Elena Alonso @chicafisica@red.niboe.info

Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features

Feature opt-out by default bothers users who like to keep their files private.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

The Kondo Effect.

The Matthiessen’s rule is a phenomenological relation that states that if resistivity stems from the scattering of electrons by lattice vibrations and imperfections, then it should keep decreasing with decreasing temperature.

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☢️ Más de 20 países acuerdan triplicar la producción de energía nuclear para 2050 en la Cumbre del Clima.

https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cop28/20-paises-acuerdan-triplicar-produccion-energia-nuclear-2050-cumbre-del-clima

La Moda SUV mata

“Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size”

#climatechange #climatecrisis
#environment #ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCatastrophe

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/24/motor-emissions-could-have-fallen-without-suv-trend-report?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Twi**er seemed, for a long time, like it provided more context than any one news source, because (a) it algorithmically surfaced topics you were interested in and (b) thus let you see a wider array of sources. (Facebook’s news experiment promised this, as well.)

But in the end, because the goal was engagement rather than information, there was an inevitable escalation: all the inflammatory stuff from everywhere with none of the context from anywhere.
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#Nature #News ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy. Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03479-4 #CellReportsPhysicalScience Distinguishing academic science writing from humans or ChatGPT with over 99% accuracy using off-the-shelf machine learning tools https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642300200X

There is a new feature of Mastodon that I wanted to highlight for you all.

I had no use for the Lists feature before- but as of the recent 4.2 update, you can put some people you follow into a list- and then you can check a box in that list's details to NOT SHOW their posts in your main feed.

This could totally change Mastodon for me, in the best way.

I follow some newsy-political accounts, and often rush by them in the feed if I'm not in the mood to hear (more) bad news. Now I can put them in a list and not see them at all in and among the feed of real thoughts, pictures, artwork and jokes you amazing people share.

And when I actually feel like engaging with the news/politics of the world, I can pop over to that list and see only that stuff in there.

This way you can have customized feeds of different kinds of accounts, and just see your tried and true favorite people in the main feed.

It's a multi-Mastodon-feed experience, separated by mood and preference.
Which for me is brilliant!

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