Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

🦒 New post! "I'm a Spotless Giraffe."

#AI models were perplexed by a baby giraffe without spots. They're perplexed by me, too.

This article on #disability and #ableism within #GenerativeAI is more personal than I usually write. It would mean a lot to me if you read and shared it.

With thanks to @janellecshane for her original post!
https://benmyers.dev/blog/spotless-giraffe/

Usefull search tricks for #Firefox Users:
Start typing your search with ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.
* to show only matches in your bookmarks.
% to show only matches in your currently open tabs.
# to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.
$ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL).

Finally, thanks to this answer from the Chicago Manual of Style, I know how to write this sort of citation properly:

“Text generated by Ouija, Salem, Mass: Parker Brothers, August 30, 2023”

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

https://t.co/tCX8seLZJY https://t.co/tCX8seLZJY

Non-native English speakers’ assignments are more frequently flagged as #AI generated, a report has revealed.
https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating

The legality of web scraping in the European Union depends heavily on the kind of the data you want to collect.

We explain when you can move ahead with a #research project—and when you should contact a lawyer. #GDPR https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/08/23/how-to-legally-scrape-eu-data-for-investigations

Once again for all the naysayers in the back: Pointing out the harm that results from continued use of Twitter is NOT telling you what to think, and it's not telling you what to do.

Whatever you think of the people you follow on Twitter, it's a fact that the platform itself openly welcomes and even pays for far-right views. This makes Twitter no different than Breitbart or the Daily Caller.

Every tweet breathes oxygen into this far-right platform. Yes, I know it's not practical for some to completely shun the platform (I still use it occasionally to remind users of the harm), but maybe stop using it to share cute cat pics and discuss the latest FIFA game?

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.

Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.

Musk’s concerns over a “mini-Pearl Harbor” as he put it, did not come to pass in Crimea. But the episode reveals the unique position Musk found himself in as the war in Ukraine unfolded. Whether intended or not, he had become a power broker US officials couldn’t ignore.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

I love this story from @tastapod https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/ - it's a great illustration of why the *TEAM* should be the agent of work, not the individual. ht @ez & @carnage4life

A Black Neighborhood and a #College Both Wanted to Expand. Now One of Them Is Gone.
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, #Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

The #school has been gobbling up the remaining #houses ever since.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-virginia-college-expanded-by-uprooting-black-neighborhood?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

We're hiring a Postdoc to work across NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web. https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AC8P

Bring your creativity and skills to study the evolution of online fictional narratives https://golemlab.eu

@gronlp
#AcademicChatter
#DH #LinkedData #KnowledgeGraphs #nlproc @digitalhumanities @TedUnderwood @scott_bot @christof @fotis_jannidis @zoeleblanc @quinnanya @folgertk @melvinwevers @albertoacerbi @EvelynGius @DHd @dh_potsdam

The developers of Mastodon would like some help with translating it into other languages. If you speak a language other than English, you can help translate Mastodon's interface at:

➡️ https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

If you're interested in following the techy details of Mastodon development, the official Mastodon Engineering account is at:

➡️ @MastodonEngineering

F-gas revision: far more than a climate victory for Europe https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/f-gas-revision-far-more-than-a-climate-victory-for-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Armenian PM says depending on Russia for security was ‘strategic mistake’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/armenian-pm-says-depending-on-russia-for-security-was-strategic-mistake/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have developed a prototype solar film that can be applied directly to car bonnets.

A car fitted with the solar foils on the bonnet and roof could travel over 2000 miles further per year, according to Fraunhofer.

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/solar-cells-integrated-into-car-hoods.html

PERSPECTIVE: When Manasvi Verma moved over 8,000 miles from New Delhi, India to St. Louis, she ate less of her Dadi's kadhi, but more of her roommate's mom's chicken noodle casserole. How has that changed her from the inside out and the outside in?

#india #stlouis #boston #food #science #equity #essay

https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-journey-through-my-microbiome-an-immigrant-s-perspective-on-a-changing-gut

I am "If Neural Networks are AI, then so is Logistic Regression"