I managed to #harvest some broad beans from the #garden :-)

Does anyone have any fun #Recipes I could try?

title text: Detectives say the key to tracking down the source of the kites was a large wall map covered in thumbtacks and string. 'It's the first time that method has ever actually worked,' said a spokesperson.

(https://xkcd.com/3121)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3121)

My wife makes #KnittingPatterns and videos about #sewing.

She finished two videos about making an #18thCentury wardrobe yesterday. If this interests you, please watch :-)

She considers this her job. It's a way for her to feel productive once in a while. She has a chronic condition which keeps her from working regular hours. Videos are posted very irregularly.

A watch and like would mean a lot to her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_TUR9-e6HU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_YTuLoQGI

title text: Update: I've been banned from the physics department for the way I pronounce "Doppler effect."

(https://xkcd.com/3043)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3043)

title text: Though they do appreciate how much he improved the heating system for the flame pit.

(https://xkcd.com/3006)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3006)

Fun and easy projects easily made with typical household supplies!

Any well sorted hardware store should have a bunch of E10 sockets lying around!

Found this treasure when sorting through some old books 😃

From now on, the norm choice of food at #LundUniversity in #Sweden will be vegetarian. Non vegetarian alternative food will have to be a special order. Also, the priority will be for seasonal, locally produced and ecological food.

A good example of a University that takes responsibility in showing the way of what science is asking us to do. To change what is normative for the good of human and planetary health. Proud of having been a student of Lund University ☺️ 🌱

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/vegetariskt-blir-universitetets-norm-vid-moten-och-konferenser

Privata arbetsförmedlare mycket dyrare men inte bättre: ”Funnits övertro” – Arbetet

https://arbetet.se/2024/10/22/privata-arbetsformedlare-mycket-dyrare-men-inte-battre-funnits-overtro/

While I was being sedated for my hysterectomy, the (woman) surgeon came in to check on everything. I asked her if she would be so kind as to send my uterus to Congress. If they want to control them, I said, they can have mine.

Every person in the room was female and I passed out to the sound of roaring laughter.

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(AI Alt-Text)

Bra av Centerpartiet att skriva interpellation och kräva svar!

"Chat control fortsätter stöta på motstånd i EU. I sista stund bytte Nederländerna fot och röstade nej till förslaget, efter att landets säkerhetstjänst flaggat för riskerna med den breda övervakningen.
Det har fått Centerpartiet att, i en interpellation till justitieministern, ifrågasätta om någon sådan analys gjorts av svenska regeringen. "

https://emanuelkarlsten.se/chat-control-stoppat-efter-sakerhetstjanstens-larm-nu-kraver-centerpartiet-svar-fran-justitieministern-har-ni-tagit-nagra-initiativ/

#ChatControl

They asked all party leaders in #Sweden to fact check their speeches/debate in real time. All those in the left said yes, all those in the right declined.

It's the same almost everywhere

#Svpol #FactCheck #Sverige #Politik #Politics

Ännu en bra ledare om Chat Control

Chat control anstår inte ett demokratiskt samhälle | Göteborgs-Posten
https://www.gp.se/ledare/chat-control-anstar-inte-ett-demokratiskt-samhalle-.480f98bb-4d27-45c4-b2fb-0d8643b5705f

#ChatControl

Hello @EUCommission,

Can we get a #Mastodon share button at the ECI site?

I mean, the page you get after signing an European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), e.g. this one:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#DigitalSovereignty #EU #ECI

Beskattning av stora förmögenheter för att finansiera den gröna och sociala omställningen

#taxthe1percent #taxtherich #Sverige #sweden

If you are lucky enough to live in the #europeanunion, you can sign this official #europeancitizensinitiative petition to require a proposal from the #europeancommission regarding fair taxation:

1 week to go. 1 million signatures needed. Signing takes 1 minute. Please sign. Please share widely with your friends in all of #europe.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧!

Academic publisher Taylor & Francis recently sold many of its authors’ works to Microsoft for $10 million, without asking or paying the authors — to train Microsoft’s large language models!

Taylor & Francis asked their journal "Learning, Media and Technology" to cut peer review time to 15 days — absurdly little time — to crank out more content.

And Taylor & Francis's subsidiary Routledge told staff that it was “extra important” to meet publishing targets for 2024. It moved some book deadlines from 2025 to 2024. Why? To meet its deadline with Microsoft.

Another academic publisher, Wiley, made a $44 million deal to feed academic books to LLMs — with no way for authors to opt out. They say “it is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information.”

When you publish with one of the big academic publishers, they try to make you sign a contract saying they can do whatever they want with your work. That means anything.

Hat-tip to @bstacey for pointing this out.

These articles have links to original sources:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/more-academic-publishers-are-doing-ai-deals/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/routledge-nags-academics-to-finish-books-asap-to-feed-microsofts-ai/

Det här är vansinne och måste stoppas. Skamligt att #Sverige är en del av det.

Om du inte är insatt, läs på och agera. Om du är insatt och aktiv i motståndet: keep up the good work!

https://chatcontrol.se/

#chatcontrol #StopChatcontrol

When you build vehicles with remote functionality, you get security and privacy problems like this. For the love of God, please stop building cars with the ability to lock/unlock, stop/start the engine from an app or a website.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/