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Digital Humanities at Brock University @brock-ddh.bsky.social · 9d

Feminist Digital Humanities (open access) www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302

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Digital Humanities at Brock University @brock-ddh.bsky.social · 14d

Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...

AI & Cybersecurity with Dr. Mauro

YouTube video by Brock University

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19d

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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 19d

Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items.

I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 Wayback Machine Hacks to Recover Pages, Prove Edits & Search TV News

YouTube video by Bendobrown

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 19d

How people are using ChatGPT according to paid research from OpenAI openai.com/index/how-pe...

How people are using ChatGPT

Largest study to date of consumer ChatGPT usage shows demographic gaps shrinking, economic value being created through both personal and professional use.

openai.com

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 20d

neal.fun/not-a-robot/

I'm Not a Robot

Prove your humanity

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 21d

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21d

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.

The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now

The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

www.thedissident.news

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Digital Humanities at Brock University @brock-ddh.bsky.social · 23d

Join us on September 19th at noon for @aaronmauro.bsky.social's webinar on AI, Security, and the Future of Education: brocku.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx... #brocku

Brock University | Ticketing - Homecoming Webinar

Join us on Friday September 19th from 12-1pm for a webinar presented by Aaron Mauro, Chair of Brock’s Digital Humanities Department and Associate Professor of Digital Media. In the webinar, Dr. Mauro ...

brocku.universitytickets.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 25

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

it's not a distraction

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Martin Jaggi @mjaggi.bsky.social · Sep 5

you can run the new apertus LLMs fully locally on your (mac) laptop with just 2 lines of code:

pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"

(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)

Apertus LLM - a swiss-ai Collection

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · Sep 6

White nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...

‘Public and open with their hate’: Masked white nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument

A University of Winnipeg professor says Second Sons Canada was testing the waters with its military-style rally at Queenston Heights Park in Niagara, and that the choice do do so at Brock’s Monument w...

www.stcatharinesstandard.ca

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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you are a university administrator in Ontario, read this: www.caut.ca/bulletin/boo...

Book Review / An Introduction to University Governance

www.caut.ca

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · Sep 2

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Open Letter: Standing on Guard for Canada’s Digital Sovereignty www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Open Letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Epstein Files released on Google Drive lmao oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Records Provided by the Department of Justice - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · Sep 2

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · Aug 31

After WWII, social scientists studied the personalities of fascists. What they found perfectly describes today’s Republicans: “ethnocentrism, superstition, aggression, cynicism, conservatism, and an inordinate interest in the private sex lives of others.”
(Story by @annaleen.bsky.social.)

How World War II scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism

The F-scale personality test measured authoritarianism in US citizens.

arstechnica.com

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · Aug 29

www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of...

"A culture of intimidation, retaliation and oppression": How Microsoft’s Gaza stance fuelled an industry-spanning boycott

RPS meets a few of the developers participating in the BDS campaign against Microsoft's Israeli military ties, including an Xbox worker fired for his views.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide,
@simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.