Bora Gurel

@boragurel
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Computational pathologist, specializing in Uropathology. AÜTF ‘01, HÜTF ‘07, JHU ‘11. Ex-Doçent.Views my own. Clinician Scientist in the De Bono lab @ICR_london
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds

Washington Post story casting major doubt on Portugal's drug legalization quotes mostly police and -- as is essentially always the case in drugs coverage -- fails to ask, much less attempt to answer, this question:

Is the cost to society -- law enforcement, racism, corruption, and more -- higher as a result of making drugs illegal than the problems listed in this piece of making them legal?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/once-hailed-for-decriminalizing-drugs-portugal-is-now-having-doubts/ar-AA1dxFl3

The War on (Some) Drugs is worse, but Big Journalism won't tell you that.

MSN

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."

Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.

#OpenAI #ArtTheft

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

The Verge

Driverless tube trains aren't going to happen, and here's why:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Eh7-n5UAYs&feature=share

#london #londonunderground

Driverless Tube Trains Aren't Going to Happen (and I'll tell you why)

YouTube
Ministers must get a grip: no bailout for Thames Water’s backers

Any financial reconstruction of Thames is simple. Shareholders and bondholders are on the hook

The Guardian
I can't think of a better use of waterfront land in a city. Can you?
Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
I guess on some deep level I don't understand why Mark Zuckerberg needs all of my personal data three separate times. It's starting to seem like an obsession.
Just gonna leave this here.
The PhD thesis is finally complete! #phdlife #pathology #academicmastodon