"#Alaska’s top education official relied on generative artificial intelligence to draft a proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schools, which resulted in a state document citing supposed academic studies that don’t exist.
The document did not disclose that AI had been used in its conception. At least some of that AI-generated false information ended up in front of state Board of Education and Early Development members"
False citations show Alaska education official relied on generative AI, raising broader questions • Alaska Beacon
Department of Education and Early Development Commissioner Bishop said the false citations were in a draft she used generative AI to create.Claire Stremple (Alaska Beacon)
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“These People Drive Like Idiots,” Say 12,000 I-5 Drivers in Unison
In a display of universal synchronicity during today’s rush hour, a record 12,287 I-5 drivers collectively complained “you all drive like complete goddamn jagoffs” at the exact same time. “Fi…The Needling
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So with the 'ballot box burning' can we drop any pretense the people doing this have a legitimate grievance that needs to be aired and just call them the terrorists that they are?
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They know they can't win so they cheat.
#USPOL #Washington #Oregon #Vancouver #Portland #PNW
US election live: Elon Musk sued over $1m voter giveaways; Harris calls Trump Madison Square Garden rally ‘nonsense’ fueled by hate
Pennsylvania DA sues billionaire over what he calls ‘an illegal lottery’; Harris says Trump more focused on ‘grievances, on himself and on dividing our country’Daniel Lavelle (The Guardian)
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Billionaire-Owned News Is Not Our Only Option – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/billionaire-owned-news-is-not-our-only-option/
Billionaire-Owned News Is Not Our Only Option
There are thousands of newsrooms with no fat-cat owner to fear. They deserve your support.Mother Jones
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It's not fair that LLMs get to hallucinate all they want and they're somehow groundbreaking tech and The Future, but I ask just one undercover officer for magic mushrooms and suddenly I'm some kind of threat to society?
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I recently found out that my department at work is being shut down, so I'm looking for a new position!
I spent the last 6 years building advanced security assessment capabilities around hardware/IoT, industrial, marine OT, and x86 platforms. Before that I spent 5 years as a pentester. I excel at weird and novel stuff where there's no template.
I'm based in the UK and I'm looking for a remote full-time role.
CV: https://poly.nomial.co.uk/graham_sutherland.pdf
Thanks!
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🚨 A Vancouver, WA ballot box was set on fire and hundreds of ballots burned
"Voters who dropped off ballots at that location after 8 a.m. Sunday need to contact the Auditor's Office IMMEDIATELY for a new ballot."
https://katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson #WAelex
Burning ballots pulled from inside smoking Vancouver ballot box; hundreds of ballots lost
KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.Our photographeKATU
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🚨 There’s been an update:
“Voters who dropped off ballots at that location after ***11 a.m. Saturday*** need to contact the Election Auditor's Office IMMEDIATELY for a new ballot.” #waelex
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I can't believe that we now have to consider fireproof ballot boxes.
What a fucking joke. >:(
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Burning ballots pulled from inside smoking Vancouver ballot box; hundreds of ballots lost
KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.Our photographeKATU
#Amendment80 would give #Colorado #parents a #right to #direct their #kid’s #education.
#Proponents claim it would not #grant #parents more #authority over #lessons or #curriculum. Others worry it would lead to #lawsuits against #schools.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/28/colorado-school-choice-amendment-80-parental-rights/
Amendment 80 would give Colorado parents the right to direct their kid’s education. What does that mean for schools?
Proponents of Colorado's Amendment 80 say it would not grant parents more authority over curriculum. Others worry it could spur lawsuits against schools.Erica Breunlin (The Colorado Sun)
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Do you like Lego? Do you like the Apple IIe/IIgs?
Blocko is an interface card that allows you to control Lego Technics machines with the LOGO programming language, just like we did in elementary school!
Available in November 2024
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Why do anarchists stay on reddit or other corporate-run platforms?
A reminder that more American child pedestrians (age 0-17) are killed by cars on Halloween than on any other day of the year. #CarsRuinCities
Forget tainted candy: The scariest thing on Halloween is parked in your driveway
More American child pedestrians die on Halloween from cars than on any other day of the year.Muizz Akhtar (Vox)
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Scientists have discovered that Earth’s carbon sinks are not really carbon sinking at the moment
Is that good? What does that even mean?First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
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That's the thing about slave economic systems too.
If it's so great, why were there so many slave revolts?
If Jim Crow was so accepted & "normal" why was there a constant series of court cases and civil rights marches against it?
If patriarchy was so wonderful, why was there a suffrage & women's movement?
If transphobia & homophobia was universal, why are bigots in the courts & politics fighting so hard?
Where are the American furries from?
based on 19k google form answers
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Damn literally every Alaskan is a furry I guess. /s
Pleasantly surprised to see that many up here though. Surprised it's not lower.
> "Driving is easy!"
> A couple rainy days:
45-car pileup on southbound I-5 closes freeway for hours in Kent
Up to 45 cars were involved in a multi-car crash around 1:20 p.m., forcing the closure of southbound I-5 in Kent.The Washington State Patrol (WSP) closed all southbound lanes to allow first responders and tow trucks to reach the crash site.
Trooper Rick Johnson with WSP said that there were only minor injuries.
Traffic was being diverted to SR 516 until all the cars could be taken off the road.
Several first responders and agencies answered the call including officials with the Washington State Patrol, Washington State Department of Transportation, local fire and paramedics.
The backup reached 5 miles, officials with WSP and WSDOT said.
The road was reopened at 4:15 p.m. but it is taking some time to clear the backup.
During the closure, people were told to plan for added travel time and seek alternative routes.
