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Support the appeal by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to the Senate calling on them to pass the PRESS Act to protect reporters and their sources.
https://www.rcfp.org/press-act-senate-letter/
Contact your senators today. Urge them to support S. 2074,…

RCFP urges US Senate to advance, pass PRESS Act
In a letter to the U.S. Senate, RCFP argues that the federal shield bill would provide essential protections for the public’s right to know.

ACT Policing is alerting Canberrans about planned traffic disruptions on Sunday and Monday.
https://www.policenews.act.gov.au/news/media-releases/traffic-disruptions-occur-sunday-and-monday

Traffic disruptions to occur Sunday and Monday
ACT Policing is alerting Canberrans about planned traffic disruptions on Sunday and Monday.

On Wednesday, @… contacted me and asked if I was willing to brainwash him again at some point. It had been awhile since I did a proper hypnosis session with him, and I was very glad that he asked! Fortunately, I had some free time that evening, so we planned a time to videochat.

You will be unsurprised to hear my sympathy for Enoch Burke’s point of view is undetectable by even the most sensitive of instruments.
But I do think indefinite imprisonment without trial is a difficult position to justify.
Previously: https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-checking-the-weather/
https://www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-seeks-to-have-order-underlining-his-incarceration-set-aside-by-high-court-6409671-Jun2024/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14728 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

The European Commitment to Human-Centered Technology: The Integral Role of HCI in the EU AI Act's Success
The evolution of AI is set to profoundly reshape the future. The European Union, recognizing this impending prominence, has enacted the AI Act, regulating market access for AI-based systems. A salient feature of the Act is to guard democratic and humanistic values by focusing regulation on transparency, explainability, and the human ability to understand and control AI systems. Hereby, the EU AI Act does not merely specify technological requirements for AI systems. The EU issues a democratic ca…

The session grid of today‘s open space at #accde24

Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using the public Facebook and Instagram content of EU users (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artific

ローラ「そんな、ひどい…」
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/112607273261465044

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4 (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/14/2024/microsoft-ai-…

Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry | Semafor
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman’s presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with its AI partner, but he is an asset if the software giant decides to go it alone.