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@rasmushelles.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 29d

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Sep 5

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

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Not JPo @notjpo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Not a lot of people know this but the MC in MC Hammer stands for master carpenter

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 14

It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · Aug 12

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

jrnl.ie

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 4

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr

Yes, the huge firms pushing unsuitable content must be regulated. But until they are, adults can model the positive use of tech, says digital humanities academic Dr Kaitlyn Regehr

www.theguardian.com

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carla kaspari @carlakaspari.bsky.social · Aug 3

urlaub bedeutet schönere umgebung bei schlechteren matratzen

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm pretty sure it's possible to calculate almost the precise number of votes every tweet like this hands directly to Nigel Farage.

A tweet from Keir Starmer today that reads: "We're cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders. Wheelchair asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber eats so they can take action. If riders are staying there. We will do what it takes to ensure fairness for British people."

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · Jul 23

While commentators obsesses about how young men are moving to the right as important is young women moving to the left. Sam considers the evidence and implications. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

Why are young women increasingly left-wing?

And how it could change politics

samf.substack.com

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Jul 12

Opportunities for interpretable statistics for large language models
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/07/11/o...

Opportunities for interpretable statistics for large language models | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now.

Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jun 22

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Jun 17

🤬 Russian drone deliberately targeting a residential building in Kyiv.

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FC St. Pauli @fcstpauli.com · Jun 11

Kein Mensch ist illegal – das steht bei uns im Millerntor-Stadion, und das meinen wir so.

Was derzeit gegen Pro Asyl, engagierte Anwält*innen und Richter*innen läuft, ist brandgefährlich: Eine orchestrierte Kampagne gegen Menschenrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit.

#fcsp

Blick auf die Nordtribüne im Millerntor-Stadion. Zu sehen sind zwei Herzen und der Schriftzug "Kein Mensch ist illegal".

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𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social · May 30

20-30% i det vindue hvor jeg normalt prøver at lytte…

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · May 26

Today the @iccl.bsky.social is applying to the High Court of Ireland to launch a class action lawsuit against Microsoft targeting its very large “Real-Time Bidding” data breach within Microsoft’s advertising system www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Microsoft’s vast advertising business is target of ICCL Enforce application for class action launch under EU data law

Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · May 22

Paper arguing that accuracy of the "reasoning" traces in reasoning models is surprisingly unrelated to accuracy of the final results.

Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

Recent impressive results from large reasoning models have been interpreted as a triumph of Chain of Thought (CoT), and especially of the process of training on CoTs sampled from base LLMs in order to...

arxiv.org

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𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social · May 22

Great :-) I wasn’t aware of that. I really enjoy tidyplots, both for publishing and (not least) teaching - so thanks for the effort!

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Aaron Martin @empo11on.bsky.social · May 22

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega: "African connectivity has long been framed as a scale game: whoever reaches the most people wins. Starlink is making a different bet: infrastructure-light consistency, distributed across enough countries, might be just as powerful."

www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

How Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes

Elon Musk’s Starlink looks likely to end up being the most widespread ISP on the continent.

www.semafor.com

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𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social · May 22

I agree. Just did a quick search of my code repository, and the only thing beyond those two options (by value or label) I have ever used appears to be by label-then- value (so something like the population (value) of the three largest cities in five countries (label))

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𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social · May 22

Would sort be by label and reorder by value?

𝚁𝚊𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜 @rasmushelles.bsky.social · May 22

I agree - I would intuitively expect sort *_labels to sort alphabetically by label, not by value.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · May 13

"There is little sense in discouraging citizens from using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for environmental reasons" Gilbert writes, but "transparency requirements may be needed to force AI companies [so their] carbon footprint can be quantified" www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/is-chat...

Is ChatGPT bad for the environment? - Bennett Institute for Public Policy

While concerns about the energy and water demands of AI aren't entirely misplaced, much of the public debate misses crucial context. Rather than focusing on individual generative AI use, more transpar...

www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · May 8

Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/08/d...

Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · May 5

people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · Apr 25

🚀 Hello #MobileComm community, we’ve landed on Bluesky!

✨Mobile Media & Communication now posts here.
Follow us for journal updates, featured articles, and calls for papers.

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🔗Journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc

Mobile Media & Communication: Sage Journals

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