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Disinformation is alive and well. There is evidence of organised social media campaigns in 70 countries globally this year, up from 48 in 2018. euobserver.com/opinion/146510

Nice! So essentially LibDems agreed a strategic election plan with Plaid Cymru and Greens libdems.org.uk/unite-to-remain?

In The Age Of A.I. (2019) --- This just aired last night and it's absolutely fantastic. It presents a great look at AI, and it also talks about automation, wealth inequality, data-mining and surveillance.

reddit.com/r/Documentaries/com

pbs.org/video/in-the-age-of-ai

Small farmers have been using GMO eggplant in Bangladesh for a few years now are reporting 60% less pesticide use and 6-fold increase in income.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

The entire SQL database of the international neo-fascist Iron March forum (where Atomwaffen first properly organised). Contains info on all users, including user emails, IP address, and private messages, as well as all posts and comments. archive.org/details/iron_march

As I'm trying to migrate to Linux packages (strict confinement -> sandbox -> more security) I noticed my keys didn't work in from snap. This is because U2F is not by default "plugged" into the snap, but that's an easy fix:

sudo snap connect firefox:u2f-devices

Full thread here forum.snapcraft.io/t/u2f-not-w

any other tech service: the service is undergoing "temporary maintenance," and will be closed for mysterious reasons

mastodon: sorry guys i need to change which outlet the laptop that runs this instance is plugged into, we'll be back in a bit

Thank you users, whoever you are! We've hit a record of 50 million private searches a day thanks to your use of our privacy protection tools, especially our mobile browser.

That's over 500 a second and 18 Billion a year. duckduckgo.com/traffic 

Feeding English text to GPT-2 results in boring passages from some random articles used in training, but to Slavic it responds with a wonderful neologisms and intriguing syntax! Here's some Polish classics, also tried Russian.

See how a modern neural network completes your text. Type a custom snippet or try one of the examples talktotransformer.com/

Title: Going fully Foss!
Subtitle: A non-profits adventure in building a completely FOSS IT environment.

Filed our proposal for #Fosdem 2020. πŸŽ‰ πŸ˜€

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