Notices by Calishat (researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host), page 2

#legal #AI #EU #Twitter #privacy #PersonalInformation

'Ireland's data privacy regulator is investigating Elon Musk's X. The country's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Friday (via Reuters) that it's opening an inquiry into the social platform's use of European users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot. In this case, Ireland handles EU regulation enforcement because X's European headquarters are in Dublin.'

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/irelands-privacy-regulator-is-investigating-xs-use-of-public-data-to-train-grok-182010855.html?src=rss

#Oceania #blogs #WebDirectories #Web

From the landing page: "A curated directory of personal websites by people living in or from Oceania: Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and other Pacific Islands."

Early days for this directory so don't expect too much yet.

https://zacharykai.net/lists/oceania

#Facebook #NonEnglish #ContentModeration #misinformation #disinformation

'Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish unchecked.

Two recent examples show the effects disinformation can have.'

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/meta-disinformation-non-english-languages/

#politics #cryptocurrency #scams #fraud #OnlineSafety

'In case you had any doubts, the golden age of white-collar crime is upon us. The Justice Department announced on Monday that it will stop regulating the digital asset space, instead focusing its efforts on prosecuting crimes that utilize cryptocurrency, like drug and human trafficking.'

https://gizmodo.com/justice-department-says-it-will-pull-back-on-prosecuting-crypto-fraud-2000586428

#ElonMusk #politics #schadenfreude

'The last 24 hours have brought a parade of humiliation for the world’s richest edgelord, starting with his $20 million losing bet on the pro-Trump candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Hours after the loss in Wisconsin, Tesla reported its biggest sales drop ever, falling 13% in the first quarter, while its No. 1 rival grew revenue by 60% in the same time period.'

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/everything-blowing-elon-musk-face-090036385.html

Just stumbled over a database of labor films: https://laborfilms.com/

#Twitter #ElonMusk #AI #xAI

"X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, has been sold. Elon Musk said Friday that xAI, his artificial intelligence company, had acquired X in an all-stock transaction that values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion, his original take-private price, minus $12 billion in debt)."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/x-sold-elon-musk-ai-company-xai-1236175325/

Wow. Thank you to @thisismissem for taking this time to write this up.

(I freely admit I only understood about half)

https://writings.thisismissem.social/open-source-tools-for-the-future-of-decentralized-moderation/

#Mastodon #cybersecurity #OpenSource

#games #Chess #GLAM #museums #FIDE

"As part of its 2024 centenary celebrations, FIDE has unveiled an online museum tracing chess history from ancient times to modern tournaments. The Open Chess Museum endorsed by FIDE aims to become the world’s largest repository of chess artifacts, showcasing valuable items from every corner of the world and every era of chess history."

https://www.fide.com/fide-launches-first-digital-museum-dedicated-to-chess-history/

If I got a fancy gym membership and went on an inclined treadmill for 40 minutes every morning, I'd be pleased with myself.

But because I'm walking up and down hills all over the neighborhood for the same length of time I'm mad at myself for not exercising enough and telling myself it's "just a walk."

This is dumb thinking and I need to correct it.

I feel bad for all the small and local businesses who have to manage their Google Business listings. It is INSANE that something so critical for a business is THIS damn janky. @ai6yr

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-setup-stuck-39129.html

#racism #SystemicRacism #HigherEducation

"The president of the brokerage firm, The Furman Company, was Alester G. Furman Jr., a long-time trustee of Furman University and the great-grandson of the university’s first president.... The analysis is part of a research project by Ken Kolb... and other faculty and student researchers. Their project, 'Placing Furman,' includes hundreds of photos, interactive data maps illustrating the scope of the project...'

https://www.furman.edu/news/placing-furman-project-examines-racist-real-estate-practices-of-the-past/

#Facebook #books #CarelessPeople #BarbraStreisand

'Careless People has debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s bestseller list. That’s despite the fact that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former policy director at Facebook, has been barred from promoting or publicly discussing the book following legal action by Meta.'

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/careless-people-hits-the-top-of-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-235008451.html?src=rss

#Tesla #finance

'Compare Tesla’s capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.

... A closer look at Tesla’s cash flow statement may also prompt investors to ask other questions, such as why a business with a $37bn cash pile raised $6bn of new debt last year?

https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e

#alcohol #cocktails #menus #GraphicDesign

'The new resource will log cocktail menus from bars around the world which can be browsed by country, bar name, year and key words and is accessible to hospitality professionals.

With more than 100 so far, the Cocktail Menu Collection aims to provide an outlook on ingredients and recipes used in bars globally, while offering inspiration for menu concepts, drinks and design.'

https://drinksint.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/11649/Danil_Nevsky_launches_Cocktail_Menu_Collection.html

#sewage #wastewater #hydrogen #solar

'Scientists at NTU Singapore, have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge - a by-product of wastewater treatment - into green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for animal feed.

Published in Nature Water, the sludge-to-food-and-fuel method tackles two pressing global challenges: managing waste and generating sustainable resources.'

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/news/detail/solar-powered-tech-turns-sewage-sludge-into-green-hydrogen-and-animal-feed

#Facebook #books #legal #BarbraStreisand

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/arbitrator-prohibits-meta-whistleblower-from-promoting-tell-all-book.html

#punk #PunkMusic #art #Getty

"The Getty has acquired the archive of renowned American artist Raymond Pettibon, who first gained recognition in the 1980s Southern California punk rock scene before establishing himself in the fine art world, officials announced Tuesday."

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/03/11/archive-of-artist-raymond-pettibon-known-for-1980s-punk-rock-imagery-acquired-by-getty/

#Tesla #ElonMusk #activism #protests

'This weekend, protests escalated at Tesla showrooms across the nation. Hundreds of people gathered to boycott Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is overseeing a massively disruptive effort to fire thousands of federal workers to slash government spending.'

https://www.theverge.com/news/626851/tesla-takedown-protests-elon-musk

#Google #Amazon #AI #Nazis

'Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results.'

https://www.404media.co/google-amazon-ai-search-mein-kampf-reviews/