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The UK plans legislation to "ban foreign state ownership, influence, or control" of UK newspapers and magazines, which could thwart Redbird's Telegraph takeover (Jane Croft/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/b…

I watched “Mojo: a deep dive on ownership with Chris Lattner”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ag0fPMmYPQ
tldr: Largely identical to Swift. That is, until the last minute of the video, when he teases that Mojo has lifetimes like Rust, and he’ll explain them… in a future v…

An interesting, very Swiss perspective on the Humane AI pin: you won't be able to buy it in Switzerland, or even get it shipped here, since the purchase and ownership of lasers of Class 2 or higher (according to MKBHD, minute 03:07) is strictly forbidden (and you could be fined up to 40'000 Swiss Francs).
(BTW, didn't you know that? Check your presenter laser pointer if you live within the borders of Helvetia… you might want to recycle it asap.)

The government should also ban people who are not resident in the UK for tax purposes from having significant or controlling interests in UK newspapers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68559314

Telegraph takeover: UK to ban foreign state ownership of newspapers
A UAE-backed group trying to buy the Telegraph and Spectator said it is "extremely disappointed".

Fact check: More gun ownership does not lead to less gun violence - Poynter https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/fact-check-more-gun-ownership-does-not-lead-to-less-gun-violence/

Fact check: More gun ownership does not lead to less gun violence - Poynter
A map claiming to show levels of gun violence across the US says states with more guns have lower levels of gun violence. That's not what data finds.

⚠️ Reminder: When you "buy" digital media, you didn't actually buy anything; you don't own that media. ⚠️
It can be deleted without notice and there's nothing you can do about it.
https://www.

I watched “Mojo: a deep dive on ownership with Chris Lattner”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ag0fPMmYPQ
tldr: Largely identical to Swift. That is, until the last minute of the video, when he teases that Mojo has lifetimes like Rust, and he’ll explain them… in a future v…

Tom Brady Is Set To Make His Debut With The Dallas Cowboys In Week 1 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tom_brady_is_set_to_make_his_debut_with_the_dallas_cowboys_in_week_1/s1_17068_40358597…

Tom Brady Is Set To Make His Debut With The Dallas Cowboys In Week 1
Tom Brady is set to start his season off with a massive audience. The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback will call his first game in Cleveland—if he doesn’t return to the playing field. As previously discussed on GH, Brady said he would be willing to sign with a team for the 2024 season: Per a viral clip of Brady on the Deep Cut Podcast, Brady said he would be open to signing with a team in the upcoming season if it didn’t affect his potential ownership stake…

Four owners of independent media talk about why they went independent, the boom-and-bust cycle of media funding, sustainability, co-op ownership, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanl…

“Nobody solves media except temporarily”: Four indie media owners on money, sustainability, and “making cooler, weirder things”
"Blogging is the media. Blogging won."

Excellent briefing from the ICCT on why bigger #EV batteries aren't always better:
https://theicct.org/publication/BEV-battery-size-ene…

The bigger the better? How battery size affects real-world energy consumption, cost of ownership, and life- cycle emissions of electric vehicles - International Council on Clean Transportation
Assesses the impact of varying battery sizes on the real-world energy consumption, cost of ownership, and life-cycle emissions of electric vehicles.

A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Idan Amit, Dror G. Feitelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08303 https…

A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Context: Motivation is known to improve performance. In software development in particular, there has been considerable interest in the motivation of contributors to open source. Objective: We identify 11 motivators from the literature (enjoying programming, ownership of code, learning, self use, etc.), and evaluate their relative effect on motivation. Since motivation is an internal subjective feeling, we also analyze the validity of the answers. Method: We conducted a survey with 66 questions…

2021 retro-link! https://plv.mpi-sws.org/refinedc/ - RefinedC: automating the foundational verification of C code with refined ownership types.

The government should also ban people who are not resident in the UK for tax purposes from having significant or controlling interests in UK newspapers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68559314

Telegraph takeover: UK to ban foreign state ownership of newspapers
A UAE-backed group trying to buy the Telegraph and Spectator said it is "extremely disappointed".

