Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

‘’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

https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00027391

Quote of the day...

"Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works."

#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!

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.

https://jdmdh.episciences.org/paper/view/id/13551

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

https://jlai.lu/post/7523184

@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!

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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🎉 BCON24 tickets are here! 🎉

Grab your early bird tickets at https://conference.blender.org/2024/ #BCON24 #b3d

Technology is not the ultimate challenge. You can build the world's best digital research infrastructure, but unless you have users, your infrastructure will be an empty place —
DARIAH EU director Toma Tasovac ( @ttasovac) on the social aspects of digital transformation in social sciences and humanities

#DigitalHumanities #OpenScience

In the last 10 years, Paris has closed 100 streets to cars, removed 50,000 parking spots, tripled parking fees for SUVs, and built more than 800 miles of bike lanes. “Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

Hello from Pixelfed HQ https://lemmy.world/post/16085814

“The world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a large study aimed at political leaders.

If governments deliver the changes promised in order to keep the world from breaching its climate targets no new fossil fuel projects will be needed, researchers at University College London and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) said on Thursday.”

theguardian.com/…/no-need-for-countries-to-issue-…

This @briankrebs story is so wild

“As detailed by researchers at Radware, NoName has effectively gamified DDoS attacks, recruiting hacktivists via its Telegram channel and offering to pay people who agree to install a piece of software called DDoSia. That program allows NoName to commandeer the host computers and their Internet connections in coordinated DDoS campaigns, and DDoSia users with the most attacks can win cash prizes.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

@daringfireball wholeheartedly agree. I gathered a bunch of examples today - https://niclake.me/ai

A LOT. - Study: How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda? - https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/2/pgae034/7610937?searchresult=1&login=false

Just a few tweaks to fix it I’m sure.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

Su mastodon.uno siamo a favore dell'economia circolare, se avete qualcosa a cui volete dare una seconda vita, fatelo pure!

Se avete qualcosa da regalare pubblicatela aggiungendo #UnoRegalo e il tag al gruppo "mercatino del fediverso" su feddit: @mercatino

potete aggiungere anche il tag alla città:
@milano @roma @torino @firenze @roma @napoli @bari @palermo

Potete anche pubblicare oggetti in vendita ma solo con importi modesti, sotto i 100€, per oggetti più costosi usate altro, grazie 🙏