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"Let's put AI/LLM in everything" is the new...

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I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

A stacked bar chart titled "Causes of death in the US: What Americans die from, what they search on Google, and what the media reports on". It compares what people actually die from versus what people search for on Google, and what the NYT and Guardian report on. It neatly illustrates that while people are most likely to die from cancer and heart disease, they search very little for heart disease, and focus too much on diabetes, suicide, and terrorism. Meanwhile, the media sources focus a wildly disproportionate amount on terrorism, homicide and suicide, while virtually ignoring heart disease.

Some number: In reality, people die mostly from heart disease (30.2%) and cancer 29.5%. There are much smaller shares for road incidents (7.6%), lower respiratory disease (7.4%), Alzheimer’s (5.6%), stroke (4.9%), diabetes (3.8%),. Suicide is only 1.8%, homicide only 0.7%, and terrorism is barely 0.01%.

The media are even more out of whack with reality: The NYT and Guardian devote 35.6% of their death-related coverage to terrorism and 22.8% to homicide, while devoting only 13.5% to cancer and barely 2.3% to heart disease. The media sources devote roughly 13% of their death-related coverage to cancer, about half as much as it occurs in reality.

Basically, the chart shows that while people and media perceive the role of cancer somewhat accurately in causing, people overstate the role of terrorism, homicide and suicide -- and media wildly overstate terrorism and homicide.

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#Ontgooglen doe je zo – introductie

Gebruikerservaringen bij het afstappen van google, stap voor stap. Introductie

https://jveg.org/notes/ontgooglen-doe-je-zo/

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Happy #nokings everyone

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Leaving Big Tech social media is a strong and meaningful way to protest.

Here's how 👇
(this links to a specific section of the article, start reading at delete and replace)
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/10/stay-safe-but-stay-connected/#social-media-improving-deleting-replacing

#BigTech #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #Twitter #X #Youtube #Google #TikTok #Protest #Resist

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Vandaag is de dag! Vanmiddag om 14:00 uur zwaaien de deuren van het Waaggebouw open voor Hyperlink! Tot 20:00 kun je bij ons langskomen voor een bomvol programma over hoe het internet beter kan. Bekijk het blokkenschema op onze site en mis het niet!

📅 Zaterdag 14 juni 14:00 - 20:00 uur
📍 Waag Futurelab, Nieuwmarkt 4 Amsterdam
💶 Entree 12,50 euro (kinderen gratis toegang)
🔗 https://www.waag.org/nl/event/hyperlink/

Dutch formin today. Because journalists should stand up for each other

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Anche in Italia la Giornata internazionale delle fasce bianche, in ricordo della pulizia etnica a Prijedor https://www.eastjournal.net/archives/143331

Took quite a big step in #degoogling by switching to /e/os. Works like a charm so far. Way easier than quitting smoking

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Introducing the simpler fediverse onboarding wizard

https://fedidb.com/welcome

(Thanks for your feedback, keep it coming and spread the word ❤️)

@Em0nM4stodon yes. It's just perfect. We need this word, immafraid

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New word proposition: Botsplain

When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.

#NoAI #AI

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I am totally sure (sarcasm included) that #Google has totally overseen that their planned changes to their root program requirements will cause a lot of problems for mailserver owners like me who in future might run into weird problems with #Letsencrypt certificates for SMTP. I am sure that Google is absolutely not trying to make running your own mailserver even more complicated just to protect their gmail business. That would be totally not how Google thinks, amirite? https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authentication/

After this change is complete, only TLS Server Authentication will be available from Let’s Encrypt.

This change is prompted by changes to Google Chrome’s root program requirements, which impose a June 2026 deadline to split TLS Client and Server Authentication into separate PKIs. Many uses of client authentication are better served by a private certificate authority, and so Let’s Encrypt is discontinuing support for TLS Client Authentication ahead of this deadline.

@easytarget @stekopf @notjustbikes fully agree. And the added bonus of resigning them to the main road is that they'll force car drivers to slow down a bit. Safer for everyone

@murena hi. Thanks for /e/os. I love it. Really just 1 little gripe: could you please add the option of not having the icons snap to grid. I know it's a minority preference, but i'm really attached to arranging stuff the way i want. Could you please consider it? Thanks

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They may also have to pay a fine if the trolley is late, making shareholders very upset.

You can stop the trolley at any time, but doing so would disrupt the trolley service, causing the company to lose profits!

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@Remittancegirl

Quote post from Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social
Nobody tell him

Quoted post from Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron
I'm still trying to take it all in! The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as
Pope Leo XIV was an extraordinary and delightful surprise. | was one of
the many commentators who said that the choice of an American as
Pope was an impossibility (or at least extreme improbability). | took my cue
from the late Cardinal George who said that there would never be an American Pope until our country went into political decline.

But the Cardinal electors obviously felt otherwise. | am very intrigued by
the new Pope’s choice of regnal name. Leo XIII has long been one of ...

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@hisham_hm freedom of expression is the greatest good, and i definitely don't want to be in the way of your saying tcp protocol or pin number.
But there's nothing missing either in a sentence like "Please type your PIN". It's perfectly clear that you are asked for a number. So my vote is that it's redundant-ish in most cases, amd i'll choose to leave it out. Matter of taste i guess

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