Binayak D
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Journalist in New Delhi
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Paul N. Edwards
7 months ago
From 2019 - but even more relevant today. Modes of attack on scientific knowledge infrastructures. âKnowledge Infrastructures under Siege: Climate Data as Memory, Truce, and Target.â Open access.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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Knowledge infrastructures under siege | 2 | Climate data as memory, tr
Both trust in climate knowledge and the truth it delivers descend from the organizational routines and truces necessary to share and maintain climate data.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781315167305-2/knowledge-infrastructures-siege-paul-edwards?context=ubx&refId=d645f567-b09b-4a79-8305-33fba5c8a616
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Tom Warren
10 months ago
if youâre gonna kiss the ring, you gotta have the bling
add a skeleton here at some point
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Anthony DeRosa
11 months ago
"Consumers...hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter...The problem here is that the bar is getting lowered, not raised, for everything else."
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
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Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy
The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue.
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in
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evacide
over 1 year ago
"How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack" is a sentence that plunges me into the deepest, darkest infosec despair.
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How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebytes
Your essential guide to toothbrush security.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/awareness/2024/02/how-to-tell-if-your-toothbrush-is-being-used-in-a-ddos-attack
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Max Kennerly
about 2 years ago
KarikĂł, a biochemist, was denied tenure over this work, and struggled for years to find any funding. Weissman, an immunologist, believed in her and kept her work on life support. Together they figured out how to stop the inflammatory response to in vitro mRNA.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin KarikĂł and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of ...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
about 2 years ago
The Atlantic is excerpting The Gutenberg Parenthesis: my afterword, in which I recant my contention that the book needed to updated and now conclude, "Let the book be the book." Gift link. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I Was Wrong About the Death of the Book
And Umberto Eco was right.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/jeff-jarvis-google-death-books/675389/?gift=lOosoRE4GnUPfUTNHl2Az7x6TA4IHDpVDKbbAN059ko&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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John Scott-Railton
over 2 years ago
In what should be a major story, yesterday Russia tested their Sovereign Internet system for a few hours. This is a push-button 'silicon curtain' that cuts Russia from entire net.
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@jack.bsky.social
Hi Jack, the legal case Twtr filed against Indian governmentâs takedown orders has been dismissed by a court. This was when the company was under the older management. Do you have a comment on this?
http://bit.ly/3plLKYl
over 2 years ago
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Carl T. Bergstrom
over 2 years ago
Ah yes, of course! I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/
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Renee DiResta
over 2 years ago
Unreality: an AI generated photo of an explosion near the Pentagon, a brand squatter with a bluecheck, and a state media outlet with no labels and 3MM followers. âfreedom over censorshipâ!
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen
over 2 years ago
Here's the billion-dollar issue: as search engines serve AND ARE TRAINED ON hallucinated content, we are losing hold on what truth is. This is toxic to democracies.
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Meredith Whittaker
over 2 years ago
I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM annoyed by the pattern. This is not new. It was women -Timnit, Meg, me, etc - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against for doing so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
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âThe Godfather of A.I.â Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
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Randall Munroe
over 2 years ago
Tractor Beam
xkcd.com/2579
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Anyone out there who can point me to the, umm, skeet that called it skeets for the first time? And did Jay manage to Streisand Effect it with that donât-do-it *cough* skeet *cough*?
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