Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Update: AP — Ohio voters pass a constitutional amendment protecting access to abortion, extending statewide wins for abortion rights.

I told you back in 2016 that there was a very real possibility that several computer vision systems used in everything from those bullet-vibe security bots to autonomous vehicles very likely had trouble recognizing and categorizing children as human beings, and well, here you go:
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/

“I’m really mad about having to choose between the boring institutionalist and the fascist sociopath, so I’m gonna vote for the fruit loop anti-vaxer instead.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/us/politics/rfk-jr-trump-biden-poll.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Joining the #IVoted crowd. Unfortunately, #Boston doesn't give you a sticker if you Vote By Mail ... one of the many complaints I have with our system...

Guided her 275 million followers to Vote.org

Urges her fans to register to vote and to learn about the issues

She’s the catalyst for over 35,000 new voters to register on Vote.org after national voter registration day

I can’t name a single one of her songs, but I’m a Taylor Swift fan

Marie Curie was born #OTD (7 Nov) in 1867. She coined the term 'radioactivity', discovered two elements, and is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two sciences (chemistry and physics) https://wp.me/s4aPLT-curie

1⃣For 130+ years a Michigan law criminalized hiring transportation to bring voters to the polls.

2⃣In August, my team filed a lawsuit.

3⃣Today, that law was repealed.

⚖️Another way democracy is on the docket!

Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes

Chamberlain packed its app with ads while disabling third-party access.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Extremely confused by people who see WSL as an attempt to compete with Linux and not an attempt to prevent developers moving to macos

Hey scicommers! The good folks at The Planetary Society is looking for a science editor. There's a chance — maybe small, maybe 0, I can't say, I don't speak for them — that you can make Bill Nye says stuff. I've done that and it's fun.

https://www.planetary.org/careers/science-editor

Someone at work said something about a second lunch and I asked if that’s like hobbitses second breakfast and they said they don’t know what I’m talking about and asked if it was Star Wars and I am just coming on here to feel seen by my people please

LIFE HACK

How I use ChatGPT to write stuff:

1. Write out a prompt to generate the text I want
2. Read the response
3. Go "this is fucking garbage, what the fuck, you call that writing?"
4. Get pissed off and write the thing correctly

(This is what I call https://xkcd.com/386/ as a service)

This just blew my mind My respect for the modern tech I use just went up a level

No. Succeeding in love is not easy, and there's no formula for it.

Here's the essence of this bad take:

"Since life is itself simply a game in disguise, having a few mathematical tricks up your sleeve can also give you an edge in the game of life."

Life is not simply a game in disguise. There are no fixed rules, apart from possibly the laws of physics. More importantly, there's no fixed definition of what counts as "winning". In fact the whole concept of "winning" doesn't apply, except in very limited realms.

I'm reminded of an anecdote I heard from the statistician Persi Diaconis. I'll probably get the details wrong, but it goes something like this:

Persi Diaconis was friends with an economist who had just gotten two job offers, one on the east coast of the US and one on the west coast. The economist was having a lot of trouble deciding which offer to take: both had their pros and cons. So Diaconis said "Hey, why not use the mathematics you're always talking about? Compute the expected utility in each case, and pick the offer that maximizes it!"

And the economist said "Come on, Persi! This is SERIOUS!"

@ZachWeinersmith solves climate change with maths! https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bah-4

https://www.universetoday.com/163889/seti-works-best-when-telescopes-double-check-each-other/

In a recent study, an international team of astronomers (including researchers with Breakthrough Listen) recommended that future technosignature searches rely on multi-site simultaneous observations. This has the potential of eliminating interference from terrestrial sources and narrowing the search for extraterrestrial radio signals.

#seti #scicomm #science @universetoday

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is being sued by his publisher for contradicting his book’s claim about the 2020 election. https://apnews.com/article/c76972d8f51df9ad74bc7797584c7436

BAHFEST IS BACK!
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/bah-4
tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bahfest-ig-nobel-2023-tickets-713070271377

If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/no-okta-senior-management-not-an-errant-employee-caused-you-to-get-hacked/