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Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.

LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:

> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement

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peak grocery store experience - duck in from a sudden rainshower, wander the nearly-empty aisles with Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels" playing from the overhead speakers, followed by "Love My Way" by Psychedelic Furs. This nugget will be in my brain forever.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

I've watched every minute of the recorded oral comments & read the hundreds of written submissions to
@ripta.com in response to the painful service reductions and segment and outright eliminations on the table. This 🧵 is strictly my own and is not an official RIPTA statement.

#medlibs

The 1972 Annual Report of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is now my favorite band.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The propaganda of my youth made me believe villains were invested in being skilled at something. These days, the evil-doers can’t DO anything but publicly suck. They can’t make anything. They don’t build anything. It’s not even innovative evil. Just the same old mess with a new loser at the helm.

Travel Forecast for Thursday as generated by the Weather Star 4000+ emulator. At the bottom my humidity of 7% and dew point of 21°F. Everything is washed out like an analog NTSC television image, which I did by overlaying shaderglass with an NTSC shader.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?

weatherstar.netbymatt.com

Beacon. To my husband's credit he very gently suggested that is not really a first name.

Biodiversity Heritage Library is an absolute marvel. I am just bowled over every time I get to use it. That's all.

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data.

Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates.

This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp

internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...

#MedLibs

What if instead of March Madness we had Marsh Madness and it was about showing your love and appreciation for the salt marsh

Attacking openAI's (and other LLM grifters) infrastructure is at this point "community self-defense" for the whole internet. They're literally a DOS attack funded by some of the richest and most evil men on the planet.

drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2...

Recently fired employees of URI's CRC plunge into Narragansett Bay

Today URI terminated 13 employees from the CRC working in international development. A local impact from the devastating cuts to USAID. Several CRC members partook in a cold plunge for solidarity.

This policy is called “sex as a biological variable.”

Of course, it’s a fool’s errands to try to tease apart the various threads of malice and dipshittery, but I think there’s a real chance the current administration thinks this means “sex is biologically variable [over the lifetime].”

Cartoon of a fox in a purple dress with a bow on its head. It is stood at a library check out desk and has a book and date stamp in front of it. It is leaning back and looks to be screaming. The word librarian hovers next to it.

Mood:
📚

A taco bell drive thru sign and on the marquee part it just says TRY

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From the hellscape that used to be Twitter:

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I Think About This a Lot: When a Feminist Artist Dragged Overgrown Skaters The absence of digital niceties in Barbara Kruger’s statement sends a chill of awe down my spine.

Came across this absolutely prescient article from 2017 and this insult is now at the top of my mind now and forevermore: "What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers"
www.thecut.com/2017/11/i-th...