Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

Turns out I like Mastodon #FullTextSearch even more than I thought I would. And I knew EXACTLY what was coming.

But it is another thing entirely to experience it in the wild. And I suspect it will get better the more opts ins join the party and as 4.2 rolls out.

https://indieweb.social/tags/FullTextSearch

reX: Reverse engineering X's API:

https://github.com/Amovane/reX

"Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express?

Take "Humpty Dumpty sat on a...
Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. In English, we have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we say "sat" rather than "sit." In Indonesian you need not (in fact, you can't) change the verb to mark tense.

In Russian, you would have to mark tense and also gender, changing the verb if Mrs. Dumpty did the sitting. You would also have to decide if the sitting event was completed or not. If our ovoid hero sat on the wall for the entire time he was meant to, it would be a different form of the verb than if, say, he had a great fall.

In Turkish, you would have to include in the verb how you acquired this information. For example, if you saw the chubby fellow on the wall with your own eyes, you'd use one form of the verb, but if you had simply read or heard about it, you'd use a different form.

Do English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish speakers end up attending to, understanding, and remembering their experiences differently simply because they speak different languages?"

The answer is yes.

In a world of sharing ideas across languages, understanding how and why languages make us think, behave and reason differently from each other is increasingly important.

"All this new research shows us that the languages we speak not only reflect or express our thoughts, but also shape the very thoughts we wish to express.
The structures that exist in our languages profoundly shape how we construct reality, and help make us as smart and sophisticated as we are."

« Watch Lera Boroditsky's talk. Lera Boroditsky is an associate professor of cognitive science at University of California San Diego and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She previously served on the faculty at MIT and at Stanford. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart).

She once used the Indonesian exclusive "we" correctly before breakfast and was proud of herself about it all day. »

https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think

The quotes above are from her 2010 Wall Street Journal article Lost in Translation:

http://lera.ucsd.edu/papers/wsj.pdf

Also read:

The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19857320/

By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.
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Today we sent 116 pages on mass surveillance and its consequences to each and every member of the EU Parliament.

This autumn, we urge them to vote for a free society. To say No to chat control.

Read all the articles at mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

Good morning. A reminder. #elon #elonmusk #tesla

🦒 New post! "I'm a Spotless Giraffe."

#AI models were perplexed by a baby giraffe without spots. They're perplexed by me, too.

This article on #disability and #ableism within #GenerativeAI is more personal than I usually write. It would mean a lot to me if you read and shared it.

With thanks to @janellecshane for her original post!
https://benmyers.dev/blog/spotless-giraffe/

Usefull search tricks for #Firefox Users:
Start typing your search with ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.
* to show only matches in your bookmarks.
% to show only matches in your currently open tabs.
# to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.
$ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL).

Finally, thanks to this answer from the Chicago Manual of Style, I know how to write this sort of citation properly:

“Text generated by Ouija, Salem, Mass: Parker Brothers, August 30, 2023”

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

https://t.co/tCX8seLZJY https://t.co/tCX8seLZJY

@themarkup Thanks for the reporting! This paragraph in particular highlights the implicit fear many international students have on so many issues. “””Because the victim, right here, is less important,” Sharma said. “The victim here is less worthy of a second thought, or questioning the tool.”

Non-native English speakers’ assignments are more frequently flagged as #AI generated, a report has revealed.
https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating

The legality of web scraping in the European Union depends heavily on the kind of the data you want to collect.

We explain when you can move ahead with a #research project—and when you should contact a lawyer. #GDPR https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/08/23/how-to-legally-scrape-eu-data-for-investigations

Once again for all the naysayers in the back: Pointing out the harm that results from continued use of Twitter is NOT telling you what to think, and it's not telling you what to do.

Whatever you think of the people you follow on Twitter, it's a fact that the platform itself openly welcomes and even pays for far-right views. This makes Twitter no different than Breitbart or the Daily Caller.

Every tweet breathes oxygen into this far-right platform. Yes, I know it's not practical for some to completely shun the platform (I still use it occasionally to remind users of the harm), but maybe stop using it to share cute cat pics and discuss the latest FIFA game?

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.

Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12.

Musk’s concerns over a “mini-Pearl Harbor” as he put it, did not come to pass in Crimea. But the episode reveals the unique position Musk found himself in as the war in Ukraine unfolded. Whether intended or not, he had become a power broker US officials couldn’t ignore.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

I love this story from @tastapod https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/ - it's a great illustration of why the *TEAM* should be the agent of work, not the individual. ht @ez & @carnage4life

A Black Neighborhood and a #College Both Wanted to Expand. Now One of Them Is Gone.
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, #Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

The #school has been gobbling up the remaining #houses ever since.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-virginia-college-expanded-by-uprooting-black-neighborhood?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

We're hiring a Postdoc to work across NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web. https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AC8P

Bring your creativity and skills to study the evolution of online fictional narratives https://golemlab.eu

@gronlp
#AcademicChatter
#DH #LinkedData #KnowledgeGraphs #nlproc @digitalhumanities @TedUnderwood @scott_bot @christof @fotis_jannidis @zoeleblanc @quinnanya @folgertk @melvinwevers @albertoacerbi @EvelynGius @DHd @dh_potsdam