Source: Opinion | Turn libraries into discipline centers? Here is what’s lost. – The Washington Post
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Maturity
Getting old has nothing to do with maturity. Maturity is attained when we learn from our experiences.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
Yoga saved my brain and body

Yoga at its best can be quietly revolutionary but the revolution goes on inside of you. With diligent time set aside every day your body and brain …
Yoga saved my brain and body
Marii Freire
Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI – Cyber Kendra
With this revision, Zoom has brought under its wing the permission to use users’ data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). While this has undoubtedly sparked a lot of chatter and apprehension online, let’s understand what it truly implies.
The updated terms grant Zoom a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license” over customer content. This extends to purposes such as “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence”.
Source: Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI – Cyber Kendra
(Me: Forget Zoom!)
Ein Dienstagslächeln …A Tuesday smile
Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’ in court dismissal | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Donald Trump suffered another legal reverse on Monday, losing his counterclaim for defamation against E Jean Carroll, the writer against whom he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and fined $5m, and who continues to pursue a separate defamation case against him.
Dismissing the counterclaim, a judge in New York, Lewis A Kaplan, said that when Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her, her words were “substantially true”. Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll.
Everyone’s a spy — Radio Free Asia
China’s security ministry has opened an account on WeChat, the country’s popular everything app, urging its citizens to spy on each other and foreigners to aid counter-espionage work. The move to put China on an anti-espionage footing follows the passage of a Foreign Relations Law that labels the gathering of any information as espionage, vastly expanding the investigative powers of Chinese law enforcement and spooking foreign businesses operating in China. Source: Everyone’s a spy — Radio Free Asia
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