Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

@CitizenWald @histodons you seem to be trying to address cheap identitarian racism with a scientific argument. Allow me to challenge that such approach is meaningful. There's a gap between how readers perceive the two arguments, and it doesn't play in your favour in the case of those representatives of the majority in Western countries who are looking for reinforcement of their views.

For an interpretation that is somewhat defining for the issue, consider the notion of epistemic vigilance:
"This debate between reductionism and anti-reductionism revolves around two distinct issues, one normative and the other descriptive. The normative issue has to
do with the conditions in which a belief acquired through testimony qualifies as knowledge. The descriptive issue has to do with the cognitive and social practices
involved in the production and acceptance of testimony. The two issues are explicitly linked in a ‘third way’ approach which assumes that our actual practices, which involve some degree of vigilance, are likely to be reasonable, and therefore at least indicative of what the norm should be (e.g. Adler, 2003, Fricker, 2006)."
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1331363/1/Wilson_Epistemic%20Vigilance%20revised%20final.pdf

I like how #Mozilla (the group behind #FireFox) is betting on the #Fediverse, but they could help popularize the #Fediverse by highlighting websites or social accounts that have enabled #ActivityPub.

People could then be free to follow the news, brand, etcetera, from their preferred #Misskey, #Mastodon or #Pleroma account.

👉🏾 Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/03/why-mozilla-is-betting-on-a-decentralized-social-networking-future/

AICA and AIUCD organize a training school online (in Italian) for school teachers on DH and AI for teaching and learning. Details in http://www.aiucd.it/corso-aggiornamento-docenti-aica-aiucd/
#digitalhumanities

SCOOP: A junior State Department employee who is organizing a dissent cable on the White House's policy on Israel has used social media to publicly accuse President Biden of being "complicit in genocide" toward the people of Gaza. https://t.co/pfZUPqWSMC

Il nuovo COCI (#Corpus della canzone italiana) contiene 60 anni di testi di #canzoni (1958-2022), 405.539 parole ricercabili anche per lemma e categoria grammaticale.
Disponibile su Search-it. È parte della tesi di laurea magistrale di Davide Coccia

https://t.co/RZxi6KwjZM

@Properganda@mastodon.social @JoshuaHolland @killick pardon my interference, I'm an ignorant outsider, but if you care to elaborate on your position regarding the state of Israel not engaging in apartheid practices, would you comment on the fact that two different sets of laws apply to the two ethnicities in the West Bank? Here's just an example
https://defenceforchildren.org/israels-detention-of-palestinian-children-is-an-outrage-to-humanity/

– Choose news delivered with composure.
– Know your limits (and your kids’)
– Take time to reflect.
And other helpful #tips to minimize trauma from watching the war in #Gaza, from a psychiatrist who studies PTSD
https://theconversation.com/violent-and-disturbing-war-images-from-the-mideast-can-stir-deep-emotions-a-ptsd-expert-explains-how-to-protect-yourself-and-your-kids-from-overexposure-216405
#MentalHealth

Good Lord, Doodle has been made completely unusable, jammed with horrid ads to try to motivate you into a premium account. Instead, it motivates me only to ask: What are the alternatives to Doodle?

"When my Israeli infantry unit arrived at the first village in Gaza, in July 2014, we cleared houses by sending grenades through windows, blowing doors open & firing bullets into rooms to avoid ambush & booby traps. We were told Palestinian civilians had fled.

I realized this wasn’t true as I stood over the corpse of an elderly Palestinian woman whose face had been mutilated by shrapnel. She had been lying on the sand floor of a shack, in a pool of blood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/opinion/international-world/gaza-idf-israel-veterans.html

In a #WashingtonPost interview this week, @Mer__edith explains the relationship between #VentureCapital #VC and #Hype:

«VC's require hype to get a return on investment because they need an IPO or an acquisition […] You don't get rich by the technology working, you get rich by people believing it works long enough that one of those two things gets you some money.»

Quote starts at 17:35; entire statement on #AI hype at 14:02
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/10/26/lessons-last-decade/
h/t @adfichter and #WaPoLive on #Twitter

Great talk from Douglas McCarthy on how public domain content is wrongly published under copyright #openengaged - contrast UK with other countries

Just take note of how little national coverage thousands of Jews shutting down Grand Central Station to demand a ceasefire gets tomorrow.

Graphic showing the leaking of the high-level radioactive waste at the Hanford Tank Farms, and the depth of the leakage. An underground plume of the liquid waste has been transporting towards the Columbia River.

This is the same technology as “recycling" nuclear waste from reactors.

#Hanford #ColumbiaRiver #WA #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #TankFarm

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of 5 or 6 whales, presumably for protection. No one knew whales slept vertically until a 2008 study documented the behavior. And no one captured really good photography of it in the wild until 2017 with Patrick Dykstra documenting sperm whales.
Credit - Mr. Patric Dykstra

Pandemic-era cycling fever appears to be lingering, with the number of average daily bike trips per 1,000 people increasing in almost every major U.S. metro area between 2019-2022. https://t.co/LqH8IEEGQb

We are capable of detecting even very small nuclear tests. We don't need any new tricks to do that.

Nuclear #militarism masquerading as "security"

"How an underground explosion in Nevada will help the US detect nuclear tests"

#nuclear #NuclearWeapons

https://www.popsci.com/technology/nevada-underground-test-explosion/

Swimmers and sunbathers at Old Frontier Village watch a distant mushroom cloud from the Nevada Test Site (1957). This would be about 100 miles away.

#NTS #Nevada #nuclear #NuclearWeapons #ColdWar @histodons