I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published
Left-right: Dr Ruth Freeman, Director, Research for Society at Research Ireland, James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Ann Butler, Project Lead, Energize / Junior Achievement Ire Ltd (Discover-funded project), Hildegarde Naughton, Minister for Education and Youth, and Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, CEO Research Ireland (Photo: Jason Clarke).
A total of 32 projects that will bring STEM engagement to communities nationwide have received funding through the Research Ireland Discover Programme, including 6 projects supported by the Department of Education and Youth. Read more: www.researchireland.ie/news/discove...
When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.
NOT A JOKE
AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).
The mogwai album cover come on die young only with Andrew nonce face photoshopped on to it
From Mogwai's insta, lol
Happy 15 years from the edge of Hell.
Dirty Knobs - FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE EDGE OF HELL
rotd: Feb 1 2011
"Despite the title, not much Satan."
—albinobone
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#ambient #drone #soundscape #bandcamp #actuallyplentyofstatanthankyouverymuch 🔊 🎶 🔥
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
This is, incidentally, also true in physics
I've been hiding this for a long time, but here it is. The real first roleplaying game, created in 1970: Crypt. I've created an annotated manuscript of this lost treasure trollish-delver-games.itch.io/crypt
Guardian
Last month @theguardian.com did something stupid, and today they fixed it. And I’m in it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
= THE IRISH TIMES Forcing companies to create access pathways within the technical standards upon which encryption relies would put all online activities at risk, as those pathways amount to security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by others. There's a fanciful belief, among some lawmakers, that we can undermine encrypted communications in a secure way: open a little door for just the "good" guys to scurry in, take a peek at what one person is communicating to another, and scurry back out again, without undermining the security of the service for all users. But cybersecurity experts, technologists and computer scientists across the world have been clear: forcing companies to build backdoor access only for law enforcement is deeply misguided.
THE IRISH TIMES & As the European Court of Human Rights held last year, weakening encryption by creating backdoors would make it "technically possible to perform routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal electronic communications. Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users' electronic communications". Even Europol and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity agree. They previously conceded that mandatory backdoors or weakening encryption would "increase the attack surface for malicious abuse, which, consequently, would have much wider implications for society". They also questioned the efficacy of such measures: "Moreover, criminals can easily circumvent such weakened mechanisms and make use of
Just a flavour:
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.
This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
there’s some asshole professor on the local news
Photo of a single board computer emulating a Sinclair Spectrum. It has a colourful pcb with a spectrum keyboard and a small lcd display.
Oh, this is fun #esp32rainbow.
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
A bunch of Unbound authors DID reach out in March to the Society of Authors when Unbound went into administration.
SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.”
So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
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well you know what, three years ago today I ran eleven and a half miles at a pace of 10:00/mi and today I ran two miles in half mile increments with two minute walking breaks but I share this for anybody who's climbing back up a hill they already climbed once. we'll get there & it'll feel good
Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists.
My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬
Hello, people of bluesky, if you are just joining us—here is an old comic I made about Dracula
Screenshot of a twitter post showing that the latest openAI commercial model is better than previous models at doing arithmetic but still cannot reliably produce the correct answer of multiplication problems with values greater than 11 x 11. It's supposed to be impressive I think
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
