this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day....
The question is why students will watch Netflix instead of listening and learning. It wasn’t better in the past as they didn’t have a smartphone. The situation is different.
We live in a world in perpetual movement. The school is in a new situation. Tomorrow, the situation will change again and again.
What to do? We can go back to how we think it was in the past. But, it will never be. People and society changed. How we see the world around us changed.
Or, we can do what any government did in the past 30 years, putting money in schools and education. The school has to follow the change in the perception of the world by adapting their methods. Instead of 2x+2x=4x, you can learn 2 smartphones + 2 smartphones = 4 smartphones.
The other point is that we are in an ultra individual time. And, school can’t be like that. School is a common. You have to play in team. This need to build a relationship and confidence between teachers and students and between students. But, nobody gives the time and money to do so. Bullying is high for example and isn’t addressed properly.
It’s not that it was better before. It changed and we didn’t put the money so the school followed the perpetual change.
😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
It works with Windows 11 while setting up a new device. Follow the setup and enter “admin” when asked for a Microsoft account. It will give an error and the possibility to create a local account.
Spanish drained the lake in multiple steps to build the modern city. The water they are using is ground water, pumped in an aquifer. Mexico city has a network of canals to drain the storm water.
The other issue is the aquifer doesn’t recharge enough due to the urbanization and consumption. One solution is to use the rain water by cleaning it and storing.
You don’t have all the time an aquifer under a lake. You can find lake on impermeable soil, for example. If connected to an aquifer, you still have some sort of soil between the lake and the aquifer. They drained the water of the lake and the soil when solid at the air. This is why if the aquifer is too low, you have a risk of collapsing.
With urbanization, they build houses, buildings, later parking, paved streets, etc. Each of them is sealing the ground. The water flow in the storm water canals out of the city instead of going in the aquifer. You have a similar issue all over the world.
One project is to use the water in the storm water canals, treat this water and store it in multiple man-made structure like reservoir. We mostly all use man-made structure for water distribution in the developed world. The issue with putting the treated water in the aquifer is that if the treatment went wrong, it contaminates the entire aquifer. The entire aquifer would be unusable.
Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism....
Wenn Meta seinen Messenger Whatsapp für den Austausch von Nachrichten mit anderen Apps öffnen muss, lehnen Signal und Threema dankend ab. Bei beiden Messengern stehen Datenschutz, Verschlüsselung und Anonymität im Vordergrund. Bei einer Verbindung mit Whatsapp würde die Integrität ihrer Messenger zumindest teilweise...
Problematisch ist die Regulierung von der EU. Die EU müsste eine Standard wie bei USB-C geben. Die Gatekeepers hätten einen Pflicht des Standards und nur den Standards zu nutzen. Der einzige Grund, warum die EU nichts unternommen hat, war die neoliberale Idee, dass der Markt alle Probleme durch die Magie des Kapitalismus lösen wird.
Fernwärme gilt als Heizung der Zukunft. Doch manche Mieter werden gerade von enormen Summen in der Jahresabrechnung überrumpelt. Machen die Versorger mehr Kosten geltend als sie tatsächlich haben?...
Fernwärme ist ein Naturalmmonopol. Wie bei der Bahn oder ÖPNV oder Strom, ein solches Monopol muss Stadtlicht sein. Es muss wirtschaftlich sein.
Fernwärme muss nicht überall gebaut sein. Es ist eine gute Lösung mit den guten Parametern. Aber, man hat auch Fernwärme gebaut, wo man Geld machen wollte. Und da, sind wir schon am ersten Punkt.
They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.
I’m not against AI but the rules have to be in laws and regulations. First, AI can’t use copyrighted material without paying for it. It can’t either use material without asking individually.
The second point is that AI can’t created copyrighted material. Whatever an AI created, it’s free of copyright and everyone can use it.
Third, an AI can’t be a blackbox. It has to be comprehensive how it works and what the AI is doing. A solution would be to have source available code.
Fourth, AI can’t violate laws, create and push misinformation, and material used for misinforming.
And, of course, anything created using AI has to be indentified as such.
The money is in what the AI can do, the quality of the result, and the quality of the code. All the other things isn’t valuable.
The suspect in the Texas megachurch shooting on Sunday was not transgender, officials have confirmed. But that hasn’t stopped Republican politicians and conservative media from pushing yet another “trans mass shooter” conspiracy theory....
It’s advertisement. They use the same strategy as advertisers. They don’t care it it’s true or false. They want that people read and speak about them and to do so they need to target a minority. The advantage of targeting a minority is that they will create a sense of common among some people. And, to maintain and have new follower, they need to advertise the BS on a regular basis.
And, they will repeat the same process with an other minority once the previous doesn’t work anymore. It’s working because it’s an easy answer to issues of the people.
Kellogg CEO now faces backlash for suggesting people eat 'cereal for dinner' to save money (www.nbcnews.com)
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Phones are distracting students in class. More states are pressing schools to ban them (www.nbcnews.com)
In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day....
If Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data?
Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water (www.cnn.com)
Spain bans short-haul flights where you can take a train (www.euronews.com)
Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show (www.huffpost.com)
Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism....
Whatsapp muss sich öffnen: Threema und Signal winken ab (www.heise.de)
Wenn Meta seinen Messenger Whatsapp für den Austausch von Nachrichten mit anderen Apps öffnen muss, lehnen Signal und Threema dankend ab. Bei beiden Messengern stehen Datenschutz, Verschlüsselung und Anonymität im Vordergrund. Bei einer Verbindung mit Whatsapp würde die Integrität ihrer Messenger zumindest teilweise...
iMessage quantum security arrives with iOS 17.4 - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy. (signal.org)
'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)
North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups (apnews.com)
Your username has suddenly become your only means of staying alive. How bad is it?
Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’ (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021
Kostenschock bei Fernwärme-Kunden: Wenn fast 2.000 Euro Nachzahlung fällig werden (www.tagesschau.de) German
Fernwärme gilt als Heizung der Zukunft. Doch manche Mieter werden gerade von enormen Summen in der Jahresabrechnung überrumpelt. Machen die Versorger mehr Kosten geltend als sie tatsächlich haben?...
Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.
LineageOS 21 has launched: Changelog 28 - Fantastic Fourteen, Amazing Applications, Undeniable User-Experience (lineageos.org)
Police Say the Lakewood Church Shooter Was Cis. The Right Keeps Saying She Was Trans (www.them.us)
The suspect in the Texas megachurch shooting on Sunday was not transgender, officials have confirmed. But that hasn’t stopped Republican politicians and conservative media from pushing yet another “trans mass shooter” conspiracy theory....