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Hacker, dressed as the pink Power Ranger, takes down 3 white supremacist sites live on stage after scraping details with AI: 'Maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination' | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/hacker-dressed-as-the-pink-power-ranger-takes-down-3-white-supremacist-sites-live-on-stage-after-scraping-details-with-ai-maybe-try-mastering-to-host-wordpress-before-world-domination/

Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

If a loved one's oldest memories are clearest and happiest, join them there.

#Alzheimers #dementia #happiness #kindness

Previously posted paper, now with an assigned issue & page numbers, #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.133

#EnvironmentalEthics
#EnvironmentalHistory
#PhilBio
#HPB
#ConservationBiology
#Ecology
#PhilSci
#Values

It seems to me that the #ICC warrant gives #Netanyahu tremendous power to damage the ICC itself, as well as #NATO and the #EU.

Let's say for argument's sake that Netanyahu decides to take a little trip to Amsterdam tomorrow (or even worse, the day after the #Trump inauguration). What would happen? After internal discord in the Dutch government, only two outcomes are possible: they arrest him, or they don't. Sadly, both options are disastrous in the current international context. 🧵 1/

Yes, the ex-publishers have essentially reversed the net flow of information: it used to flow from them to us, through the journals. Now we provide them with our data and that's where the real gold is found:

"Academic publishers’ most valuable asset used to be their journals. Now, it’s the data they collect from researchers and then sell."

https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en

#publishing #openaccess #openscience #academicchatter