AI deepfake nudes are causing havoc in schools.

Several states have passed laws against spreading the nonconsensual fake nudes, but what happens next in schools varies depending on the state.
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 A year ago, “Crypto+AI” sounded like a game of “VC mad libs.” Now, as real-world applications begin to emerge, the idea makes much more sense. Jeff Wilser, who is hosting the AI Summit at Consensus 2024, offers a preview of the programming and reviews the decentralized AI state-of-play.
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 ETHSafari 2024: Powering Africa’s Web3 Revolution.
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 Franklin Templeton CEO says all ETFs and mutual funds will be on blockchain. She also warned that generative artificial intelligence was like the “kid that got an ‘F’ in math.”
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 DeSci leverages blockchain technology to unlock a new era of equitable and accelerated innovation to redefine participation and ownership in science.
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 Warren Buffett compares AI to nuclear weapons after seeing a deepfake of himself.
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 Buenos Aires Targets Worldcoin With Eye Scanning Biometric Bill.

A bill that seeks to regulate the activities of companies that scan the eyes of their users, like Worldcoin, has been recently introduced in Buenos Aires. The law aims to protect the app users’ rights and help them to secure and determine the destination of the biometric data collected by these entities.
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 Amazing write-up by coingecko on DeSci, feat. projects like:
VitaDAO, ResearchHub, AthenaDAO, ValleyDAO, bio.xyz w/ discussions by vitalik.eth, Brian Armstrong, and CZ 🔶 BNB that add depth to the DeSci narrative.
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 Lovely chat over lunch in Bangkok with @erinmagennis (Magennis 🌻 DeSci) and her encyclopedic knowledge of the DeSci space. 

Based on DeSci Thailand networks of researchers in local institutions and abroad, Magennis suggested four areas in which DeSci Thailand could be of service:
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 Happy halving everyone!

DeSci would not be possible if Bitcoin didn't exist, or if it failed to succeed, and just now we reached a very important milestone in Bitcoin's history. 
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 DeSci Thailand first project is producing a guide to the Smart Visa (https://smart-visa.boi.go.th/smart/) for DeSci founders/researchers, augmented by an interview of @_Difint_ (Rod Mamin), founder of @LunCoSim (LunCo.eth), and Smart "S" Visa holder in the Aerospace category.
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 Lack of experimentation has stalled the debate on open peer review. Report by Tony Ross-Hellauer and Serge P.J.M. Horbach.
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 Why India needs to transition to DeSci, amidst a corrupt and broken academic system?

Delayed fellowships, low budgets, lack of support making PhD scholars lose interest. Most PhD scholars rely on Rs 8,000 non-NET fellowships or stipends, deal with resource shortage, discrimination.
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 A significant development today in the world of scholcomm and openaccess - gatesfoundation will be mandating preprint posting and ceasing to pay APCs for openaccess publication with effect from 1 Jan 2025.

Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement?
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 Blockchain has lost its decentralized spirit？
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 DeSci Kolkata - A Humble Beginning in The World of Education, Science & Research in India.
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 This weekend, The DeSci Podcast released episode 31 with Seemay Chou , Co-Founder and CEO of ArcadiaScience. 
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 This week, AthenaDAO held the inaugural ADSummit hosted at NovaSBE, and they will be publishing a case study on their work! They discussed science, ideas, collaborations, and roadmapped their work in women's health.
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 🔥Vector space biosciences - Accelerating discovery, ResearchHub, AthenaDAO, JustOneGiantLab, CoopHive, ScieNFT et al.'s sponsor Decentralised Science (DeSci) London. 
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 Berlin DeSci Meetup.
​The goal of the meetup is to create a space for people to collaborate and explore the potential of decentralized science to democratize access to scientific research and accelerate innovation.
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 🕒 Over the last 1.5 years, VitaDao has been working on a comprehensive review of the current longevity biomarker landscape.
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 🚀Blockchain Innovation Hub launched with great success during DeSci Rio 2024.
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 The Future Of Science Seminar Series --- Anna Dreber

What share of results replicate in different literatures in some of the experimental social sciences? Anna discusses several large replication projects in psychology and economics, where she and her coauthors have redone experiments published in high-impact journals with new and larger samples to see whether the main result replicates. 

The seminar also covers studies on forecasting prediction markets and surveys where researchers attempt to predict replication outcomes and outcomes of new hypothesis tests. 
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 IP-NFTs and Decentralized, Autonomous Science.
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 🧐What Is Decentralized Science (DeSci)?
🌐Data Sharing and Collaboration
🦋Academic Publishing
🛜Research Funding
🏻‍Peer Review
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  Public Nouns👇
💚Introducing the first of our weekly spaces: Public Goods Saturdays! 
📷 We'll be discussing everything GROWing on in the Public Goods ecosystem, every Saturday! 
⏰We'll be LIVE 9AM PST, Noon EST, 4PM UTC 
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 DeSci London is a 2-day event focused on showcasing the potential of blockchain technology within science. Over the course of the two days, they will host talks and workshops focused on decentralised science (DeSci) projects aiming to improve everything from publishing infrastructure to longevity, rare diseases, climate tech & SynBio.
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 Does this written by AI? How is it possible that none of the authors AND reviewers missed this? Because too many journals have become alienating production lines? 
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 No agenda, feel free to join ! 
Mar social networking Space for DeSci communities in Asia is on 14 Mar. DeSciTokyo, DeSciIndia and DeSciAsia will connect and meet new friends. 
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 Training great LLMs entirely from ground zero in the wilderness as a startup — Chief Scientist & Cofounder at Reka. Formerly Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain.
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 Exploring Ageing Research Funding Opportunities with VitaDAO.
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 DeSci Kolkata - The Foundations of Decentralized Science: What is the difference between modern science, open science and DeSci a presentation from DeSci Asia co-founder. 

 On Messari's conference: Builders share insights how crypto innovates science through new coordination and incentives.
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 How to protect your DeSci project when operating with a decentralised governance structure.