Ben Burningham (University of Hertfordshire), Jonathan Gagn\'e (Plan\'etarium Rio Tinto Alcan), Genaro Su\'arez (American Museum of Natural History), Johanna M. Vos (Trinity College Dublin), Sherelyn Alejandro Merchan (American Museum of Natural History), Caroline V. Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Melanie Rowland (University of Texas at Austin), Brianna Lacy (Univer…

Methane Emission From a Cool Brown Dwarf
Beyond our solar system, aurorae have been inferred from radio observations of isolated brown dwarfs (e.g. Hallinan et al. 2006; Kao et al. 2023). Within our solar system, giant planets have auroral emission with signatures across the electromagnetic spectrum including infrared emission of H3+ and methane. Isolated brown dwarfs with auroral signatures in the radio have been searched for corresponding infrared features but have only had null detections (e.g. Gibbs et al. 2022). CWISEP J193518.59…

"The Florida Highway Patrol arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into the farmworker bus. Troopers said Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, faces eight counts of driving-under-the-influence-manslaughter for Tuesday morning’s crash.. State records show he has previous arrests for alleged driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, and marijuana possession"

Mexican citizens were traveling to work at a Florida farm when a pickup hit their bus, killing 8
Officials say Mexican citizens were among those going to work at a Florida watermelon farm when the bus they were traveling in was hit and crashed, killing eight people. Alicia Bárcena, Mexico’s foreign relations secretary, said via the social media platform X on Tuesday that a tragic automotive accident happened in Florida with Mexican agricultural workers involved. She didn't say how many of the more than four dozen people on board were from Mexico. The Florida Highway Patrol on Tuesday ar…