Some personal news! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/loldja_python-pydata-pydatanyc-activity-7127648399960477697-77n2
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GeoPandasWe are excited to let you know that @geopandas was accepted as a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project recently. Our new Sponsored status means that you can directly support the development and maintenance of @geopandas also financially 💰. If you'd like to make a donation, head to https://numfocus.org/donate-for-geopandas or reach directly to us! Thank you NumFOCUS and everyone else!
Meredith WhittakerThis isn’t about credit, this is about the fact that there was a moment to act together, when the power these Men of AI wield could have been used in solidarity with a movement that was gaining ground to stop the worst of AI. They didn’t use their power that way. And here we are.
katiIt's disheartening to find out that a business that has helped the Python/Django conference community create an accessible environment has gone unpaid by Elon's Twitter and had to take extreme action to survive. 💔 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/twitter-s-unpaid-bills-create-another-headache-for-elon-musk
Dan Brekke"... A driverless Waymo vehicle subsequently proceeded to meander into the middle of things, like an autonomous Mr. Magoo.
“It doesn’t know what to do!” shouts an officer caught in the background of the body-worn camera footage. “I’ll pop a flare!” responds the cop wearing the camera. “There’ll be hella smoke in the front.”
He then commands the vehicle to “stay,” and places a flare in front of it. But it does not obey, hella smoke and all (“ah, fuck!”).
“Got a bit of a pickle,” he radios to a dispatcher. “Got an autonomous vehicle, the Waymo, it’s inching slowly and closely to one of the main water lines that the SF Fire just charged. Can’t run it over. Is there a way you can contact a responder to come out and disable this vehicle? I don’t trust this AI.”
https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/
#sanfrancisco #autonomousvehicles #waymo #cruise
db0Man this story is brilliant https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/
Started dystopian but turned out very unexpected.
(h/t to @pluralistic latest linkblog (https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/02/wunderkammer/#jubillee).
Tiffany LiWGA is now trying to negotiate a hard stop on use of their members' writing to train AI. This will mean that companies who buy a script or hire a writer can’t exploit writers’ works by training AI to put those same writers out of a job. This is a smart move!
mmitchell_ai"we are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary technology that delivers the one thing readers are most passionate about: efficiency."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai
Jon BanafatoThe PyGotham TV 2023 Call for Proposals closes in just under two weeks. As always, we're looking for talks (and short films!) on any topic that would be of interest to the Python community. Send your proposal our way today at https://cfp.pygotham.tv.
MartinWelcoming signal boosts: Come work on my team!
We are hiring a Senior Digital Security Trainer. You'll work with journalists, media organizations, whistleblowers and other mission-aligned groups to develop their digital security hygiene.
Many of us have nontraditional backgrounds in security, so we intend to cast a wide net. Even if you don't think you fully match the job description, if you're excited about it we want to hear from you. Apply by 5/15! https://grnh.se/4bd2fe535us