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
What can we learn about our current crisis from history
A brief explainer of how chief justice John Roberts became the main actor in dismantling US democracy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/supreme-court-john-roberts-lisa-graves/
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The proceedings from our workshop are out!
D-SAIL Workshop on Transformative Curriculum Design - Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning
Thank you to everyone who was part of this. We are looking forward to meeting again at the next edition...
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Can't disagree:
"He also defended migrants and refugees to loud applause from the audience and accused Labour of being "handmaidens" of Reform UK adding: "When Farage says jump, Labour asks 'how high'."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708y9nq174o
This is how a US federal employee comments on their out-of-office signature being hijacked for political gains:
"Nobody follows the law anymore, so why does it matter? It seems like laws are dotted lines now, not solid lines. It seems there’s no one to hold this administration accountable to laws"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/education-department-employees-email-automatically-changed-rcna235211
#SCOTUS #shutdown
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I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
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In presenting a Gaza plan as an ultimatum to Hamas, U.S. President Donald Trump has given Israel the advantage diplomatically, along with even freer rein on the ground if a deal fails. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/world/politics/gaza-plan-trump-israel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump #republicans
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"LLMs were touted as a digital panacea, and the companies building them offered traditional software companies the chance to plug these models into their software using an API, thus allowing them to ride the same generative AI wave that every other company was riding.
The model companies similarly started going after individual and business customers, offering software and subscriptions that promised the world, though this mostly boiled down to chatbots that could generate stuff, and then doubled down with the promise of “agents” — a marketing term that’s meant to make you think “autonomous digital worker” but really means “broken digital product.”
Throughout this era, investors and the media spoke with a sense of inevitability that they never really backed up with data. It was an era based on confidently-asserted “vibes.” Everything was always getting better and more powerful, even though there was never much proof that this was truly disruptive technology, other than in its ability to disrupt apps you were using with AI — making them worse by, for example, suggesting questions on every Facebook post that you could ask Meta AI, but which Meta AI couldn’t answer.
“AI” was omnipresent, and it eventually grew to mean everything and nothing."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #BigTech
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Law should encourage the creation of AI tools that digest and identify facts for researchers. That’s why we asked an appeals court to find that ROSS Intelligence’s legal research tool was a fair use and didn’t violate copyright when it used Westlaw headnotes in its training process. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/protecting-access-law-and-beneficial-uses-ai
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Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires
by @diagram_studies & @luh2203
is exhibited at MFRU Esoteric Ecotechinic
Curated by @dvd and Lara Mejač, the festival focuses on underground and secret connections between media technologies, users, knowledge and information circulation.
https://www.mfru.org/
26. SEP – 05. OCT 2025,
Maribor, Slovenia
🪄〽️✨🔮🟣🫧
If they were after the causes of whistleblowing, they certainly were on the right track:
“The NSA has some of the brightest minds in the country,” I began. “They’re honestly there to make a difference. Yet there’s no outlet for people who no longer feel like they’re on the right side. You’re requesting blind loyalty from some of the most nuanced and analytical individuals—individuals, not soldiers—to process your intelligence and make predictions. Furthermore, in 2017, and likely until 2021—you know more than I do about those four years—you had a unique situation in which the NSA was completely ignored. So now these individuals who already wondered if they were doing any good were left wondering if they were doing anything at all. The culture of the NSA doesn’t allow for anyone to question that aloud, or at least not without FBI agents showing up at their house. Your analysts need an outlet, and the director owes it to the agency to address historically unprecedented times, like those four years in which the NSA was completely disparaged publicly. We felt like we were alone in 2017, and it left me trying to single-handedly fix something far above my pay grade.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/reality-winner-memoir-excerpt/
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L'Italia è in finale ai Mondiali maschili di pallavolo - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/27/italia-polonia-finale-mondiali-maschili-pallavolo/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
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While Denmark is experiencing continued drone attacks against airports, Danish medium EB flies a helicopter south between the islands of Lolland and Langeland, and discovers the Russian Navy vessel Aleksandr Shabalin 110 covertly sailing near the Danish seas with its AIS transponder turned off.
This ship can carry 340 soldiers, 10 main battle tanks, and a crew of 98 sailors, and the speculation now is that the vessel could have had a coordinating role in the attacks.
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A bipartisan group of former Treasury secretaries, Federal Reserve chairs and other experts urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to let President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/26/economy/fed-independence-legal-battle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #federalreserve #economicindicators #us #lisacook #donaldtrump
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After #spotify donated millions to Trump I can no longer stay on that platform. I want my subscription money to go to the artists, not to any politician.
I realized the change was a good thing for several reasons. The other streaming services available are so much better. They have superior sound quality, uncluttered UI. And maybe the best of all, they pay the artists better.
If you really love music, give #tidal , #qobuz or any other service a try. Just #quitspotify
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Democrats in Congress are breaking with Israel like never before https://t.co/DqcmejYH6Q
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"Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All these powerful people trying to save their own skin have multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility":
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-trump-threats-kimmel/684358/?gift=7deeCsgE8m50UsuOnXueiZ2IwFeRjpo5POI_7ITzhlA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study Reveals
https://www.sciencealert.com/musicians-dont-feel-pain-like-the-rest-of-us-surprising-study-reveals?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into ScienceAlert @sciencealert-ScienceAlert
Feeding the AI bubble are circular investments by BigTech
"The financial structure of these deals between OpenAI, Oracle, and Nvidia has drawn scrutiny from industry observers. Earlier this week, Nvidia announced it would invest up to $100 billion as OpenAI deploys Nvidia systems. As Bryn Talkington of Requisite Capital Management told CNBC: "Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI, which then OpenAI turns back and gives it back to Nvidia."
Oracle's arrangement follows a similar pattern, with a reported $30 billion-per-year deal where Oracle builds facilities that OpenAI pays to use. This circular flow, which involves infrastructure providers investing in AI companies that become their biggest customers, has raised eyebrows about whether these represent genuine economic investments or elaborate accounting maneuvers.
The arrangements are becoming even more convoluted. The Information reported this week that Nvidia is discussing leasing its chips to OpenAI rather than selling them outright. Under this structure, Nvidia would create a separate entity to purchase its own GPUs, then lease them to OpenAI, which adds yet another layer of circular financial engineering to this complicated relationship."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/
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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
