Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The sky darkens, your head fills with strange noises... and a strangely-clad alien appears from nowhere on your balcony. “I've come to collect you".

#Latex #LatexSeries #Rubber #LatexFetish #Alien #Foxgirl #Mask #ToeSocks

“At least one JCPS bus driver said the problems experienced on the first day of school are the result of a flawed software program that uses artificial intelligence to generate routes.”

We really don’t need to use AI for everything…
https://www.wdrb.com/news/education/jcps-bus-routes-generated-by-software-with-flawed-track-record-in-another-district/article_448ccd7a-3783-11ee-a2d8-dfef3db3eb07.html

Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239

NEW: This is the device that confused and concerned attendees at @defcon by triggering pop ups on their iPhones.

The researcher who created it explained how it works, and what are the risks iPhone users face when these spoofed messages pop up.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/this-70-device-can-spoof-an-apple-device-and-trick-you-into-sharing-your-password/

Florida parents launch Parenting With Pride program to combat right-wing culture war https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-parents-launch-parenting-with-pride-program-to-combat-right-wing-culture-war-34856676

Okay, Fediverse academics. This spring, I'm teaching a class called "Gender and Technology, Gender as Technology" in Harvard's Women, Gender and Sexuality program.

If you teach a related class, I'd love your syllabus, and regardless, I'd love your recommendations for work that you love that would be good for undergrads.

Please boost for reach! Class description below.

Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Faster-SunSpider

Academics, I beg you. Please put copies of your published papers on your website, arxiv, whatever. Not only because it's great for the broader world beyond academia (who can't get behind paywalls at all) but it just took me 15 minutes to try to figure out how to log in to some particular database to get a copy of a paper. I don't even like the 3 minutes it takes to log into the ACM DL versus copying a title into google. Follow copyright rules but you can almost always post SOMETHING somewhere.

Debian Celebrates 30 years! Thank you everyone! https://bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian-turns-30.html #debianday #debian #debian30years

N.B. boy swims 15 kilometres to raise money for Canadian Cancer Society
A boy from New Brunswick has hit the pool to raise money for cancer research in memory of his friend who inspired him to give back to his community.
#globalnews #Canada #News #adrianohache #CanadianCancerSociety
https://globalnews.ca/news/9899902/n-b-boy-swims-15-km-raise-money-canadian-cancer-society/

We've [finally] launched Horizons Institute on Mastodon!
So if you're interested in #Interdisciplinary #Research, #ResearchImpact, #ResearchCulture change, and #GlobalCollaboration, please connect with us here: https://mastodon.social/@HorizonsLeeds

#UniversityOfLeeds #Leeds

Amazon to customers -- and antitrust officials: Up yours.

This kind of arrogance has worked for a long time for big tech. Let's hope the regulators and law enforcement come down on this kind of thing, hard.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/amazon-adds-extra-seller-fee-despite-intensifying-ftc-scrutiny/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Did you see this piece in the Guardian? Senior managers at Vice apparently blocked a story about how the Saudi government helps families harass and threaten transgender Saudis living overseas. Vice now gets a lot of Saudi money, and it seems like the editorial independence of their news team was part of the deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/15/vice-blocked-news-stories-that-could-offend-saudi-arabia-insiders-say

You don’t need to crawl before you walk – at least according to the CDC.

It has eliminated crawling from the list of major developmental milestones it tells parents and caregivers to watch out for.

https://theconversation.com/babies-almost-all-try-crawling-to-get-from-point-a-to-point-b-but-cdc-says-its-not-a-useful-developmental-milestone-207815

#parenting #health #medmastodon

New York City bans TikTok on government-issued devices
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/nyc-tiktok-ban/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

@knittingknots2

This makes me so angry. I knew people who went to New College. I've been to their Palm Court Party. I was so envious of what a cool, small school vibe it had and the students were all exactly the kinds of people you want more of in the world. DeSantis put fucking Christopher Rufo on the board at New College. This is a travesty and I hope more leaks out.

Watch this video of a parent tearing into Rufo over all the bullshit happening at the school. If you have already seen it, awesome!

https://youtu.be/1cdgqDMHKN8

When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/technology/ai-defcon-hackers.html

British Columbia Premier begging on the news tonight for everyone to conserve water as just about the entire province is now in the highest Stage 5 drought index - also begging for 1000 more firefighters as wildfires at a record - and then in background talks with Alberta to vastly expand LNG - cognitive dissonance?

#climatechange #climatecrisis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-conference-bc-1.6906446

Option 1: We can define an #ActivityPub2 specification (or equivalent) that moves wholesale away from #JsonLD and adopts something that pushes the complexity to a different level. Preferably something with a more defined metamodel.

Bluntly: I do not think this is feasible. Not from a technical standpoint, but rather from a _cultural_ one. Too many people too invested in JSON-LD, and too much already built on top of #ActivityPub to do this.

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