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"Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of the ethical AI team. David Baker, an engineering director, said Gebru’s dismissal “extinguished” his desire t…

"The STN’s edition of Voltaire’s Questions sur l’Encyclopédie offers a good case study, which can be examined in detail through the correspondence between Ostervald and Gosse. The Questions was V…

"The STN was founded in 1769 in the Swiss principality of Neuchâtel by four local notables who sought to tap the demand for French books by reprinting those that they judged would sell best, both…

"The tiny Wuling Hongguang Mini EV unveiled by the SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture in China a few months ago has been very well received by the local market. Measuring just 2,917 mm (114.8-in) long,…

"Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman and social activist. He was the visionary, promoter and co-…

"Google’s announcement on Monday that cohort-based advertising can be nearly as useful as third-party cookies raised a few ad tech eyebrows."

"How, exactly, would government agents manipulate these groups of citizens? Sunstein and Vermeule’s answer: They would draw on the latest work in cognitive psychology and sociology. Social scienc…

A lot of investor education is needed ...

> I hope that as few as possible have gamed away money they cannot afford to loose. This.

@Storiaron: "Yeah yeah, I didnt. Doesnt mean i wont feel like tieing my belt around my neck after seeing half/entire house worth of money disappear. It's so weird, because i'm stil…

@93anthracite: "I'm all for him not selling, but he still might want to get those symptoms checked out..."

@shomedmoni: "Retard strength at its finest. I just bought another AMC with the only $10 left on my investment account, I’m ALL FUCKIN IN LETS GOOOO."

"Low-cost airlines to lead travel upturn A post-pandemic U.S. travel recovery will happen, but we see a critical distinction between companies leveraged to domestic, personal and alternative trav…

"I'm a little obsessed with plain text and minimal websites because I'm old and they remind me of when I was just learning and the internet was new. Because of this I try to convince m…

"Care was taken throughout the process of developing the kit to preserve the experience of building the kit in 1975. For example, no ICs were substituted for easier to find equivalents. There w…

Ah! The long awaited direct-to-brain advertising link has finally arrived! :)

"Thanks to a new Vermont law requiring companies that buy and sell third-party personal data to register with the Secretary of State, we’ve been able to assemble a list of 121 data brokers operat…

Twenty years ago, NASA scientists and their colleagues announced they had spotted possible signs of Mars life in a meteorite. The claim ignited a scientific controversy that lingers to this day. In 19…