Using your face or thumbprint to unlock your phone is convenient, but courts may grant less legal protection to biometrics. EFF’s Andrew Crocker spoke to Gizmodo about passwords and the Fifth Amendment. gizmodo.com/stop-using-you…

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And, yes, the hospital in Sierra Leone is now under construction, largely financed by, not just socks, but a suite of other products we have available at a store that donates 100% of its profit to make the world a better place at Good.Store.

Carson and I getting campaign work done:)

VisArch 'motivated misunderstanding' sounds like many of Jane Austen's characters

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No that is not how AI works. This is how it works.
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To all those who struggle to understand the difference between a human who goes to a museum and paints a picture back home and the way generative AI works - maybe this helps?
Unless your lack of understanding is ideologically motivated of course... #genAI #AI

'You wonder why some effects of a policy are called 'side effects' when they are as real and direct as the 'main effects.'' -- Donella Meadows

VisArch JJ Bryson 2 Maxwell Ramstead Sergi Valverde🌍 Stuart Boardman Mairtín Cunneen Josh Gellers Paresh Kathrani David J. Gunkel John Flood 'There are no side effects—only effects.' 'All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist' by John D. Sterman: web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/A… 'We measure what we care about, and those measurements alter what we believe is important.'

I’ve been recently trying to get into a better writing practice to share some of my thoughts in the architecture modernization space.

One of the primary problems of modernization is how can you understand a system’s current state. My take:

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I've been fairly quiet about this for a few reasons: 1) I was as shocked as anyone by the news 2) Angel Banks, bethlaing & I are working to gracefully transition our local Women Who Code Atlanta community of 5K+ technologists. We built this community from the ground up and #WomenWhoCode 1/n

We might as well cite her...

On the eve of the divestment protest, IU changed policy to forbid tents w/out IU approval.

Thursday morning, they posted the change to their website.

That afternoon, police arrested 33 protesters for violating policy. Indiana Daily Student

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IU changed its campus policy a day before yesterday's protest and encampment. An IU constitutional law professor argues this is not a neutral policy, meaning it likely violates protesters' 1st Amendment rights.

Marissa Meador has more:

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In 1984, Ken Thompson had the best take on software supply chain security: 'The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.' dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…