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
For a moment, let's set aside those directors and shareholders that will never grow beyond "firing people with AI as an excuse increases stock prices". Hopefully customers will ultimately remind them that their job is to make satisfying products.
I think the more important thing in this article is that it tells 3 stories of how people collaborate with AI to write. Two of these stories are negative, one is positive. To me this suggests that Miller and Cowart need to take control of the change.
Recently, I worked on an article on collaborative writing where we reviewed different approaches to it. Only few involved AI, but the important thing is to be aware of the potential different phenomena in writing and decide which ones are worth our time, and which aren't.
Here's the article: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_5
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2️⃣ days until the start of our Weekend of Action! On the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ended Roe, we’re hosting events across the nation to remind voters that Trump and Republicans are an existential threat to our reproductive freedoms and our democracy. Please join us: https://indivisible.org/resource/majority-over-maga-weekend-action-june-21-24
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A lovely Game Developer article popped up about my GDC talk! https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/raph-koster-wants-developers-to-get-back-to-the-game-of-making-games-
@kissane
This might be a good indication where effective contributions to the topic are focused:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565#issuecomment-1444583776
Apologies if mine is perceived as a right-to-reply thing. I truly believe it is constructive, and I have no way to implicitly know if you appreciate getting this apparently new information. For better or worse, this is what the available affordances shape. My understanding is that some types of replies are more desirable than others, and particularly for factual replies, this has little to do with authorship.
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Visual Studio Code extensions are much less secure than browser extensions or even npm packages: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/vscode-extensions-are-insecure/
A team at the University of Stuttgart is experimenting with a new CAPTCHA challenge based around a word-in-context task. If curious and have ~5 minutes to put aside, give this short survey a try and share your feedback.
https://semantic-nlp-captcha.de/study
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‘Sovereign flex’: How a tribe defied a US state with a cannabis superstore https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/6/17/sovereign-flex-how-a-tribe-defied-a-us-state-with-a-cannabis-superstore?traffic_source=rss #News
Everything you need to know about Donald Trump: the slide with a summary of the collected evidence for his conviction in NY. Source:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/manhattan-da-bragg-closing-slides-trump-rcna157057
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"Ethics" is not the only problem with generative A.I. -- *epistemology* is broken too.
My latest for Public Books: in the face of #google telling us to eat rocks, we bought an encyclopedia.
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/
Companion blog post here:
https://www.optoutproject.net/what-is-true-on-the-internet/
#AI #ethics #EthicsInAI #knowledgeinfrastructures #libraries
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‘’Measuring Literary Quality: Proxies and Perspectives” is a paper that revisits the “popularity-prestige” dualism of the measures (or proxies) of literary quality. While the results still suggest “the presence of two distinct modes of evaluating quality”, one crowd-based (e.g. GoodReads) and one expert based (e.g. Opensyllabus), there are also in-between measures like library holdings…
Presented by Pascale Feldkamp at the #CCLS2024 conference by @jcls
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Quote of the day...
"Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works."
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#HKADH2025 Call for Papers
"Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities"
The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (#HKADH) is pleased to announce its inaugural international conference, to be jointly hosted by the University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University on January 16–19, 2025.
Abstracts due date: July 31, 2024
Details: https://2025.hkadh.org/cfp/
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So great to see #DH in #HongKong becoming institutionalized!
@Sheril an amateur myself, you've probably already read Erich Maria Remarque's Black Obelisk? Not sci-fi, in its own way checks the other boxes, ridiculing historical reality
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The extended version of our study of the explicit references to values in the fairytales of three European cultures has been published in the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.
We find that even though the most prominent values are very similar across these three related cultures, the way they are expressed varies in line with specific traditions. Here an illustration of different correlations of motherhood.
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Светът гори!
Много хора в България още не са го забелязали
...или си мислят, че техните въглища и техният дизел и тяхната пластмаса не са част от огъня, който младите се борят да изгасят
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@heidilifeldman Every bit helps. Contact your local (Democratic) or other group. Every bit helps. In my small but capital city, several OF US got together and formed a local PAC. Our city government was leaning authoritarian and we managed to flip 5 seats on the council (with 3 more plus the mayor to go next cycle). Every bit helps. You can’t do everything. But you can do something. Every bit helps! You got this!
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Here are some organizations working against authoritarianism in the U.S. I work with them and trust them. See if one of them suits you and get involved now.
Emily’s List https://emilyslist.org/
Sister District https://sisterdistrict.com/
Swing Left https://swingleft.org/
Indivisible https://indivisible.org/
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@verge either way, Tesla stocks price is struggling, and this is what would make or break things
@glennf do you think it is necessary to ironise to emphasise the obvious? Do you think that the other side does not see it as obvious as we do?
I'd think they do and I think gap is elsewhere. People that engage with arguing against the obvious have non-trivial motivation. Someone might be incentivised (including financially, as in the case of troll farms), others might just like to tease people with their nihilism.
But I'd argue that the people that need convincing are the ones that don't even see these news, because they are disengaged. They are not reading, they are not here. They might be watching sports, binge-reading classics, gone shopping, playing computer games or binge holiday-going, who knows what form of escapism. But we need to reach them differently.
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🎉 BCON24 tickets are here! 🎉
Grab your early bird tickets at https://conference.blender.org/2024/ #BCON24 #b3d
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Others (+fedi)
- https://linktr.ee/mapto
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
