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joemurph, 2 months ago to random

What the eclipse looked like from space

A 36-frame animation of images of the Earth taken from satellite, where you can see a dark spot travel across the planet.

AnnaAnthro, 2 months ago to Aruba

The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island #Aruba

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

digiphile, 2 months ago to random

I received another text from @POTUS Joe Biden, about new plans to relieve student debt, with a link this website:
https://studentaid.gov/debtrelief
This is a notable but unheralded use of a 20th century tech to connect Americans directly to 21st century government, from services & active citizenship. A BFD.
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It’s opt-in, unlike presidential alerts on phones https://my.community.com/potus?t=Hello%20Mr.%20President%20%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8

I hope Ben Labolt puts these in a public feed on whitehouse.gov/texts. cc @whitehouse

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Smithsonianmag, 2 months ago to random

These 15 Photos Show How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Captivated the Nation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-15-photos-show-how-the-2024-total-solar-eclipse-captivated-nation-180984115/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews

jonty, 2 months ago to random

Ran out of time to build the project I planned, but this frantically hacked together thing seems to have made a lot of people happy!

20 years to prepare for the next one. Should be enough.
https://chaos.social/@jonty/112237055280004245

josh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

What are we expecting for Monday's eclipse?
#eclipse #eclipse2024

wikidata, 2 months ago to random

🚀 We are about to get started with day 3 of the #LevelingUpDays. Join us today to learn about useful gadgets and tools for editors. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Leveling_Up_Days_2024

jackiegardina, 2 months ago to journalism

Meta blocked a story critical of its climate change ad policies on all of its platform. An independent journalist asked permission to repost the story verbatim on her substack. It was blocked too.

Here it is.

#media #law #lawfedi #censorship

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

bjoreman, 2 months ago to random

Large language models - the new incarnation of the psychic hotline. From another excellent read by @baldur. Includes a great explanation of why some people become so convinced in the abilities of LLMs: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

bkeegan, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The “free speech” party ejecting a journalist from a public meeting because leadership doesn’t like her reporting.

I stand with @fishnette and @coloradosun #copolitics

kaosailor, 2 months ago to privacy

I'm still laughing 😂 yet still very incensed..

#privacy #googlechrome #security #memes

pluralistic, 2 months ago to random

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

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jasonkoebler, 2 months ago to random

Bullying in open source software is a massive security risk, as shown by the Xz backdoor, a near-miss at F-Droid, and as repeatedly pointed out by @Mer__edith, @eighthave, and so many others over the years:

https://www.404media.co/xz-backdoor-bullying-in-open-source-software-is-a-massive-security-vulnerability/

josh, 2 months ago to Anthropology

Book Question for #humanevolution #anthropology #paleoanthropology #bioanthropology #highered peeps:

I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

Suggestions? Thanks!

LGT publisher page for Stringer book that I've been using ...
https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9781250023308/lonesurvivors

jdelacueva, 2 months ago to privacy

Congratulations to all Outlook users. #Privacy

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

PrivacyDigest, 2 months ago to google

The #Incognito Mode #Myth Has Fully Unraveled

To settle a years-long lawsuit, #Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on #Chrome to protect your #privacy.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-incognito-mode-data-deletion-settlement/

alex, 2 months ago to random

"Every bubble pops eventually. When this one goes, what will be left behind?"

Good stuff from @pluralistic

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

digiphile, 2 months ago to random

This White House aspires to be a “global model for the safe, secure, & trustworthy use of AI,” but is publishing evidence of its actions as a screenshot of a spreadsheet, not an interactive with data posted at Data.Gov & code Code.Gov. The Office of Management still isn’t leading by example on open data, which affects government transparency and accountability & will hinder good governance & oversight as federal agencies explore using AI:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/28/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-announces-omb-policy-to-advance-governance-innovation-and-risk-management-in-federal-agencies-use-of-artificial-intelligence/

sean, 2 months ago to random

For the past ~2 years, I’ve been working on a neuroscience startup (called Matter). We have an app that—by its nature—needs to operate on private user data. Some of that data is so private that we never actually want to handle it ourselves. So we don’t.

We can’t leak data we don’t have. We can’t mishandle private info that never leaves the control of the user.

We’re taking a mostly-unique approach to user data at Matter, and I’ve finally written a little bit about it:

https://seancoates.com/blogs/matter-and-privacy

wikiresearch, 2 months ago to random

"Evaluating Large Language Models on Wikipedia-Style Survey Generation" examining the proficiency of LLMs in generating succinct survey articles specific to the niche field of NLP in computer science, on a list of 99 topics.

(Gao et al, 2024)

https://t.co/NOpfd9Bmhb https://t.co/ovcyYcLUZh

via https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1773323233866956952

miaq, 2 months ago to fediverse

Question: which publishers are doing the best job at incorporating #fediverse networks as part of their content strategy and engaging with the community? I want to write a "Fedi Curious" post about best practices for #media orgs. Thank you in advance!

ryanfb, 2 months ago to infosec

I don't know who needs to hear this but #TruthSocial, which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE's as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn't use?) #infosec

v_i_o_l_a, 2 months ago to random German

"How to integrate #Zotero with #Obsidian": https://notelab.hypotheses.org/1266

LeoVarnet, 2 months ago to random French

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images/

deevybee, 2 months ago to random

I recommend this blogpost by Eiko Fried to anyone who is trying to fight the good fight in improving science and getting demoralised
https://eiko-fried.com/antidotes-to-cynicism-creep/
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #integrity