The pandemic has driven consumers online for everything from groceries to outdoor heaters. But e-commerce experts caution that online sellers are netting not just revenue, but a treasure trove of personal data, too.

LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation for imagination enhancement and business insights. - microsoft/TinyTroupe

Anberlin has announced they'll be hitting the road to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Never Take Friendship Personal

Threatening notes were placed in neighbors’ mailboxes.

Bermudian runner Cameron Adkins achieved a personal best time at the Eye-Opener Cross Country Meet in Spartanburg, South Carolina, helping his Christ School team to a sixth-place finish. Adkins crossed the line in 16:37.90, securing 53rd place in a competitive field within the international boys division. Christ School, with a total of 255 points, finished […]

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We just made the decision to ship the remaining copies of Feast to us. There are about 800 left, out of the original 2000 copy print run. Which is a lot of copies, but given that we were originally scheduled to launch March 2020, and had to cancel an entire summer’s worth of scheduled bookstore […]

Have you ever had a personal word of the year before? Did you choose the word? Or did a word choose you? I don’t choose my word of the year. It comes to me, generally in December or January, and sometimes it surprises me. It’s something that’s been happening for me for the last seven […]

The post My Personal Word of the Year (And How to Find Your Perfect One) appeared first on Joyful Abode.

Being right never felt so horrid. Before the election, I wrote, “How Trump Won.” And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me. Instead, the returns made the fool a President. And so, my vacation’s cancelled. My life’s cancelled; that is, a life of anything but sleuthing and exposing the details of the heist of our democracy.... READ MORE

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The Personal Outcomes Network is made up of several organisations working towards the development and implementation of a personal outcomes approach. This site has been developed to bring together a range of resources to support the development and implementation of a personal outcomes approach in health and social care, as well as other human services.

Dipshit billionaire Leon Musk, who we fondly refer to as that stupid fuck, isn't amused by Dana Carvey's impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live. So, he took his little fingers to Xitter, the once behemoth social site he destroyed only to influence the election to his audience of conspiracy theorists and far-right edge lords that use Peppy the Frog in their postings or avatars.

Well, Leon got quite a paycheck for promoting convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, so at least he's happy while the rest of us remain in shock over the election results.

SNL's cold open got under Leon's fragile narcissistic skin where the actors, sort of like him, pretended to be on Trump's side with solid support.

Dana Carvey – who previously played President Joe Biden, and we didn't bitch about it -- played the part of Leon. You can see Carey's part that shook Elon at around the 3:30 mark in the cold open, and below.

“Check it out, dark MAGA,” Carvey said while impersonating Musk in a black MAGA hat. “But seriously, I run the country now,” he added.

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Soapbox is a company dedicated to providing meticulously-crafted personal care products that focus on the health of humans and the environment. [...]

With roots in America, western-style furniture is a traditional and vintage style. There are many reasons to admire such furniture, whether captivated by its timeless beauty or collecting and displaying them as part of one’s house decor. People have a particular appreciation for and attraction to Western-style because of its traditional and rustic charm. People ... Read more

The post Western Rustic Charm: Creating A Personalized Retreat With Western-Style Furniture appeared first on Star Two.

This week, those of you who use private YouTube feeds could notice that they now produce an error. This happens because of the recent changes in Google developers platform. Google has introduced very loose quotas for the number of YouTube video search requests. And our own RSS Ground app quota couldn’t cover all the requests […]

The post YouTube Feeds Now Require Personal API Key appeared first on RSSground.com.

We are excited to announce the release of beta version of a new and long-awaited tool – Personal Feeds. In its first iteration it will allow you to create personal feeds and add items from other content feeds. You may have already used custom feeds for that in our Feeds Reader. But the main difference […]

The post Personal feeds – a tool with a personal touch… appeared first on RSSground.com.

The holiday season is over and we are back to work.  We are finishing up the final steps before introducing you our first update of the year. Next week we will release a major update for Personal Feeds (To finally make it what it was intended for). At last, you will be able to compose […]

The post A Personal Feeds Update is Coming appeared first on RSSground.com.

  RSS Ground was always about “other people’s content”… Until now!   Starting today you can create and distribute your own content! Create your own personal feeds and compose your original posts in them. With the help of our WYSIWYG editor you can apply basic formatting, add links, images, videos, tables and, if needed, tweak […]

The post Compose Your Own Posts In Personal Feeds! appeared first on RSSground.com.

