Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

If we had a real government, we’d already be talking about laws that require ALL AI generated images to have come kind of watermark that makes it clear that it isn’t real. There is no other workable solution that can prevent the inevitable harm this tech can and will cause.

https://mastodon.social/@shoq/111941179413665010

@palestine @israel Israel kills journalist Muath Mustafa Al-Ghefari, his wife, and their son, Joud, this afternoon by bombing their car near the Sheikh Radwan pool north of Gaza City. #GazaGenocide

Ramy Abdu: Israel has just killed political analyst Dr. Ayman al-Rafati. Al-Rafati had been hosted by Al Jazeera last night as a guest from Gaza. It is evident that Israel seeks to silence any voice from Gaza. @palestine @israel

I have a student who wants to do a PhD project with me on the topic of science reform and the global south, but we're having trouble finding funding whose scope fits our proposal.

Does anyone know of any open science funding that a European PhD student could apply for?

https://www.europesays.com/1057845/ Ryska kriminalvården: Aleksej Navalnyj är död #sweden

UK must deepen Europe defence ties in face of Trump threat, says Macron ally https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/16/uk-must-deepen-europe-defence-ties-in-face-of-trump-threat-says-macron-ally?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon - via @guardian

Due to the numerous mass mention spam messages already this morning, #AllThingsTech has made the decision to domain block the following domains:

birdon.social
social.cutefunny.net
det.social
planetearth.social

Once we have confirmation that the spam problem has been taken care of, we will consider removing the block.

If there are any questions, please reach out to @cliffwade or @beardedtechguy and we'll be happy to answer any questions.

#MastoAdmin #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin#FediBlock

I'm looking for common spelling errors in scientific papers. Here's my list so far: confident interval, fischer's exact, guassian, kaplan-meir, odd ratio, odds ration, pubic health, public heath, randomised controlled trail, risk ration, statically significant.

A question my Japanese friends brought up regarding Israel and the current hard religious right government.
Why isn`t Israel able to accept the boundaries that the UN provided for them in 1948?
Why indeed.
#radicalzionism
#fascistbibi
#genocidejoe
#neocon
#usfascism

@kralcttam Are you listening #Mozilla We do not want #AI in #Firefox

For all the Lemmings fans, here's the documentary Can You Dig It, in which I took part.

https://youtu.be/RbAVNKdk9gA

Hear me out: What if community engagement doesn’t mean convincing the community that your plan is good for them, but planning things with the community from day one?

Hello!

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#introduction #crossstitch #knitting #t1d #gaming

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments asking tech companies to provide encryption backdoors violates human rights.

This is awkward as various European countries are trying to pass laws mandating exactly that. Hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/human-rights-court-takes-stand-against-weakening-of-end-to-end-encryption/