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Bundesregierung: KI-generierte Darstellungen von Kindesmissbrauch nehmen zu​
Die Bundesregierung rechnet mit steigenden Fallzahlen bei KI-generierter Kinderpornografie.​ Wie viel Material derzeit im Umlauf ist, sei aktuell noch unklar.

Get your Raiders, Aces, UNLV merchandise while it lasts https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/get-your-raiders-aces-unlv-merchandise-while-it-lasts-3016694/

Get your Raiders, Aces, UNLV merchandise while it lasts
The Raider Image will offer Raiders, Aces and UNLV gear at deep discounts next week as part of its third annual warehouse sale.

Hot take because I like the #GoodTechThings newsletter Forrest makes:
Stack overflow exists because primary documentation generally sucks and will continue to.
Otherwise why would (usually outdated) tutorials exist?
As @… points out... ChatGPT is good at being welcoming, stackoverflow is bad at it, and both are good at outdated wrong answers.
All docs on the internet have sucked longer than you think (yes, before SEO ruined things). It's just the paradox of knowledge: when you've known something so long you forget how far you've come and how hard it was to learn.
Was helping someone new to tech, tried looking back at some tutorials and gosh they didn't include all the papercuts I went through. Even official docs of commercial providers are not free of that. Some primary docs are just plain wrong or outdated.
#StackOverflow #DevRel
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/closed-as-unhelpful-an-elegy-for

The Raider Image Warehouse Sale set for March 22-23 https://www.raiders.com/news/the-raider-image-warehouse-sale-set-for-march-22-23-las-vegas-aces-unlv-merch

The Raider Image Warehouse Sale set for March 22-23
For the third consecutive year, The Raider Image will conduct a two-day sale where the public can receive the best savings of the year on Raiders, Las Vegas Aces and UNLV merchandise.

Avid Telecom allegedly sent or attempted to transmit
more than 24 billion scam calls
in a four-year period
about Social Security Administration scams, Medicare scams, auto warranty scams, Amazon scams, DIRECTV scams, credit card interest rate reduction scams, and employment scams.
They continued transmitting these calls even after being notified at least 329 times that these illegal robocalls were being sent across their networks. 
The U.S. District Court in Ariz…

Attorney General Bonta Secures Court Decision Denying Avid Telecom’s Attempts to Dismiss Robocalls Case
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the U.S. District Court in Arizona denied Avid Telecom’s (Avid) attempts to dismiss and delay a bipartisan, 49-state lawsuit against the company and its owner, Michael D. Lansky, for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of unlawful robocalls in California and around the country. Those robocalls included Social Security Administration scams, Medicare scams, and employment scams; two robocall examples can be found here a…

Recent talk of “bowdlerizing” (a new word to me) text to avoid upsetting the algorithm (e.g. saying “unalived” or “s*x” on TikTok) reminds me of an old story where this kind of thing made the situation *WAY* worse.
In #Montreal, there’s a popular place called Atwater Market. A long time (~20 years) ago, the local homebrewing club had a forum software that we used to communicate. This platform wa…

“Ultimately, I’ve seen completely unhelpful views on both sides,” Jayasena said. “There’s an overly affirming view of let’s just do everything. This results in what I’d call bro-science. We’re getting that disconnect between evidence and assumed knowledge because the internet is an echo chamber. Then there’s the other side of things – a more rightwing, moralistic view. Unfortunately, some members of the medical community are immersed in these views.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/this-isnt-how-good-scientific-debate-happens-academics-on-culture-of-fear-in-gender-medicine-research

It's a damnable indictment on our whistleblower laws but it could have a been far far worse outcome.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/military-whistleblower-david-mcbride-sentenced-classified-info/103843314<…

Former military lawyer David McBride sentenced to more than five years in jail for sharing classified information with journalists
Former military lawyer David McBride is jailed for unlawfully leaking classified documents to journalists after last year pleading guilty to stealing and sharing secret military information.

Avid Telecom allegedly sent or attempted to transmit
more than 24 billion scam calls
in a four-year period
about Social Security Administration scams, Medicare scams, auto warranty scams, Amazon scams, DIRECTV scams, credit card interest rate reduction scams, and employment scams.
They continued transmitting these calls even after being notified at least 329 times that these illegal robocalls were being sent across their networks. 
The U.S. District Court in Ariz…

Attorney General Bonta Secures Court Decision Denying Avid Telecom’s Attempts to Dismiss Robocalls Case
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the U.S. District Court in Arizona denied Avid Telecom’s (Avid) attempts to dismiss and delay a bipartisan, 49-state lawsuit against the company and its owner, Michael D. Lansky, for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of unlawful robocalls in California and around the country. Those robocalls included Social Security Administration scams, Medicare scams, and employment scams; two robocall examples can be found here a…

“Ultimately, I’ve seen completely unhelpful views on both sides,” Jayasena said. “There’s an overly affirming view of let’s just do everything. This results in what I’d call bro-science. We’re getting that disconnect between evidence and assumed knowledge because the internet is an echo chamber. Then there’s the other side of things – a more rightwing, moralistic view. Unfortunately, some members of the medical community are immersed in these views.”