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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (@igallupd@scholar.social)
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🤬“Penn says it has found more human remains from the MOVE bombing at its museum: The remains matched records for Delisha Africa, who was 12 when she was killed with 10 other members of the Black liberation and activist group MOVE, the museum said.”🤬 https://share.inquirer.com/rbyFSH
#USpol #racism #fascism #antiracism #uspolitics #antifascism
on Fri, 3AM
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Black folks going en masse to BlueSky rather than Mastodon, it's over, hang out up flatscreen, Mastodon has officially lost the social media wars
on Thu, 9PM
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Eric Schares (@eschares@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image New preprint is out! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the publication counts per journal-year from @OpenAlex@mastodon.social to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last five years. A: $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023...
on Thu, 7PM
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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Elsevier retracts two papers over missing software licenses. Better no one tell Adobe, otherwise a large parts of current academic literature will disappear. On the other hand, most of the folks fraudulently manipulating their images probably also run pirates Photoshop copies. Also: if anyone...
on Thu, 8AM
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James Baillie (@JubalBarca@scholar.social)
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Content warning: USpol elections, take action by making phone calls
on Sat, 6PM
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Lol hey remember how the Harris campaign spent the last few weeks of its campaign scolding Black men for not wanting to elect Kamala And then the election happened and it turns out it's white people who don't want Kamala and like 70% of Black men voted for her
on Nov 6
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The research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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Concept: A legal right to not be advertised to
on Nov 5
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Jaime Derringer (@geneforanarchy@scholar.social)
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New paper out in the Journal of Personality! #openAccess #thread https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12989 We estimated “differences” in means, variances, and correlations in a bunch of psychosocial self-report measures between a bunch of genders (men, women, non-binary), sexual orientations...
on Nov 4
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Wim🧮 (@wim_v12e@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image Current typical smart phone lifetime is 3 years. To compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions from production, distribution and disposal, they should last from 25 to 232 (!) years. https://eeb.org/library/coolproducts-report/ #FrugalComputing
on Nov 3
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bookandswordblog (@bookandswordblog@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image · Content warning: medieval painting of a human dissection
on Nov 1
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Lukas VF Novak (@animalculum@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image Study reveals Cat Ba #langurs' unique ability to drink salt water https://phys.org/news/2024-10-langurs-salt-endangered-species-defies.html Genomic adaptation to small population size and saltwater consumption in the critically endangered Cat Ba langur...
on Oct 28
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Iris van Rooij 💭 (@Iris@scholar.social)
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Attached: 2 images "Data descriptions are not models. Strictly speaking, a linear regression (for example) [or an LLM] is a model of sorts. It models the regularity in a data set. It can be a convenient summary of data. But a data summary does not explain the pattern or why the pattern is as it...
on Oct 26
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Scary research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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Content warning: :Discovery: S04E04
on Oct 22
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Lukas VF Novak (@animalculum@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image #Biden-#Harris administration inks deals to bring major relief to #ColoradoRiver’s biggest reservoir https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4901699-colorado-river-conservation-deals-lake-mead/ #USpol "#LakeMead has been dwindling due to both overconsumption and...
on Oct 22
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Scary research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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Ah here's the problem right here You're trying to build your AI with *electronics* and that's why it's coming out all evil Electrons have a negative charge, silly! If you want a good AI, it has to be positronic Hope this helps
on Oct 19
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Alan O'Donohoe (@teknoteacher@scholar.social)
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If #STEM or #Computing is your thing, join me for a free, spooky evening at the Science Museum, London on Oct 31st. Explore the exhibits in a fun group setting and discover the science behind Halloween. Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exabits-science-museum-london-31oct24-tickets-1044303518937
on Oct 18
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image The continued relevancy of this photo, smdh.............
on Oct 18
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ckohtala (@ckohtala@scholar.social)
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for a course I'm taking our homework reading is this book chapter which is very good Imagining higher education as infrastructures of care https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0363/ch4.xhtml #academia #pluriverse
on Oct 18
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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As everyone talks about #RSS thanks to @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's essay: Some weeks ago I started a little project to help me find interesting stuff to read based on my Mastodon timeline. I made a very small web app that grabs all the links that are posted in my Mastodon timeline on a given day...
on Oct 17
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Konrad Hinsen (@khinsen@scholar.social)
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Preprint of my Onward! Essay "Redressing the Balance: A Yin-Yang Perspective on Information Technology" https://khinsen.net/papers/onward-essay-2024.pdf It's mostly about computational science, although that's probably not obvious from the title. I will present this next week at SPLASH (as a...
on Oct 17
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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Attached: 2 images I can't come to bed yet. There's still some streets in Mar del Plata that haven't been bend into shape on #openstreetmap yet! 🤣
on Oct 17
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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Great piece on “the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop”. And because poisoning our knowledge and information infrastructures isn’t enough, the same makers of these tools want us to abdicate all care (in healthcare, social services et al) to make some money by deploying the stuff...
on Oct 10
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David Schlangen (@davidschlangen@scholar.social)
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Wo ist Gremliza, wenn man ihn braucht? Er hätte seinen Spaß gehabt mit der Gefühlslinken, die jetzt doch gerne endlich mal einen Schlussstrich ziehen würde. 🙄🚮
on Oct 9
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Charles Pence (@pence@scholar.social)
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They're starting to say the quiet part out loud. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/former-google-ceo-says-climate-goals-are-not-meetable-so-we-might-as-well-drop-climate-conservation-unshackle-ai-companies-so-ai-can-solve-global-warming
on Oct 8
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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i think a lot about how the US spent the past 60 years doing their best to snuff out any leftist militancy in the US and how we don’t talk about that enough the abolitionists fetishize Assata Shakur but don’t look to her as a political example otherwiseb there’d be multiple Assatas by now, how...
