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NEW RESOURCES
American Archive of Public Broadcasting: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Preserves 2,000 Le Show Programs for the Nation. “This December, to mark the fortieth anniversary of celebrated actor, author, director, musician, political satirist and broadcaster Harry Shearer’s weekly hour-long public radio series Le Show, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston public media producer GBH, is launching the Le Show Collection, a publicly accessible digital archive of more than 2,000 hours of broadcasts, stretching back over the past four decades.”
Last month and I missed it, from ScotlandsPeople: News Article: Scottish Women’s Land Army records released. “We are pleased to announce that the records of almost 10,000 women who served with the Scottish Women’s Land Army (SWLA) and Women’s Timber Corps (WTC) from 1939 to 1950 have been digitised and are now available online to search and view on ScotlandsPeople. These records are a valuable source for tracing an individual’s service and gaining a wider perspective on the work of the SWLA and WTC.”
University of Utah: 1852 Legislative Session: This Abominable Slavery. “During the 1852 Utah legislative session, a passionate debate ensued over voting rights for Black men. Legislator and Latter-day Saint apostle Orson Pratt argued that Black men should be allowed to vote, while territorial governor and Latter-day Saint president Brigham Young strongly disagreed. … This debate, along with other legislative battles and religious pronouncements can be examined in full in a new digital database called This Abominable Slavery.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: YouTubers can now pause comments after Google moderation tweaks. “YouTube has introduced a new moderation tool for creators that allows them to pause comments, preventing any new comments from being added to videos while preserving those that have already been posted.”
Wine-Searcher: Flaviar Acquires Wine-Searcher. “Flaviar, Inc. has announced its acquisition of Wine-Searcher, the world’s largest database of product, price and availability information across the global beverage alcohol market.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
TechCrunch: Google’s best Gemini demo was faked. “Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked.” I’m getting Google Duo vibes.
Amnesty International: Global: Amnesty International website launches on Tor network to help universal access . “Amnesty International has today launched its global website as an .onion site on the Tor network, giving users greater access to its ground-breaking work exposing and documenting human rights violations in areas where government censorship and digital surveillance are rife.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
404 Media: a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show . “OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies optimize and deploy their machine learning models, debated internally whether it was ethical and legally risky for it to generate images for Civitai, an AI model sharing and image generating platform backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, after it discovered Civitai generated content that OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said ‘could be categorized as child pornography,’ according to internal OctoML Slack messages and documents viewed by 404 Media.”
Billboard: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement . “SUISA Digital Licensing is suing Twitter International in Munich District Court for copyright infringement on X, the online platform formerly known as Twitter. The suit alleges that music compositions controlled by SUISA Digital are found on the platform, and that the company has made no effort to license them or act promptly to remove the infringing content.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Conversation: Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes. “Recruiting participants for a citizen science project produced a more diverse group when people were signed up through partner organizations, such as schools and faith-based organizations, than when they joined on their own. We used this approach to recruit volunteers for Crowd the Tap, a citizen science initiative that crowdsources the locations of lead plumbing in homes.”
North Carolina State University: New HS Curriculum Teaches Color Chemistry and AI Simultaneously. “North Carolina State University researchers have developed a weeklong high school curriculum that helps students quickly grasp concepts in both color chemistry and artificial intelligence – while sparking their curiosity about science and the world around them.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
La Trobe University: Unveiling the sacred Wiradjuri carved trees. “Led by a collaborative effort between Central Tablelands Local Land Services, Gaanha-bula Action Group, Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council, Yarrawula Ngullubul Men’s Corporation, La Trobe University, and the University of Denver in the USA, this project has brought together Wiradjuri traditional cultural knowledge and cutting-edge archaeological techniques of ground-penetrating radar and 3D modelling, to shed light on these sacred locations.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 9, 2023 at 06:31PM
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