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
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From the shared page:
"Is this a policy change?
Technically, no! If you take a look at arXiv’s policies for specific content types you’ll notice that review articles and position papers are not (and have never been) listed as part of the accepted content types. Review articles and position papers have, in the past, only been accepted at moderator discretion, because the few we received were of high quality and of interest to arXiv readers and the scientific community at large."
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Thankfully, public pressure has once again pushed the EU Council to withdraw its dangerous plan to scan encrypted messages. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/once-again-chat-control-flails-after-strong-public-pressure
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November 1, 1755, one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded in European history hits Lisbon. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami and a fire storm claiming an estimated 30.000 to 60.000 victims.
The Great Lisbon Earthquake did not only play an important role in the history of Lisbon, but also in the history of geoscience.
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💔 Thinking about this blue whale weaving through shipping traffic instead of simply feeding and living in peace. No animal should have to struggle like this.
This is why ocean sanctuaries matter. Safe zones where marine life can rest, recover and thrive, free from industrial pressure.
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actual artist (not AI) created Portland frog prints & tees for sale 🐸 by Gwen Katz
@scriptkiddie "Before the AI era, #art was a form of communication for which words were insufficient. #Music, in particular, has the power to touch your heart. But today, I always find myself wondering: isn't this AI music designed to trigger these emotions in me in order to manipulate me, and isn't there actually a real musician expressing their heartbreak in this #song? In future films, I won't be able to tell whether humans were involved in writing the script at all, or whether humans even wrote the #lyrics for the songs on the new album in the charts."
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Your #cyclingfallacy is…
“People should wear helmets when cycling, that would make it safe”
https://www.cyclingfallacies.org/en/people-should-wear-helmets-when-cycling.html
#cyclingfallacies #RoadSafety #helmet
#YesWeCasque #YesWeKask
French joke ☝️
@annierau @petealexharris wait, what this is saying is that they ran over a bear with their car. The fact that they killed it is mentioned only at the end. No word as to whether this was reckless driving from the start.
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🚨🚨🚨 Absolutely insane stuff here. @lorenzofb spent months working on this story.
Peter Williams, former L3Harris Trenchant boss — the division that makes cyber exploits, zero-days and spyware for Western governments — has pleaded guilty to selling Trenchant's exploits to Russia.
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If you're a journalist writing about this Azure outage, don't forget to ask Microsoft how much of their code is "AI-generated".
Satya Nadella claims 30%:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
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But an analysis of social media suggests something else. Many people and groups on the radical and far-right are harnessing a process known as audience capture in order to influence political policy.
A group of anonymous X accounts is said to follow a “posting-to-policy” strategy. These accounts – some of which are run by disaffected Westminster professionals – post to inject their grievances into online discourse.
To explore this dynamic, and how Reform’s recent u-turn has been shaped by it, we analysed the online networks that drove conversation about “mass deportations” on X over the past year. Using computational methods, we identified four distinct sub-communities defined by their retweet relationships. These sub-communities were formed around far-right influencers, radical right influencers, Advance UK/free-marketeer influencers – and around the Reform party.
Discussion of mass deportations in 2024 was almost exclusively dominated by the far-right and the anonymous accounts of the radical right. Fast forward to April 2025 and we find Lowe, Habib and a wider range of rightwing influencers have entered the conversation in support of the policy.
Finally, in September, following Reform’s August announcement, you can see Farage and key Reform personnel supplant the influencers as players in a movement they had little role in creating. In doing so, the party has aligned itself with a policy that less than a year ago it vehemently rejected.
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A group of scientists set out to study quick learners. Then they discovered they don't exist | KQED https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62750/a-group-of-scientists-set-out-to-study-quick-learners-then-they-discovered-they-dont-exist
@john @pixelfed @dansup I wrote this comment, but it landed elsewhere:
https://qoto.org/@mapto/115415764479608632
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As I'm screwing with a device trying to get wifi working, it occurs to me: Why are we still dutifully setting MAC addresses from flash rather than letting the ethernet card take a random one?
MAC addresses are the fucking Digital ID that everyone keeps railing against, the thing is written in the factory, it's logged in the DB, so it's connected to your identity when you buy the device, then it's being emitted out on any LAN you connect to.
MAC addresses are the fucking Digital ID that everyone keeps railing against, the thing is written in the factory, it's logged in the DB, so it's connected to your identity when you buy the device, then it's being emitted out on any LAN you connect to.
Here's one very concrete bunch of adverse health effects of microplastics
https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-be-tied-to-vascular-dementia-cases-review-finds
@aapis @pixelfed @sb not having ads has been declared many times by Dan as one of the purposes of this app.
As for injecting follows, it's unclear what you mean, but if it has anything to do with following someone against the will of either side involved, it is against the principles of the fediverse. This makes me wonder why would you even ask such a question. So maybe you meant something else?
@yiorgos @pixelfed the beauty of freedom is that anyone can contribute with what they believe is worthy, be it because it leaves a mark, because it's close to one's heart, or for whatever reason.
I do believe that loops is a leap in the right direction. If you don't, you're welcome to do something else. This comment of yours might be a first step, but it certainly is not an achievement.
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Successful nonviolent movements for change require more than street protests. A human rights expert outlines 10 effective actions citizens can take: https://buff.ly/kpfD4ke
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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
