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President Joe Biden traveled to Racine, Wisconsin, Wednesday to the future site of a new AI data center , where he announced Microsoft’s $3.3 billion investment in ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu May 09, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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This is the video and transcript of a presentation to the most recent annual Green Builder’s Sustainability Symposium by Michael Barnard https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/06/green-builder-sustainability-symposium-presentation-slides-transcript/ It is...
by gmoke
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By Sherman smith, Kansas Reflector
This article was originally published on Kansas Reflector .
When Lawrence Public Schools deployed spyware last fall, district officials said it would help them ...
by Kansas Reflector
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on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM PDT
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I have said this before, but I was going to be ether a writer or a lawyer when I wren tot college. �I decided on lawyer once it became clear to me that writer was a remunerative career. �I had bene ...
by angryea
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Reuters has a very short article about a recommendation by the E.U.’s European Data Protection board to force Meta to offer a free tier that does not force people to participate in behavioral ads.
by angryea
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Kate, the Princess of Wales, released a video last week in which she shared her cancer diagnosis, which followed major abdominal surgery in January. The statement was intended to not just inform the ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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“Murder is the most honest form of expression.” I said this, mostly out loud, in senior English class in high school. �I partly said this because I was the kind of teenage boy who enjoyed the ...
by angryea
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism is a good book, by for Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis though probably longer than it needed to be. �It is already a short book however, so anything shorter ...
by angryea
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 05:20 AM PDT
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The headline unemployment number is not the number of people who cannot find a job. It is the number of people who are actively looking for a job and cannot find one. �It does not count people, many ...
by angryea
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Imitative AI — systems that slurp in a ton of data consisting of written or pictorial material and try to remix that material based on calculations about what letter/word or pixel should come next,
by angryea
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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by angryea
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Want more oddities like this? You can follow my RSS Feed or free newsletter Two similar stories today showcase how we are being sold, manipulated, and possibly put in harms way by data brokers. First, someone is selling the location data of people who...
by angryea
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 06:11 AM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here . And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration!
by RubenBolling
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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[This piece is appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed/] ************************* It’s an old story-- new technologies replacing the labor of people with well-developed and valuable skills. Over thousands of years, many peoples around the world...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 08:03 AM PST
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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Popular Mechanics has a new story up about an experiment first reported in Nature Physics that could fundamentally alter our current understanding of quantum physics — particularly with how quantum magnetic fluctuations disrupt superconductivity:...
by Irontortoise
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by Jen Sorensen
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I saw this the other week and was reluctant to bring it up. �I do not especially like tit-for-tat kind of articles, but this newsletter is more of the techno-utopianism that strikes me as at the ...
by angryea
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This was posted a few months back but I just saw it & think it is worth sharing. I don't think that there is much to argue about here. I'm not even sure that there is much to be done other than keep a good hold on your britches
by dlsamson
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