You can tell when
diplomacy is breaking down – you start hearing the language of
school yard fights: “He made me do it!”
After
Russian moves in Ukraine, Eastern Europe shudders, NATO to increase
presence
For decades, NATO has
expanded inexorably outward, taking on new members and new missions
that have carried it far beyond its original mandate in Western
Europe and deep into the former Soviet sphere.
But Russia’s
intervention in Ukraine has sent shivers down the spines of Eastern
European countries from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria in the
south. NATO’s newest members have been left feeling vulnerable and
wondering whether the world’s most powerful military alliance is
truly committed to their defense.
Concerns have been
especially acute in the three Baltic nations that were once part of
the Soviet empire and now fear that they could be
next on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hit list.
NATO has long resisted
placing much of a footprint in the Baltics, worried that doing so
would jeopardize ever-precarious cooperation with Moscow.
Now that that
cooperation is on life support, NATO announced
this week that it plans to substantially boost its air, sea and
ground presence in the Baltic states.
It just goes to show
that once the (genie/incriminating stuff) is out of the bottle, you
can't put it back. Making a fuss simply triggers the “Streisand
effect.”
Turkey’s
embattled premier made a formal complaint to the country’s top
court on Friday, saying secret recordings spread on the Internet were
a violation of his family’s rights.
Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Constitutional Court that the
failure of social media websites to remove leaked recordings
featuring him and his family were a violation of their right to
privacy and freedom of communication.
Read more on Turkish
Press.
[From
the article:
Erdogan's government
blocked Twitter and YouTube last month after they were used to spread
audio recordings implicating the prime minister and his inner circle
in a vast corruption scandal that emerged in December.
One of the recordings
appeared to feature Erdogan and his son talking about hiding large
amounts of money. The prime minister has denied allegations of
corruption and says some of the tapes have been manipulated.
“Statistical Selfie,”
I love it! If you can analyze your history, think what the NSA can
do!
This
Beautiful Browser Add-On Gives You Interesting Stats About Your
Browsing
Is there anything more
interesting on than statistics? Not the school type, the Internet
type. Following your own activity is fascinating, so it’s no
wonder that tools that track your Gmail
statistics, blog
statistics and even Facebook
statistics are so popular.
Surfkollen:
Get Your Surf Selfie
It analyzes the last 7
days of your activity, and presents the results on a slick, colorful
graph. Unfortunately, Surfkollen can only analyze the last 7 days...
… If you’re
looking for a service that offers a bit more meat, Give stats
dashboard RescueTime a go.
This will eventually
grow into a great resource for my students, but it is still a bit
clunky to navigate.
Digital
Public Library of America Celebrates Its First Birthday
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on April 19, 2014
“This week marks the
one-year anniversary of the launch of the Digital
Public Library of America, a groundbreaking all-digital library
that brings together millions of items from America’s libraries,
archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
In celebration, DPLA
is proud to announce
the addition of six major new partners and other significant
milestones that attest to the tremendous momentum the project has as
it enters its second year. The New York Public Library (NYPL) this
week expanded access to the full breadth of its digital collections
through its partnership with DPLA, a major increase over its initial
contribution of 14,000 records at DPLA’s launch. Over 1 million
digitized items from throughout the Library’s research holdings are
available, significantly increasing DPLA’s offerings by nearly 20%.
The arrival of these new partners, as well as the addition of new
items from NYPL, announced for the first time today, further
underscore a year of remarkable forward progress for the young
non-profit organization.
[Some
of these Apps are useful right now: http://dp.la/apps
(Related) This is how
Google does it.
– discover exhibits
and collections from museums and archives all around the world.
Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems
to masterpieces. Create your own galleries and share favorite finds
with friends.
The ethics of
artificial intelligence (bad programming?) What could possibly go
wrong?
If
the Robots Kill Us, It's Because It's Their Job
In the movie
Transcendence, which opens in theaters on Friday, a sentient
computer program embarks on a relentless quest for power, nearly
destroying humanity in the process.
The film is science
fiction but a computer scientist and entrepreneur Steven Omohundro
says that “anti-social” artificial intelligence in the future is
not only possible, but probable, unless we start designing AI systems
very differently today.
Omohundro’s most
recent recent
paper, published in the Journal of Experimental &
Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, lays out the case.
Autonomous
technology and the greater human good
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