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For the Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Ignacio Cofone [This essay distills part of the argument in Ignacio Cofone, Institutional Accountability and Legitimate Inference in Algorithmic...
Hey people! When I was thinking about a “Bibiel Hears Things” piece to feature today, I was hit by a realisation that I really want to feature something by Mary Lattimore. So – that’s what I’m doing! And I decided on a piece from her...
Linux 7.2 introduces the following Landlock features: Controls for UDP connect/send/bind operations (Matthieu Buffet) (Wiki, Docs) LANDLOCK_ADD_RULE_QUIET flag for landlock_add_rule(2) (Tingmao Wang) (Docs) Overview on the Landlock ABI...
"And suddenly, there was that Otherness!" ~Krishnamurti's Journal The Grace of the Friend arises In the heart of non-duality when we become no one, seek no attainment, and know nothing. This miracle, transforming our anger into love and...
tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts A few days ago I read a post by Tadaima about enjoying some "me time": Sometimes I get in these moods where I don't want to do anything. [...] I feel like this is harder when you're married. I'm never...
Well for the second morning this week, we've woken to some much needed, and very welcome rain. It’s still raining now, which is good news not just for gardeners but also because it will help replenish dwindling water supplies. Without...
a check of the modulation voltages in the SQ-64.
Yesterday, as Pokémon TCG World Championships started, we were following the tournament with friends. With 1500+ players, it’s not easy to quickly find the results of specific players from the long lists of results. I decided to build a...
This summer, I pulled the plug from my tech and web news preoccupation, I quit following most podcasts, and I abandoned my feed reader. It's quite a change for the better, like quitting social media. Usually such changes are part of a...
Autograph Hound Saturday and the always reliable Brian Leno pulls something from his legendary trove for us to ponder. A novel from Jane Gaskell’s The Atlan Saga, sent to the Atlantis buff and LASFS regular Henry M. Eichner — young Ray...
There's an orchard near me that takes an interest in apples that are still in development (and may never graduate to wider cultivation). ¶ These generally have names like "WA 38" (which you know as Cosmic Crisp) or "NY 428" (which you...
You can now hide posts by keyword 🙈 Recently Brennan wrote about [four months of using Bubbles](https://brennan.day/bubbles-town-four-months-later/), thanks Brennan! He wrote: > I'd love the ability to filter out genAI posts rather than...
Just a quick note to mention that tomorrow sees the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This is a survey telescope in some respects like ESA’s Euclid but with a larger aperture and different instrumentation, particularly...
On March 27th-28th, the Yale Information Society Project held a conference on The Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. The co-organizers were Mikey McGovern and Caleb Yong. This week at Balkinization we are publishing...
“Why isn’t the travel router working?” “Why is my phone draining, instead of charging?” Signs that my genius self managed to plug the router into my phone, and the USB charger into itself. Fortunately, straightening all the cables got...