nonesuch_user @nonesuch_user@qoto.org

News from the Council of Europe, which includes the European Court of Human Rights: "As a result, it is virtually unimaginable that the use of Pegasus or equivalent spyware could ever be considered in accordance with the law and the necessary safeguards as outlined by the Court."
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/highly-intrusive-spyware-threatens-the-essence-of-human-rights

Let's play a game of Spot the Dimensional Incursion. 1 of 3

#IntoTheWoods #SpindledSpacetime #WatchYourStep #DidYouBringGPS? #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion

In Berdyansk, reportedly a car with collaborator Valentina Mamai was blown up. As claimed she is now in the hospital.
She is a former deputy from the now banned pro-Russian party. She collaborated with the Russians including helping to organize a "referendum"

Together with #PeopleVsBigTech, we comment on EU's proposed #MediaFreedomAct.

Warning: article 17 proposes dangerous "#media" exemption which risks seriously undermining efforts to fight online #disinformation leading to real world harm.

#DefendDemocracy #EUvsDisinfo

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13206-Safeguarding-media-freedom-in-the-EU-new-rules/F3376580_en

Watch Animated Introductions to 35 Philosophers by The School of Life: From Plato to Kant and Foucault

https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/animated-introductions-to-25-philosophers-by-the-school-of-life.html

One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.

Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.

It is 32,000 years old.

The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.

The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵

End-2021, the Netherlands had more solar PV capacity than 14 countries in the Middle East together :)
By @bm_visser

You know it’s going well when Russia’s embassy in Estonia suddenly, without explanation, and indefinitely suspends the receipt of renunciations of Russian citizenship.

The time we take to read a word depends on its predictability, i.e. its surprisal. However, we only know how surprising a word is after we see it. Our new paper investigates whether we anticipate words' surprisals to allocate reading times in advance :)

Joint work with Clara Meister, Ethan Wilcox, @roger_p_levy , @rdc
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14301
Code: https://github.com/rycolab/anticipation-on-reading-times