Eine aktuelle Studie wirft ein neues Licht auf das Dilemma der #Akkugröße bei #Elektroautos: Größere Akkus bedeuten mehr Reichweite, aber auch höhere #Kosten und

The bigger the better? How battery size affects real-world energy consumption, cost of ownership, and life- cycle emissions of electric vehicles - International Council on Clean Transportation
Assesses the impact of varying battery sizes on the real-world energy consumption, cost of ownership, and life-cycle emissions of electric vehicles.

🌟 Empower Your Choices, Transform Your Life 🌟
Every decision shapes the path we walk. If you're dissatisfied with where you are, remember: you hold the power to change it. Take ownership of your choices, and embrace the opportunity to create a life that aligns with your dreams and values.
Choose growth over comfort, positivity over negativity, and courage over fear. Small, intentional choices every day lead to profound transformations over time.
#Empowerment #Motivation #Inspiration

Gun Culture in Fringe Social Media
Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Aakarsha Chug, Barry Bradlyn, Jeremy Blackburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09254 https://

Gun Culture in Fringe Social Media
The increasing frequency of mass shootings in the United States has, unfortunately, become a norm. While the issue of gun control in the US involves complex legal concerns, there are also societal issues at play. One such social issue is so-called "gun culture," i.e., a general set of beliefs and actions related to gun ownership. However relatively little is known about gun culture, and even less is known when it comes to fringe online communities. This is especially worrying considering the af…

I still think ownership transfer will be the most challenging part of wrapping my brain around #rust, especially with nearly two decades of #dotnet programming.
The shoe collection ownership is passed to the function, so it can't be used after the function call.

Does anybody actually like working here anymore? Or are they just happy to have a paycheck?
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112257549852996818

“At their peak in 1996, there were 7,300 publicly traded companies in the US. Today there are about 4,300.”
This is indeed not a good trend. I’m sure if you analyzed ownership, you’d also find more concentration.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/investing/p

🌟 Empower Your Choices, Transform Your Life 🌟
Every decision shapes the path we walk. If you're dissatisfied with where you are, remember: you hold the power to change it. Take ownership of your choices, and embrace the opportunity to create a life that aligns with your dreams and values.
Choose growth over comfort, positivity over negativity, and courage over fear. Small, intentional choices every day lead to profound transformations over time.
#Empowerment #Motivation #Inspiration

@…
check out this thread
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112410315322827303

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest": https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions 1/

World's Richest Politician Is Worth $200 Billion, Owns A $700 Million Jet
:mastodon:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/worlds-richest-politician-vladimir-putin-is-worth-200-billion-owns-a-70…

World's Richest Politician Is Worth $200 Billion, Owns A $700 Million Jet
While Vladimir Putin acknowledges ownership of an 800-square-foot apartment, a trailer, and three cars, persistent rumours suggest a more extravagant reality.

AMUSE: Adaptive Multi-Segment Encoding for Dataset Watermarking
Saeed Ranjbar AlvarMing Xuan, Mohammad AkbariMing Xuan, DavidMing Xuan, Yue, Lingyang Chu, Yong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05628

AMUSE: Adaptive Multi-Segment Encoding for Dataset Watermarking
Curating high quality datasets that play a key role in the emergence of new AI applications requires considerable time, money, and computational resources. So, effective ownership protection of datasets is becoming critical. Recently, to protect the ownership of an image dataset, imperceptible watermarking techniques are used to store ownership information (i.e., watermark) into the individual image samples. Embedding the entire watermark into all samples leads to significant redundancy in the …

https://blog.erlend.sh/weird-netizens
To free ourselves from feudal identity fiefdoms, we must simultaneously de-centralize and re-centralize identity.
Decentralize ownership.
Recentralize agency.
By de-centralizing the ownership of identity away from platform monopolies…

Weird netizens
It's been a year since I wrote about Weird web pages as a prospective catalyst for the reclamation of my digital identity. There's been s...

