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NEW RESOURCES
Fire Engineering: NVFC Launches Online Tool to Connect Responders with Mental Health Professionals. “The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) has launched an online, searchable directory of behavioral health professionals ready and able to help firefighters, EMS providers, rescue workers, and their families. This new tool replaces the previous PDF directory and will make it easier for responders and their families to find the assistance they need.”
Ballotpedia News: Ballotpedia’s new dashboard is your go-to resource for information about police CBAs. “Ballotpedia today announced the launch of its Police Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) Dashboard. This new resource allows users to find timely, reliable, non-partisan information on police collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in all 50 states and the 100 most populated cities in the U.S. A police CBA is a contract between a state, city, or other governing entity and a police union to establish certain rights, protections, and provisions for law enforcement officers.”
State of Connecticut: Governor Lamont Announces Launch of Jobs.CT.Gov. “Governor Ned Lamont today announced the launch of Connecticut’s new jobs portal, jobs.ct.gov. The portal is aimed at assisting Connecticut residents and those seeking to move to the state in the process of finding a job.”
Center for Reproductive Rights: New Digital Tool Provides State-by-State Analysis of High Court Rulings on Abortion. “State courts are deciding whether and how their own constitutions protect abortion rights, some for the first time. Plus, voters are weighing in on ballot initiatives to amend their state constitutions to protect or deny reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights has developed a new digital tool, State Constitutions and Abortion Rights, showing the current status of abortion rights through state court constitutional decisions.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CNBC: Google CEO says more job cuts are needed in 2024 in order to reach ‘ambitious goals’. “In a memo titled “2024 priorities and the year ahead” that staffers received Wednesday evening, Pichai said, ‘we have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year.’ In the memo, which was obtained by CNBC, Pichai said company leadership is gearing up to share its AI goals for the year this week and will publish its 2024 OKRs (objectives and key results).” It’s probably too much to ask that one of the goals be “Nobody dies or suffers serious injury from following Google Maps directions.”
Library of Congress: Meet the 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Higher Education and Libraries, Archives, Museums Recipients. “The Library of Congress has awarded funding to six higher education and cultural heritage organizations through the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI)’s Higher Education Institutions and Libraries, Archives and Museums awards. The 2024 awardees will create projects that offer creative approaches to the Library’s digital collections and center Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic or Latino Studies.”
WIRED: What SoundCloud Created Can Never Die. “The element of discovery has been SoundCloud’s secret sauce since it launched in 2007. The Berlin-founded company has maintained its relevance by embracing a simple ethos: come as you are. That’s made SoundCloud the for-everybody platform—one that embraces all genres, sexualities, religions, and definitions of music and art. By setting itself up as a hub for community-oriented music streaming, it’s become a kind of incubator for avant-garde sounds. SoundCloud is everybody’s underground. That may soon change.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Google Judge Balks at Altering App Store Fee Without Expert Help. ” The judge presiding over Epic Games Inc.’s challenge to Google’s Play Store business model said he’s not confident about setting a fee for mobile app developers without expert input. A jury last month sided with the maker of the popular game Fortnite and concluded that Alphabet Inc.’s Google Play unlawfully abused its power in what has become a duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year. In the next phase of the case, US District Judge James Donato will decide on a remedy.”
ARTNews: Three U.S. Museums Accused of Hiding Stolen Stain Glass Windows from Rouen Cathedral. “A complaint was filed by the Parisian lumière sur le patrimoine association against three American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for hiding the theft of stain glass windows from the Rouen Cathedral in December 2023, Ouest-France reports.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
TechCrunch: DeepMind’s latest AI can solve geometry problems. “DeepMind, the Google AI R&D lab, believes that the key to more capable AI systems might lie in uncovering new ways to solve challenging geometry problems. To that end, DeepMind today unveiled AlphaGeometry — a system that the lab claims can solve as many geometry problems as the average International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist.”
Northeastern University Research: From social media to body image and back: Rachel Rodgers reveals the complexity of this bi-directional relationship.. “Social media is arguably one of the greatest factors in the development of self esteem and body image in modern society. … Many parents, young people and social science researchers have a creeping feeling that there’s reason to be concerned, but measuring the impacts of social media on body image is quite complex. That’s because social media works as a two-way street: The algorithm influences the user’s ideas and the user’s online interactions guids the algorithm.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Stanford News: New, portable antenna could help restore communication after disasters. “Researchers at Stanford University and the American University of Beirut (AUB) have developed a portable antenna that could be quickly deployed in disaster-prone areas or used to set up communications in underdeveloped regions. The antenna, described recently in Nature Communications, packs down to a small size and can easily shift between two configurations to communicate either with satellites or devices on the ground without using additional power.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 19, 2024 at 06:31PM
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