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Andreas Wagner is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his… more

Andreas Wagner
H-index: 11
Political science 23%
Philosophy 21%
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elotroalex.bsky.social
Gather around, friends, for a friendly 🧵.

Propaganda was not a widely used word before WW2. Sergeï Chakhotin was one of the first theoreticians of authoritarian propaganda in his 1939 book The Rape of the Masses, which was immediately banned by fascists.

Here are his 7 rules of propaganda:
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bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #doi.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]
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karldietzverlag.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy
Wer auf Instagram ist: Bitte helft, den Fake-Account, der sich als uns ausgibt, zu löschen:
❌ karl__dietz_verlag
= ist ein privater Account, hat eine Handvoll Follower (wir > 7500) und ist erkennbar am doppelten, extralangen Unterstrich nach dem ersten Wort […]

[Original post on berlin.social]
Screenshot vom Fake-Account auf Instagram, der vorgibt, Dietz Berlin zu sein
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
We need to acknowledge that working effectively with AI programming tools is HARD - they're unintuitive, full of traps and can churn out huge volumes of bad code if you let them

But they can also greatly amplify your existing programming expertise if you know how to wield them

It turns out […]
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"! (with my tongue only partially in my cheek) […]
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msphelps.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy
Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

In this new preprint with @HLdeJonge, we analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/ndx3f_v1 […]

[Original post on akademienl.social]
Metadata coverage by publisher for abstracts, affiliations, references, funding, ORCIDs and licenses, categorized by their submission" system.
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tedunderwood.com
It’s shocking to me, actually, that our intellectual traditions proved so powerless here.

100 years of fiction about thinking machines that blur the boundaries of … now, wait just a second! I didn’t mean you could *actually* blur those boundaries

Same story with Foucauldians
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Der Vollständigkeit halber hier meine anderen Mastodon-Tools:

Mastotags (die besten Hastag-Kombinationen für die Mastowallwall finden)
https://rstockm.github.io/mastotags/

Mastothread (teilt Longreads wie diesen in Einzelpostings auf)
https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread/

Fedipol […]
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Wer das doof findet darf sich a) fragen ob VibeCoding nicht auch für Aktivismus ganz neue Felder aufschließt oder b) das von mir ebenfalls sehr geschätzte, handgebaute Alternativprodukt fediwall nutzen:

https://fediwall.social

Denn im (echten) Internet ist immer Platz.
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Mit einem weiteren Klick kann man sehen, was die Leute so zuletzt zu den Hashtags geschrieben haben, Mensch will ja nicht wild allen folgen. Darum gibt es auch keine "folge Allen" Funktion.

Wie alle bisherigen Versionen ist auch diese zu 100% durch KI entstanden, also #vibecoding - verwendet […]
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Von Bluesky (auch dort ist nicht alles schlecht) schwappte die Idee von "Starterpacks" rüber, die @fedidevs haben das super für Mastodon umgesetzt: https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs

Die Mastowall 2 bringt nun Dynamik ins Spiel: auf einer neuen "People" Seite […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
Die neue People-Ansicht der Mastowall 2
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Ich habe seitdem viel Rückmeldungen erhalten, dass die Mastowall auch als persönliche Übersicht auf dem eigenen Rechner läuft, nicht nur auf riesigen Screens auf Veranstaltungen.

Für die 2.0 Version - anlässlich des #fediday - versuche ich daher, für genau diese zweite Zielgruppe ein weiteres […]
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rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Ich stelle heute die Mastowall 2 vor, dazu etwas Hintergrund:

https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/

Vor zwei Jahren wollte ich mit der #mastowall ein konkretes Problem lösen: es gab kein Pendant für die klassischen Twitter-Walls auf Mastodon. Ziel war es […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
Mastowall 2 Screenshot
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donnerbella.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Mir fallen bald keine passenden Unflätigkeiten mehr für die FIFA ein: Für die WM 2026 gibt es ein Blockchain (!) basiertes System, um das Recht auf den Kauf eines Tickets zu erwerben. Man bezahlt also hunderte Euro, bekommt einen Token für eine eventuelle Konstellation (GER im Finale zB) und […]
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jamesjefferies.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Oh my gosh - this brought a little tear to my eye - hoping there is something in Europe!

