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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Joined Nov 2022
@mapto@masto.bg actually in this article Bogost gives a definition of #bulshitJob that I find to be better than Graeber's. It's not so much about the job being meaningless, as about the detachment of the employee from it. Ultimately if one doesn't understand the meaning of a job, they do not understand why and how to do it. This is unrelated to whether the job has a meaning as perceived by someone else:
"For some time now, workers—and especially young ones—have become ever more detached from their work lives. David Graeber called the roles they end up taking for lack of any better option “bullshit jobs.” Internet culture has more recently nicknamed them “email jobs”: work whose purpose is so cryptic, its effort detaches from motivations and outcomes, personal or professional. The Millennials who graduated into the Great Recession talked about LARPing their own jobs in order to reconcile this divide. Cheating on a job interview with AI feels like a realization of that vision: You are no longer a job candidate, but a person playing the role of one."
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Ian Bogost asked Final Round AI to supply him with a final round job interview question
"It returned a lengthy, milquetoast answer... The entire thing was plausible in the way LLM responses often are; if an aspiring writer provided this response during a genuine interview, it wouldn’t be wrong so much as uninspired. It is the sound of a person performing the role of a job candidate, rather than one actually pursuing a job."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/ai-cheating-job-interviews-fraud/684568/
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Quanti muoiono in scontri stradali che avvengono da soli, ovvero scontri autonomi senza coinvolgimento di un altro veicolo?
https://benzinazero.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/quanti-muoiono-in-scontri-stradali-che-avvengono-da-soli-ovvero-senza-coinvolgimento-di-un-altro-veicolo/ #incidente #incidentestradale #incidenti #sicurezza #mobilità #strade
@benzinazero hai mai sentito di https://www.saichepuoi.it
Io sto cercando di collaborare con loro per il tema della sosta irregolare, ma sono argomenti molto vicini.
Con questo intendo che se il sindaco non è illuminato, una cittadinanza illuminata lo potrebbe spingere un po'. Forse difficile da credere, ma questo tipo di iniziative possono funzionare.
Who are the people that make Trump and his top tier stuntmen capable to move forward despite being incapable of integral though? Apparently others exhibiting spotty thinking ("The ultimate radical constitutionalist is Donald Trump", "I’m a Christian. I am a nationalist.")
Yet, the fact that people like Russell Vought are capable of pulling through their destructive project shows that they must be able to actually operate with these double standards in the heads, one of propaganda, and one of reality.
https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb
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@davidgerard , not sure if you saw this great post about ML models in radiology?
The boosters love to say ‘look how good AI is in medical diagnosis, therefore LLMs are good’. Only, it turns out (from the article):
while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions
It also highlights a problem that’s actually quite general in medicine: we have far more data about unhealthy people than healthy ones. I was talking to a cardiologist almost ten years ago who was very excited about the data things like the Apple Watch could collect. Apparently they know that a lot of people who have heart attack have arrhythmia, but they have no idea if this is a meaningful correlation. Healthy people tend to have their heart monitored for a minute or less on a visit to a doctor every few years. People with known heart problems wear heart monitors that can record a load of things, so you have very good data on their heart rhythms but no baseline to compare it against.
This is also true for radiology. You really want to do anomaly detection: take a few million scans of healthy people, wait a few years to see if any of them have undiagnosed conditions, and then use that dataset to train a model of what a healthy lung (or whatever) looks like. Then feed new scans to the model, have it flag anomalies, and loop in an expert to figure out what kind of anomaly it is and whether it’s important.
But what you have is a load of very examples of things that are wrong, in very specific ways. And these also have artefacts that are specific to individual devices, so it’s easy for a model to learn that people who are scanned with this class of machine have this condition.
And that’s just the start of the issues they discuss.
@benzinazero un idea che io personalmente ritengo controproducente, ma potrebbe essere molto interessante.
Hai presente quali potrebbero essere i canali per proporla a chi potrebbe prendere la decisione? Mi immagino che questa è una politica comunale e con l'avvicinamento delle elezioni potrebbe essere il momento giusto di popolarizzare questo ragionamento.
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HOP Art
Looking for some good No Kings protest frog 'HOP' poster art, but concerned that most of the stuff floating around is AI slop?
Artist Edgar Wathert @eWalthert has produced this certified AI free beauty.
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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face
How slowly ICE is turning into Trump's praetorian force
Now that's a Russian response to protests. But it's coming or of Portland
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/portland-ice-clarinet-arrested-protest-b2845329.html
Yet, the race to big does not bother to actually solve problems:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ai-medical-tools-found-to-downplay-symptoms-of-women-ethnic-minorities/
The math does not add up:
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-finances
A new question for your pub quiz:
Which AI company did Nvidia not invest in?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/
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Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?
He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.
This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳
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CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine
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Honey, I invested $100 billion in AI, and all I got was 1 + 2 + 3 = 15
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tiktok is heading toward being full maga.
If your business or life is centered on that app, take steps now to change that.
I am happy to help however I can.
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Will the ‘Zucman tax’ go continental? https://www.euractiv.com/news/will-the-zucman-tax-go-continental/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
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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
