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Accessing Our Digital Past in the Manuscript Division Reading Room, 2022

blogs.loc.gov
1 points·by pcrh·27 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

The Latest News in Vaccine Obstruction

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30 points·by pcrh·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

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pcrh
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
>“We can do neuroscience on A.I. systems in a way that we kind of can’t with humans,” Mr. Long said, in that they “don’t have skulls.” The three jobs Eleos was hiring for would all be machine-learning research scientists who could design and perform experiments.

This is pretty interesting! I wouldn't know how easy such "surgery" on LLMs would be to do, if if they do have "knowledge" or "consciousness" as their proponents claim, there could be some profound outcomes from this.
pcrh
·3 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I would have thought that the right to privacy as a fundamental human right would have been sufficient. But apparently not....

Equally, there is abundant precedent for forbidding interference with old-fashioned postal communications, that seemingly doesn't translate to electronic communications...
pcrh
·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alone monitor them over time. Future developments could obviously improve on that.

[0] “Whole Cross-Sectional Human Ultrasound Tomography” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.00110
pcrh
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This prompted me to check out rental rates in my old haunt of Inner Sunset. I remember the Craigslist offices on 9th and Judah...

It's shocking that a 1 bedroom apartment now rents for $4-5k/month....
pcrh
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You will notice that the criticism this judgement receives if not for finding Song guilty, even if the sentence is inordinately long for a non-lethal crime with minor wider repercussions.

The criticism this judgement receives is the fact that the prosecutors and judge drew these lines of association into a "terrorist organization" so much that even merely possessing literature tangentially related to this non-existent "organization" was deemed a crime worthy of 30 years imprisonment. This is the sort of thinking that sent people to the Soviet Gulags.
pcrh
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's kind of fact-based that "antifa" is not an organization in the real world.

It's as real as claiming that "pro-gun" is an organization, or "anti-pollution" is an organization.

The zines are only evidence of Rueda's political opinions, not of intent to carry out a crime.
pcrh
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
First, there's no "terrorist organization". Antifa doesn't exist as an organization.

Second, the zines cannot be evidence of the crimes committed, i.e. setting off fireworks, and injuring an officer.
pcrh
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The crimes here are the injuring of an officer, and causing a disturbance near the ICE facility.

How could the zines be evidence for those crimes?
pcrh
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
At worst, the zines are evidence of Rueda's political opinions. They are not evidence of conspiracy to set off fireworks near the compound, nor shoot an officer.
pcrh
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I noticed the prominence of celery, which might surprise a modern diner. I had reason some years ago to look into this and the history is interesting. Celery was at one time difficult to cultivate, growing only in select marshlands. In the absence of refrigeration it was also difficult to transport to city diners, so was considered a delicacy.

This also lead to the production of specific table items intended to display celery such as the vase shown in the menus above.

https://slicesofbluesky.com/celery-restaurant-menus/
pcrh
·19 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is referred to as shifting the Overton window. If voices from the extreme are not heard, the Overton window moves away from their position, so protests help their cause even if only a minority completely agree with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
pcrh
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Very well-written!

I wonder if the inaccurate representation of colors by screens, etc, in any way underlies the distinctive color palette of many AI image generators?
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Twitter can make a "Kid's Twitter" (Kitter? Kidder?) if it wants. It's far less oppressive than forcing people to reveal their identity to Twitter.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A system as above would matter only to sites that want children among their audience.

Those that don't, or don't care, would not seek a rating, and would not be accessible to devices that parents control. Otherwise they would be free to host whatever legal content they wish.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A right to privacy is one of the fundamental human rights.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Kids don't need Twitter.

There would obviously arise a market for a moderated, or more regulated, version of this type of social media.

Social media doesn't deserve an exemption from the efforts society makes to protect children in other domains.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Mixed content would have to be tagged as such.

Mixed content isn't a problem for broadcast TV or newspapers. They simply avoid publishing material not appropriate for children, e.g. broadcast news programs don't show gore, even when a place has been bombed and is littered with body parts.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
How many 10 yr olds are going to read a academic article on transgender studies?

And if they are curious about the question, it would be better if they found sources that frame the issue appropriately for their age.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It would be a ban only to children. "Addictive" sites without certification could still be accessed by those who are no longer their parent's responsibility.
pcrh
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The same problem exists for almost any product that might be a risk to children, from cleaning products to "adult" literature.

Parents would be much more able to restrict the devices a child has access to (or its controls) than the websites they visit (absent website certification).