Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org
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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
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@ChemicalEyeGuy @TheConversationUS in the conclusion of the article, the author makes a very important distinction. I tend to agree that what makes the difference is how the training data is approached, both for nature and people. Slop is a problem caused by capitalist dynamics, not a technological issue.
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AI’s apparent inability to generate interesting and unique images and videos is becoming harder to ignore.
A computer scientist explains why they weren’t surprised about OpenAI’s decision to shut down video generation tool Sora.
https://theconversation.com/soras-downfall-signals-broader-problems-with-ais-creative-utility-280013
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Donkeys symbolize endurance for Palestinians.
Harm to animals—through attack, deprivation, seizure, and forced separation—has long accompanied Israeli violence against Palestinian communities.
https://theconversation.com/donkeys-are-a-symbol-of-endurance-for-palestinians-they-are-also-a-target-of-settler-violence-and-care-275639
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Supply chain disruptions stemming from the conflict in Iran are beginning to create chokepoints across Japan's auto industry, including the network of companies surrounding Toyota. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/29/companies/toyota-supply-chain-shortage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #carparts #middleeast
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Cyberbullying isn’t just ‘kids being kids’, it's a growing issue with real consequences. But what if parents held the key to a safer internet?
The PARTICIPATE project provides parents with tools, schools with guides and governments with data to act.
30 years of #MSCA = 30 years of science that works for society.
Read the full article: https://t.co/Y5ONeoL6kd
@chrisvest @TheConversationUS even if this was measurable, does anyone really think that more planned centralization (trying to avoid "totalitarian") is a valid way of doing science? If people complain that Trump gets to dictate what is valid science or not, why would anyone ever think the Xi Jinping is doing any better. Unfortunately it is not even the CCP anymore, it is as unilateral as it could get.
An outstanding article, and it's not about AI. It's about added value and doing business:
"A marketing manager with no engineering background opens Cursor on Monday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, she has a working customer-facing app. It looks polished. It performs the core task. She demos it to her VP, who forwards it to their CMO, who then shows it in the executive staff meeting as evidence that the team is “moving at AI speed.”
By Friday, it is in front of customers.
No one asked who owned the decision to ship it. No one tested it against the conditions it would actually face. No one had the cultural standing to say this looks great, and we are not putting it into production. The prototype became a product because the organization had no system for telling the difference.
I watched a version of this scenario play out recently in a boardroom. A senior executive demoed an AI-built internal tool. The room admired the speed. What received less attention were the harder questions: Who would own it after launch? Who would maintain it? And what would happen when it produced an answer that was confidently wrong?
This is what vibe coding is about to expose across businesses. The companies that think the story is about software are going to lose to the companies that understand the story is about judgment."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonwingard/2026/04/23/vibe-coding-will-break-your-company/
@tedunderwood.com yet the 20th century internet was much less superficial. Then search engines and social networks figured out that they need to sell you the "for you" part. A contemporary comparison is the fediverse vs linkedin. I'm not saying vanity and envy are not around here too. They're just not as central to the experience.
@OrionKidder @LinuxToday well that makes a lot of persons that are fed up with the Clippy takeover
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-365/co-pilot-is-resurrected-clippy-on-steroids-give-us-actual-options-to-remove-it/4430458
@TheConversationUS doing exercise is still more accessible
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“There’s a misconception that you can somehow influence or persuade AI systems directly. That’s not really how they work,” says Market Brew founder and Chief Technology Officer Scott Stouffer.
“What you can do is make sure that your information is structured, sourced, and aligned in a way that those systems are more likely to retrieve it when someone asks a question. It’s less about changing the conversation and more about making sure your facts are eligible to be part of it.”
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Could using AI for simple tasks make you worse at them?
A new study found that people who relied on AI for basic maths and reading tasks performed better at first, but struggled more once it was removed and were less likely to persist.
#FrAIday: http://tr.ee/c47YkR
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https://nitter.net/DigitalEU/status/2047587346371973506#m
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Data centers are straining power grids.
But new research suggests they don’t have to. With the right design, they can generate energy, store it and even reuse waste heat to support nearby communities.
https://theconversation.com/data-centers-dont-have-to-be-a-burden-on-local-communities-and-can-even-support-them-by-generating-power-and-repurposing-waste-heat-276729
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Italia, the 10 2025 climate trends photograph a country that does not accelerate
This is what emerges from the Italy for Climate annual report, which, although growing, sees Italia lagging behind the European average
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateDisruption #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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Built for a hostile internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://www.zdnet.com/article/built-for-a-hostile-internet-canonical-vp-of-engineering-on-ubuntu-26-04-lts/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j by @sjvn0001
Everything you wanted to know about Ubuntu #Linux 26.04 from the Canonical executive in charge of building it.
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‘Take me to the EU court’ – Kövesi defends her ‘outstanding prosecutors’ https://www.euractiv.com/news/take-me-to-the-eu-court-kovesi-defends-her-outstanding-prosecutors/?utm_source=eac&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=%40euractiv%40masto.ai
@tedunderwood.com that's actually amazing. It shows people capture the original intent, leaving the exact formulation as secondary. Then, of course ~200 characters are not enough for a detailed argument.
Off topic 1: one could say that LLMs successfully replicate this particular behaviour
Off topic 2: provides preliminary evidence why a training set from twitter is inevitably of poor quality
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No, baby boys aren’t “less social.” That’s just a stereotype.
Decades of research shows boys and girls are equally wired to connect from day one. But boys are nudged toward toughness over tenderness, given fewer chances to practice empathy and subtly discouraged against connection.
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That same year [2016] the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence’s official journal StratCom, published a paper entitled ‘It’s Time to Embrace Memetic Warfare’.
The paper proposed methods by which to undermine ISIS: “systematically lure and entrap” recruiters; subvert its messaging via “fake ‘sockpuppet’ accounts” – online personas manufactured to simulate grassroots support or opposition – and “expose and harass people” within its funding network, “including their family members”.
To the editors of the NATO journal, these may have appeared as novel strategic prescriptions. In fact, they had already appeared – in a different context entirely.
Those tactics had been developed and deployed over years by a loose network of far-right organisations – funded, in part, by figures directly connected to Thiel.
And they resemble too much mechanics used by Russian propaganda throughout Europe and beyond.
@TheConversationUS as far as I'm concerned, it matters less whether the message was written by GenAI, than whether the person behind it really meant what is written. And this could not be the case with or without GenAI
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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/
Joined Nov 2022