It goes without saying that ChatGPT has become a prominent figure in today’s online community. Its impressive debut left a lasting impression on everyone, and there are numerous reasons for this. One of the key features of ChatGPT is its innovative technology, which enables it to comprehend the context of users’ messages and respond accordingly. […]

The post Meet Your New Best Friend: ChatGPT Assistant for Personal Feeds appeared first on RSSground.com.

We’re thrilled to announce that RSS Ground has been officially approved as a Zapier app! What does this mean for you, our valuable users? Get ready to turbocharge your personal feeds with near-limitless content sourcing possibilities. For those who’ve been waiting this moment, let’s explore the new doors that have just swung wide open: Introducing […]

The post Elevate Your Content Game: How Zapier Integration Can Boost Your Personal Feeds! appeared first on RSSground.com.

We’ve recently tapped into the power of automation with our integrations with IFTTT, Zapier, and Pabbly Connect! Now, you can effortlessly manage your content across the web, extending your reach and impact through automated posting campaigns! Learn more about RSS Ground integration with major automation platforms But hold onto your hats, because we’re just getting […]

The post Personal feeds as new triggers in Zapier, IFTTT & Pabbly Connect appeared first on RSSground.com.

Your feedback matters to us, and we’ve been working hard on our Personal Feeds based on what you told us in our ongoing survey. We’re excited to show off a cleaner, user-friendly update – a straightforward, refreshed look that makes creating and editing personal feeds simple and efficient.   The feed title is now prominently […]

The post You asked – we listened: Personal Feeds interface update appeared first on RSSground.com.

We continue our updates and improvements based on your recent suggestions. This time, we have enhanced some interface options as well as Personal Feeds functionality. Please enjoy! Pagination has been added to the bottom of all RSS Ground lists (tables). We have also added an “attention seeker” bouncing effect for the Filters icon. It will […]

The post Another set of updates for personal feeds and more appeared first on RSSground.com.

Though not common, some Mac users are encountering a strange error message that says “Failed to personalize the software update. Please try again.” when attempting to update their Mac to MacOS Sequoia, and sometimes even with other MacOS software updates too. This is a frustrating error since it prevents the installation of a major system ... Read More

A tech recruiting firm left a database unsecured that exposed emails, passport numbers and partial SSNs of job seekers, a security researcher says.

Philipp Emanuel Geyer
Dec 17, 2020; 0:RA120.002359v1-mcp.RA120.002359
Research

The goal of clinical proteomics is to identify, quantify, and characterize proteins in body fluids or tissue to assist diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of patients. In this way, it is similar to more mature omics technologies, such as genomics, that are increasingly applied in biomedicine. We argue that, similar to those fields, proteomics also faces ethical issues related to the kinds of information that is inherently obtained through sample measurement, although their acquisition was not the primary purpose. Specifically, we demonstrate the potential to identify individuals both by their characteristic, individual-specific protein levels and by variant peptides reporting on coding single nucleotide polymorphisms. Furthermore, it is in the nature of blood plasma proteomics profiling that it broadly reports on the health status of an individual – beyond the disease under investigation. Finally, we show that private and potentially sensitive information, such as ethnicity and pregnancy status, can increasingly be derived from proteomics data. Although this is potentially valuable not only to the individual, but also for biomedical research, it raises ethical questions similar to the incidental findings obtained through other omics technologies. We here introduce the necessity of - and argue for the desirability for - ethical and human rights-related issues to be discussed within the proteomics community. Those thoughts are more fully developed in our accompanying manuscript. Appreciation and discussion of ethical aspects of proteomic research will allow for deeper, better-informed, more diverse, and, most importantly, wiser guidelines for clinical proteomics.

AI-driven Personalization in Digital Media: Political and Societal Implications Research paper sysadmin 2 December 2019

The fallout from disinformation and online manipulation strategies have alerted Western democracies to the novel, nuanced vulnerabilities of our information society. This paper outlines the implications of the adoption of AI by the the legacy media, as well as by the new media, focusing on personalization.