Discovered an incredible painting today: The Babylonian Marriage Market, by Edwin Long.
Edwin Long is thought to have conceived the painting in direct response to creation of the new laws centered around women's ownership and the ongoing women's suffrage movement.
Every face tells such a different story, and so much of civilization is contained within this painting. What an amazing work.
Added to my gallery of favorite paintings:

The house were the Brontës were born in Thornton, Bradford, has now passed into public ownership. It is run by Brontë Birthplace Ltd., a community benefit society.
Photo: courtesy of the Brontë Birthplace Facebook Group.
https://brontebirthplace.com

Home - Brontë Birthplace
The Bronte Birthplace Campaign is raising funds to acquire and restore the birthplace building of the renowned Bronte sisters.

Explanation as a Watermark: Towards Harmless and Multi-bit Model Ownership Verification via Watermarking Feature Attribution
Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Hongwei Yao, Yiling He, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04825

Explanation as a Watermark: Towards Harmless and Multi-bit Model Ownership Verification via Watermarking Feature Attribution
Ownership verification is currently the most critical and widely adopted post-hoc method to safeguard model copyright. In general, model owners exploit it to identify whether a given suspicious third-party model is stolen from them by examining whether it has particular properties `inherited' from their released models. Currently, backdoor-based model watermarks are the primary and cutting-edge methods to implant such properties in the released models. However, backdoor-based methods have two f…

In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 business units, following an inquiry by the US SEC (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Discloses State Ownership in More Than 12 Business Units
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed a wider web of Chinese government stakes in its business units than previously known, following an inquiry from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Nikhita Joshi, Daniel Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 https://

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Feelings of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to better understand the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths, enforced through word limits. Res…

I get a lot of flack about owning my home, but owning a home is not the same as being a landlord. On two occasions I have *given* people $2.5k for housing (a 24 year old friend I knew since they were 21 and my aunt). I even offered to let them use my spare room (although this was not viable for my aunt because of needing space for four people and two dogs and not being able to split up). Home ownership can be praxis under our current system of capitalism, but not like I am opposed to communist proposals

The keys to Snaw-naw-as and the Island Corridor railway – Land Back, Realignment, Improvement.
A Blog post by @…
https://

PiS ownership of Polish state media is long over, but, apparently, some form of a right-wing grip on #Poland news scene still exists.
Today, the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiT) has fined TVN24 550,000 PLN (~$139,000) for "Franciszkańska 3" documentary, which tried to prove Saint Pope John Paul II helped cover

Four (4) text based task management systems #OrgMode

Commanders Set To Poach Dorance Armstrong Jr. From Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/commanders_set_to_poach_dorance_armstrong_jr_from_cowboys/s1_17150_40091347

Commanders Set To Poach Dorance Armstrong Jr. From Cowboys
The Washington Commanders underwent an overhaul already this offseason. With new ownership led by Josh Harris, the franchise saw a clean sweep of the front office and coaching staff. In the front office, Adam Peters was named general manager and he tabbed Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as head coach. They have their work cut out for them, as finding a quarterback is their biggest order of business this offseason. Alas, it is far from the team’s only need. With the NFL’s lega…

U.S. states are cutting off Chinese citizens and companies from land ownership (Phelim Kine/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/03/state-laws-china-land-buying-00150030
http://www.memeorandum.com/240403/p15#a240403p15

finally
https://www.trademarkia.com/clusterless-97939548?country=us

Chris Wensel Trademark of CLUSTERLESS | Trademarkia
The CLUSTERLESS. Explore trademark details, ownership information, other trademarks owned by Chris Wensel or file your own trademark.

