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Honest pornography deep fake question for legal types
Regarding the attached: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68110476
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A School without Books | Perspectives on History
After six months, only 34 of my 700 books have been vetted. This constitutes a de facto ban without the inconvenience of having to actively reject a book. The censors are in no hurry. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/january-2024/a-school-without-books-the-state-of-censorship-and-classroom-libraries-in-florida
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Does anybody want to buy a used A380? It’s a snip at $25M…
https://www.controlleremea.co.uk/listing/for-sale/224908431/2013-airbus-a380-jet-aircraft
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Cold War Comics about Communism, HT @lcamtuf
From lcamtuf: a small but amusing cache of, well, propaganda from the 1950s and 1960s. I wonder if there will be something similar of memes in about 70 years. https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/communism/
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Matt Green breaks down (ahem) popular misrepresentation of “homomorphic encryption” (i.e. cleartext) CSAM detection that Thorn espouse; HT Douwe Korff for tl;dr
This short thread is a blinder; linked as best I can, below, because NewTwitter does not permit serious unrolls any more. For those unfamiliar, Thorn is a noted, Aston-Kutcher-founded critic of platforms which are enabling people to have secure private messenger conversations, on the basis that permitting people to have privacy leads to child abuse…
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Meghan Cross on Twitter “Can a ghost and a zombie come from the same person? …”
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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them | WIRED
Gosh, who would ever have predicted this? That flight from engagement on “toxic but populous” platforms — including the internet as a whole, where toxicity may be defined as not being paid — cedes public narrative to misinformation? https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/
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“…policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company, commercial and intellectual property law issues” | …some common sense, some utterly bonkers stuff in this European Parliament report
Link is below; what worries me is not the reflective stuff which describes where we are, but the direction which their virtual finger is implicitly pointing by merely writing some of this stuff. Goodbye anonymity. Hello legally-mandated online identity and “rights for digital avatars”. And does anyone remember what a “NFT” was? REPORT on policy…
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(2022) Lasers reveal ancient pyramids and canals hidden in the Amazon | …basically a nice little primer on LIDAR and its use in archaeology, pretty pictures
The laser pulse repetition rate was 200?kHz. Flight altitude was 200 m above ground level, airspeed was 45?knots. Missions were flown in 200-m parallel strips, with 50% overlap. Data post-processing was done by M.S. (ArcTron) using the RIEGL software RiAnalyze. He successfully overcame fundamental problems in the raw data resulting from a time offset of 18?s…
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Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet | grapefruit history and drug interactions | Gastro Obscura
I knew it was weird, I didn’t know it was this weird. Grapefruit has a high volume of compounds called furanocoumarins, which are designed to protect the fruit from fungal infections. When you ingest grapefruit, those furanocoumarins take your cytochrome P450 enzymes offline. There’s no coming back. Grapefruit is powerful, and those cytochromes are donezo.…