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I am utterly uninformed on this subject! Useful info.

'Scuse me? that's a sound! It's right there in the name! :D

A donut with white frosting and blue, yellow, brown, and white sprinkles, held in a gloved hand.

The wages of community watch is (sometimes) donuts.

Yeah, I've been aware of the missing snowpack. :|

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe Organizers of an annual satirical award for scientific achievement are shifting for the first time from the United States to Europe due to concerns about winners and others being able to get visas.

Having the Ig Nobels leave the US for safety reasons is a pretty on point example of the situation here apnews.com/article/ig-n...

Any protections individuals used to get are now entirely hollow, but the regs will remain so they can be selectively invoked at whim.

Never before April. I usually keep mine out 'til May.

BREAKING: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton.

The state was set to execute Sonny for a crime he didn't commit, but tens of thousands of people nationwide demanded justice — and our voices were heard.

As someone else who has issues with "contained, but not invisible", I keep chips in a wire bin.

Look, things suck, but my road bike still works. Wheeeoooo

So was the old top person tho.

We passed pause evictions, save lives. Now it’s on Mayor Frey’s Desk— please reach out to his office to support this critical legislation and not to veto it. Call: 612-673-2100

Families will face evictions without adequate time to get funds together for rent.

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Books and paper are very fragile, but they're less fragile than almost everything else we've come up with.

Your moment of Mississippi River reflection zen

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

See also, law & econ.

The Troubling Personal Side of Public Surveillance Law enforcement cameras are popping up everywhere, but many agencies have little safeguards to prevent abuse by individual officers.

I don’t think we should categorize examples where these systems are used by individuals for stalking or harassment as “misuse” of the technology. This is very much literally why the tech exists, and there are no meaningful ways these uses are prohibited.

For libs & archives that do this, I often ask, "would you ever actually take a patron to court over this?" They almost universally say no, so I say "then you don't need it to be a contract!!"
But for some the posturing feels important. (For an even smaller few, they would go to court.)

I have to remind my mom (who -does know- those are often inaccurate) to scroll past them to search results. The design is insidious, bc they're so easy to just start reading!

They made it take way longer than it would have if the FBI had told Pichai to send that shit over rn and that's about all you can expect

If I have time to do a tune-up, I may try.

Like that weird grifter guy who vampired his own kid and apparently tells random reporters in public that "biologically" he's 28, but who is 48 or so and looks like he's 60 with medium-quality plastic surgery.

For a restored-to-market EV Fit, I might even consider compromising my principles about wanting a car that never goes on the internet without a physical connection initiated by a human.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

(Not something I think libraries & archives for the public -should- be doing, but widespread practice.
Also widespread are nonbinding -attempts- to control use as condition of access, failing bc confusion abt rights on the part of the lib or archive.)

This exactly - it's what some libraries and archives do regularly to exert control over public domain materials. Contractual limitations as a condition of -access-.

I am once again begging universities to take political action and support faculty taking action.

Instead of doubling grant-writing efforts, give faculty .01 fte for writing op eds and articles telling the public how important their research is.

Devote communications resources to the same.