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How not to be fooled while reading research studies...

This article was written by and is currently the pinned post on the twitter acct of @RajeevJayadevan
Medical doctor/specialist Author, Educator, Co-Chairman National IMA COVID Task Force & Past President, Indian Medical Association

Read more at: https://www.onmanorama.com/lifestyle/health/2022/01/09/how-not-to-be-fooled-reading-research-studies.html https://www.onmanorama.com/lifestyle/health/2022/01/09/how-not-to-be-fooled-reading-research-studies.html

How not to be fooled while reading research studies

Often, research studies use terminology and jargon that decorates their findings, leading lay people to believe that the effect was much larger than.study. survey. research. data. analysis. studies

OnManorama
Cali journo documents far-rt takeover of her town: ‘We’re a test case’ Doni Chamberlain’s been a journo in Shasta cty 4 ~30 yrs & documented cty’s shift 2 far-right & rise of ultraconserv coalition into highest office...as dif hard-rt factions joined 2 form powerful pol force w/outside $ from fringe figures. New majority, backed by militia mbrs, anti-vaxxers, election deniers & residents who felt forgotten by gov...fired cty health ofcr & done away w/ region’s voting sys. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/california-journalist-far-right-takover-shasta-county
A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: ‘We’re a test case’

Doni Chamberlain’s been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years. Now she’s targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region

The Guardian
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem
Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT’s regulatory woes.
“There's this rot at the very foundations of the building blocks of this technology—and I think that’s going to be very hard to cure,” says
@BKCHarvard affiliate Elizabeth Renieris in @WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/italy-ban-chatgpt-privacy-gdpr/
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ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem

Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT's regulatory woes.

WIRED

Welp, I'm giving another talk on satellite pollution so I have to update the numbers in my slides.

*checks https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html and https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle*

Oh crap, there are 150 more Starlinks than when I gave a talk on this topic 1 month ago.

3908 Starlink satellites out of 7545 total satellites.

52% of all sats now owned by one awful dude. Still with effectively no regulations. This is so bad.

Jonathan's Space Report | Space Statistics

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Ukrainian hackers claim 2 have broken into emails of a senior Russ military spy wanted by the FBI for hacking Hillary Clinton campaign & other sr U.S. Dems ahead of Trump's election 2 pres in 2016.

In a message posted 2 Telegram on Mon, a grp calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt. Col. Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 w/ helping organize the hack & leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) & Clinton campaign
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukrainian-hackers-say-they-have-compromised-russian-spy-who-hacked-democrats-2023-04-11/

Ukrainian hackers say they have compromised Russian spy who hacked Democrats in 2016

Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016.

Reuters
Mifepristone Ruling: Here Are The Unintended Health Consequences Of Attacks On Abortion Pills

Abortion isn’t the only medical condition that Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling on mifepristone’s FDA approval could impact.

Forbes
@jag0325 It's an excellent question. There are other examples of this behavior from other players too, like Thiel. Say one thing, do another
Addressing the Security Risks of AI
Artificial intelligence systems face continued and salient threats from cyber attacks, writes Jim Dempsey: https://www.lawfareblog.com/addressing-security-risks-ai
Addressing the Security Risks of AI

AI’s vulnerability to adversarial attack is not futuristic, and there are reasonable measures that should be taken now to address the risk.

Lawfare
“Tesla’s building a new ‘Megafactory’ in Shanghai … The facility will be designed to manufacture Tesla’s commercial Megapack battery energy storage units, with the goal of eventually producing about 10,000 systems per year.” https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/10/23676930/teslas-megafactory-megapack-shanghai-china-announcement
Tesla’s newest Megapack-building Megafactory will be in Shanghai

Tesla will build a new Megafactory in Shanghai, China. The new facility will build 10,000 Megapack units a year and will be used for commercial energy storage and utility projects like the Cal Flats solar facility in Monterey County, California.

The Verge