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www.theverge.com 4mo ago

Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

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www.icij.org 4mo ago

Nearly half of 50-cal ammo seized by Mexico came from US Army plant

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www.statnews.com 5mo ago

FDA's rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry

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www.theatlantic.com 5mo ago

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

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blog.elementary.io 7mo ago

Elementary OS 8.1 Available Now

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www.scientificamerican.com 7mo ago

Covid Vaccines Slashed Kids' ER Visits by 76 Percent

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thefern.org 7mo ago

Oregon's data center boom is supercharging a water crisis

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www.nytimes.com 8mo ago

Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51

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disabilityvisibilityproject.com 8mo ago

Alice Wong Has Died

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reason.com 8mo ago

Minnesota Cop Who Fabricated a Sex-Trafficking Ring Won't Be Held Accountable

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www.youtube.com 9mo ago

Doing the Jobs That "Americans Won't Do" [video]

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www.teenvogue.com 9mo ago

Police departments tracked activists in the 1960s and 70s then erased records

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www.youtube.com 9mo ago

Angela Collier: Conspiracy Physics and You [video]

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www.washingtonpost.com 9mo ago

Vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia

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www.cubbyathome.com 10mo ago

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

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openai.com 10mo ago

OpenAI: We may refer [you] to law enforcement

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www.bloomberg.com 11mo ago

Five Span wants NYT to use Bullshit Machine for profit

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www.rollingstone.com 11mo ago

What Opposition? Dems' Urged Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover

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www.nature.com 11mo ago

A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs

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www.levernews.com 11mo ago

Corporate America's New Ploy to Trap Workers

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thesicktimes.org 11mo ago

As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness

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www.tomshardware.com 11mo ago

Benn Jordan releases new RFC for IPoAC

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Building a farm sector with real jobs and upward mobility [video]

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www.vanityfair.com 1y ago

What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women's Prison

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www.rollingstone.com 1y ago

The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans

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www.teenvogue.com 1y ago

What Happens to Your Used Clothing

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www.openculture.com 1y ago

Hazel Scott: Jazz Musician and Activist Who Fell into Obscurity When Blacklisted

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inquest.org 1y ago

Freedom from unreasonable gov. intrusion means nothing to subjects to probation

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www.wbur.org 1y ago

The Alice of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" Dies at 83

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www.scientificamerican.com 1y ago

Pediatric long Covid is more common than many thought

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>"Can LLMs provide access to timely constructive feedback in specific educational contexts?"

"Can they" is not the same as "do they" and "specific educational contexts" is not relevant to "all educators"

Is it possible to get constructive feedback? sure, maybe. Is it possible to get a specific teacher's feedback? Not really. Is it possible to guarantee it will be productive feedback? No, especially if the student has to/gets to interact with it.

Is it likely that the reason "all educators" aren't tripping over themselves to have their students submit some number of drafts to an llm is because that's not actually a good idea? sure, probably.

the whole "not being an automatable remote sql injection away from everything" quality of physical objects grants a filing cabinet a tremendous amount of inherent security compared to anything digital.

That's not what that says though.

technology and professional analysts with helping detectives make arrests in 53%

"technology and analysts" "help" "make arrests" not surveillance, not convictions and only the implication that they wouldn't have made the arrest otherwise.

Like look at the example: somebody calls in an OD and a guy sees that the dude ODing matches (the clothing of) a suspect in some other crime and so they arrest him.

Once again an arrest is not a conviction but also what part of that needed/used pervasive surveillance?

ALSO a conviction is not the same thing as truth.

ALSO ALSO by basic subtraction the panopticon wasn't even helpful 47% of the time.

Well the screw worm thing happened because Elon Musk hired a bunch of twitter nazis to put the government through a wood chipper.

This is the end result of decades snake oil moguls empowered by orin hatch and then turbo charged by people being furious that they weren't allowed to go to TGI Fridays for six months.

Look, I was in CS101 back in those days so I'm not really qualified to say who was right about where/with-what responsibility for bugs lied. Maybe he was completely right and just kind of a dick about it. I'm just reporting that no one liked him and that carried over to the introduction of systemd.

Important to people being happy now is that Lennart Poettering didn't write pipewire.

Also having a bunch of things barely held together with duct tape is part of the philosophy.

Okay so back in ~2000 the audio system in Linux was ALSA and it kinda sucked so along come a guy named Lennart Poettering who wrote pulseaudio which improved things in a lot of ways but also kinda constantly didn't work. Poettering in those years constantly blamed everything on other software in the stack and became kinda wildly disliked. We all had to use pulseaudio though because everything important decided to integrate it.

Jump forward to systemd and absolutely none of trust Poettering farther than we can throw him. At the same time systemd basically did the job of half a dozen programs which offends a lot of people on philosophical grounds. Simultaneously a bunch of things start hard requiring this program that people neither trust nor like.