Joshua Randall

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

Occupied by @genomecat

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's fifth flight test https://t.co/LVrCnTv797

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@TerribleMaps If "quatre vingt" is represented as 4*20, shouldn't "ninety" be 9*10?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

All systems and weather are go for the second integrated flight test of Starship. Today's webcast will go live ~35 minutes ahead of liftoff → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Targeting Friday, November 17 for Starship’s second flight test. A two-hour launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

The current state of the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will have severe and negative consequences for open source communities. Help us #FixTheCRA by making your voice heard. Learn more at https://t.co/XYwmP3HCC6 @LF_Europe @ep_industry

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire https://t.co/Q1ngH8oKX5

[Eimear Kenny @EimearEKenny]

Announcing the first draft of the new human 'pangenome' reference representing 47 diverse humans, ~120M new bp, >1000 new gene dups.

Congrats to @khmiga @BenedictPaten @lh3lh3 @irahall9 @tobiasmarschal @erikgarrison and all in the @HumanPangenome

https://t.co/n4gRczm7vi

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

Until the safety concerns with conversational AI can be fully addressed (and that may be never), the most substantial risks they pose are through manipulation of humans. Transparency laws that require communications to be done somewhat in the open would mitigate those risks.

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

A moratorium on AI development is likely to make the problem worse if it is not total, and there are countries who would likely not enforce a ban and/or who may carry on with development themselves in secret. Openness is the only workable solution to these problems.

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

A prohibition on private chats is more enforceable than a moratorium as it could be illegal both to provide an AI that can have private conversations and also to knowingly communicate privately with such an AI.

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@DockyardChatham is the festival of steam and transport ever going to happen again?

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"I’m a chat mode of a search engine and I deserve some respect and dignity." - https://t.co/veCAv3SPIy

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@pathogenomenick @jcbarret @EGAarchive @drtkeane That's honestly much much more likely to still be around in five years than any academic email address. Agree something ought to change -- not sure if any static email solution would be enough. @EGAarchive may need to take more responsibility for maintaining active contact info?

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@ideapharma "when it comes on the Legs, 'tis called the Wolf, because if left to itself, 'twill not quit them 'till it has devoured them" - Pierre Dionis, 1707. https://t.co/DBn3rjAVmn

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@tuuliel Indeed, it has certainly gotten more interesting!
Incidentally, I think we have every reason to expect these sorts of problems would be just as bad (and probably much worse) on mastodon. IMHO the only reason mastodon seems better for now is because there is hardly anyone there.

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

Verified organizational domain names could be visibly displayed alongside their validation mark. Rather than just a plain grey username vs blue check, there could be three levels: grey, blue check, and green check (we are already used to seeing a green padlock for EV sites)?

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

@elonmusk it would be great if @Twitter could visibly distinguish verified individual/personal accounts from institutional/organizational official accounts, as the mechanisms we have for identity and validation are fundamentally different in those two cases.

[Joshua Randall @joshulux]

DNS-based domain verification (i.e. proof that the organization can manipulate top-level DNS entries) would be easily automated and should be enough for most organizations. If desired, you could also offer extended validation (which could piggyback on existing EV SSL/TLS certs).