Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

This goes hard.

#quotes #reading #graffiti

AI translation of literature should be questioned because literary translation requires human interpretation and cultural understanding that machines cannot provide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/18/japan/lost-in-ai-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ai #artificialintelligence #literature #chatgpt #gemini #apple #airpods #iphone #friedrichschleiermacher #jacquesderrida #johannwolfgangvongoethe

Hey! If you'd like to watch the Canadian Oscar winner for Best Short Animated Film “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” you can find it on the National Film Board's website!

It's super cool.
Just 17 minutes.

Congrats to the Montreal-based creators and all who were involved!!
#Oscars #AnimatedMovie #animation #Montreal
https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-girl-who-cried-pearls/

Was intended to be about Kremlin propaganda, which is by far the strongest, but Trump and the world are getting so crappy that it’s difficult to abstain ridiculing them too.

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference:

Things in US science are far, far worse than people know.

Far worse than even other scientists know.

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@jerry I am an aerospace engineer and literally have a PhD in this stuff.
I can confirm that space is essentially the worst place imaginable you could locate a datacenter.
Nvidia is 100% cashing in on this trend/bubble just because people are willing to entertain the idea, and by the time it all crashes, Nvidia doesn't care because they already sold their units.

Autoritäre Systeme beginnen selten mit Gewalt. Sie beginnen mit Ritualen, Fahnenappellen, Liedern und Lehrplänen. Mit Sätzen, die in Klassenzimmern gesprochen werden, bis sie wie Wahrheit klingen. Der Film von David Borenstein und Pawel Talankin versteht die banale Mechanik der Macht erstaunlich gut. Nicht als spektakuläre Enthüllung, sondern als langsame Verschiebung der Wirklichkeit. Es kommt nicht oft vor, dass Sie einen Oscar prämierten Dokumentarfilm bereits vor der Preisverleihung schon in der Mediathek sehen können. Noch dazu einer, der vom @ZDF und ARTE koproduziert wurde. (ARTE, Neu!)

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Despite its name, “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” isn’t just about death.

The famous Tibetan Buddhist text is really about the “bardos” — life’s in-between states — and how moments of uncertainty can become opportunities for transformation.
https://theconversation.com/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead-is-actually-not-just-about-death-247174

It’s a message Talankin originally hoped to share with fellow Russians. But he now believes the film speaks to a far wider audience than he could ever have anticipated when he began filming.

He points to a joke circulating in Eastern Europe: the Belarusians say they and the Russians are watching the same TV series- only Russia is a few episodes behind.

“I am sorry to tell you,” he says, “that America has begun watching this series, too.”

La prima volta abbiamo contato le macchine un sosta irregolare. Questa volta abbiamo cercato di vedere come la gente si immagina la città. Più di 100 squadre di intervistatori hanno raccolto le idee e desideri di 1000 cittadini.

Un’anteprima degli risultati è disponibile qui www.saichepuoi.it/vialibera-immaginazione/

37 million metric tons of food waste end up in U.S. landfills each year.

Sending that waste to wastewater treatment plants instead would eliminate climate emissions, and generate renewable energy and fertilizers.

And most modern sewage plants wouldn’t need any modifications to do it.
https://theconversation.com/how-sewage-treatment-plants-could-handle-food-waste-sparing-landfills-and-the-climate-275529

https://theconversation.com/how-sewage-treatment-plants-could-handle-food-waste-sparing-landfills-and-the-climate-275529

A philosophy professor taught Aristotle's virtue ethics while conducting her own master class in deception. She shares how small lies and omissions nearly destroyed her relationship—and what she learned about truthfulness.
https://theconversation.com/i-was-teaching-virtue-and-knowledge-while-lying-on-the-side-270668

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class at Tulane University. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

This is a soundbite from a recent webinar we hosted, titled "What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements"

The full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUO2eEF3N8&t=12s

New apps, updates and AI tools always promise to make tech easier.

But for many older adults, constant changes make devices harder to use, shifting the burden onto family members who provide “technology caregiving.”

https://theconversation.com/constant-technology-changes-throw-seniors-a-curve-and-add-to-caregivers-load-274814

Waterfall ‘recycling’ at Neist on the Isle of Skye today. The strong westerly wind blowing the falling water back onto the cliffs #IsleOfSkye #Scotland