Terry Pegula transferred small percentage of Bills to daughter Laura Pegula https://theathletic.com/5465268/2024/05/01/bills-terry-pegula-ownership-transfer-daughter/

Terry Pegula transferred small percentage of Bills to daughter Laura Pegula
Nearly two years after she suffered a debilitating heart attack, Kim Pegula is still listed as a co-owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres alongside her husband, Terry. The Pegulas used to own the Bills 50-50, but that is no longer the case. Palm Beach County Circuit Civil Court documents show that on Feb. 13, 2023, Terry Pegula filed to have Kim ruled incapacitated and to be made her guardian. A panel of three court-appointed examiners recommended incapacitation, and on March 23, 2023, …

Finalmente Vultr retiró de sus términos de servicio la polémica clšusula que les otorgaría propiedad total sobre el contenido alojado en sus servidores.
👇🏻
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Vultr deletes user data ownership ToS clause after outcry • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/vul

How the mighty have fallen.
I remember c|net as a standard-bearer of tech journalism back in the 1990s. Theirs was one of the few bookmarks I opened regularly to read about tech news.
Red Ventures has destroyed its reputation, along with all their other properties’ like ZDNet (the other fantastic tech news site). RV’s decisive pivot to AI is likely fatal; they will accelerate the descent of all their outlets into a content swill mill fit only for your blocklist.

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal
Conversations between Wikipedia editors following CNET's AI scandal reflect the reputational hazards of AI content and dubious ownership.

“When a single #videogame equals a quarter of your salary or more, you stop caring about the sense of #ownership and instead conform yourself with playing it and moving on. The ongoing economic crisis makes it nearly impossible to build a library capable of withstanding license expirations or game delis…

sewage into rivers & sea - "take shares not fines"
Okay I like this!
"When water companies release sewage, we should take their shares into public ownership — not be fobbed off with cash fines. ...
"It provides a stronger disincentive to pollute — shareholders know they will lose control of their business if they don’t invest in stopping sewage."
#sewage #law #UK

Football GOAT Tom Brady Seeks to Follow in the Footsteps of Basketball GOAT Michael Jordan: Brady Is Moving Forward In Bid to Acquire Ownership Interest in the Las Vegas Raiders

Football GOAT Tom Brady Seeks to Follow in the Footsteps of Basketball GOAT Michael Jordan: Brady Is Moving Forward In Bid to Acquire Ownership Interest in the Las Vegas Raiders
Tom Brady‘s bid to acquire a minority ownership interest in the Las Vegas Raiders is “making progress” according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Goodell made the remarks at the Annual NFL Team Owners Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Following in the footsteps of basketball GOAT Michael Jordan, football GOAT Tom Brady is seeking to acquire an ownership interest in a professional sports franchise. Jordan owned the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets for 13 years, before selling the team for approximat…

I saw this posted by @…
Time to move away from Vultr, and fast!
They are claiming ownership of all hosted content on their platform.
Time to flee

If you're on an online community, please search "elephant in the room" and share what the elephants are.
Here's the ones from the future of coding slack:
- DCI architecture (not sure what that is)
- Haskell crypto
- Code quality
- Incoherence of ownership
- No one in UK government listens to evidence
- Functional reactive programming
- IDEs
- Browsers being crap at resizing in tiling window managers
- The elephant being the…

If copyright is real then the AI machines owe the artists of humankind (which is to say all of us) more money than exists in the banking systems of the planet.
If copyright is not real then the companies that trained those models have no right to exclusive ownership of the weights.
I bet somehow the law conspires to make it the worst of either option.
#ai #copyright #copyleft

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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Opinion | What the left gets wrong about pet ownership.

If each country's airspace included all the stars and galaxies (and black holes 🫣) "above" them, some might have overloaded immigration or court systems. Others would own the galactic core for a couple of hours every day. 😊
#XKCD #WhatIf

Please don't use terms like "mainstream media" (or "MSM") when referring to establishment media. There is nothing "mainstream" about under-representing, dismissing, or ignoring popular policies like taxing the rich, public ownership of key industries, investment in free universal health care, or addressing the climate emergency -- and certainly nothing mainstream about using state and corporate media networks to provide public relations for the 1%. That is t…

Since there is no question that gun ownership is a God-given right and essential to preserve one's security, the Biden government should create a program to give at least an assault rifle to all those citizens who cannot afford to buy one. Especially the homeless.
Texas should lead the way on this initiative.
And #BernieSanders surely will agree that Minimum Gun is more importan…

Have grown to love not having to own a car. Cannot imagine living someplace where car ownership would be necessary.
#CarOwnership
#CarOwnershipCosts

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

Nexstar Media Group asks the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the FCC's decision to uphold a long-standing rule setting limits on TV station ownership (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/news/nexstar-sues-fcc-quadrennial-review-media…

Nexstar takes FCC to court over broadcast ownership limits
Nexstar is asking a federal court to review a decision by the FCC last December that upholds broadcast ownership limitations.

