The Royal Society is dead A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to explain how Musk's activities and pronouncements can be considered compatible with the Society's code of conduct.

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The Royal Society is dead

A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. This was a hig...

If Google had engineered a take-over of the Mozilla Foundation, what would they be doing differently from what the Mozilla Foundation is doing now anyway? (Layoffs, ubiquitous "AI", introducing adverts, removing privacy clauses from their docs). Time for a new custodian organization for this code-base. #mozilla #enshittification

Jones could have had a straight red there. #LFC

At first, I thought Trump's new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs could not possibly have said what was being attributed to him. Then I found his actual tweet. It's true.

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Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) on X

Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feeli...

"Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work." i cant even

"The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) calls for action to specify a minimum marriage age of 18. While 186 of 193 countries have ratified the CEDAW treaty, the United States shamefully remains as one of only seven countries that has to date refused to ratify it. We join Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Nauru, Palau, and Tonga on this indefensible list."

America has a child marriage epidemic—and it's even worse than you think

With more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

"Google quietly introduced a new Google Labs AI search engine called Learn About that completely reimagines search [...] This new way of exploring content uses drill-down navigational menus called Interactive Lists and if the user scrolls down far enough they will eventually find links to human created content." Awesome! That sounds like EXACTLY the opposite of what I want when I'm searching.

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Google's AI Search Experiment: "Learn About"

Google quietly introduced a new Google Labs AI search engine called Learn About that completely reimagines search

"Why are we paying so much attention to Silicon Valley pump-and-dumps and ignoring all this incredible, potentially planet-saving, real innovation?" — @Cory Doctorow at https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-30-posiwid-social-cost-of-carbon-ea59fe4ba150