https://youtu.be/koiX_Wspatw

#rush
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Oregon lawyer wants a second TRO incorporating the reasoning in support of yesterday’s and prohibiting the use of any federalized National Guard troops from anywhere in Portland. Immergut GRANTS this. 16/
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Judge Immergut announces she is GRANTING the plaintiffs’ motion. She is conferring with the states’ attorneys as to whether she should modify her first TRO or give a 2nd order. 15/
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Still waiting for start of Judge Immergut’s emergency hearing. Here is Hegseth’s order mobilizing Texas National Guard troops to invade other states. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.65.1.pdf
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Meanwhile, in related military developments, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says that Trump has ordered deployment of the TEXAS National Guard to Illinois, Oregon, and elsewhere within the U.S. https://bsky.app/profile/govpritzker.illinois.gov/post/3m2iigmky6s2o Pritzker is calling on TX governor […]
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Here is the motion and argument from California and Oregon that tonight’s emergency judicial hearing is addressing. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.59.0.pdf 3/
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Oregon and California have filed an emergency motion for an additional temporary restraining order to prevent Trump regime from using federalized California National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon. Judge Immergut is holding an emergency hearing scheduled for 10 pm eastern, 7 pm Pacific tonight. 1/
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
TL;DR: Trump’s decision to send out-of-state U.S. military troops to Portland represents a decision to potentially use the entire U.S. military to invade Oregon. That’s a declaration of war by the federal executive branch on the state. And since Trump equates Portland, OR with other blue cities […]
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Joshua Rogers, using AI tooling responsibly and professionally, reported 22+ genuine issues in curl that are now being addressed

This is especially notable because curl has had huge problems with floods of garbage slop AI "security issues" in the past that were nothing of the sort - my notes […]
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vform.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy
A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-guide-to-creating-accessible-pdfs-using-free-tools/

#pdf #accessibility #libreoffice #wcag #jaws #nvda
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forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
In honor of a long and good life, I get a chuckle out of the fact that Jane Goodall thought this Far Side strip was funny and refused to allow the institute that shared her name to take action, and later collaborated with Gary Larson. What a legend.

Jane […]

[Original post on mastodon.xyz]
A 1987 comic strip, showing two chimpanzees, one male and one female, sitting on a branch in a tree. The female chimpanzee is picking hairs off the back of the male and says, “Well, well–another blond hair. Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
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mpilhlt.bsky.social
🔥 What do stormed parliaments and Brazilian modernism have in common?

This October mpilhlt hosts two workshops:

📅 2 Oct: Anthropophagy & Legal Theory – on cultural translation, modernism, and law.

📅 7 Oct: Overriding Government – on the imagery of stormed institutions and democracy under attack.
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tedunderwood.com
Implementing “reasoning” as “just keep talking to yourself” feels so weird & hacky.

But maybe not, according to this? They show that just-predicting-the-next-word is inherently unable to learn to solve some (permutation) problems unless you “pad” with extra thought tokens. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24125
In this technical note, we study the problem of inverse permutation learning in decoder-only transformers. Given a permutation and a string to which that permutation has been applied, the model is tasked with producing the original ("canonical") string. We argue that this task models a natural robustness property across a variety of reasoning tasks, including long-context retrieval, multiple choice QA and in-context learning. Our primary contribution is an impossibility result: we show that an arbitrary depth, decoder-only transformer cannot learn this task. This result concerns the expressive capacity of decoder-only transformer models and is agnostic to training dynamics or sample complexity. We give a pair of alternative constructions under which inverse permutation learning is feasible. The first of these highlights the fundamental role of the causal attention mask, and reveals a gap between the expressivity of encoder-decoder transformers and the more popular decoder-only architecture. The latter result is more surprising: we show that simply padding the input with "scratch tokens" yields a construction under which inverse permutation learning is possible. We conjecture that this may suggest an alternative mechanism by which chain-of-thought prompting or, more generally, intermediate "thinking" tokens can enable reasoning in large language models, even when these tokens encode no meaningful semantic information (e.g., the results of intermediate computations).
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dorialexander.bsky.social
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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stefan-hessbrueggen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy
Temporal distribution of the data set: 2/2
Bar chart showing the temporal distribution of the PRODATPHIL data set. Mostly between 5 and15 texts per decade, outliers between 1870-1879 (74), 1880-1889 (44), and 1900-1909 (27).
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stefan-hessbrueggen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy
Data set publication: #prodatphil version 0.2 - 207 full texts in English, German, and French on logic and philosophy of science between approx. 1820 and 1930. https://doi.org/ 10.17879/91968401496 1/
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