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🔗 linkblog: Despite ‘mass fraud’ claims, data shows few Kentuckians use student IDs to vote'
I’ve never voted for Michael Adams, but I appreciate his being a voice of reason within his own party.
🔗 linkblog: Christian Man Persecuted Simply For Driving 90 Miles Per Hour In School Zone'
I recently started following The Onion again, and it’s already paying off.
🔗 linkblog: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Academia When You’re Six Raccoons Living in a Fjällräven Parka'
I really ought to be reading more McSweeney’s.
🔗 linkblog: Mort d'Alexeï Navalny : propos racistes, nationalisme et positions conservatrices… L'autre visage de l'opposant russe'
On peut pleurer la mort de quelqu’un sans oublier ses problèmes. Je ne savais pas tout cela, et j’avoue que je vois Navalny différemment maintenant. C’est toujours quelqu’un qui a mené une lutte importante, mais on ne peut pas ignorer ces propos non plus.
🔗 linkblog: Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot'
Very interesting case.
🔗 linkblog: How the Kansas City shooting proves the 'good guy with a gun' idea is a fallacy'
Depressing but important read.
🔗 linkblog: Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act '
Look, it’s hard to oppose legislation that purports to be “for the kids,” but with the EFF, Mike Masnick, and other voices I respect still firmly against this, I’ll be calling my reps—and encouraging others to do the same.
🔗 linkblog: University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI'
This is straight-up awful. Shame on the university for doing this.
🔗 linkblog: Russia Hides Its War Toll. We Pieced Together the Clues.'
Russia is in the wrong in this conflict, but that also means that Russians are among those being wronged.
🔗 linkblog: Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors'
You know, instead of assuming that we must grow AI data centers and asking how we should power them, we could look at the costs in terms of power and ask whether we should grow AI data centers.
🔗 linkblog: UK president to legislature: Proposed DEI, tenure legislation is ‘deeply concerning’ for Kentucky colleges'
I appreciate it when our president speaks up against legislation that would hurt the University of Kentucky.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'
Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it.
🔗 linkblog: Sell lab-grown meat in Tennessee, pay a $1 million fine'
Good article on some dumb fearmongering.
🔗 linkblog: Ky. Senate passes bill to limit DEI in higher education in the name of free speech'
Well, crap. Not a lot of hope that House will stop this.
🔗 linkblog: Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale'
Masnick’s perspectives on free speech are always helpful.
🔗 linkblog: The ‘queer.af’ Mastodon instance disappeared because of the Taliban'
Domain name infrastructure plays a bigger role than we might think.
🔗 linkblog: Hungary's president resigns over a pardon to a man convicted in a child sexual abuse case'
Wondering how long it will be until implicit praise of her family values gets taken down from the LDS and BYU websites.
🔗 linkblog: Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D'
Bookmarking for later reference. I get that there are some complicated factors at play here, but this still seems wrong to me.
🔗 linkblog: Legend in the Mist is ‘counter-D&D,’ a game where words are more powerful than numbers'
Love seeing this kind of narrative- and character-focused mechanic,
🔗 linkblog: Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets'
Hate to see Swift taking a page out of Musk’s book here.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Fascinating post. Grateful for Doctorow’s honesty at his being scammed and interested in the idea that lowering quality of services through AI trains us to accept fraud.