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“Most of the folks crying the loudest about TikTok were the same people that created the policy environment that lets TikTok (and anybody else) play fast and loose with consumer data in the first place.”
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When it comes to protecting my kids from predators, I’m most afraid of priests, coaches and other authority figures.
LGBTQ people don’t even make the list.
Drag queens? Gimme a fucking break.
745 billionaires now hold more wealth than HALF of American households.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
This young network engineer at Project Waves is doing amazing things in Baltimore
My story here on how Devin Weaver designed, built, and operates a #communitybroadband network that brings free gig speed #Internet service to low-income apartment buildings in one of the nation's most disconnected cities
#DigitalEquity #BlackMastodon #broadband #equity #DigitalInclusion
https://communitynets.org/content/making-waves-baltimore-community-driven-connectivity
Why was the GOP allowed to insert earmarks into the spending bill for members who voted against it anyway (and who supposedly oppose the practice of earmarking itself)?
As G.O.P. Rails Against Federal Spending, Its Appetite for Earmarks Grows https://nyti.ms/40p1G9P
So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.
https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/
Maybe this is good?
No, it's very bad.
They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.
This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.