Bulgarian state-owned gas company makes big losses due to contract with Turkey https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/bulgarian-state-owned-gas-company-makes-big-losses-due-to-contract-with-turkey/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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@coba @EU_Commission it's a direct response to an EDPS public announcement from earlier today, which indicated that the project with official EU Fediverse servers would end: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en
It seems to indicate that the commission will take over. Which makes sense - the project ends with a huge success, so the EU institutions should naturally want to continue the good development.
The Onion has been sold to a group led by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, giving the brand a new chance at financial viability.
https://t.co/QCBGMc8UPH
A former manager described Musk as a “pigeon CEO”: “He comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.”
https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-tesla-manager/
Great insightful and optimistic talk by @pluralistic
In crowded PoliTo Aula Magna for #biennaletecnologia
🎉 We are excited to share that our latest research has been accepted at LT4HALA @LrecColing!
📃 Check out the pre-print here: https://buff.ly/4aIdVTH
👋 See you there on May 25th!
I love it. Sometimes I wish storytelling is as accessible to everyone. But I know better: if I want to tell stories to my kid, it needs to be with my own characters. I'm not grown up enough to be Bandit Heeler https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/22/surprise-how-i-got-turned-into-bluey-bandit-the-worlds-greatest-dad
Общината иска от държавата да даде достъп до съществуващи, но пустеещи паркинги
@sofia@lemmy.world
The Göttingen Summer School in Digital Palaeography is running again this year!
16 spots are open for #postgraduate students interested in both #medieval Latin #palaeography and #codicology, and in the latest digital technologies.
The School runs 26 August–6 September 2024 and is completely free! Accommodation is provided and students pay only food + travel.
Apply here: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/684265.html
Have you set up a username on Signal yet? https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#set-or-change-your-username
"Aggiustare il mondo", un libro su Aaron Swartz di Giovanni Ziccardi pubblicato da @milanoup sotto una licenza CC e disponibile anche in #wikisource
PhD position Computational Approaches to Narrative in Argumentation
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AQCP
Come work in one of the best NLP groups in the world @gronlp
#nlproc #nlp #computationalhumanities
@roman_klinger @dbamman @versae @andrewpiper @aclmeeting @pythainlp @nlp
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Here are the receipts
(for Europe, but it's worse in other continents)
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-11/collision-matrix-2019.pdf
"We are witnessing the demise of the Republican Party, certainly as we've known it in my lifetime"
"I mean holy smokes, I think it's a lot when members who have spoken ... against things that are happening within their conference are not just retiring at notably young ages, [but resigning]."
QT: https://mastodon.social/@axios/112293568875569110
Elon Musk is asking Tesla shareholders to approve 2 proposals that would be unthinkable at almost any other public company:
1) Moving its corporate HQ out of Delaware
2) Giving him $56 billion in pay that's already been stripped from him by a judge https://t.co/73b71Y0ufh
I'm terrified that Google Maps routes my home to a lot of places though a prohibited and terribly unsafe turn, despite me asking Google Maps and Google One support to fix that many times, but @organicmaps doesn't. How the one with way more money on the table provides a worse service than the ads-free donation-based open-source alternative?!!
9 useful #TypeHints (calling them "advanced" is such a clickbait it almost made me skip the article)
After reading 1 and 2, I was "yes, I remember using this in Java and I hate it. Will keep looking for ways to avoid it". After 9, "I'm literally going to introduce this in my code the next 5 minutes".
QT: https://mastodon.top/@frankel/112291487969887816
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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