Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

For our 20th (!!) episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @alex and I are going to travel back in time and examine the #AIhype in the grant proposal that funded the 1956 summer project at Dartmouth that started it all.... There may or may not be costumes involved.

Join us live, next Monday, Nov 6 at 10:30am Pacific!

https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

This is a preview of App Communication Scopes from an incomplete proof of concept we made for a previous version. The goal is to provide the ability to disable communication with user installed apps within a profile with the ability to enable it on a case-by-case basis instead.

It turns out that students’ test scores rise with their parents’ incomes. 🤔

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8Ew.E07E.cbMSbZ68qrSu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #GiftArticle

The Andromeda Galaxy (at 2.5 million years from us) and the innermost region of our Sun both emit a photon towards Earth.

Which of the two photons will reach us first?

Here a new #AstroPhysicsFactlet for you.

#astrodon #astronomy

OMG PEOPLE I SAW THE AURORA FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER TONIGHT!!

We went down to the salt lake again (Bortle 1 sky) and the recent geo-storm put on a beautiful show! I took many photos of it!

(sorry for bad quality this is a photo of my DSLR display screen - will process image properly at home)

#Astrodon #AuroraAustralis #Astrophotography

I went on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning to talk about the FTX collapse and what I think it means for the wider cryptocurrency industry.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/05/1210734163/ftx-is-now-defunct-does-crypto-have-a-future

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

“In the absence of clear policies, auditable access logs, and community transparency about the capabilities and costs of Fusus, any community in which this technology is adopted should be concerned about its use and abuse.” —Beryl Lipton of @eff via @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-america/

I’m a big movie buff, always have been, but I generally avoid going to the cinema after COVID hit

Looking at the box office performance of most new films in recent years, I’m guessing that I’m not the only one

welp! after digging through full packet captures for two days straight, and learning a lot about #ics protocols…i want more 😳 ah, the newly found wireshark love 💕

At @hackadaysupercon, @pluralistic kicks off with a talk about How the Internet *used* to be good.

Due to the new EU Digital Service Act (DSA), Twitter had to disclose the number of its staff working on content moderation issues (2294) and their language skills.

It is even worse than what was expected.

We have far more admin/moderator distributed across the fedi, than they have with far fewer users to keep safe.

@JonathanAldrich @b_cavello The American Astronomical Society has had all six of its journals be open-access since last year: https://journals.aas.org/ .

But it has about a tenth of the membership ACM does.

Surprising fact: no major professional scientific organization has flipped from a paywalled publishing model to 100% Open Access.

The @ACM the world's foremost professional computing organization, is going to be the first on January 1, 2026, when its entire digital library will become freely available to the public.

@jwstfeed Hi. I saw your tweet on The Other Place about the JWST observations of HH212 scheduled for Monday.

You made a comment about the data being under proprietary period for 12 months, which is true & I stand by the need for proprietary periods for data coming from such a competitively-allocated telescope.

But the good news is, this will be our second epoch of HH212 observations & we released an image from last year’s today: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/111351682053468368

Monero discloses that its community crowdfunding wallet was drained

November 1, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=monero-community-wallet-hack

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023

https://climatelabbook.substack.com/p/mapping-changes-in-temperature-every

Maybe custodial sentences for financial crimes should be in terms of minimum wage? So if you defraud, say, $1Bn and the minimum wage is $7.25, that's 137,931,034 hours in prison, or around 15,734 years. That's obviously excessive. Let's say an 9 hour work day with a generous hour unpaid for lunch. So only 5,244 years in prison per $1Bn fraud?

Hi K-9 Mail community! This is a reminder that we'll be retiring this account next month, when K-9 Mail transforms into #Thunderbird for #Android.

So please go follow @thunderbird to stay in touch and get future updates. Thanks for being on this journey with us!

(YES, Thunderbird for Android will be on @fdroidorg)

If you missed the news, here's the original announcement: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/

And here's where to find our monthly development updates: https://blog.thunderbird.net/category/thunderbird-mobile/