Soud v Hongkongu udělil mediálnímu exmagnátovi Jimmymu Laiovi za porušení zákona o národní bezpečnosti 20 let vězení.

V prosinci soud rozhodl, že prodemokratický aktivista se dopustil spiknutí se zahraničními silami a šíření štvavých materiálů. Lai veškerá obvinění odmítá a může se odvolat. USA či Velká Británie označily před rozhodnutím o trestu jeho případ za politický a vyzvaly k jeho okamžitému propuštění. https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/hongkongsky-exmagnat-lai-ma-stravit-20-let-ve-vezeni-usa-vyzvaly-k-jeho_2602090641_ako

TIL that SSDs can lose data if left unplugged for long periods of time (only required to hold data up to 1 year), unlike HDDs which as long as the material holds it can take years.

Edit: added link: https://www.slashgear.com/1893447/dont-leave-your-old-ssd-unplugged/

🧔🏿Is the confederate flag racist? Why did the civil war happen? Where were you born?

🧔🏻Not racist! States' rights. Alabama!

🧔🏻Super racist! Slavery, murder of Black folk. NYC

Can you be mad at Alabama dude when their history textbook (from the same publisher!) lies about this?

The same publisher prints two different versions of the same highschool textbook about the causes of the civil war: one closer to the truth, used in Northern states, and one that lies about the cause, taught in the South🤡

Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.
The European Commission likes to tell them. 💜 😉

"How about I kidnap the dragon," the knight said, "and you come to rescue them?"

"It's still the same story," the princess said.

"No! We're all subverting-"

"I am tired of being in stories," the dragon said.

"What?"

"If you're not in a story, what even are you?"

"I'd like to find out."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

In case you've missed it last year: AFP still offers a free online course that will teach you...

...the basics of AI and its impact on the information ecosystem.

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#AI #verification #journalism

The tech industry is weird at the moment.
So, I'm looking for a frontend focused position.
EM or Staff engineer. Remote or Berlin area.

#mastohire #FediHire

@randahl I guess it may be us/them split. "Anyone of us can carry a gun (to protect us from them), but if anyone of them is carrying a gun they are clearly terrorist (threat to us)".

"The blood was only ever a means to an end," the vampire confessed in the interview.

"To what end?" the reporter asked.

"Blood carries vigor, life force, vital energy. That's what we feed on."

"So how do you get it, if not through blood?"

"These days, we make doom scrolling apps to drain it."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

This is absolutely awesome! The @leavex campaign now has their website up an running, so we can see exactly which members of the EU parliament still support Musk's disinformation platform X, and avoid voting for them.

I hope @leavex expands to add every national parliament — the disinformation has to end.

Se their excellent overview here:
https://leavex.eu/politicians/

Please boost this to support the campaign.

You know who did a lot of programming on the Naval Ordnance Research Computer and was brilliant and good at orbits? Gladys West!

This archived Air Force bio says she was involved in the Pluto study https://web.archive.org/web/20190603171222/https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1707464/mathematician-inducted-into-space-and-missiles-pioneers-hall-of-fame/

But the paper is credited as Cohen & Hubbard 1964. Because she was "just" a programmer, and the research note linked above starts and ends with "gentlemen", so yeah, they definitely didn't want to put her as a co-author.

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Hey, remember that time in 1938 when Britain's Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler and, being convinced that ol' Adolf just wanted Czechoslovakia and nothing else (despite the anchluss of Austria a few months before), signed the Munich Agreement, which basically allowed the nazis to invade Czechoslovakia?

And then Chamberlain returned to England having just signed the Munich Agreement and told crowds in London the Agreement meant "peace in our time?"

Not sure why that's come to mind lately.

Also, why is Greenland in the news so much lately? Is something happening?

Hi Fediverse! Hallo Mastodon! Wir sind das Deutsche Technikmuseum und #neuhier!
Auf 28.500 Quadratmetern Ausstellungfläche geht's bei uns um die Frage, wie Technik unser Leben prägt. Von historischen Maschinen bis zu Zukunftsthemen wie Klimawandel, KI oder Verkehrswende. Hier teilen wir Einblicke ins Museum und Geschichten aus unseren Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch!
#museum

After several months of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I handed in my notice at work this week.

If anyone knows of a Canadian company looking to hire a remote senior web developer who will NOT be working on LLM-related functionality (or be required to use LLM-based development tools), please point me in their direction. I've got 15 years of experience and love getting my teeth into technical problems.

Boosts most welcome. Thanks! #getfedihired

📣 New best practice post on our blog – written by @lxplm.

Take a look if you want to...

...get ideas for how to run a successful R&D workshop – with journalists and tech experts.

...gain insights into our project "GenKI4Media" and its 3D use case.

...find out why we think AI tools might not be a match for human brainstorming and coop power after all.

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#journalism #technology #BestPractice

@halfbyte I would advise to consider them all genuine and kindly reject the transactional part. It will be happier place than "they all only see me as possible customer".

Singhal was unable to point to any studies OpenAI has done to test ChatGPT's ability to give accurate health advice during the long, multimodal, multi-turn conversations the company is encouraging its users to have with its product.

Meanwhile, studies from many health researchers have turned up concerning behaviors in these models.

Read more in my story for STAT:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/chatgpt-claude-offer-health-advice-should-you-trust-it/

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

Právě jsem přihodila na kickstarter pro novou gTLD doménu ".meow" a myslím, že byste měli taky. Má ji spravovat neziskovka v Belgii, idea je, že to bude LGBT safe heaven a tak. Víc na webu: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application