Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

The developers of Mastodon would like some help with translating it into other languages. If you speak a language other than English, you can help translate Mastodon's interface at:

➡️ https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

If you're interested in following the techy details of Mastodon development, the official Mastodon Engineering account is at:

➡️ @MastodonEngineering

F-gas revision: far more than a climate victory for Europe https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/f-gas-revision-far-more-than-a-climate-victory-for-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Armenian PM says depending on Russia for security was ‘strategic mistake’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/armenian-pm-says-depending-on-russia-for-security-was-strategic-mistake/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have developed a prototype solar film that can be applied directly to car bonnets.

A car fitted with the solar foils on the bonnet and roof could travel over 2000 miles further per year, according to Fraunhofer.

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/solar-cells-integrated-into-car-hoods.html

PERSPECTIVE: When Manasvi Verma moved over 8,000 miles from New Delhi, India to St. Louis, she ate less of her Dadi's kadhi, but more of her roommate's mom's chicken noodle casserole. How has that changed her from the inside out and the outside in?

#india #stlouis #boston #food #science #equity #essay

https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-journey-through-my-microbiome-an-immigrant-s-perspective-on-a-changing-gut

I am "If Neural Networks are AI, then so is Logistic Regression"

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars

I love this.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise

The headline is misleading. Trees fix carbon, but the industry devoted to it has not delivered what it promised. Most of the tree-planting businesses are no better than carbon neutral and several are actually harming the environment.
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/24/why-planting-trees-to-offset-carbon-emissions-doesnt-really-work-according-to-experts/

How to tell if AI is conscious

Some comments about the recent interesting paper on assessing AI systems using major scientific theories of consciousness

https://selfawarepatterns.com/2023/08/26/how-to-tell-if-ai-is-conscious/
#consciousness #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

I’ve just started to use #jitsi in place of #zoom. They are taking some heat for requiring third-party authentication (google, facebook, or github, hopefully others soon) to create new conferences on their free https://meet.jit.si/ site.

I never considered using their site. I am fleeing the architecture of centralized platforms, not particular “bad” firms.

#jitsi continues to support #selfhosting (and there authentication—or not—however you like). So I remain quite delighted with them. 1/

@carnage4life

And their Mars mission cost $74 million bucks. Not a typo!

And look at the scientists in their mission control room. Just look at it!

We can have space without space billionaires.

Putting all our eggs in the Elon basket is a choice, and not a good one.

4Humanities.org’s “The Humanities Matter!” infographic has been updated! https://4humanities.org/2023/08/updated-the-humanities-matter-infographic-is-out/ When the original appeared in 2014, people hung copies outside offices & at events. Humanists need a flag! (Thanks to Madeleine Sorapure for making the v. 2 update with new stats & sources.)

Full-text search allows you to search for words in the content of statuses (if your instance has ElasticSearch configured), compared to the current version which only allows searching for hashtags.

In addition, you get a whole lot of search modifiers for advanced search (no UI for those yet):

has:image / has:video / has:audio / has:media
has:poll / has:link / has:embed
is:sensitive / is:reply
language:en
from:account
before:2023-08-08
after:2023-08-08
during:2023-08-08

Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

Great write up from
@willknight in
@WIRED about Sarah Myers West, @Mer__edith and my new piece:

➡️ The rhetoric of "open" AI is misleading. Why? In short, because AI is controlled by Big Tech.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/

#open #AI #bigtech

Scientists are moving from X-itter. Almost half have opened accounts with Mastodon, the highest of all the other social networking sites according to a Nature survey.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Yes, watching a video on #gunsafety made children more cautious when they discovered a gun.

It’s a simple but effective method to help decrease the increasing and heartbreaking statistics of gun-related deaths in the U.S.

https://theconversation.com/a-1-minute-gun-safety-video-helped-preteen-children-be-more-careful-around-real-guns-new-research-207404

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.