¹ gwagner.com/hle with J. Patrick Behrer, R. Jisung Park et al.: "One additional day >32 °C (90 °F) lowers annual payroll by 0.04%, equal to 2.1% of average weekly earnings."
A damning report by Australia's audit office makes explosive revelations about the Australian National University's financial management.
www.crikey.com.au
by A. Patrick Behrer, R. Jisung Park, Gernot Wagner, Colleen M. Golja, and David W. Keith
“Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion [phone] app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.”
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www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
The report in question is here:
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
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The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
"The reality is that a ruthless propaganda war is being waged against the survival of human civilisation in the name of short-term greed."
Media Lens on how manufactured confusion has produced a dangerous mix of climate denial and apathy: medialens.substack.com/p/invitation...
We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of anti-semitism to undermine democratic choice...
To be very geeky, speaking of orcs "The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."
It did find a site supposedly from the Thai government public health that had fertility by age for reconstructing as cohort. But that page had something my defensive software described as a javascript trojan threat so I decided not to investigate more.
I woke up this morning thinking, I should update this graph to be current. While I am not a Kāpiti resident, this might come in handy for someone.
Someone likened using AI to using tools like Zotero as aids (which is a dumb metaphor IMO), and triggered a whole lot of "I write my references by hand" discourse.
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‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
David Hood
Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reporting
