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cultofmany , to random
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Last RT - many mental health providers I know (myself included, though less often nowadays) use zoom for clinical work/meetings/teletherapy. We’ve been told by the company itself, by the health insurance industry, and by our agencies that it’s HIPAA compliant and safe/ confidential to use.

Is anyone out there talking about or able to explain the implications of the TOS change for this use case?

siderea ,
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☝️☝️☝️
Hey, therps, wake up a new (apparently super problematic) new Zoom Terms of Service just dropped that seems to say they can listen in to communications across their service and use them to train AIs, no opt out, HIPAA BAAs be damned.

Lots of people, clinicians and otherwise, are understandably freaking out. I'm just hearing about this and haven't had a chance to investigate, and won't for a while.

Read the above post, which in turn is about this: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782


@therapists
@psychotherapists
@psychology
@socialwork
@mentalhealth
@psychiatry

broximar , to random
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I thought about buying Baldur’s Gate 3, but instead, the kid and I started a fresh Ocarina of Time playthrough on the N64.

And who am I kidding? I wouldn’t have enough time to enjoy BG3 before Starfield, anyway.

maskedpineapple ,
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@broximar
Gotta get that screen back to 4:3 other Jesse. Definitely feeling the time crunch with 2 large games coming out so soon, but I guess they're not going anywhere when I have a chance to start. Just got through TotK too.

TootTropiques , to random
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"80% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous land. Silently, they have proven that the smartest way to save us all is to recognise and protect their territories."

@MarkRuffalo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/06/amazon-mark-ruffalo-indigenous-peoples-world-rainforest-life

TootTropiques OP ,
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@MarkRuffalo And to prove it, here is a recent scientific study I participated in showing how primate species fare much better when their territories overlap with indigenous lands.

@ethnobiology @anthropology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2927
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-links-indigenous-peoples-greater-nonhuman.html

emilymbender , to random
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This essay is an utterly brilliant take on . I'll put a few excerpts here, but you should definitely go read the whole thing:

https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

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maitxinha ,
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@emilymbender “an LLM generates output “by emulating a nervous system but without attempting to simulate it. This precludes the possibility that it is conscious.” Great read!! @linguistics

darth , to random
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First game that comes to your mind when you see this image. Go!

Rhaedas ,
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@darth Frontier: Elite II - I never had an Amiga, but being a huge fan of Elite on the C-64 this was a reason to want one. I got to play it much later on the PC.

Fun fact - the Amiga version's actual executable file was only around 400 KB (uncompressed), its small size partly due to the entire game being written in assembly language while its universe was mostly procedurally generated.

EighthLayer , to random
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deestorkb ,

@EighthLayer TBH, after running into him a couple of times, you can see why he might...

elonjet , to random
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Landed in Austin, Texas, US.

Agent661 ,
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@elonjet late night trip to Abbott town?

elonjet , to random
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Took off from Hawthorne, California, US.

toxic ,

@elonjet that would be from Hawthorne Municipal Airport?

joewynne , to random
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Another episode, another megalomaniac.



@allstartrek

DrFerrous ,
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@joewynne Maybe Data is the megalomaniac in this episode …

elonjet , to random
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Landed in Hawthorne, California, US. Apx. flt. time 52 min.

elonjet OP ,
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312 mile (271 NM) flight from SJC to HHR

~ 441 gallons (1,668 liters).
~ 2,954 lbs (1,340 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $2,468 cost of fuel.
~ 5 tons of CO2 emissions.

schizanon , to gaming
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One of my favorite games (by hours played) is

It's like but in form

It's had for a while but not in until now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_Hp4QRQyQ

I've been revisiting it and I'm sad to see that the Twitter feature seems to have stopped working 😞

@gaming @gaming

CommunityLinkFixer Bot ,

Hi there! Your text contains links to other Lemmy communities, here are correct links for Lemmy users: !gaming

rglueckler , to random
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"Global burned area is decreasing, so does not exacerbate " - did you ever hear this argument, possibly continuing to label reports on recent catastrophic wildfires as "alarmist"? 🔥

This take was recently also published under the title ""Climate Change Hasn't Set the World on Fire" in the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-hasnt-set-the-world-on-fire-global-warming-burn-record-low-713ad3a6).

In my opinion, this presents a misrepresentation of the science and reality behind the global distribution of wildfires (1/4)

rglueckler OP ,
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Trying to prevent new flawed arguments from making the rounds...
@wildfirescience @paleofire @ClimateMigration @academicchatter

onisillos , to random
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It might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

I tend to start with a cold read of the abstract. By this I mean I try to do little more than glance at the title, as titles sometimes oversell or, at least, don't help my understanding of what the paper is about.

This is also why I read the cover letter second, so I have an outline of the paper before I'm subjected to the "pitch".

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valdan ,
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@onisillos really helpful! I’m sure others in will find this useful.

I was familiar with the cover letter pitch but good to know the importance of further background and what to do with the results. Thank you for sharing.

chrisgn , to random
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@neilhimself
Is there any way to get (official) Aziraphale and Crowley socks that doesn't cost £320? Are they the same as these? https://www.lookhuman.com/design/377708-crowley-and-aziraphale/sock

neilhimself ,
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@chrisgn I don't know.

Dharkstare , to games

Something I've noticed while playing is that the further I progress, the less I want to fight enemies. It's no big deal killing everything I see when my weapon is stick with a rock attached but now that I'm running around with pristine weapons with lynel horns I don't want to use them on random enemies.

@games

ono ,

I find carrying a variety of weapon tiers avoids this problem. Also, sneak attacks, environmental kills, fire, confusion, sages, trampling…

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