Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
That is wild!!
A new baby outcrop is getting ready to hatch! ⚒️
your dog wants your dinner
give it to them. science demands it
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
Random lidar question - does anyone know of tools for identifying/quantifying fallen dead trees using point cloud data?
Seems apparent, visually and could probably code something up but curious if there are off-the-shelf tools folks know of (preferably in QGIS)
It was great and such a fun show!
It was so fun and he’s still got it!
He’s so great and it was a fun show!
We said back the we would see them someday and it only took 40 years!
And they were great- they really know how to put on a show!
From then on, we were in. We even got a picture out of a teen magazine of George Thorogood and the destroyers, and we put it in our locker that we shared.
Because back then there were lockers at school. (This was obviously during the Stone Age.)
Our young teenage brains just thought this was the funniest thing we’ve ever heard, and we could not believe we were witnessing it.
But also, the music kind of kicked ass.
If you aren’t familiar, the lyrics say “ I drink alone yeah with nobody else, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.”
When Kerry and I heard this, we dissolved into a fit of giggles because of course, if you are alone, you’ll be drinking by yourself if you are drinking. Duh 🤣🤣🤣
So one night, either in 8th grade or 9th grade or the summer between, at a sleepover at Kerry’s we were watching VH1, or maybe night tracks, when George Thorogood came on.
The song was I drink alone.
Tonight I went to see George Thorogood and the Destroyers with my friend Kerry. She and I have been fans since we were 14. Thanks @phaneritic.bsky.social for a great Christmas gift!
I wrote about this issue last year. In short, vaccines have been so effective that people have almost entirely forgotten what it is like to live with these really nasty diseases
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I need to pet these dogs!!!!!!!
gambling monk, germany, 15th century
Geneticist Evelyn Witkin (b. #OTD 1921) pioneered work on DNA damage repair & mutagenesis.
Her discovery of the SOS response revealed how cells actively respond to genetic threats, laying foundations for insights into cancer, aging, radiation effects & chemotherapy resistance. #WomenInSTEM #WHM
To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts. 2/7
Trump is the perfect avatar for today’s Right and their anti-egalitarian, anti-pluralistic project that runs on radicalizing grievance.
The white nationalism, the patriarchal domination, the oligarchic control, the Christian supremacism: They are all tied together.
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
5/ If you don't want a company literally stealing night, now is the time to write to the #FCC.
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I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.
“So, the Havana syndrome investigation has finally moved from the realm of mystery and scare-mongering to a documented and proven security threat.”
No paywall
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How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A squadron of sandhill cranes loudly flew over our house today, heading NE. Likely towards Sierra meadows.
