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@m8rt @dashlane That’s the one I went with in the end :)
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@whereby I’m confused. Where do I add rooms in the Business plan? I only see one room, and can only join that room.
The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, by @MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres).
« Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world. » Albert Camus.
guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/index/
Good entry on "Human Rights", the origins of the phrase, complexities and relationship to international law. By better understanding what we mean when we say it, we can also become better at supporting and upholding those rights.
guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/articl…
@SquarespaceHelp Is there a way to make the calendar view start on a Monday? This must have come up so many times…
1. In 1888, Ludvig Nobel died. Reportedly, some newspapers mistakenly reported that his brother, Alfred Nobel, had died. One French newspaper stated "The merchant of death is dead" due to his invention of military explosives (not dynamite, which mainly had civilian applications).
2. The article went further: "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."
Alfred Nobel, alive and well in Paris, was upset by the idea that this was how he would be remembered. He pledged to change his ways.
3. A few years later he signed most of his wealth off to a trust. This was unbeknownst to his family. 94 percent of his total assets were allocated to establish the five Nobel prizes. This is in part due to wanting to leave a better legacy.
4. In France however he was accused of high treason against the state for selling the explosive Ballistite to Italy. So he had moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy in 1891 - where he died on December 10, 1896.
5. Alfred's younger brother Emil died in 1864 when a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the family factory. He was 21. Alfred invented dynamite, much safer to handle than nitroglycerin, three years later.
6. And the remaining of four brothers, the only 4 siblings of 8 to survive beyond childhood, died in August of the same year as Alfred. Robert Nobel for several years ran the company Branobel together with his two brothers, with Ludvig taking the reins when Robert fell ill.
7. Branobel, a petroleum production company, at one point produced 50% of the world's oil. Ludvig Nobel, credited with creating the Russian oil industry, actually built the largest fortune of any of the Nobel brothers and was one of the world's richest men.
8. As much an inventor as Alfred, Ludvig designed the world’s first oil tanker and installed Europe’s first oil pipelines. He started out building diesel engines, then produced munitions and rifles and later discovered oil near the Caspian Sea.
9. Much later, following the Bolshevik revolution in 2017, it is estimated that 99% of the Nobel family's vast fortune in Russia was confiscated. And Soviet historians virtually erased Ludvig Nobel from the record.
10. Anyway, Alfred's fortune turned into the Nobel Prize seemingly in part to save face after seeing his own, mistakenly-published, devastating obituary after Ludvig's death. Whether or not that saved his reputation will be left to the eye of the beholder. And time.
11. The story of this premature obituary is published in many forms in respected magazines and journals, but when asking the Nobel foundation directly this answer was provided to Peter McNaughton:
history.stackexchange.com/questions/4346…
12. “Dear Peter Macnaughton, There have never been found any documentation about this story despite all the research conducted. Yours sincerely, Nobelprize.org Team”
In the end, it is up to every reader to decide what trust they place in this saga. 😊
13. Takeaway: if you sprinkle an unconfirmed story with lots of interesting facts, it can start looking more and more like all those facts. Especially if it contains a stark twist.
But underneath… it is still just an unconfirmed story.
14. In the Apple app store the story is presented as an undisputable fact.
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@patrikhson @landgren Den här är intressant för er som gillar de olika tekniska perspektiven, om ni inte läst den. Tar även upp PhotoDNA.
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@david_vuorio @landgren Tack! fixar det. My bad. Det är bara uppdateringarna i Siri och sök som kommer till MacOS Monterey ser jag nu i pressmeddelandet.
@david_vuorio När det gäller punkt 1, tänker du att det endast gäller iMessage? Allt från Apple säger att det gäller Messages-appen och allt som skickas till/från den.…
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@MartinMillnert @landgren Det är väl det här som skrämmer mest. Man måste vara vaken och byta ofta. Det kan vi inte förvänta oss av alla. Egentligen tillbaka till Christians ursprungliga poäng... debatten måste bli ljudligare och tydligare i samhället.
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@landgren @MartinMillnert Håller verkligen med. Målet torde vara att normalisera det som ger mest frihet. Lite som att jag använder Signal för att normalisera, inte för att jag nödvändigtvis har något att dölja. Personer som jag lider nog minst risk.
Men jag börjar redan bli gammal och bitter... 😬
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@MartinMillnert @landgren Jag använder jag ibland detta nyhetsinslag som exempel. Det är någon annanstans (Portugal), ett problematiskt verktyg när man funderar ett par varv, men rapporteras som positivt. Det finns ofta en oförmåga, bristande vokabulär och metod - att ifrågasätta.
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@MartinMillnert @landgren Värt att hålla ett öga på:
e.foundation
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@imdoinfine Thank you Wednesday, that means a lot! 🙏
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@toldaccount @aaomidi @k8em0 Apple sells iPhones without Facetime in Saudi Arabia. And when it comes to China there is a lot happening...
nytimes.com/2021/05/17/tec…
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@fabiovenni This is a backdoor placed on an Internet-connected personal device containing all your personal data. The backdoor is designed to scan for matches against a database provided by an authority outside Apple, and a system is put in place to report matches to authorities.
Google promised a fix after its photo-categorization software labeled black people as gorillas in 2015.
Their “fix” was to censor “gorilla” from their search, as well as “chimp”, “chimpanzee” and “monkey”. That’s how bad the technology is.
wired.com/story/when-it-…
5 years later, their Vision AI was shown to provide these automated labels when decoding images:
Black person + handheld thermometer = gun
Asian person + handheld thermometer = electronic device
Black hand + handheld thermometer = gun
Same picture with light skin = monocular
Again, as they always do, Google apologized.
algorithmwatch.org/en/google-visi…
“In the absence of more rigorous testing, it is impossible to say that the system is biased” they write.
Gee, I wonder who should perform that rigorous testing…
Remember when Amazon proved to have an AI-based recruiting tool that was biased against women. They couldn’t fix that either. Their solution was to scrap it.
reuters.com/article/us-ama…
Here we go again…
nytimes.com/2021/09/03/tec…