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openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:
3,000 Illustrations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works from Victorian England, Presented in a Digital Archive
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Yay 🙌 🔬 HIV cure breakthrough as virus eliminated from cells in laboratory
It is thanks to a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, which won the Nobel Prize in 2020https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test-dna-b2515169.html
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
@SteveBellovin @KarlSchroeder @hendric @isaackuo @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche (We expect ships to carry reaction mass. Why not have them also carry feedstock and a printer, so that the core military tech you need is a big reactor, bigger radiators to dump waste heat, and a design library full of weapons and countermeasures?
(The term "energetic merchant cruiser" comes up: it's officially unarmed, stands up to customs inspector scrutiny, but you do *not* want to fuck with it …)
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oldroadside@botsin.space ("old roadside pictures") wrote:
disco star ride, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978
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paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:
“After his military service, French suffered from alcoholism and depression. He died on November 7, 1956, in #SanDiego, California; he was only 37 years old.”
#CharlesJacksonFrench
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/charles-jackson-french-1919-1956/
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
@SteveBellovin @KarlSchroeder @hendric @isaackuo @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche I have a soft spot for Iain M. Banks's Culture novels where the tech is 100% rigged for plot purposes BUT the space battles are epic (especially in "Surface Detail" and "Excession").
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torgo ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:
Thinking about https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/DNOTE-ethical-web-principles-20240319/#verify today : "The web must make it possible for people to verify information and assess the trustworthiness of its source." #EthicalWebPrinciples
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Look at this: The Forward takes down its paywall and revenue increases 37%. https://fundjournalism.org/case-studies/beyond-our-wildest-dreams-how-the-forward-removed-its-paywall-and-generated-37-more-revenue/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The woman arguing against #mifepristone, the #AbortionPill, before #SCOTUS is #ErinHawley, the wife of Sen #JoshHawley & a #law prof.
Ms. Hawley, is a lawyer for a #conservative #Christian #legal group, & identifies as an #evangelical, a wife & a mother. [#TradWife]
#law #ReproductiveRights #access #healthcare #abortion #AbortionIsHealthcare
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/erin-hawley-abortion-pill-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.7P-s.jUEdbdWusyll&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Picks in News") wrote:
Baltimore, Md., bridge update: Rescuers are still searching for six construction workers, presumed dead by their employer, who were working on the bridge at the time of the collapse.
Authorities were able to stop traffic from entering the bridge after the tanker ship sent a distress signal, potentially saving many lives.
AP has the latest: https://flip.it/LidO4b
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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:
Cori Bush is calling for a repeal of the Comstock Act, which is good and right, although Barney Frank tried to do so for years and years beforehand. But the Democratic leadership brushed it off. "It's a zombie law," they said, "Nobody enforces it." And here we are and Republicans are salivating to use it to ban abortion nationwide.
It's like a parable of our politics.
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generalising@mastodon.flooey.org ("Andrew") wrote:
I have a preprint out estimating how many scholarly papers are written using chatGPT etc? I estimate upwards of 60k articles (>1% of global output) published in 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887
How can we identify this? Simple: there are certain words that LLMs love, and they suddenly start showing up *a lot* last year. Twice as many papers call something "intricate", big rises for "commendable" and "meticulous".
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
In 2025, the top 1% will get a tax cut of more than $60,000.
Meanwhile, the bottom 60% will see a tax cut of less than $500.
This is why we called the Trump tax cuts a giveaway to the super-rich.
Because that’s exactly what they were.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Media reports say independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today will announce his running mate is wealthy Silicon Valley attorney Nicole Shanahan, who is the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and an alleged former paramour of Elon Musk.
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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:
@mattblaze Must pull out the usual meme
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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
GPT-4V, OpenAI's image interpretation model, lacks proficiency in medical image interpretation and diagnosis. While it can identify and explain medical images, its diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making abilities are poor and could pose risks to patient safety. Therefore, caution should be exercised when using it for clinical decision-making. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12046 You've to be super stupid to believe LLM is a replacement for the trained doctor.
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marcelias@mas.to ("Marc Elias") wrote:
Another win for democracy. Another loss for the GOP.🥳
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-dismisses-pennsylvania-republican-lawsuit-challenging-biden-voting-policies/
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JoshuaHolland ("Joshua Holland") wrote:
Looking forward to a thousand pundits acting as if Ronna McDaniel was cancelled for being a conservative and ignoring the fact that she participated in a hamfisted coup attempt. #media
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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
The LIES perpetrated by RW & MSM, that Biden's policies have led to inflation & his economy is worse than #TFG's must be refuted -his successes: amplified. Polling shows Dems, I's & Rs believe TFG's economy was better than Biden's. They're in a horserace, which the media wants:
"Biden pulls even with Trump as economic view improves slightly. He's a commanding lead among voters when it comes to which candidate they believe is best on several key econ. issues."
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DebErupts ("Deborah Rose") wrote:
Larry Fink can fuck right off.
My husband and I dipped into our retirement account to pay for catastrophic medical expenses in 2008 because we have a screwed up for-profit healthcare system.
Boomers also dipped into retirement funds to assist children with the rising costs of college.
Some Boomers may never be able to retire despite having paid into Social Security their entire lives.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wants Boomers to fix ‘retirement crisis’ | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/03/26/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-boomers-fix-retirement-crisis-millennials-gen-z-economically-anxious/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
asymmetric warfare at its finest: "Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea
--- Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0sRM-uY7E&t=109s
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hanse_mina ("Hanse Mina") wrote:
"Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea
--- Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0sRM-uY7E&t=109s
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alex.stamos@threads.net ("Alex Stamos") wrote:
We especially are looking for folks who have run corporate security teams and can help bring large corporate networks up to best-practice. This means deep knowledge of Microsoft's cloud stack, AzureAD/Entra, modern zero-trust networking concepts and cloud endpoint management and response.
Join us!
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ben.werdmuller@threads.net ("Ben Werdmüller") wrote:
My biggest takeaway from this is that I need a badass studio to work from. https://harper.blog/2024/03/26/our-office-avatar-pt-1-the-office-is-talking-shit-again/
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
Something got lost in translation across the Atlantic, because this is a Yorkshire pudding with strawberry cream, and it was served seriously.
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We really didn't need another example of MAGA hypocrisy, but there it is.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/26/big-tough-tv-cowboy/
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
"I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists
“but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government."
-Maddow on NBC hiring human trash fire Ronna McDanielShe’s right. This is dangerous.
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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:
#OtD 26 Mar 1969 the famous reclusive anarchist and working-class novelist, B. Traven, died. Famous for writing "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," he also wrote "The Death Ship," arguably one of the best books about workers in the shipping industry https://t.co/dwNxNHnuuJ https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9848/b-traven-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
