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Humanity at its absolute finest is a passenger on the Voyager spacecraft.

Such a stunning achievement, and it's gotten more and more so over the decades.

cnn.com/2024/09/16/science/voy…

in reply to Dan Gillmor

“It's Quieter in the Twilight” (2022)

An amazing, touching, gob smack documentary about the amazing final chapters of the Voyager 1 and 2 programs AND these wonderful engineers who ran and run it!!!!’

It took my breath away. And I love these people.

m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

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Cyber terrorism made by #Motorola


One of the most evil companies in the world was exposed in the recent cyber terrorist attack in #Lebanon.

#Israep #CyberTerrorism



California is America’s take on EU regulators with its own version of the GDPR in CCPA and now its miniature versions of the AI Act.

It’s passed laws requiring Hollywood to get consent from living actors or the estates of deceased ones before creating AI clones of actors.

New laws also require social media platforms to provide mechanisms for report and takedown of election related deepfakes as well as requiring disclosure of AI generated content in political ads.

Trump & Musk must be fuming
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo

your whole second para can be tl;dr as ‘incumbents self-protect…’
in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Just political ads? Honestly the way I'd go about it is more broad, perhaps having a lower standard for awarding civil penalties for defamation if realistic-looking AI generated content was used to mislead.
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© Copyleft compliance in the spotlight: A developer has accused Tencent of violating the #GPL by altering the license of her #Python utility to be BSD and replacing her copyright notice with their own.

socket.dev/blog/developer-accu… @obfusk #opensource



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The Shape of Things to Come (Battlestar Galactica piano cover) - tchncs
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Someone parked their car like an asshole. The asshole was me, lol. It was so bad I had to take a photo.



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I just discovered the Stract search engine. Anyone using Stract? It's Open Source and has some nice features that sound pretty cool (from their Github):

  • Keyword search that respects your search query.
  • Fully independent search index with our own crawler.
  • Advanced query syntax (site:, intitle: etc.).
  • DDG-style !bang syntax
  • Wikipedia and stackoverflow sidebar
  • De-rank websites with third-party trackers
  • Use optics to almost endlessly customize your search results.
  • Limit your searches to blogs, indieweb, educational content etc.
  • Customize how signals are combined during search for the final search result
  • Prioritize links (centrality) from the sites you trust.
  • Explore the web and find sites similar to the ones you like.

#Stract #OpenSource #OpenSearch #SearchEngine



California surgeon general sets goal of reducing maternal mortality by 50%

California’s surgeon general has unveiled an initiative to reduce #maternal #mortality and set a goal of ❇️ halving the rate of deaths related to pregnancy and birth by December 2026.

Health officials say that more than 80% of maternal deaths nationwide are preventable.

California has achieved a much lower rate of such deaths than the U.S., but ♦️maternal mortality resurged in recent years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, state data show.

“We have the lowest rate in the country. Now we can do better,” California Surgeon General Dr. Diana E. #Ramos said in an interview.

Ramos was joined in announcing the effort Tuesday by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

latimes.com/california/story/2…


in reply to Dgar

Finally, Austria and Australia have found common ground. Unfortunately, it's under water.