Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org
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- https://mapto.itch.io
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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
@anna I've never found myself much in place with Twitter-like platforms. I enjoyed FB much more in the early days. I don't like people-centric conversations, I prefer topic-based communities. The fediverse affords this through platforms like a.gup.pe, mbin, lemmy and piefed. The best part is that it's a common experience with mastodon and its alikes. Still figuring how to use it and the experience needs to improve a lot.
Certainly never going back to a social network sustained around clickbait and scam. By now I'm convinced that any corporate social network has no other options but become exactly of that type.
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With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, @signalapp leadership, @Mer__edith and Udbhav Tiwari, are sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated.
@kristinHenry sorry, can't shut up. We're in this together, even from afar. Anything counts, no one can do it alone! Keep going, whatever you do. If it comes from the heart, it helps, even in unnoticeable ways.
@kristinHenry hey Kristin, you don't know me, but I've been following you since my early days here, also through some of your difficult moments.
I am Bulgarian, this is a country in a struggle with totalitarianism at least since WWII. I can assure you that what you do is very important. Fighting back is exhaustive. Any positive vibes like your art are a rush of new energy in a journey that otherwise might feel Sisyphean.
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Curiosity can lead to either support of science or conspiracies. A recent study found that what matters is how people are curious. Those who dislike uncertainty and want quick answers tend toward conspiracy theories. Those who enjoy exploration and open-ended thinking tend to trust science.
<em>British Journal of Social ...
@dougmerritt @lemgandi that's extremely powerful actually, but I don't think anyone has developed a strong argument yet that expert systems and LLMs are different dimensions of intelligence. As a speculation, I'd rather see the former as the discrete version and the latter as the continuous one.
@lemgandi @dougmerritt whereas GenAI is not so much, unless you consider matrix/tensor dimensions
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With electric vehicles becoming a realistic option for Japanese consumers, battery recycling holds the key to the further spread of EVs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/10/battery-recycle-japan-ev/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #batteries #electricvehicles #cars #carmakers #recycling
Here's more on why Italy's idea of Piracy Shield just can't work https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/26/italys-piracy-shield-moving-from-digital-farce-to-national-tragedy/
The bureaucratic rigidness of the Italian government has taken it to a completely unnecessary conflict with US providers. With the poorly-planned Privacy Shield initiative, it entered a digital sovereignty conflict the country never prepared for. The appalling thing is that even the outspoken Mario Draghi didn't try to walk his talk. And now Cloudfare threatens to resist.
"The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/cloudflare-may-pull-servers-out-of-italy-over-order-that-it-block-pirate-sites/
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HRANA – Iran’s nationwide protests continued into their thirteenth day amid a widespread internet shutdown. According to HRANA reports, over the past 13 days at least 65 people have been killed, 2,311 individuals have been arrested, and protests have been recorded at 512 locations across 180 cities in 31 provinces. On this day, despite severe […]
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For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with civility in order to remain independent of their appetites and quarrels. https://theconversation.com/george-washingtons-foreign-policy-was-built-on-respect-for-other-nations-and-patient-consideration-of-future-burdens-272934
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The 6-7 craze that disrupted classrooms and sports events worldwide was more than just nonsense.
Media scholars from 3 countries say the fad reveals how children use meaningless language and games to carve out spaces where they hold the power and adults don't make the rules. https://theconversation.com/the-6-7-craze-offered-a-brief-window-into-the-hidden-world-of-children-272327
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When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase, an expert on the U.S. media and its role in democracy explains. https://theconversation.com/why-the-pittsburgh-post-gazettes-closure-exposes-a-growing-threat-to-democracy-272992
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EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!
Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.
NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:
The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:
a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...
#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse
@uk show some respect to your sources
https://masto.ai/@Miro_Collas/115863482917386846
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@cstross and this is the fedi handle for the primary source media seems to cite most often
@en-hrana.org
#iran
A very important point about AI models that we need to remind ourselves
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
- 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