PE firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice agrees to buy a majority ownership of IT services provider Presidio from BC Partners; sources: deal could value Presidio at $4B (Granth Vanaik/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/priv

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Nikhita Joshi, Daniel Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 https://

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Feelings of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to better understand the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths, enforced through word limits. Res…

Enc2DB: A Hybrid and Adaptive Encrypted Query Processing Framework
Hui Li, Jingwen Shi, Qi Tian, Zheng Li, Yan Fu, Bingqing Shen, Yaofeng Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06819

Enc2DB: A Hybrid and Adaptive Encrypted Query Processing Framework
As cloud computing gains traction, data owners are outsourcing their data to cloud service providers (CSPs) for Database Service (DBaaS), bringing in a deviation of data ownership and usage, and intensifying privacy concerns, especially with potential breaches by hackers or CSP insiders. To address that, encrypted database services propose encrypting every tuple and query statement before submitting to the CSP, ensuring data confidentiality when the CSP is honest-but-curious, or even compromise…

#affordablehousing seems to be a problem in more than one country - and the faith that the "market" will provide seems to be a common factor.

#affordablehousing seems to be a problem in more than one country - and the faith that the "market" will provide seems to be a common factor.

I get a lot of flack about owning my home, but owning a home is not the same as being a landlord. On two occasions I have *given* people $2.5k for housing (a 24 year old friend I knew since they were 21 and my aunt). I even offered to let them use my spare room (although this was not viable for my aunt because of needing space for four people and two dogs and not being able to split up). Home ownership can be praxis under our current system of capitalism, but not like I am opposed to communist proposals

3,400-Year-old Head of King Ramses II Statue Returned to Egypt After Theft https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/3400-y-o-king-ramses-ii-statue-head-returned-to-egypt-after-theft/

3,400 y-o King Ramses II Statue Head Returned to Egypt After Theft
Working alongside Swiss officials, Gawad and his colleagues were able to establish rightful ownership, and the artifact was seized.

#Scotland is an interesting laboratory for #rewilding, some under community ownership.
Tarras Valley has most of the ingredients I'd expect for carbon sinks preservation, including a focus on peatland restoration and a pragmatic decision to cut down mature commercial forests. They delayed action on t…

Rust's ownership model is like that one friend who never lets you forget you borrowed something. 'Remember, you borrowed this from me!'

Het fregat Zr. Ms. Tromp was even zichtbaar voor iedereen in het Suezkanaal.
#marine …

Ship HNLMS TROMP (Military Ops) Registered in Netherlands - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 4601008, MMSI 244899000, Call sign PAET
Vessel HNLMS TROMP is a Military Ops, Registered in Netherlands. Discover the vessel's particulars, including capacity, machinery, photos and ownership. Get the details of the current Voyage of HNLMS TROMP including Position, Port Calls, Destination, ETA and Distance travelled - IMO 4601008, MMSI 244899000, Call sign PAET

I am sad that Remedy House in #Buffalo has abruptly gone away:
https://

Remedy House owners to sell business, but West Side coffee shop's name, identity not expected to change
Remedy House will continue at 429 Rhode Island St. under new ownership, co-owner Andrew Trautman said, although a start date for the refreshed business is not certain.

