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Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Swimwear safety illustration showing how different colors of swimwear appear in freshwater and in swimming pools. Some colors are visible in both, like orange, and other colors, like light blue or white are barely detectable in either.

Choose your swimwear colors carefully, too.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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#booksky

they want fascist "AI"

‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing Many apps like Find My allow us to follow our loved ones at all times. But just because we can, does it mean we should?

“The official X account for Life360, incidentally, feels very much geared towards younger generations, with posts such as, ‘i love it when someone says they checked my location. like thx for checking on me’ and ‘She follows you on Instagram and me on Life360 … we are not the same.’” 🥴

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

AI this, AI that, what about how much energy AI actually uses?

“It blows my mind that you can buy a car and know how many miles per gallon it consumes, yet we use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing." From the experts:

Whaaaat, didn’t know this! *Big defeated sigh* :/

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It'll be interesting to see if this sort of thing breaks through the trance in the K-12 AI-for-all-children-all-the-time movement

The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide Palestinian journalists live through the same brutal conditions they cover — and describe a pattern of direct targeting by Israeli forces.

"We cannot back down because documenting the truth has become a moral duty before it is a profession," Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Abu Ghazaleh told @theintercept.com.

Read the rest of the story produced in partnership with @freedom.press:

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The UK is betting big on AI to deliver growth, but plans to 'turbocharge' AI may put the UK’s climate goals at risk. In a new report, we address the gap that exists in trying to achieve two policy goals: decarbonising the UK and advancing AI infrastructure.

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“We are not facing a crisis of AI. We are facing a crisis of imagination – a failure to envision the full spectrum of possibilities that lie before us and, perhaps more critically, a failure to understand the work required to realize better futures." – Prof @ginasue.bsky.social 💡

"The future we deserve won’t emerge automatically – it demands active participation, thoughtful governance, and the courage to imagine alternatives." – Prof @ginasue.bsky.social,📍The Kyunghyang Forum, Seoul 🇰🇷

How fake-will fraudsters steal millions from the dead A trail of suspicious wills led to an organised gang committing fraud and stealing millions from dead people's estates.

A really, really disturbing story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

happy to profile our research in The Guardian today

Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis Our research shows people are strongly in favour of measures to tackle the climate crisis. They just need to be listened to, says professor of energy and climate governance Rebecca Willis

Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

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Weekends are nano-retirements, after-work hours are pico-retirements, lunch breaks are femto-retirements, bathroom breaks are atto-retirements...

This is called "going on holiday"

Looking forward to seeing Karen Hao in Edinburgh in August. Just secured my ticket after starting off at 1,502 in the online queue! I got her new book about OpenAI yesterday. The firm and Sam Altman declined to be involved which of course makes me even more intrigued to read it…

these people are just evil

American urbanists: “airport transport is overrated. We should not spend any money to improve speed or frequency to the airport”

European cities: “our airport has integrated train stations with city center service every few minutes and intercity high speed trains—plus we’re adding another train”

We're at @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social today hosting a forum on the impact of #GenAI on the novel.

Our @braiduk.bsky.social Fellow Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social has convened authors, publishers, agents, and industry bodies to discuss copyright, creativity, and the value of books in the AI era.

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe. Continue reading...

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Absolute pleasure to speak at the Centre for Investigative Journalism summer school today about Democracy for Sale and fighting for Freedom of Information.

So proud of my colleagues @lucasamin.bsky.social and @jennacorderoy.bsky.social and what we’re building ☺️☺️☺️

Great to be invited to Jesus College, Cambridge for a dinner last night and expert symposium today on '#GenAI and the #Novel', a brilliant research project led by Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social and funded by @braiduk.bsky.social / @mctd.bsky.social with support from @ifow.org.