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  • This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

    Nightshade is a new tool designed to fight against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without permission. Nightshade “poisons” the training data to essentially confuse the AI model and prevent it from copying an artist’s work. The purpose of Nightshade is to return the power to artists to protect their intellectual property and prevent large AI companies like Google and Meta from taking advantage of them.

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  • Farming with a future: how social enterprise Nuup helps Mexico's smallholders to thrive

    Nuup helps smallholder farmers in Mexico succeed through all steps of the value chain by helping them access funding, connecting them to agricultural markets, and optimizing their performance with technology and education.

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  • This South African initiative helps newsrooms access women experts

    Quote This Woman+ is a database of over 600 experts in various topics for journalists to reach out to as sources. Designed to help combat inequality and bias in the news, the experts are females and people from groups underrepresented in the media.

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  • One doctor, two states: Comparing Texas and North Carolina transparency

    The North Carolina Medical Board posts reports of doctors’ disciplinary actions, hospital privilege actions, and malpractice settlements on an online database to increase transparency with patients.

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  • Doctor's orders: 'Nature prescriptions' see rise amid pandemic

    Park Rx America is an online platform that helps the growing number of medical professionals who write nature prescriptions for their patients. The database contains thousands of parks and public lands, which prescribers can filter by activity, distance from a patient's home, and other amenities like whether there is a playground for kids. Growing numbers of doctors are prescribing outdoor activities as a treatment for conditions like obesity and anxiety. Writing out actual prescriptions with specific directions about where to go, what to do, and how often to go increases the likelihood of success.

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  • Marsy's Law was supposed to help victims. In Jacksonville, it shields police officers.

    A Florida constitutional amendment enacted in 2018 called Marsy's Law protects crime victims' rights, including the right to privacy when public-records laws would otherwise reveal victims' identity. But the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has interpreted a court decision to justify erasing from public records the names of police officers who shot or killed people, on the grounds that the police should legally be considered crime victims. Marsy's Law has been enacted in 14 states. Critics say it was not meant to undermine police accountability, but they have been unable to enact corrective legislation.

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  • Hey Siri, Learn to Speak Kinyarwanda

    Common Voice is an open-source initiative to capture more languages for voice-recognition software. Users “donate” their voices by recording themselves reading text out loud. They can also validate the accuracy of already donated voices. The platform has over 9,000 hours of voice data for 90 languages contributed by more than 166,000 people. The group runs creative campaigns to encourage native speakers to contribute, like “Digital Umuganda” in Rwanda, which is a play on a national holiday when people engage in community service. The campaign gathered over 1,700 hours of Kinyarwanda language from 840 people.

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  • The FBI is supposed to track how police use force – years later, it's falling well short

    Five years after the FBI started tracking how often police use force, the majority of police departments still fail to comply and the FBI refuses to release publicly what information it has collected. The policy was enacted in response to the realization that no one had definitive data on how often the police kill people, use teargas, or other incidents of force. What little data exists showed racial disparities in whom police use force against. But compliance was made voluntary and the FBI made public release of the data contingent on 80% of police departments complying, a goal it's nowhere near.

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  • Santa Barbara County Looks to Yolo County for Criminal Justice Reform

    By turning over its criminal justice data to Measures for Justice, a nonprofit developer that turns raw data into publicly available reports, the Yolo County district attorney has a much better grasp on the work that it has been doing. Better data mean better-informed decisions about criminal justice reforms. The investment in the new system is prompting policy changes because of racial disparities showing up in the numbers. And that is prompting many other DAs to clamor for the same kind of system.

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  • Pricey textbooks holding Fresno college students back. Could this fix the problem?

    For many college students, the cost of a textbook is often cost-prohibitive and instructors are looking at ways to address that. At Reedley College in California, instructors are curating their own teaching content through the use of open educational resources, which "are openly licensed content, freely available online to be reused, adapted, redistributed, or changed without permission from the creator." This "Zero textbook cost course" approach has been used in 23 colleges in the state, and showed increases in students' grades.

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