For any people in #Belgium with a bike:
The system for registering your bike with the gov (so that if someone finds it, they can easily return it) that was active in Brussels is now also available in Flanders and Wallonia: https://mybike.belgium.be…

The keys to Snaw-naw-as and the Island Corridor railway – Land Back, Realignment, Improvement.
A Blog post by @…
https://

PiS ownership of Polish state media is long over, but, apparently, some form of a right-wing grip on #Poland news scene still exists.
Today, the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiT) has fined TVN24 550,000 PLN (~$139,000) for "Franciszkańska 3" documentary, which tried to prove Saint Pope John Paul II helped cover

One of the Fediverse’s most-repeated selling points is the following premise:
YOU OWN YOUR DATA.
It’s a wonderful sentiment, the idea that you can pack up everything and take it with you. The problem is, most platforms on the network can, at best, redirect your followers to a new account.
What if we had an easier way to represent data ownership and give users total control of it?
#ActivityPods

ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods
There's an effort on the network to connect the Fediverse's federation powers to Solid's data storage and access capabilities.

The New York Times has filed at least three DMCA takedown requests over Wordle clones hosted on GitHub, citing ownership over the Wordle name and gameplay style (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/nytimes-files-copyright-t…

NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones
The takedown is also affecting games that definitively aren't Wordle.

Mmm, yes, super normal. #tesla #cybertruck #cars
“Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets 25 Critical Errors Within 2 Days Of Ownership, And He’s Not Alone”

PE firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice agrees to buy a majority ownership of IT services provider Presidio from BC Partners; sources: deal could value Presidio at $4B (Granth Vanaik/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/priv

I saw this posted by @…
Time to move away from Vultr, and fast!
They are claiming ownership of all hosted content on their platform.
Time to flee

Roger Goodell says Tom Brady's part ownership of Raiders hasn't been approved, but is 'making progress'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Roger Goodell says Tom Brady's part ownership of Raiders hasn't been approved, but is 'making progress'
Brady and Raiders owner Mark Davis agreed on the deal in May

NFL insider gives update on Tom Brady joining ownership group of Las Vegas Raiders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_insider_gives_update_on_tom_brady_joining_ownership_group_of_las_ve…

NFL insider gives update on Tom Brady joining ownership group of Las Vegas Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders are owned by one of the most historic families in football. A long, long time ago, Al Davis, a pioneer of the game, owned and even coached the Raiders. Now, obviously, it's the son of Al Davis, Mark Davis, who is trying to follow in his father's footsteps. But there is one problem—Mark hasn't been successful in doing it or even come close. Al Davis won three Super Bowls, which is very hard to win. Since Mark Davis took over in 2011, the Raiders have been a bad team most …

Dog ownership dream: “They’ll keep me warm on those cold days with snuggles”
Dog ownership reality: “They’ll drag me into chilled hell for a walk, and drag my frozen corpse back for the lulz”

Since there is no question that gun ownership is a God-given right and essential to preserve one's security, the Biden government should create a program to give at least an assault rifle to all those citizens who cannot afford to buy one. Especially the homeless.
Texas should lead the way on this initiative.
And #BernieSanders surely will agree that Minimum Gun is more importan…

Where's that missing the point tooter?
It's not that Threads or X🚽 don't have some fine posters, it's about their ownership.
:mastodon:

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
Syed Ali Asif, Emma Cao, Hang Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, Yan-Ming Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05918

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
The Metaverse, an immersive virtual world, has emerged as a shared space where people engage in various activities ranging from social interactions to commerce. Cryptocurrencies [3] and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) [6] play pivotal roles within this virtual realm, reshaping interactions and transactions. Cryptocurrencies, utilizing cryptographic techniques for security, enable decentralized and secure transactions, and NFTs represent ownership or proof of authenticity of unique digital assets thr…

Is Your AI Truly Yours? Leveraging Blockchain for Copyrights, Provenance, and Lineage
Yilin Sai, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu, H. M. N. Dilum Bandara, Shiping Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06077

Is Your AI Truly Yours? Leveraging Blockchain for Copyrights, Provenance, and Lineage
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrates into diverse areas, particularly in content generation, ensuring rightful ownership and ethical use becomes paramount. AI service providers are expected to prioritize responsibly sourcing training data and obtaining licenses from data owners. However, existing studies primarily center on safeguarding static copyrights, which simply treats metadata/datasets as non-fungible items with transferable/trading capabilities, neglecting the dynamic nature of tr…