Real-time traffic information is available on the WSDOT mobile app and the Travel Center Map, or by signing up for email updates.
WSP is investigating the cause as a single crash.
finally someone wrote The Thing about 'digital nomads'
YES
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/digital-nomads-criticism-locals-exploitation
The Unfettered Selfishness of Digital Nomads
We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.James Greig (Thrillist)
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Brakes. This magic thing can even make a car come to a full halt!
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but the US might not even achieve that goal with "independent" commissions, since basically everyone in the US is part of either party. Other solutions would be #rankedChoiceVoting to help competition/more moderate candidates and speaking of the Electoral Collage the "#NationalPopularVoteInterstateCompact" would effectively enable a popular vote. #usPol #Elections
How Canada ended gerrymandering
Our neighbor to the north solved its gerrymandering problem decades ago.Andrew Prokop (Vox)
@nick @kkarhan Interesting story, thanks. We need some kind of RCV.
NPV compact feels hacky, cleaner to pass a majoritarian constitution via referendum. Many more fixes needed e.g. dissolve Senate, remove slavery clauses including still-active involuntary servitude for convicts, align pol incentives with citizens’. More:
https://sfba.social/@vij/111292247310383927
Manish Vij (@vij@sfba.social)
@collette One person, one vote: dissolve Senate and electoral college, most votes for president wins, ban partisan state election officials, replace gerrymander with nonpartisan commissions or math Align incentives: easier ballot access, some form o…SFBA.social
TIL The East India Company did not carry or sell the opium to China itself because of the Chinese ban, instead the company dominated the Indian production end and monopolized the supply, selling it to private traders/smugglers who actually did the selling, not unlike China on fentanyl issue today.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge1087/til_the_east_india_company_did_not_carry_or_sell/
Opium trade | China, History, Wars, & Facts | Britannica
Opium trade, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.Encyclopedia Britannica
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"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air. This produced as much carbon as the average person in the world would in 300 years.""
Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5CJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/users-unite-against-the-new-google-maps-want-this-top-feature-removed-241838.html
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Someone had to do it
https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-cities-are-lovely-x-is-a-dumpster-fire
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Engagement on [Mastodon] is often kinda boring. I'm not looking for an echo chamber where everyone agrees with me all the time
👀 Is this a call for urbanist hot takes? If so here's what I've got
- Homeowners have an incentive to restrict development. We should reduce the amount of local input in development
- Environmental review served a good purpose in the era of highway expansions but should be removed in places where it has become an impediment to development
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- While well-intentioned, affordability requirements for new housing only serve to make construction less financially viable and less likely to be constructed
- Likewise there is far too much hostility towards developers and landlords in urbanist spaces
- Historical landmarking is often used to prevent development and it should be limited (eg. SF's historic laundromat)
- We should not expect transit to be a cash cow but free fares makes it harder to expand service
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TIL: Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox. Oreo eventually surpassed Hydrox in popularity, which resulted in the Hydrox cookies being perceived by many as an imitation of Oreo, despite the opposite being the case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gdp77a/til_oreo_was_created_in_1912_as_an_imitation_of/
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American Trinity (Left):
- Commodore PET
- Apple II
- Tandy TRS-80
Japanese Trinity (Right):
- Sharp MZ-80K
- NEC PC-8001
- Hitachi BASIC Master MB-6880
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Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”
Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.
#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd
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This is systemd propaganda! /jk
This feel so wrong, like emojis source code (I love it!)
"Trust us! What's the worst that could happen?"
"It’s impossible to compare [the company's] AI-generated transcript to the original recording because [the company's] tool erases the original audio for 'data safety reasons.'"
They're going to ask for your consent to do this with your medical records. Don't let them!
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14
Researchers say an AI-powered #transcription tool used in #hospitals invents things no one ever said
#IAmDB #AI #Hallucinations #Health #HealthTech #Tech
Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI.GARANCE BURKE (AP News)
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I was seconds away from telling the manager "If AI does your job, then why should anyone still pay you? Cuz by that logic you're deadweight!" but I'm not a sociopath who force-feeds people their own BS so I didn't...
I mean if they can uninvite me for enforcing my inalienable human rights then certainly they don't have a need for professionals or to fill a vacancy...
#DataProtection #HumanRights #AI #Enshittification #Dachkräftemangel
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I think you sidestepped a major disaster by being uninvited. These are not your people.
It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪
What are your favorite privacy-first apps?
Check out our list:
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
How to De-Google your life: The ultimate list of best private Google alternatives. | Tuta
Start DeGoogling today and prevent Big G from exploiting your data! Learn how to replace Google apps with private ones in this detailed guide.Tuta
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it has been zero days since I started building another meme generation tool.
based on https://xkcd.com/2501/
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*Blank look*
"It's the most popular foundry Uncial type" ...
*Blank look*
"Ya know, Uncial???"
*Sigh*
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"Being the town's laughingstock after spending $100,000 on a truck is definitely not ideal."
😂🤣
#us
I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck
A Tesla Cybertruck owner says there is a concerted effort to publicly shame people who drive the all-electric truck. He recounts several instances where people pointed and laughed at him while driving his Cybertruck.Tinsae Aregay (Torque News)
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simplism
in reply to The Needling • • •bullseye
https://www.smarttranspo.com/blog/2017/4/15/get-real-why-over-90-of-americans-think-they-are-above-average-drivers-and-how-to-know-precisely-who-is-and-is-not-a-good-driver?origin=serp_auto
Get Real: Why over 90% of Americans Think They Are above Average Drivers and How to Know Precisely Who Is and Is Not a Good Driver
Smart Transportation (Center for Smart Transportation)