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From 2019 - but even more relevant today. Modes of attack on scientific knowledge infrastructures. “Knowledge Infrastructures under Siege: Climate Data as Memory, Truce, and Target.” Open access.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Knowledge infrastructures under siege | 2 | Climate data as memory, tr
Both trust in climate knowledge and the truth it delivers descend from the organizational routines and truces necessary to share and maintain climate data.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
From 2019 - but even more relevant today. Modes of attack on scientific knowledge infrastructures. “Knowledge Infrastructures under Siege: Climate Data as Memory, Truce, and Target.” Open access.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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if you’re gonna kiss the ring, you gotta have the bling
Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company’s decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the US
Zuckerberg Wears $900,000 Watch to Announce End of Meta Fact Checks
The ‘Hand Made 1’ takes hundreds of hours to assemble.
www.bloomberg.com
January 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
if you’re gonna kiss the ring, you gotta have the bling
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"Consumers...hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter...The problem here is that the bar is getting lowered, not raised, for everything else."
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy
The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue.
mattdpearce.substack.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:41 PM
"Consumers...hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter...The problem here is that the bar is getting lowered, not raised, for everything else."
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
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"How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack" is a sentence that plunges me into the deepest, darkest infosec despair.
How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebytes
Your essential guide to toothbrush security.
www.malwarebytes.com
February 7, 2024 at 7:57 PM
"How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack" is a sentence that plunges me into the deepest, darkest infosec despair.
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Karikó, a biochemist, was denied tenure over this work, and struggled for years to find any funding. Weissman, an immunologist, believed in her and kept her work on life support. Together they figured out how to stop the inflammatory response to in vitro mRNA.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of ...
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October 2, 2023 at 11:41 AM
Karikó, a biochemist, was denied tenure over this work, and struggled for years to find any funding. Weissman, an immunologist, believed in her and kept her work on life support. Together they figured out how to stop the inflammatory response to in vitro mRNA.
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The Atlantic is excerpting The Gutenberg Parenthesis: my afterword, in which I recant my contention that the book needed to updated and now conclude, "Let the book be the book." Gift link. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I Was Wrong About the Death of the Book
And Umberto Eco was right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2023 at 1:04 PM
The Atlantic is excerpting The Gutenberg Parenthesis: my afterword, in which I recant my contention that the book needed to updated and now conclude, "Let the book be the book." Gift link. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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In what should be a major story, yesterday Russia tested their Sovereign Internet system for a few hours.
This is a push-button 'silicon curtain' that cuts Russia from entire net.
This is a push-button 'silicon curtain' that cuts Russia from entire net.
July 6, 2023 at 12:00 PM
In what should be a major story, yesterday Russia tested their Sovereign Internet system for a few hours.
This is a push-button 'silicon curtain' that cuts Russia from entire net.
This is a push-button 'silicon curtain' that cuts Russia from entire net.
@jack.bsky.social Hi Jack, the legal case Twtr filed against Indian government’s takedown orders has been dismissed by a court. This was when the company was under the older management. Do you have a comment on this? http://bit.ly/3plLKYl
June 30, 2023 at 11:06 AM
@jack.bsky.social Hi Jack, the legal case Twtr filed against Indian government’s takedown orders has been dismissed by a court. This was when the company was under the older management. Do you have a comment on this? http://bit.ly/3plLKYl
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Ah yes, of course!
I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/
I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/
June 21, 2023 at 5:45 AM
Ah yes, of course!
I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/
I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/
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Unreality: an AI generated photo of an explosion near the Pentagon, a brand squatter with a bluecheck, and a state media outlet with no labels and 3MM followers. “freedom over censorship”!
May 22, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Unreality: an AI generated photo of an explosion near the Pentagon, a brand squatter with a bluecheck, and a state media outlet with no labels and 3MM followers. “freedom over censorship”!
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Here's the billion-dollar issue: as search engines serve AND ARE TRAINED ON hallucinated content, we are losing hold on what truth is. This is toxic to democracies. @oremus.bsky.social
May 5, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Here's the billion-dollar issue: as search engines serve AND ARE TRAINED ON hallucinated content, we are losing hold on what truth is. This is toxic to democracies. @oremus.bsky.social
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I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM annoyed by the pattern.
This is not new. It was women -Timnit, Meg, me, etc - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against for doing so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
This is not new. It was women -Timnit, Meg, me, etc - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against for doing so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2023 at 12:19 AM
I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM annoyed by the pattern.
This is not new. It was women -Timnit, Meg, me, etc - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against for doing so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
This is not new. It was women -Timnit, Meg, me, etc - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against for doing so.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
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Anyone out there who can point me to the, umm, skeet that called it skeets for the first time? And did Jay manage to Streisand Effect it with that don’t-do-it *cough* skeet *cough*?
May 1, 2023 at 10:00 PM
Anyone out there who can point me to the, umm, skeet that called it skeets for the first time? And did Jay manage to Streisand Effect it with that don’t-do-it *cough* skeet *cough*?