Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

In Episode 3 of #MoralRepairPodcast, @Wolven talked to us about how insurance companies have come to use #AI to determine who receives what care.

That's what's going on in this story:
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111422904090022457

Experiment over! Instagram did take down the AI-generated image of Taylor Swift in a Nazi uniform pushing a Jew into an oven only after we published this article! Instagram still hasn't replied to our email requesting comment! 🤡 https://www.404media.co/will-instagram-remove-this-ai-nazi-taylor-swift-image-after-i-post-this-article/

Whooooot! #XRISM Cycle 1 Guest Observer Announcement of Opportunity is out 🎉

▶️ https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xrism/announcements-of-opportunity

Proposal due date is 22 February 2024 12:30 EST

(I still have the photo of my old MIT whiteboard with 10+ ideas for Hitomi proposals ... Will be passing some of them for my group now!)

#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #Astrophysics #ESA #JAXA

"We're going to bring back the advertisers" is becoming Twitter/X's version of "Infrastructure week."

My story on Musk's latest self-inflicted setbacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-advertisers/ w/ Naomi Nix

The new episode of Serving Up #Science tackles “expiration dates” & why so many of the “sell by” & “use by” dates on #food labels are meaningless while contributing to our enormous food waste problem + #ClimateChange.
https://youtu.be/O5XssdVk0hQ?si=Mg4AHUc0EAGdjZNd

I had gotten to the point where I was posting only career news and updates on the former Twitter, but there's a point where not even that is tenable, and that point is today.

Big "I'm not a teacher" flags, and I made that point to them, but they've been struggling with the experimental setups sometimes. And that's my job, and *I* struggle with it sometimes, moving from a diagram of a setup where it's just "resistor", "capacitor" without telling you WHAT SIZE isn't easy until you've learned the subject, which they haven't yet by definition. The setup they'd been trying to use was fine, the resistor was just too small, so it all discharged way too fast to measure.

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

This resonates. Maybe you shouldn't use Google's tools if you don't have Google's problems.

https://www.kpassa.me/posts/google/

Conference’s are always a great place to network, meet new people and contract interesting diseases

Glad to see the Chrome design team sticking to their "Stuff Firefox Tried Four Years Ago" guns.

@engarneering Mike and Ike is iconic, and every specialist has a copy, but it's a steep climb.
For beginners, I recommend Sutor's Dancing with Qubits, Eleanor Rieffel's algorithms book, or our own online course Understanding Quantum Computers. Then follow up with Preskill's lecture notes, our Quantum Communications textbook, or maybe Peter Shot's own lecture notes, though I haven't had time to review them yet. All of this will help with Mike and Ike.

Remember kids, there's a pernicious reason why #Google redirects "http://maps.google.com" to "http://google.com/maps".

Because of this redirect, the location permission that you grant to Google Maps also automatically becomes available to Google Search - making your search queries more valuable to advertisers.

#privacy

Yes, Mastodon is free to use, but there is still a cost.

Every new user, every new post or boost, along with every new photo and video, plus every visitor who enjoys your creative thought process, costs your administrator real money.

If you are able, even a small contribution can be beneficial to not only yourself, and your continued usage, but toward all the many others you enjoy following.

Thanks for listening. 🦊

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Hm, is it possible to search for a link (eg whether someone linked to an article) on #mastodon?

I just tried searching for a link I myself posted and it did not work. I can find the post searching for words it used otherwise, so it's definitely ingested into the search. So I am wondering whether I am missing some important bit of search syntax.