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Dorothy Bishop Prize

Three £500 prizes for people who have improved research or promoted open research practices

Nominate yourself or your pals by 28th January

https://www.ukrn.org/2023/12/11/dorothy-bishop-prize-2024/

#OpenScience #OpenData #Research #ResearchCulture

👨‍🏫 Nous vous proposons un nouvel inventaire dédié aux données ouvertes de l'éducation.

Organisation scolaire, établissements scolaires et de l'enseignement supérieur, examens, orientation, etc. : nous vous invitons à aller découvrir les données emblématiques de cette thématique.

➡️ https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/pages/donnees_education/

Test your privacy inference skills against current state-of-the-art LLMs!

A project by the SRILab at #ETHZurich

https://llm-privacy.org

#privacy #LLM #AISafety #DeepLearning #GPT4 #chatGPT

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

A reminder to #artists that there is now a tool meant to combat AI tools that are stealing creative works for use in services like #Midjourney by adding imperceptible pixels which in turn poison their databases 🤟

Protect yourself and your work!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-data-poisoning-tool-enables-artists-to-fight-back-against-image-generating-ai-companies-1234684663/

#NightShade #AI #MastoArt

*Please Boost and pass it on to other Artists

Threads will collect data about Fediverse users without consent (and probaly illegal, atleast in the EU)

"Threads integrates with third party services (“Third Party Services”) via an interoperable protocol, and is part of a network sometimes called the Fediverse. In the Fediverse, Threads users can share content with, view and interact with content from, follow, and be followed by people outside of Threads who use such Third Party Services (“Third Party Users”). To enable these interactions between Threads users and Third Party Users we share information about Threads users with Third Party Services, and collect and process information about Third Party Users, even if they don’t have an account on Threads or other Meta Products as described further below."

How to block threads.net as user:
https://infosec.exchange/@voxel/111577445490991393

Source: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944

#privacy #dataprotection #fediverse #mastodon #meta #threads #facebook #instagram @jark

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption-heading-to-the-supreme-court/

"Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, according to a unanimous ruling issued today by Utah's state Supreme Court."

#privacy

If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.

The OpenAI story is about greed versus the possibility of the company living up to its founders' pious promises. Greed flattened ethics because that is how everything works now.

So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots: