This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/
now that summer tourism has wound down, pleased to be able to enjoy the wonders of the bistro box without the long lines🍟
📚 Library peops, Sandy Berman is having a rough time (physical health, death in the family), send him a card, even if you don't know him. Let him know what his work has meant to you. Sandy Berman 4400 Morningside Rd. Edina, MN 55416-5043 DM me on another platform if you want his number
For a major organisation like the ABC to a) cite the toxic atmosphere as reason to abandon *huge* accounts, and b) to cite rising API costs as a reason to abandon emergency alert services, should be a major signal that if you don't have plans to abandon ship: make some immediately. #auspol
The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
MUST READ from @melissagiragrant.comhttps://newrepublic.com/article/174786/republicans-fooling-democrats-kids-online-safety
A bill before Congress would help the far-right advance its ideological war—but Democrats apparently haven’t noticed or don’t care.
I know I’m not the only one who loves a good swim, and doesn’t always have a person with me to sunscreen my back… Anyway, I’ve graduated from the spatula method to an official sunscreen roller device, and I’ll never go back!
‘Tis the season where I become completely insufferable over how awesome of an area I get to live in 🌳🎶⛅️💚
Hampshire is apparently laying off IT and hiring a third-party. Just more deprofessionalization of higher ed workers. Experience in our local contexts *matters.* New perspectives are good, but throwing out the baby with the bathwater not so much.
Some staff have worked at Hampshire College for up to 40 years.