on Oct 7
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Mark Dingemanse (@dingemansemark@scholar.social)
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@photomatt@mastodon.social Let me get this straight. You've forced your most principled critics out and let the rest swear loyalty — so you're now left with sycophants and people who can't speak out because they're too dependent on you for job security. This creates a culture of fear where...
on Oct 5
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Mark Dingemanse (@dingemansemark@scholar.social)
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Attached: 2 images · Content warning: chatgpt
on Oct 5
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Scary research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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Content warning: Griping about racist fantasy literature and the tech hellscape
on Oct 2
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The research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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From the makers of "This meeting could have been an email" We proudly present "This app could have been a PDF"
on Oct 2
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Claus Aranha (@caranha@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image I was updating the publication list on my website, and I found something VERY weird: IEEE added some keywords to my WCCI paper that I didn't put there. Somehow, they decided to add the keyword "Extraterrestrial Measurements" (and also sociology) to this paper, which was not...
on Sep 30
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David Schlangen (@davidschlangen@scholar.social)
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I tried this new Google NotebookLM thing, letting it turn a paper of mine into a “podcast”. Interesting experience. At first, it’s like a dopamine shower (“These artificial people are talking about MY paper! They’ve just called it mindblowing! They agree with me!”), which then morphs into a...
on Sep 29
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Iris van Rooij 💭 (@Iris@scholar.social)
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Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers @Iris and @olivia at Radboud University and others show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition....
on Sep 29
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The research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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Content warning: Tech opinions
on Sep 25
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Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀 (@SylviaFysica@scholar.social)
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Attached: 2 images There are local elections in Flanders on October 13, so the billboards pop up. Most are photos of the candidates, but one poster immediately struck me as AI-generated - with a solarpunk/comic aesthetic. Are there are other (local) parties doing this? Examples welcome! They...
on Sep 25
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bipolaron (@bipolaron@scholar.social)
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People. Stop using google fonts. Dear god, this is such a stupid reason to let Google track people visiting your website. They're *fonts*.
on Sep 25
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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I mean you can't really look at them bc they're either deeply dishonest or deeply self-loathing so they have anon avatars lol, but look at their behavior. It's giving loser. It's giving chaser. It's giving desperate. It's giving"surely harassing this Black person will finally make me feel good...
on Sep 24
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The research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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"Do you know for a fact that this amazing thing that was ostensibly 'done by an AI' isn't just YET ANOTHER FAKE?" and other questions that journalists find too spicy to ask
on Sep 24
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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It's been a while in the making: I've handed in my resignation and will leave my job (and the UK) at the end of October in order to do a sabbatical and figure out what will be next. I've written up a few words about the why here: https://tzovar.as/time-to-move-on/ (perfect read for a Friday...
on Sep 21
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
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«if a software team had the earnest desire to make every single user happy by implementing every single feature request, motivated not by profit but entirely by love for their users, they would create a user experience of forbidding complexity, no matter how useful each individual feature would...
on Sep 20
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bipolaron (@bipolaron@scholar.social)
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Content warning: Job posting for an administrative assistant in the Greater Boston Area.
on Sep 19
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image There is not a single one of those links posted in this thread of receipts, lol. Those arent the posts I've shared or ever made public complaints about. Dee Fedilore can't breathe without lying! #fediblock #fediblockmeta
on Sep 19
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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There's been a handful of trans folks of all colors I've come across online that have called out white trans ppl's obsession with anime & how it informs their transition goals on the low One tweet I saw said something like "you're a 30 something year old white woman you're never going to look...
on Sep 19
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Iris van Rooij 💭 (@Iris@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image "This paper provides theoretical results that indicate limits on what machine learning methods can achieve, even with all the data and computing power in the world" - - post by Ronald de Haan on CertAIn (Center for Explainable, Responsible & Theory-Driven...
on Sep 17
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Nate Bowling (نيت بولينج) (@natebowling@scholar.social)
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I'm honestly trying to get my head around why after eighth consecutive quarters of economic growth, majorities in polls think the US is in a multi-year recession. Similarly, after three decades of falling crime rates, majorities believe crime is up each year. I want to understand why we're...
on Sep 15
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Marc Jones (@marcjones@scholar.social)
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5.08K Posts, 456 Following, 380 Followers · English Lecturer in Department of Global Innovation Studies, Toyo University. PhD candidate at TU Dortmund. Opinions my own and do not represent those of Toyo University or TU Dortmund. Lefty, bleeding heart but intolerant of pearl clutching and hand...
on Sep 13
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The research fairy (@researchfairy@scholar.social)
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> Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/ "We digitized it, so it lasts forever, right?"
on Sep 13
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you look at a Black trans person authentically living xyr lives and you see a right-wing stereotype, or you think it has to be a white guy using AI to pretend to be Black, maybe it's you who are the racist here? Idk just food for...
on Sep 10
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Ra'il IK (@so_treu@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image So @tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life wrote this frankly incredible and well-written post on white supremacy, gender binarism, and how these things have shown up in the disinfo campaign against #TheBadSpace. https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/112017969046441623 The racist...
on Sep 7
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Charles Tapley Hoyt (@cthoyt@scholar.social)
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Attached: 1 image currently tinkering with getting @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social annotations into @joss@fosstodon.org papers. Minus the need for some style tweaks, it seems to be working! Here's the PR with these changes: https://github.com/openjournals/inara/pull/72 #TeXLaTeX #joss...
on Sep 4
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Mark Dingemanse (@dingemansemark@scholar.social)
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org I think RLHF is quite interesting but I really can't see it as a form of situational grounding (which I've empirically studied in multimodal human interaction) RLHF takes response variants, gathers human preferences for them on a limited number of dimensions (e.g....
on Sep 3