Joanna Bryson, blathering
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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Apple overtakes Samsung in phones sales worldwide After 14 years behind Samsung, Apple is back on top in global smartphone sales, just as Chinese rivals step up the pressure. Foldables and advanced AI are the new battleground in the fight for the next billion users […]
Zhang, 75, was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) - the Communist Party group headed by the country's leader Xi Jinping, which controls the armed forces. The CMC, usually made up of around seven people, has now been whittled down to just two members - Xi and Gen Zhang […]
China repressing minority languages, culture, history, political autonomy...ok, minorities. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/president-xi-jinping-global-order-minorities-china?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
EU holds talks with big tech over Ceuta misinformation EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen has called for closer monitoring of social media platforms moving forward, amid the spread of misinformation during the recent migrant influx at Spain's Ceuta […]
An International Socialist came to the door. He seemed a bit perturbed about how many of the English versions of his German paper he was having to give out. It was all about AI so of course I had to buy one off of him. Sometimes you go do research; sometimes the data comes to you. #AIEthics […]
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jimfl/117050422941205913 Genau. For example, I'm finding @kagihq increasingly useless and thinking of dropping paying for it. I started using it because it was like Google pre AI and I could find stuff with it. Now Kagi is using AI and I can't find stuff with it, in […]
wait, of ones assigned or absolute? Because Germany, the third largest economy in the world, still doesn't have one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/06/trump-fills-ambassador-posts-with-more-donors-loyalists-than-any-recent-president/
Also having trouble getting over that the last party besides us (at 20:45) at an incredibly Tokyo #prenzlauerberg japanese restaurant (watapas) spent his last half hour talking (in German) loudly with his KI partner on his new phone about well anything but particularly nazi history. Otherwise it […]
how's mr free speech dealing with this one? #autocracy Turkish court orders X to block Imamoglu candidacy account Ekrem Imamoglu, a member of the main opposition Republican People's Party, is widely seen as the main challenger to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 23-year rule […]
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I don't own Google stock because I worked with them too much (even though they never gave me money! Not even for research...) but it seems like a Hassabis thing must be news #giftArticle https://wapo.st/4xsGb7L
RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117044350861134225 Tell me he didn’t want his own crater. Maybe he’s been contemplating mortality.
Pretend I quoted my previous retoot; quote text: "In case anyone following this & not my other account knows about #antitrust, I'm looking for help, I'm not a lawyer." (I HATE that I can no longer quote my bsky acct. Why, @bsky.brid.gy ?) Anyway, Google scholar shows just 4 cites of […]
Lions can only take dry heat :-( Died of 40C with Japanese humidity. Three lions die of heatstroke at Tokyo zoo The zoo said that 10 of its 16 lions have been ill. Japan has been experiencing an extreme heat wave since late July […]
This article gives evidence in passing without mentioning that dismantling the #ICC is a(nother) joint Putin/Trump project […]