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"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at …

Trump Administration Actions to Curb Data Collection Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) (KFF)
https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/trump-administration-actions-to-curb-data-collection-related-to-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-sogi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p121#a251211p121

Welcome to the Fediverse, new people and critters!
Don't forget to watch @…⁠'s helpful orientation video to get you started here. :blobcatbusiness:
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Static dc electric field orientation effects on two-photon Rydberg EIT
Rob Behary, William Torg, Mykhailo Vorobiov, Nicolas DeStefano, Adam Vernon, Charles T. Fancher, Neel Malvania, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Seth Aubin, Irina Novikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09676

The Pentagon denied the AP and others access to a few news briefings, claiming they're orientation events for the new press corps, which now includes Matt Gaetz (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-pre…

Outlets that reach millions denied access to rare Pentagon news briefings
It's not often Pentagon officials hold briefings for the press, but they are this week — although outlets that reach millions of news consumers have been denied access. Instead, press meetings with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and press representative Kingsley Wilson are being characterized by the Pentagon as part of orientation sessions for newly credentialed Pentagon press. Most mainstream outlets exited the Pentagon this fall rather than agree to rules they worried would restrict them fr…

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

Over the past couple weeks, I've been designing a spool with some particular features in #FreeCAD, encompassing 6 parts to 3d-print. I've been manually re-orienting them when I print them.
Now that it's working, I realized that I could use the FreeCAD Assembly workbench to create a good packing of the parts in the right orientation for printing, saving anyone else who wants to prin…

On the way to Cologne for an ‘Object orientation with Python’ workshop.
#Python #OO

Printers believe in true equality.
Printers will fuck over everyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, political views, status etc.
Be like printers.

Zohran Mamdani announces an
all-female leadership team for his transition
including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan
https://bsky.app/profile/tempus-fukit.bsky.social/post/3m4wwvdijk22a

Joseph S Furey (@tempus-fukit.bsky.social)
Incoming: a total moral and conceptual re-orientation; a move away from market fundamentalism toward a politics of responsibility. Yes, please

I'm kind of fascinated by how quickly the tech world shifted to using "allowlist/denylist" instead of "whitelist/blacklist". I guess part of it is that "allowlist" is more clearly descriptive of its purpose. maybe I should start specifying my sexual orientation as "suck my cock and I'll step on yours, or the other way around is ok if I like you" (which is "3" in the ISO standard enum). after writing that out I'm not sure I should …