Knowable Magazine on Black American zoologist Charles Henry Turner
It bees like that sometimes.
Shout out to Samantha Mugeni Niyoyita
‘As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical. Expressing ourselves and sharing our skills and expertise are the kinds of things you can only learn through a social science master’s degree.’
Valencia reaches 46°C, a record temperature for the Spanish city. This broke the previous record by 3.4°C. Yikes. (ᔥ Twitter)
The ever-disappearing Antarctic sea ice
Not quite polar opposites.
How to make peanut butter cookies with ChatGPT
Finally, an innocent use case for ChatGPT: recipes!
Zoom has updated its ToS to allow training AI on user content without the ability to opt-out. The line that pisses me off is that Zoom has a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license” to redistribute, publish, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content.
(ᔥ Stackdiary; ↬ Abeba Birhane)
Keidra Chaney on why nonprofits need a values-based social media strategy: If your organization’s internal social media content policies and procedures haven’t been documented, document them now.
Mongabay on breadfruit’s “biodiversatility”: According to recent research, the increased temperatures of climate change will widen breadfruit’s range, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa […] making this a reliable crop for places struggling with poverty and food security.
The Long Boom that got kinda real
They knew too much too soon.
Dr James Wootton on the 80s video game that helped scientists win a Nobel Prize
They’re more than just games.
Janelle Shane from AI Weirdness reviewed a study that showed GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time, compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.