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🔗 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.
🔗 linkblog: Internet : les moteurs de recherche veulent remplacer la liste de sites par une réponse synthétisée'
Une très mauvaise idée, celle-ci.
🔗 linkblog: The Absurd One-Sidedness of the Ethics of AI Debate: A rant | Punya Mishra's Web'
Punya is a bit warmer on AI than I am, so I wasn’t sure what I would be reading based off of the title, but this is one of the best things I’ve read on generative AI in education. These companies have so much power and could use a little more Parkerian responsibility.
🔗 linkblog: Generative AI course statement – George Veletsianos, PhD'
George’s example statement is one worth bookmarking.
🔗 linkblog: Why does Nephi keep the sword? | By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog'
Interesting Book of Mormon reading here.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax - The Verge'
I don’t like Spotify, but they’re not wrong here.
🔗 linkblog: The Taylor Swift deepfakes are a warning'
Good thoughts from Newton here. “Who could have predicted this?” indeed.
🔗 linkblog: N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says - The New York Times'
Well, this sucks. Appreciate Ron Wyden’s diligence in this area.
🔗 linkblog: Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone - The Verge'
Sideloading for Americans, too, please.