Summary

• Machine learning (ML)-driven personalization is fast expanding from social media to the wider information space, encompassing legacy media, multinational conglomerates and digital-native publishers: however, this is happening within a regulatory and oversight vacuum that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency.
• Mass-scale adoption of personalization in communication has serious implications for human rights, societal resilience and political security. Data protection, privacy and wrongful discrimination, as well as freedom of opinion and of expression, are some of the areas impacted by this technological transformation.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and its ML subset are novel technologies that demand novel ways of approaching oversight, monitoring and analysis. Policymakers, regulators, media professionals and engineers need to be able to conceptualize issues in an interdisciplinary way that is appropriate for sociotechnical systems.
• Funding needs to be allocated to research into human–computer interaction in information environments, data infrastructure, technology market trends, and the broader impact of ML systems within the communication sector.
• Although global, high-level ethical frameworks for AI are welcome, they are no substitute for domain- and context-specific codes of ethics. Legacy media and digital-native publishers need to overhaul their editorial codes to make them fit for purpose in a digital ecosystem transformed by ML. Journalistic principles need to be reformulated and refined in the current informational context in order to efficiently inform the ML models built for personalized communication.
• Codes of ethics will not by themselves be enough, so current regulatory and legislative frameworks as they relate to media need to be reassessed. Media regulators need to develop their in-house capacity for thorough research and monitoring into ML systems, and – when appropriate –proportionate sanctions for actors found to be employing such systems towards malign ends. Collaboration with data protection authorities, competition authorities and national electoral commissions is paramount for preserving the integrity of elections and of a political discourse grounded on democratic principles.
• Upskilling senior managers and editorial teams is fundamental if media professionals are to be able to engage meaningfully and effectively with data scientists and AI engineers.

This banner year for elections worldwide may witness the arrival of advertising tailored to your personality

Up to 50% of people admit cheating on their partner.

This positive personality trait linked to more suicidal thoughts and suicide itself.

With all that spam clogging your inbox, a more personalized experience with the brands you interact with would be a refreshing change of pace. Sharing insights from his research into what brands can do to improve the experience of the people they want to reach, personalization pioneer Mark Abraham highlights a key mindset that can help companies boost their growth (and delight their customers) in the era of AI.

Bilingual individuals demonstrate different personality characteristics when speaking different languages. Marketers making media and language decisions when addressing multilingual markets should add this finding to their list of influencing factors.

The post Cultural Frame Switching: Different Language, Different Personality appeared first on Neuromarketing.

If you want more tips for not overly personalizing events, comments and actions, and decreasing rumination, you’ll find heaps of simple, practical solutions in , especially in chapter 5 (rumination) and chapter 7 (fear of feedback and criticism). 1. Don’t catastrophize knock backs – If you get a rejection, it doesn’t mean you’re never going […]

The post 7 Tips for Not Personalizing appeared first on Dr Alice Boyes.

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and other funders are supporting Rhode Island's efforts to define and research personalized learning in traditional public schools.

Best known in education circles for its performance assessment, New Hampshire is a hotbed of innovation around personalized learning, writes Adriana Martinez of the Innovation Lab Network.

OM Hungary team member Jill shares about her experience of ministering to the refugees in Hungary.

Ride2Transform allows teams on two wheels to pedal far and wide, praying and sharing the love of Christ in least reached areas in Europe and Africa.

A 29 year old recounts how his family fled the war zone and came to stay at OM Odessa centre

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to invest totally dispassionately. But there are ways to transform risk, writes Hannes Viljoen.

Patients like it more when "AI doctors" recall their social information and offer privacy control, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

US-based comedian Austin Nasso is going viral online for his hilarious impersonation of US-President-elect Donald Trump during a fictional visit to India.

Attorney General Kathleen Jennings urges all Delaware residents who believe they were impacted by the data breach announced by T-Mobile in August 2021 to take appropriate steps to protect their information from identity theft. On August 17,  T-Mobile reported a massive data breach compromising the sensitive personal information of millions of current, former, and prospective […]

Division of Revenue Director David Gregor has announced that Delaware tax season filing deadline this year is Monday, May 1, 2017. Citizens are encouraged to file their 2016 State of Delaware Personal Income Taxes or file an extension to Monday, October 16, 2017 by using our online services at www.delaware.gov.

Division of Revenue Director Jennifer R. Hudson has announced that the Delaware individual income tax season will begin on Monday, January 29, 2018, concurrently with the opening of the federal individual tax season announced by the IRS. While this is slightly later than previous years, the January 29 date was set to ensure the security […]

DOVER, DE (Marzo 11, 2022) – El Equipo de Rastreo de Contactos de la División de Salud Pública (DPH) de Delaware ha lanzado una iniciativa de pre llamada mensaje de texto/SMS para individuos que prueban positivo para COVID-19. Involucra enviar mensajes de texto a individuos positivos con COVID-19 y ofrece una guía oficial de aislamiento […]

NEW CASTLE (Nov. 4, 2022) – The Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, in collaboration with the Lt. Governor’s Office and the Delaware Art Museum, is seeking personal stories and photos from Delaware families who have lost loved ones to drug overdoses. The submissions will be used to create an emotional and educational exhibition […]