Mike Florio wants Dallas Cowboys boss Jerry Jones not to act ‘cheap’ and pay Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and Micah Parsons soon https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/mi

Mike Florio wants Dallas Cowboys boss Jerry Jones not to act ‘cheap’ and pay Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and Micah Parsons soon
With the new season approaching, a question that is often asked is about the future of the Dallas Cowboys. It is nothing to do with the ownership, but rather what the ownership does with regard to the future of their superstars. Analyst Mike Florio wants Jerry Jones to finalize the futures of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons so that the future of the team is secure. While speaking on Pro Football Talk on NBC, host Mike Florio touched upon several topics. When in the hell will the Cow…

One of the Fediverse’s most-repeated selling points is the following premise:
YOU OWN YOUR DATA.
It’s a wonderful sentiment, the idea that you can pack up everything and take it with you. The problem is, most platforms on the network can, at best, redirect your followers to a new account.
What if we had an easier way to represent data ownership and give users total control of it?
#ActivityPods

ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods
There's an effort on the network to connect the Fediverse's federation powers to Solid's data storage and access capabilities.

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
Syed Ali Asif, Emma Cao, Hang Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, Yan-Ming Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05918

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
The Metaverse, an immersive virtual world, has emerged as a shared space where people engage in various activities ranging from social interactions to commerce. Cryptocurrencies [3] and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) [6] play pivotal roles within this virtual realm, reshaping interactions and transactions. Cryptocurrencies, utilizing cryptographic techniques for security, enable decentralized and secure transactions, and NFTs represent ownership or proof of authenticity of unique digital assets thr…

Ahead of CZ's sentencing on April 30, a look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims more than 40M new users in 2023, up 30% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-…

Ex-Binance CEO CZ May Be Richest Person Ever in Jail in US
The ex-CEO is about to learn if he’ll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company’s board, his ownership of the exchange intact and the mother of his children helping to run the show, his case is nothing like FTX’s.

2024 NFL Draft rumors: Giants ownership reluctant to trade up for QB after paying Daniel Jones

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf

2024 NFL Draft rumors: Giants ownership reluctant to trade up for QB after paying Daniel Jones
Jones signed a four-year, $160 million deal last offseason

An interview with UK culture secretary Lucy Frazer on blocking RedBird IMI's Telegraph takeover bid, plans to cap foreign state ownership at 5%, and more (Financial Times)
https://t.co/JszmnS62U1

Report: Tom Brady's push for ownership stake in Raiders still on hold https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_tom_bradys_push_for_ownership_stake_in_raiders_still_on_hold/s1_14819_40148243

Report: Tom Brady's push for ownership stake in Raiders still on hold
Ten months ago, it was first reported that former NFL great Tom Brady had agreed to buy a stake in the Raiders. After delays resulting from issues over the terms of the sale, it was reported a little over a month ago that those issues had been resolved and that the sale had been cleared for approval, pending a vote at the annual league meetings in Orlando from March 24-27. Now, disputing that latter report, Mark Maske of The Washington Post tells us that the league is no longer expected to v…

RobWE: Robust Watermark Embedding for Personalized Federated Learning Model Ownership Protection
Yang Xu, Yunlin Tan, Cheng Zhang, Kai Chi, Peng Sun, Wenyuan Yang, Ju Ren, Hongbo Jiang, Yaoxue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19054

RobWE: Robust Watermark Embedding for Personalized Federated Learning Model Ownership Protection
Embedding watermarks into models has been widely used to protect model ownership in federated learning (FL). However, existing methods are inadequate for protecting the ownership of personalized models acquired by clients in personalized FL (PFL). This is due to the aggregation of the global model in PFL, resulting in conflicts over clients' private watermarks. Moreover, malicious clients may tamper with embedded watermarks to facilitate model leakage and evade accountability. This paper presen…

A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/16/tiktok-ban-divest-ownership-china

The TikTok sales pitch
Putting a price tag on the app is tricky.

