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
Martin Ruskov
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The Crypto wars are not over. Governments regularly try to weaken public encryption tools.
In this week's newsletter, I interview @Mer__edith, president of Signal encrypted messaging app about how we got here.
If Signal was a pen-maker, she said, no one would expect it to turn over all the writing generated by its pens.
"I don’t think we have much of a chance for a livable future if we don’t have a truly private means to communicate with each other."
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/07/back-into-the-trenches-of-the-crypto-wars
RT @ylecun@twitter.com
If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance?
RT @AclSigedu@twitter.com
We are thrilled to announce that the 18th edition of the BEA workshop will take place at @aclmeeting@twitter.com 2023 in Toronto, Canada on July 13 or 14.
https://sig-edu.org/news/bea18-announcement/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AclSigedu/status/1604839411077652480
RT @ttasovac@twitter.com
Now that Atom is definitely dead, I've made the long overdue switch to VSCode, which is excellent. You have no idea how excited lexiconerds can get over niche party favorites à la built-in Unicode homoglyph detection. Farewell, invisibly messy Cyrillic word lists! Hello, bliss!
Martin Ruskov
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Did you know that whether students believe that intellectual abilities are fixed or capable of growth is related to family background and school achievement?
Elin Svensen shows that students believing that intellectual capabilities can grow have parents with longer educations. In contrast, a mindset viewing intellectual capabilities as fixed is associated with lower achievement in high school.
Read more in this open access article: https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221145427
@socialwork @edutooters @sociology
I guess this is just another example of how @nytimes@twitter.com and @washingtonpost@twitter.com are not the quality media they pretend to be. And maybe of why the independence-asuring model of the @guardian@twitter.com is not something exotic, but a necessity
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
The op-ed works to create the appearance of a “debate” on more or less settled issues. This is a powerful function, bolstered by the NYT imprimatur, which allows it serve as a “Potemkin citation” -- a seemingly credible reference in support of bad privacy laws and platforms. 4/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318887068860416
Martin Ruskov
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OK let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively building surveillance into communication tools is a radical ideological position.
Dunking on the op-ed’s arguments is easy. They’re SHALLOW. And dunk many have, often with the gentleness of a professor grading a draft essay from a student they didn’t want to completely discourage. I’ll direct you to the great threads from others...
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
The op-ed works to create the appearance of a “debate” on more or less settled issues. This is a powerful function, bolstered by the NYT imprimatur, which allows it serve as a “Potemkin citation” -- a seemingly credible reference in support of bad privacy laws and platforms. 4/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318887068860416
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
But what’s going on here isn’t substance. And that’s what I want to focus on. Those of us invested in defending privacy need to understand that this op-ed wasn’t written for people with expertise, and its purpose won’t be perturbed by expert rebuttal. We’re not the audience. 3/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318885336776704
Martin Ruskov
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Wondering how temperature has changed in your city/state/country?
Head to Show Your Stripes and make your own personalized #climatechange graphic!
RT @yarahawari@twitter.com
These are the countries that abstained or voted against the UN General Assembly resolution for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the illegal nature of the Israeli occupation of the 1967 territories.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/yarahawari/status/1609264633470140418
RT @BlancheMinerva@twitter.com
The best work on this question seems to be:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10245
https://cl-illc.github.io/resources/nlpitch_oskar.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09457
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11672
Thanks to @RishiBommasani@twitter.com @EricHallahan@twitter.com for helping me find them.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1609028881415036929
RT @MnogoZle@twitter.com
Столична община и Витоша ски/Юлен ви честитят коледните празници с този флашмоб
с кабини на Симеоновския лифт заплитащи се в електрически кабели над преминаващи коли 👌🏻#кздф 🐞
Martin Ruskov
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Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.
RT @ebakerwhite@twitter.com
Hey all - here's a quick timeline about how this TikTok spying stuff all went down:
In March, I broke the story that TikTok was working on Project Texas, a companywide effort to separate out US user data and limit China-based employees’ access to it.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-project-texas-bytedance-user-data
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ebakerwhite/status/1606067742527746048
Martin Ruskov
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Hey all - here's a quick timeline about how this TikTok spying stuff all went down:
In March, I broke the story that TikTok was working on Project Texas, a companywide effort to separate out US user data and limit China-based employees’ access to it.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-project-texas-bytedance-user-data
RT @AkyolinEnglish@twitter.com
#Democracy, if it merely means "majority rule," can turn tyrannical.
Among those who noted this threat was the late Ottoman Islamic-liberal Namık Kemal, who took "the inviolability of the private person of the citizen" as the real measure of any regime. (Serif Mardin, 1962)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AkyolinEnglish/status/1605014716900077568
Martin Ruskov
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Introducing FREEBIRD TRENDS!
Currently, Mastodon only shows trending hashtags from the past 24-48 hours.
Which is good, but does not allow users to discovery and talk about the most latest trends.
Freebird Trends is a simple web application that shows 1H, 12H and 24H trending hashtags for Mastodon!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
You can view the web app at https://freebird.network
Please share suggestions/bugs! Always looking to improve this service in any way possible! 🐦
RT @newlinesmag@twitter.com
From Iran to Afghanistan and beyond, authorities use religious pretexts to police everything from women's clothing to TikTok videos. In @newlinesmag@twitter.com, @AkyolinEnglish@twitter.com traces the dubious roots of these supposedly Islamic “morality police” forces. https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-dubious-roots-of-religious-police-in-islam/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/newlinesmag/status/1604657770313064448
- 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
