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NEW RESOURCES
GameSpew: Wondering if Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Spiders? The Game Content Triggers Database Has the Answer. “The Game Content Triggers Database lists 250+ triggers, including some we, admittedly, had never thought of. And each entry will tell you whether or not you can avoid the content. What’s particularly clever is you don’t need to know the official name for a phobia. Type in ‘holes’ into the search box and it brings up trypophobia, fear of small holes. The database was, in part, inspired by Craven’s 96-year old friend Bess, who they introduced to Red Dead Redemption 2.” Ms. Bess’ story is an excellent read.
The Marshall Project: The Marshall Project Partners With DocumentCloud for Upgraded Klaxon Site-Monitoring Tool. “Klaxon Cloud allows reporters, editors and other researchers to monitor scores of websites, including data-heavy government and corporate sites, for newsworthy changes…. Klaxon has always been free and open-source, but thus far has required each newsroom to set up, configure and maintain its own server. To help broaden who can take advantage of this powerful tool, The Marshall Project and MuckRock collaborated to create Klaxon Cloud, a modified version of Klaxon that is incorporated into DocumentCloud.”
If you’re currently looking for a page change monitor and you can’t use this for whatever reason, I highly recommend ChangeDetection.io. Tons of features and monitors up to 5,000 URLs for $8.99 a month, which is a steal. I’ve been a happy, full-paying customer since February 2023 and receive no remuneration whatever for this recommendation.
USEFUL STUFF
Make Tech Easier: 11 iPhone Photography Tips to Get Better Shots. “iPhones are renowned for their impressive cameras, but capturing a truly great shot takes more than just pressing the shutter button. This guide presents essential and actionable tips to help elevate your iPhone photography. From mastering lighting and composition to taking full advantage of available features and settings, these tips will help anyone looking to enhance their photographic skills.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Mashable: The best internet moments of 2023 . “The internet moves fast, and if you aren’t chronically online (like I am), you’re going to miss some of the best bits. That’s why we’ve made a list, in no particular order, of some of the best internet moments of the year. We’ve got you covered on everything from AI trickery to spy balloon suspicions. Don’t say we never did anything for you.”
NBC 15 (Wisconsin): Dane Co. Sheriff’s Office likely stop posting on Elon Musk’s X too. “The Dane Co. Sheriff’s Office will likely join other county agencies that will stop posting to X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office said the Sheriff’s Office expects to follow Co. Executive Joe Parisi’s guidance to Dane Co. departments that directed them to stop posting to X before New Year’s Day.”
WJTV: National Archives spurs creation of online UMMC database. “The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) received funding through the National Archives to preserve documented medical breakthroughs. Known as ‘Mississippi Medical History Online: The UMMC Digital Collections Initiative,’ its goal is to preserve the history of medicine in Mississippi. This history will be made available to the public and scholars alike.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
OCCRP: Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe’s Biggest Ports. “Europe’s commercial ports are top entry points for cocaine flooding in at record rates. The work of a Dutch hacker, who was hired by drug traffickers to penetrate port IT networks, reveals how this type of smuggling has become easier than ever.”
Meduza: Russian mapping and business database company 2GIS asks employees to compile registry of LGBT establishments. “The management of the Russian online mapping serving 2GIS has instructed employees to gather data about establishments for LGBTQ+ people in a single registry, the outlet iStories reported on Monday, publishing a photo of the message workers received.”
Bleeping Computer: French government recommends against using foreign chat apps. “Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees to uninstall foreign communication apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, 2023, in favor of a French messaging app named ‘Olvid.’ The guideline addressed to ministers, secretaries of state, chiefs of staff, and cabinet members proposes that they instead install and use the Olvid app made by a French company.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Stop stifling the public’s right to know in Florida. “Florida was a beacon to the nation. Was. It’s no longer true. The Legislature has riddled the public records laws with more than 1,000 exemptions, easily hurdling the two-thirds supermajorities of both houses that the Constitution requires. That includes corrupting clouds of darkness over university presidential searches and the extensive travels of Gov. Ron DeSantis as he seeks the presidency.”
The Conversation: Online ‘likes’ for toxic social media posts prompt more − and more hateful − messages. “Although seeing hate comments is unquestionably upsetting, new research suggests there’s a different reason people post hate: to get attention and garner social approval from like-minded social media users. It’s a social activity. It’s exhilarating to be the nastiest or snarkiest and to get lots of thumbs-ups or hearts. Anecdotal evidence makes a good case for the social basis of online hate, and new empirical research backs it up.”
Stanford University: A Composer’s Helper: Using AI to Create New Harmonies. “The music transformer, built using the generative pretrained Transformer architecture (GPT) that powers language models like ChatGPT, facilitates a co-creation process where composers iteratively collaborate with the tool, choosing what to write themselves and what to delegate to AI. This approach allows composers to keep fragments of the generated music that they like while discarding the rest. The Anticipatory Music Transformer focuses on symbolic music rather than musical audio.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 5, 2023 at 06:31PM
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