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AI crawling MUST be made opt-in. IP address registries like RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, AFRINIC and LACNIC should claw back IP ranges that are used for excessive AI crawling without target consent. It's time for radical ideas. This can't continue.
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayWhat happens when the Govt. Under Secretary for Homelessness & Rough Sleeping is herself a landlord?
Well, the answer is she continues to act as a Landlord; serving notice on tenants that a lease would not be renewed so that the rent could be raised & the property re-listed.... now this is not an uncommon tactic, but its also what is stoking rent inflation (and therefore indirectly homelessness).
The problem with our political class in a nutshell; hypocrisy!
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech
Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure
The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating public outrage over the lack of transparency around Project Blue, the council voted to end negotiations and remove the annexation and development agreement from […]
p2pandaWe've just published a new blog post about access control in decentralised systems!
https://p2panda.org/2025/07/28/access-control.html
The post includes details about the design and implementation of our new p2panda-auth crate, along with a discussion of some of the technical challenges that arise when trying to solve access control in a decentralised context.
Jimmy@humancuration I'm saying that your instance administrator can delete your entire Mastodon history, and mastodon.social will do it for what they refer to as "Nazi inversion": pointing out the parallels between Zionism and Nazism. Apparently that is illegal in Germany, and they have to cover their asses.
CoMaps - Hike, Bike, DriveCoMaps is powered by OpenStreetMap — the map created by people, for people.
Thousands of local contributors around the world help keep it accurate, up-to-date, and truly community-driven. A mountain trail, a new road, or a hidden café - chances are it was added by someone who knows the area best.
CoMaps builds on this rich, open data to bring you offline navigation— maps that work anywhere.
Thank you to everyone contributing to OpenStreetMap — you make CoMaps possible!
Sariel SnowingsHey remember that ship Greta Thunberg is on, trying to get aid into Gaza despite Israel constantly bombing them?
It has a live tracker. The more eyes on it the safer they'll be:
https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Terence TaoI am belatedly realizing that in my attempts to describe my evaluation of the capability of an AI tool, I inadvertently gave the incorrect (and potentially harmful) impression that human graduate students could be reductively classified according to a static, one dimensional level of “competence”. This was not my intent at all; and I would therefore like to make the following clarifying remarks.
Firstly, the ability to contribute to an existing research project is only one aspect of graduate study, and a relatively minor one at that. A student who is not especially effective in this regard, but excels in other dimensions such as creativity, independence, curiosity, exposition, intuition, professionalism, work ethic, organization, or social skills can in fact end up being a far more successful and impactful mathematician than one who is proficient at assigned technical tasks but has weaknesses in other areas.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, human students learn and grow during their studies, and areas in which they initially struggle with can become ones in which they are quite proficient at after a few years; and personally I find being able to assist students in such transitions to be one of the most rewarding aspects of my profession. In contrast, while modern AI tools have some ability to incorporate feedback into their responses, each individual model does not truly have the capability for long term growth, and so can be sensibly evaluated using static metrics of performance. However, I believe such a fixed mindset is not an appropriate framework for judging human students, and I apologize for conveying such an impression.