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NEW RESOURCES
Uprise RI: Uprise RI Officially Launches BillBuddy Legislation Engagement Tool. “Today Uprise RI officially launched BillBuddy, an innovative voter engagement tool designed to empower Rhode Islanders with clear, unbiased insights into state legislation. The tool is now live at UpriseRI.com/bb and offers Rhode Islanders the unique opportunity to understand legislative proposals in straightforward terms, regardless of their political stance.”
EVENTS
Columbia SPS School of Professional Studies: The Real Impact of Fake News: The Rise of Political Misinformation—and How We Can Combat Its Influence. “What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? That was among the key questions considered at the recent Strategies for Combating Political Misinformation panel hosted by the Columbia University School of Professional Studies (SPS) Strategic Communication and Political Analytics graduate programs. The discussion centered on the varying factors that determine the influence of misinformation on beliefs, and what strategies can be used to combat it effectively.” The full panel is available on YouTube but unfortunately it looks like the captions are autogenerated (I saw a speaker referring to “serial boxes”.)
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
9to5 Google: Telegram rolls out revamped voice and video calls, new delete animation on Android. “Telegram is rolling out a new update, version 10.5.0, which delivers a new look and feel for voice and video calls, as well as a revamped delete animation that’s now available on Android.”
USEFUL STUFF
Smart Bitches Trashy Books: Track Your 2024 Reading With Our Community-Built Spreadsheet!. “It’s sharing time! Over the past few years, we’ve shared different versions of this reading tracking spreadsheet and each year it’s been improved by one of you!”
How-To Geek: 5 Linux Distributions to Breathe New Life Into Old Hardware. “If you have a relative who only wants to surf the web and catch up with emails, an old computer loaded with Linux is probably all they need. But we wanted to know whether a light distribution of Linux on old hardware could provide something that would allow you to do some real work.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
KPCW: Google Maps led stranded Idaho man down snowmobile track, Summit County rescuers say. “An Idaho man told rescuers Google Maps was to blame when his car got stuck on a snowmobile trail deep in the Uinta Mountains New Years Day.”
The Guardian: A piece of performance poetry’: an absurd, decade-old Twitter account can teach us a lot about AI. Posterity, as soon as I saw the headline I knew exactly which Twitter account this was. “More than a decade before an AI-powered chatbot could do your homework, help you make dinner or pass the bar exam, there was @Horse_ebooks. The primitive predecessor to today’s chatbot renaissance began as a Twitter account in 2010, tweeting automated excerpts from ebooks that, decontextualized, took on unexpected and strangely poetic meanings.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Search Engine Journal: WordPress Google Fonts Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To +300,000 Sites. “The plugin, OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy., optimizes the use of Google Fonts to reduce page speed impact and is also GDPR compliant, making it valuable for users in the European Union looking to implement Google Fonts.”
CBS News: Holiday week “swatting” incidents target and disrupt members of Congress. “At least three members of Congress reported being the victims of ‘swatting incidents’ over the holiday week, according to a review by CBS News. Other members of Congress, from both parties, have also experienced some form of disruption by such phony and harassing swatting calls over the past several weeks.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The News (Pakistan): Website, app launched to digitise Urdu in Nastaleeq font. “The development of website [and]… corresponding mobile phone Android app, which can convert images of printed Urdu text in the Nastaleeq script into an editable text for computers and also read them out, was termed on Thursday a landmark event in the digitisation of the Urdu language in the modern era.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 4, 2024 at 01:34AM
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