Ghazi @curiousmind@social.cleverlibre.org

Alzheimer's went into the textbooks with n=2

Many of you might know (or not) that Alzheimer's disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who first reported that the brains of some patients with age-related dementia had "a peculiar substance" (which today we know as beta-amyloid plaques).

But did you know that he found that in exactly 2 patients that he studied before his boss put it in a 1910 textbook and coined it "Alzheimer's disease"? That substance could have been a complete coincidence! (And in that case, I guess we never would have heard about it again) ...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-disease/

انتظر وشاهد معظم الشركات التي تتسابق لركوب موجة الذكاء الاصطناعي AI، وبناء حلول دون فهم حقيقي للمشاكل، وفوضى العلامات التجارية التي تبني خدمات عديمة الفائدة، كل ذلك فقط من أجل أن يقولوا:
نحن نوفر خدمات مدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي

Cela fait 20 ans que les technophiles, les geeks et les auteurs de SF vous préviennent : tout comme l’écologie, protéger sa vie privée est un acte collectif. Si seule une minorité le fait, cette minorité est suspecte.

Utiliser Signal, installer Linux et critiquer les GAFAM sont devenus des comportements justifiant l’inculpation de… terrorisme. Rien que ça.

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/

(et ne dites pas qu’on ne vous a pas prévenus)

Atomic Wallet hacks total over $35 million

June 3, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=atomic-wallet-hacks-total-over-35-million

How to deal with spam emails.

Try not to be evil https://lemmy.one/post/10801

Une poubelle connecté parce que POURQUOI PAS ?

Lemmy l'alternativa del Fediverso a Reddit sta avendo il suo momento di gloria, ma serve l'aiuto di tutto il Fediverso per far si' che questo momento magico diventi l'inizio di una nuova era!

@fediverso

Le politiche di #Reddit sulle API a pagamento stanno provocando un piccolo esodo dei utenti verso quella che oggi è la sua alternativa più funzionale: #Lemmy.

In 48h l'istanza feddit.it ha avuto le iscrizioni di 2 mesi, ma ora bisogna far si' che quegli utenti restino. In che modo?
1/5

Who owns Bluesky? What’s the role of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? What’s Bluesky’s business model? And what prevents another Elon Musk from buying and destroying it 10 years down the line?

@micahflee answers some of your Bluesky questions. https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-elon-musk/

The #EU is finalizing new #AI regulations, but #OpenAI CEO #Sam_Altman says he has ‘many concerns’ about the law. The EU AI Act would require the company to disclose details of its training methods and data sources.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

A friend on Signal sent this to me, hilarious for probably anyone involved with #privacy #security :

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/introducing-four-step-authentication

Encryption rules. 💪

#Signal donne la possibilité de changer le nom et l'icône de l'application... Astucieux...

Read the inspiring story of how Eyüpsultan, Turkey switched to free software, gained independence from proprietary software, and saved money ($$$) in the process! If they did it in their city, your city can do it too! | Read more at: https://u.fsf.org/3m9

Mastodon now has over 12,000,000 users! That is more people than the total number of people who lived between the years 400 and 1790, if you believe that all historians are wrong. Incredible.

If we took out the Onion masthead, would you know this was satire?
HT @richardsever

https://www.theonion.com/florida-bans-men-from-becoming-nurses-1850448027

In which the author experiments with chatGPT as a reviewer.

"However, when asked to suggest more specific improvements, it fails and starts what is often described as hallucinating, the process by which the LLM provides a confident sounding response that is false or unsubstantiated."
#PeerReview

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00290-6/fulltext

Meme alert, not redacted.