Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Update from the #earthquake in #Turkey (00:02): 5434 people died and 31777 people wounded.

Situation hasn't changed much unfortunately, aside from the fact that after the state of emergency declaration they're now trying to control the media in the disaster zones. Plus they took someone under custody for couple tweets.

A reminder that student journalism is thriving -- and doing essential work -- even as other local news media wither. Here's an example, from a Florida college that an extremist governor is turning into a right-wing propaganda mill. https://ncfcatalyst.com/inside-the-hostile-takeover-an-autopsy-of-the-jan-31-board-of-trustees-meeting/

Shell Genie is a new Linux command line tool that can be used to ask in plain English how to perform various tasks, and it gives you the shell command you need https://gadgeteer.co.za/shell-genie-is-a-new-linux-command-line-tool-that-can-be-used-to-ask-in-plain-english-how-to-perform-various-tasks-and-it-gives-you-the-shell-command-you-need/

#ai #linux #opensource #shellgenie #technology

Meanwhile, back at the ranch….

Donald Trump is calling Ron DeSantis a groomer?

TIL #OpenSnitch available as Community for #ArchLinux No need to get it via AUR anymore. 🥳 https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/opensnitch/ #linux

"How messed up those Egyptian Pharaohs were, using huge quantities of slave labour to built pointless stone structures", we say as we use huge quantities of computing power to mint pointless virtual currencies and train neural networks to draw pointless pictures and write pointless copy. 🤔

#AI #MachineLearning #Crypto #ChatGPT #DALLE2 #StableAI #OpenAI #DeepMind

#OpenAI Chief CTO Mira Murati admitted "to one of #ChatGPT's clearest flaws: that the device is often wrong, confidently spitting out falsehoods without a hint of caution".

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cto-chatgpt-concerns-releasing-publicly

Ron DeSantis cannot win. #EndRonDeSantis

Haymarket Books Will Provide Free Black History E-Books to Florida Students https://truthout.org/articles/haymarket-books-will-provide-free-black-history-e-books-to-florida-students/

This Is How Democrats Should Talk About School Reform - This is something Democrats need to learn if they are going counter MAGAts. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/02/07/this-is-how-democrats-should-talk-about-school-reform/ via @dianeravitch #Education #Politics

Many online stores are exposing private backups in public folders, including internal account passwords, which can be leveraged to take over the e-commerce sites and extort owners.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-12-percent-of-analyzed-online-stores-expose-private-data-backups/

Three U.S. Marines were given highly sensitive intelligence jobs after participating in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Two of the Marines received promotions, while the third posted support of the "Boogaloo" movement, a right-wing anti-government ideology which advocates violent overthrow of the U.S. government.

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/06/january-6-marines-nsa/

The bill's sponsor, on his creation:

"When asked in an interview with The Star if the bill would be broad enough to prohibit LGBTQ teachers from discussing spouses and potentially ban certain books, Moon indicated it might.

'Gender identity and sexual orientation conversations would be prohibited. If they think that would be included, then it likely will be,' Moon said."

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article272194893.html

Reminder: So-called "right-to-work" laws are all about weakening unions rather than giving workers more rights.

These laws keep wages lower for all workers in the states where they've been enacted.

Don't be fooled by the name.

George Santos could rob a bank right now and, between the desensitizing by the media coverage, and the dismissal by the GOP, he'd still be sitting in Congress (once out on bail.)

In my most recent column for
WIRED I describe my experience with Mounjaro, a new drug for type 2 diabetics that deeply manipulates satiety, with a side effect of radical weight loss.

Fat is a vast subject involving economics, agriculture, race, gender, sexuality, cultural norms, psychology, biology, even climate. In contrast I'm relating an individual, fragmentary experience, in a state of confusion, at a moment of vulnerability. I'm sure it will go great.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-mounjaro/