Ted Han ★ 韓聖安Had amazing poke at Maguro Brothers in Honolulu in September. I have been sadly working my way through different Bay Area poke places trying to find something that's even a shadow of how good it was.
To no avail. 🍣😞
Ted Han ★ 韓聖安
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Director @ Mozilla Rally. Used to run DocumentCloud.
Deb ChachraOn this day in 1989, an attacker entered the engineering school in Montreal. He shot and killed fourteen women, twelve of whom were engineering students, before killing himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre
I was a third-year engineering student in Toronto at the time.
I wrote this in 2014, on the 25th anniversary:
http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-17-twenty-five-years-later
Darius KazemiI'm hosting a webinar about trust and safety on the fediverse this Thursday, Dec 8th at 12pm Eastern. It's an introduction to the state of content moderation and community safety here.
I hope it will be useful to people at civil society organizations who have perhaps heard about Mastodon and the fediverse and would like to know more about where there are gaps in funding and services, and places where orgs could potentially help augment what's already happening.
RSVP: https://meedan.com/event/webinar-trust-and-safety-on-the-fediverse
Webinar: Trust and safety on the fediverse
We are happy to invite you to attend a webinar hosted by Darius Kazemi, an engineer at Meedan who for five years has been writing about the fediverse and writing software for its users. He will be joined by content moderation expert Kat Lo and security expert Aaron Huslage.
Daniel NazerTried to replicate a disturbing chat GPT result and got an even more disturbing output than the one I had seen ...
Charles Seife@ct_bergstrom It turns out that those citations are ENTIRELY MADE UP.
Even though one would expect that the ACLU and Wired would've written about the NSA's collection practices, as far as I can tell, those articles never existed; nor did the Times or Smithsonian articles on Clever Hans even though it would've been natural to see such a piece in their pages.
Even the URLs are constructed to look plausible. But they're total fictions. I think.
Very creepy construction of fake knowledge.
Playing around with #OpenAI's #GPT3 text generator led me to perhaps the creepiest behavior yet. As @ct_bergstrom noted, the AI bots are able to cite the sources of their own writing.
I decided to see if it could function as a plagiarism detector. But when I put a few snippets of my own writing in, it found several uncited sources. (Attached.)
Aha! Someone must have plagiarized me! Or so I thought. But the truth was much stranger....
Helen BranswellMore #measles:
The case count in Ohio's outbreak has risen to 56, with 20 hospitalizations.
Among the new cases are two children who were partially vaccinated, ie they'd had 1 dose. None of the 56 kids infected in this outbreak was fully vaccinated. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/columbus/viz/MeaslesPublicReport/MeaslesPublicReport?publish=yes
The case count in Ohio's outbreak has risen to 56, with 20 hospitalizations.
Among the new cases are two children who were partially vaccinated, ie they'd had 1 dose. None of the 56 kids infected in this outbreak was fully vaccinated. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/columbus/viz/MeaslesPublicReport/MeaslesPublicReport?publish=yes
The MarkupHow did #Facebook collect peoples’ sensitive financial information from #tax filing sites?
@simon explains in the latest #podcast from Marketplace Tech.
Don’t miss this quick listen if you have yet to read the full story. ⬇️ https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/metas-pixel-code-helps-businesses-reach-online-customers-but-shares-sensitive-data-about-them/amp/