Lions unveil new uniforms: Dan Campbell's deal with team ownership led to return of black jersey

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-u

Lions unveil new uniforms: Dan Campbell's deal with team ownership led to return of black jersey
The Lions gave Campbell a good-faith payment

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00027 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

LLMs as Writing Assistants: Exploring Perspectives on Sense of Ownership and Reasoning
Sense of ownership in writing confines our investment of thoughts, time, and contribution, leading to attachment to the output. However, using writing assistants introduces a mental dilemma, as some content isn't directly our creation. For instance, we tend to credit Large Language Models (LLMs) more in creative tasks, even though all tasks are equal for them. Additionally, while we may not claim complete ownership of LLM-generated content, we freely claim authorship. We conduct a short survey …

Will Tom Brady have to choose between Fox and ownership stake in Raiders? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/will_tom_brady_have_to_choose_between_fox_and_ownership_stake_in_raiders/s1_13132_40137268…

Will Tom Brady have to choose between Fox and ownership stake in Raiders?
There continue to be hints that retired quarterback Tom Brady may ultimately have to choose between serving as Fox's lead NFL analyst or being a limited partner with the Las Vegas Raiders.  Mark Maske of the Washington Post reported on Tuesday night that "NFL team owners are unlikely to take a vote at next week’s annual league meeting" regarding Brady's long-planned purchase of a stake in the Raiders, "barring a last-minute change." Maske added that "some owners have concerns about conflicts…

Wikipedia editors lowered CNET's source reliability rating after CNET used AI to create articles and are discussing reliability of other Red Ventures outlets (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal
Conversations between Wikipedia editors following CNET's AI scandal reflect the reputational hazards of AI content and dubious ownership.

Interviews with 24 current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has increasingly taken a grip over TikTok's operations, leading to a culture clash (Financial Times)
https://t.co/uJG06wyOM4

With or Without Permission: Site-Specific Augmented Reality for Social Justice
Rafael M. L. Silva, Ana Mar\'ia C\'ardenas Gasca, Joshua A. Fisher, Erica Principe Cruz, Cinthya Jauregui, Amy Lueck, Fannie Liu, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Kai Lukoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03898…

With or Without Permission: Site-Specific Augmented Reality for Social Justice
Movements for social change are often tied to a particular locale. This makes Augmented Reality (AR), which changes how people perceive their surroundings, a promising technology for social justice. Site-specific AR empowers activists to re-tell the story of a place, with or without permission of its owner. It has been used, for example, to reveal hidden histories, re-imagine problematic monuments, and celebrate minority cultures. However, challenges remain concerning technological ownership an…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06607 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

False Claims against Model Ownership Resolution
Deep neural network (DNN) models are valuable intellectual property of model owners, constituting a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is crucial to develop techniques to protect against model theft. Model ownership resolution (MOR) is a class of techniques that can deter model theft. A MOR scheme enables an accuser to assert an ownership claim for a suspect model by presenting evidence, such as a watermark or fingerprint, to show that the suspect model was stolen or derived from a source mod…

Interviews with 24 current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has increasingly taken a grip over TikTok's operations, leading to a culture clash (Financial Times)
https://t.co/uJG06wyOM4

Filing: a US court gives Audacy, the second-largest radio broadcaster in the US, approval to exit bankruptcy, slashing ~$1.7B of its debt in a restructuring (Amelia Pollard/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Audacy Gets Court Approval to Exit Bankruptcy, Hand Ownership to Creditors
Radio and podcast company Audacy Inc. received court approval on Tuesday to emerge from bankruptcy and hand ownership to creditors including Soros Fund Management.

The FCC fines Nexstar and Mission Broadcasting $1.8M , alleging violation of US ownership rules in operating New York TV station WPIX; Nexstar plans to appeal (Jon Lafayette/Next TV)
https://www.nexttv.com/news/fcc-orders-mission-to-sell-…

FCC Orders Mission To Sell WPIX New York, Fines Nexstar $1.2 Million
Regulator rules that Nexstar committed ‘willful and repeated’ violations of ownership rules, also fines Mission Broadcasting $612,395