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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

I want to re-set my taste a bit and watch some beautiful movies that weren’t made in America. (A few years ago I did a Subtitle February and I liked that a lot.)

I watched Drive My Car (Japan, 2021) yesterday, and Decision To Leave (South Korea, 2022) today. What else should I watch? Thanks in advance!

Гостува ни Бойко Станкушев от Антикорупционния фонд.
youtu.be/GEreSI1iDJ4

Precisazione importante: Threads e Bluesky usano una federazione parziale ed entrambi i social non federano i loro utenti di default, solo una piccola minoranza è federata, nel caso di threads addirittura nessun utente europeo può federarsi.

Gli utenti federati per entrambi i social sono meno di 5000, per fare un confronto, solo su mastodon.social vediamo ben 180mila utenti!

Quindi si tratta al momento di un evento marginale al #fediverso che potete seguire o bloccare come volete

#mastodon

indie game and art store itch.io is down, and according to their bluesky account, it’s because *Funko Pops* filed a nonsense claim against their domain bsky.app/profile/itch.io/post/

#itchio #itch

I've been coming back to this and find it ever more difficult to trace it back, so now I repost.

Wild boars in Bavaria have dug out radiation we have forgotten about

"The team set out to analyze cesium levels using 48 samples of wild boar meat collected by hunters during 2019–2021, from 11 regions of Bavaria."

"Radioactive cesium levels in 88 percent of the meat samples tested were higher than Germany's legal threshold."

"All samples exhibit signatures of mixing," write the researchers. "Nuclear weapons fallout and [Chernobyl] have mixed in the Bavarian soil, the release maxima of which were about 20−30 years apart," the team writes."
sciencealert.com/wild-pigs-in-
@nuclear1986

A group of middle-ranking officers of the Self-Defense Forces inspected a Chinese air force facility in Tianjin on Thursday as part of an exchange program between the two countries' defense personnel. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/ #japan #sdf #defense #china #chinajapanrelations

Reproducible examples, from a friend's feed, of what Copilot spits out when you ask it calculate women's salaries in python and ruby respectively.

It's important to note: these are not "errors" or "hallucinations". These are "correct", at least in the sense that they're giving you accurate data about the status quo reality of tech salaries, justice and fairness be damned.

But ask yourself what else they're repeating back to you that's not so easy to spot.

mastodon.social/@gvwilson/1135

At
nitter.privacydev.net/search?q
in Baku, no agreement has yet been reached on a new climate finance goal. Meanwhile, ERC-funded research reveals how a major Antarctic ice shelf has melted faster over 4 decades due to warming oceans. The process is expected to intensify as
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continues.

[2024-11-20 12:00 UTC]

L'autodipendenza è stata una folle parentesi nella storia dell'uomo. Chiudiamola.

Per decenni le industrie automobilistiche hanno fatto profitti enormi facendo credere che l'#auto fosse la soluzione alla #mobilità

Abbiamo distrutto le città per fare spazio a quelle pericolose ed inefficienti scatole di metallo e solo adesso stiamo cercando di riparare i danni

Nelle 3 foto corso Vittorio Emanuele II a #Milano prima, durante, e dopo l'auto (da Lemmy se ne vede una)

@energia #autoNarcotizzati

Wir nehmen den aktuellen #eXit in Richtung #Bluesky zum Anlass, nochmals auf unseren Fokus auf das #Fediverse hinzuweisen:

uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2024/bl

Die Beiträge hier werden via fed.brid.gy auf Bluesky gespiegelt.

In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...

... so they wrote one

and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this

So they explained how fascism would come to the US

Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: heathercoxrichardson.substack.

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