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Our paper on the values found in fairy tales from some European countries has been published. We studied how values are explicitly present in tales from Germany, Italy and Portugal using various NLP techniques, but most notably Word2Vec and Word Embedding with a Compass. We visualise synchronic semantic variation to show certain differences based on observations of the corpus, some of them already observed in previous literature. A discussed example in our findings is how motherhood in Germany is strongly related to generosity, whereas in Italy and Portugal it has stronger relationship to wisdom.

Fulltext available at: aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1

@folklore @linguistics @bookstodon

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.

techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/face

Random strangers getting paid to 'relay' YOUR texted login codes from THEIR phone numbers.

Privacy & security nightmare fuel.

Industry is turning away from texted verification because they are insecure... so what is #telegram
thinking?

Doxxing, stalking, spamming & exposure of users is guaranteed.

Moreover, it will set the expectation that users SHOULD trust codes sent from random phone numbers.

techcrunch.com/2024/03/25/tele

#cybersecurity #infosec #privacy #doxxing #stalking #surveillance

Glad and honored to discover that I am in this list reported few days ago by @LaRepubblica_it
about "500 Italians that count in Artificial Intelligence"

#artificialintelligence #AI #unisa #generativeAI #ciitlabunisa

@UniSalerno

@mapto This is the first im hearing about it. WE have no blocked it ourselves.

You say you used to use it and now you cant? Do you know when exactly it stopped being usable for QOTO for you?

Hey @freemo , is it that an RSS-to-mastodon service at feedsin.space/ is blocked on ? I've been using this a lot from my Bulgarian-language account, and I just noticed I don't have access from here.

I find such services very useful. If there is an intentional block in place, could you share the reasons and if you could suggest alternative ways to follow RSS feeds from here? Just trying to understand if there's a solution that would work for everyone. Thanks!

👻 Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point? - BBC

「 More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing. A similar share said the job listings are made to motivate employees, while 34% said the jobs are posted to placate overworked staff who may be hoping for additional help to be brought on 」

bbc.com/worklife/article/20240

#JobSearch #Recruiting #Hiring #HR

The art of unselfish understanding – 6 rules of listening from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm, born on this day in 1900 t.co/D0DPIjbNpw

“The problem with investing in defence is that, of course, for leaders who have much better neighbours than we do, it is very hard to explain to the people when it is peacetime," she added. “But the problem with defence is that when you need it, then it's already too late to take any further steps."

"We want to have peace, but we want to have a sustainable peace. And the peace on Russia's terms is not a sustainable. That means that we are going to have a pause of some years, and it's going to go even further because they can."
QT: mstdn.social/@noelreports/1121

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦  
Estonian Prime Ministe Kaja Kallas called for the countries that belong to the Ramstein coalition, which includes NATO members, the EU and 15 other...

The state of things:
“I must say, I’m not used to talking to a crowd that doesn’t really listen,” Kallas said bluntly a few minutes into her speech as attendees talked over her.

“But you know, we are liberals,” she quipped, “everybody is doing what they want to do.”

“But these are serious things that we are talking about here,” she stressed.
QT: masto.ai/@euractiv/11213190898

EURACTIV  
Low appetite for EU liberals’ election campaign kick-off https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/low-appetite-for-eu-liberals-election-camp...

@go_shrumm We need to think about how we can counteract propaganda. It's built in a media environment which rules we think we know well and that we aim to prevail. But sticking to familiar structure that isn't alive anymore is part of the problem.

I think, this article is doing a great job in order to getting awareness, to begin with spiegel.de/politik/deutschland

The context of fake news is not truth, but #propaganda. The context oft threats of violence in political speech is not the enemy, but propaganda.

Propaganda aims to legitimize any future act. It uses violent and irrational speech to destroy the very demand for legitimacy.

The context of propaganda is strategy. It is hopeless to withstand propaganda by pointing to its ornaments.

Call propaganda propaganda. Unveil its strategic goal. Don’t discuss every bizarre item.

#trump #putin #fascism

@Geri it is ridiculous how OSINT has manaded to expose the entire Russian industry, even more so its direct dependency on specific Western industrial concerns and how these refuse to impose sanctions on Russia
threadreaderapp.com/thread/176

The IDF also appears to be targeting orchards. An IDF spokesperson told the New York Times that the military operation included the destruction of orchards near Al-Bureij as they could be used to hide mines and other weapons. We found around 1,287 acres were visibly cleared in this area.

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In contrast to the deforestation of necessity caused by civilian activities like the collection of food and fuel, the Israeli military is deforesting Gaza and destroying agricultural land as part of its ongoing incursion.

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