Sadly the Harmful Algal Bloom off South Australia may have had a little boost with the recent rain and heat. Satellite images from 5 March. The red areas indicate Chlorophyll A which is what the algae produce, and the second image is the real colour you can see from space
go.nasa.gov/3PjpGKc
Looks like the ideal cover for a new planetarium soundtrack? A guy can dream at least.
When in the UK, I had been working with my undergraduate honours students to research an everyday criminology of online life. My student Lisa Burton and I published an examination of consumer-to-consumer marketplaces in the context of the UK Online Fraud Charter. Read it here: rdcu.be/e4P7B
How did we get to the VERY LOW BAR of "we need a law to ensure removal within 48 hours of notification?" 48 hours is an eternity and allows abusive content to be shared across other platfrorms.
This is so amazingly screwed.
please don't forget if you have Master's students who wrote a great dissertation last year on a borders related topic to get them to submit it to @bordercrim.bsky.social for our annual dissertation prize. more info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
The beauty of this is that Guttenfelder is covering these men the way they have always wanted: dripping in tacticool gear, in action, looking down their sites at an enemy which surrounds them. In doing so, he reveals who they are. They imagine themselves heroes; he shows they are villains.
The risks here are myriad. I can see this tech being used to produce all sorts of non-consentual video content, including CSAM. I wonder if copyright needs to be blanketly given to anyone who is recorded without consent...
AI tools are no longer unable to realistically render faces of real people, and can now generate face images of actual individuals that are essentially undetectable as synthetic to most human observers, research by Kramer et al concludes:
buff.ly/yooYg1g
HT @bxjaeger.bsky.social
I spoke to NPR yesterday about X's AI, Grok, and users generating sexual content of women and girls.
This has been an issue for months on X. This did not just suddenly start over the holidays. And on a larger scale, an issue for years in AI-gen tech
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
I think that's a Mike Levi worthy pun.
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
ICYMI 👇
Great cover.
As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.
For my #osint people.
To say it has no use is a problem. To not know what kind of output it produces is also a problem. To not think about how people will use/misuse it, also a problem. Academics don't have to incorporate it into their workflow, but should play with it to see what it does and how it produces.
AI can help identify terms where you might have an idea/description but don't know the term
It can help reduce the reading level of something
It can help simplify/create outlines
It might help identify PII faster than a human first pass
But all of these require further human input to be right.
Maybe there is an unsubscribe command? Or filter it.
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Yep, that is labor intensive! Massive effort. I wish there was more out there on this process as we move towards open science frameworks in some spheres -- the time add is important to estimate. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Would AWS help do a first pass strip potentially?
#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
"Ethically trained" typically means "fine tuned with data acquired with consent".
Unless a company or service has clearance for every single piece of training data in their BASE MODEL, it's likely still utilizing protected IP.
I don't personally care much until "ethically" is used in marketing.
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
The enshittification of Google and knowledge writ large is firmly upon us.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
On top of that, you'll be losing negotiation power to competition from other buyers trying to panic-buy a new house before the rates go back up.
Buy what you can afford. You can't refinance an overvalued house purchase.
Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e
Is it a casualty of Amazon/ eBooks or an indication that students don't consume books anymore? I fear it's the latter.
Rest in Peace Jimmy Cliff. Thanks for the jams, sir.
