Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org
- Research
- https://www.zotero.org/mapto
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Account in Bulgarian
- https://masto.bg/@mapto
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/ #fedi22
Joined Nov 2022
@MaryPot @Julia @Mer__edith I don't see a reason to disagree. Thought it would help to expand
“The essence of bullshit is not that it is false but that it is phony. In order to appreciate this distinction, one must recognize that a fake or a phony need not be in any respect, apart from authenticity itself, inferior to the real thing. What is not genuine may not also be defective in some other way. It may be, after all, an exact copy. What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made.”
attributed to "On Bullshit" by Harry Frankfurt
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-gary-marcus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
RT @mikeev@twitter.com
Anyone interested in or involved with AI: please listen to @ezraklein@twitter.com's excellent discussion with @GaryMarcus@twitter.com about ChatGPT. I can't recommend it enough:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-gary-marcus.html https://twitter.com/mikeev/status/1600850177065115649
RT @araminta_k@twitter.com
I’ve spoken to so many people who want to get into training models with dreambooth. There is often a breakdown, however, when they try to figure out how to pull together a dataset. I have a helpful analogy thread:
Images made on @Scenario_gg@twitter.com #aiart
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/araminta_k/status/1611527343046008833
RT @goldsteinricky@twitter.com
If @Harvard@twitter.com feels empowered to block a slam-dunk candidate @KenRoth@twitter.com over Israel criticism, imagine the chilling effect across academia on lesser-known -- and particularly Palestinian -- critics of Israeli repression. https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-expresses-dismay-over-harvards-denial-of-fellowship-to-former-human-watch-executive-director-ken-roth/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/goldsteinricky/status/1611417978524028929
@MaryPot @Julia @Mer__edith the buyers are those who have the most resources (=criminal networks), not those that need it most. Talking of crime is not the actual problem, it is doing crime. Repeatedly doing crime, to be clear.
@VoxDei @Julia @Mer__edith the trick is not to have a database
Martin Ruskov
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The Crypto wars are not over. Governments regularly try to weaken public encryption tools.
In this week's newsletter, I interview @Mer__edith, president of Signal encrypted messaging app about how we got here.
If Signal was a pen-maker, she said, no one would expect it to turn over all the writing generated by its pens.
"I don’t think we have much of a chance for a livable future if we don’t have a truly private means to communicate with each other."
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/07/back-into-the-trenches-of-the-crypto-wars
RT @ylecun@twitter.com
If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance?
RT @AclSigedu@twitter.com
We are thrilled to announce that the 18th edition of the BEA workshop will take place at @aclmeeting@twitter.com 2023 in Toronto, Canada on July 13 or 14.
https://sig-edu.org/news/bea18-announcement/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AclSigedu/status/1604839411077652480
RT @ttasovac@twitter.com
Now that Atom is definitely dead, I've made the long overdue switch to VSCode, which is excellent. You have no idea how excited lexiconerds can get over niche party favorites à la built-in Unicode homoglyph detection. Farewell, invisibly messy Cyrillic word lists! Hello, bliss!
Martin Ruskov
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Wonderful piece in Ars Technica by @b which (despite the title) talks very broadly about the fediverse, including but also far beyond just Mastodon, and has quite a few quotes from me in it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/
Martin Ruskov
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Did you know that whether students believe that intellectual abilities are fixed or capable of growth is related to family background and school achievement?
Elin Svensen shows that students believing that intellectual capabilities can grow have parents with longer educations. In contrast, a mindset viewing intellectual capabilities as fixed is associated with lower achievement in high school.
Read more in this open access article: https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221145427
@socialwork @edutooters @sociology
I guess this is just another example of how @nytimes@twitter.com and @washingtonpost@twitter.com are not the quality media they pretend to be. And maybe of why the independence-asuring model of the @guardian@twitter.com is not something exotic, but a necessity
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
The op-ed works to create the appearance of a “debate” on more or less settled issues. This is a powerful function, bolstered by the NYT imprimatur, which allows it serve as a “Potemkin citation” -- a seemingly credible reference in support of bad privacy laws and platforms. 4/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318887068860416
Martin Ruskov
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OK let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively building surveillance into communication tools is a radical ideological position.
Dunking on the op-ed’s arguments is easy. They’re SHALLOW. And dunk many have, often with the gentleness of a professor grading a draft essay from a student they didn’t want to completely discourage. I’ll direct you to the great threads from others...
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
The op-ed works to create the appearance of a “debate” on more or less settled issues. This is a powerful function, bolstered by the NYT imprimatur, which allows it serve as a “Potemkin citation” -- a seemingly credible reference in support of bad privacy laws and platforms. 4/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318887068860416
RT @mer__edith@twitter.com
But what’s going on here isn’t substance. And that’s what I want to focus on. Those of us invested in defending privacy need to understand that this op-ed wasn’t written for people with expertise, and its purpose won’t be perturbed by expert rebuttal. We’re not the audience. 3/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1610318885336776704
Martin Ruskov
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Wondering how temperature has changed in your city/state/country?
Head to Show Your Stripes and make your own personalized #climatechange graphic!
RT @yarahawari@twitter.com
These are the countries that abstained or voted against the UN General Assembly resolution for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the illegal nature of the Israeli occupation of the 1967 territories.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/yarahawari/status/1609264633470140418
- Research
- https://www.zotero.org/mapto
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Account in Bulgarian
- https://masto.bg/@mapto
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/ #fedi22
Joined Nov 2022
