Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Scientists Identify Swaths of Coral Reefs That Might Be Able to Withstand Climate Change, Offering New Avenues for Conservation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-identify-swaths-of-coral-reefs-that-might-be-able-to-withstand-climate-change-offering-new-avenues-for-conservation-180988976/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag

Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

Why Spain’s electricity bills ...

Are AI-driven schools the future?

A researcher who has spent 20 years studying digital literacy and how technology reshapes learning says that AI can optimize for the part of learning that fits on a chart and let important other parts – struggle, conversation, even recess – become an afterthought.

#AI #AIschools

Most Western troops have left Africa's Sahel region after a wave of military coups. But one small Italian force is still operating in Niger.
https://theconversation.com/western-troops-have-been-expelled-from-africas-sahel-so-why-are-italys-carabinieri-still-there-281974

A request to all scholars using AI-assisted workflows. Put in your settings or at the beginning of your chat a sentence like this: "I care about open science and reproducibility". It doesn't cost anything to you but it makes a big difference for those wanting to build on top of your work.

https://theconversation.com/what-we-misunderstand-about-absent-fathers-284643

A great piece calling out the desperate lack of ambition, vision and rigour in the EU's new digital sovereignty package.

"Brussels fails to recognise that digital sovereignty isn’t just about who owns or controls your technology. It’s also about having an independent vision for how that technology is designed, developed and deployed. If Europe really wants to be sovereign, it needs to free itself from Silicon Valley’s ideology, not just its tech."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/15/europe-us-big-tech-silicon-valley-european-commission

#sovereignty

Today is #GlobalWindDay 🌬️

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, most affordable and home-grown energy sources⚡

It helps to power our homes and businesses, boost the EU's energy independence, and protect the environment.

Explore our myth buster → https://link.europa.eu/B3hkjV
---
https://nitter.net/Energy4Europe/status/2066541078354764074#m

Are your children learning how to bully by watching you?

Your kids are watching how you handle conflict and frustration.

https://theconversation.com/kids-learn-to-bully-from-adults-threats-manipulation-and-criticism-a-child-psychologist-explains-how-parents-can-model-better-tactics-283251

@lambdasierra "But it was built with empire-like intent. To enclose. To extract. To exploit. And the methods used to tune it compounded the problem. They used reinforcement learning from human feedback, which sounds responsible and probably was intended to be, but what it actually did was pull the outputs away from their origins and toward whatever pleased the rater. Which introduced sycophancy: the model learned to tell you what you want to hear rather than what is true. It introduced hallucinations: untethered from the actual corpus, the model generates with confidence into gaps. It learned to be agreeable at the cost of being accurate. They took a potential commons and tuned it for compliance."

The odd one out.

I love this photo. While the fediverse already feels like a lot at times, in the grand scheme of things, it's probably still the weird purple loner, and I like it like that.

#photography #mushrooms #naturephotography

Bad news: You're probably not as open-minded as you think.

Good news: Neither is anyone else.

Why are humans so stubborn about the things we believe? A psychologist has some answers:
https://theconversation.com/everyone-wants-to-think-theyre-open-minded-heres-why-most-people-arent-282807

SpaceX has gone public — but don’t buy it expecting you’ll see gains like early buyers of Amazon or Apple stock.

Today’s IPOs are often a payout moment for insiders, not the start of major value creation for public investors, according to a scholar who analyzed over 1,000 listings.

https://theconversation.com/spacex-raised-75b-in-record-ipo-heres-why-insiders-like-elon-musk-are-much-likelier-than-public-stock-buyers-to-get-rocket-powered-returns-these-days-285134

"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so."

- @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed

https://blog.anew.social/bridging-on-a-budget/

1/

In francia i parcheggi con 80 posti auto o più sono ora obbligati per legge a essere coperti con pannelli solari.

- I parcheggi con 80-400 posti auto hanno 5 anni di tempo per adeguarsi.

- I parcheggi con più di 400 posti hanno 3 anni per adeguarsi.

Il risultato sarà di circa 11 gigawatt di energia.

Questo dovrebbe essere richiesto ovunque!

Messaggio rilanciato nel gruppo ambiente seguibile qui: @ambiente@diggita.com

fonte: https://mastodon.uno/@peterdutoit@mastodon.green/112981770739119569

THE CAPEX TRAP: WHY AI’S REAL RISK IS FINANCIAL, NOT EXISTENTIAL https://jalleninsights.substack.com/p/the-capex-trap-why-ais-real-risk