Tootfinder

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nelly Furtado:
🎵 Forca (Fußball-EM 2004 Portugal)
#NowPlaying #NellyFurtado
https://jouxx.bandcamp.com/track/nelly-furtado-for-a-jouxx-remixx
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ildNZ9Dv8KMKxEyIYCTcw

Teil der deutschen Produktionsketten (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10082

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
Oliver Bates, Christian Remy, Kieran Cutting, Adam Tyler, Adrian Friday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19072

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
What could designing for carbon reduction of heating and cooling in commercial settings look like in the near future? How can we challenge dominant mindsets and paradigms of efficiency and behaviour change? How can we help build worlds through our practice that can become future realities? This paper introduces the fictional consultancy ANCSTRL.LAB to explore opportunities for making space in research projects that can encourage more systems-oriented interventions. We present a design fiction t…

Lasso Penalization for High-Dimensional Beta Regression Models: Computation, Analysis, and Inference
Niloofar Ramezani, Martin Slawski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20079 https://

Lasso Penalization for High-Dimensional Beta Regression Models: Computation, Analysis, and Inference
Beta regression is commonly employed when the outcome variable is a proportion. Since its conception, the approach has been widely used in applications spanning various scientific fields. A series of extensions have been proposed over time, several of which address variable selection and penalized estimation, e.g., with an $\ell_1$-penalty (LASSO). However, a theoretical analysis of this popular approach in the context of Beta regression with high-dimensional predictors is lacking. In this pape…

Canadians: Replace Ardern with Trudeau and use other Canadian touchstones in place of #nzpol and you have an accurate article for Canada.
Which should speak to what Progressives actually need to do here, and everywhere.
"Ardern’s leadership has often been described as emotionally intelligent, compassionate, and people-centred. But compassion is not liberation. Empathy alone does not redistribute wealth, dismantle police power, or decommodify housing. What Ardern perfected was a mode of governance that couched neoliberalism in progressive language. A style of leadership that appeared anti-fascist, anti-racist, and feminist, while presiding over deepening inequality, mass incarceration of Māori, ongoing colonisation, environmental destruction, and a housing system that serves landlords and property speculators.
Ardern’s “politics of kindness” masked a status quo commitment to capitalism and state power. Her government’s housing policies floundered under the weight of market logic. Despite the crisis of homelessness and unaffordability, the Labour government never seriously considered nationalising housing, implementing rent controls, or seizing vacant properties from land-bankers. Instead, they protected the interests of property investors, many of whom were MPs themselves."
#canpoli #cdnpoli #trudeau #Liberal #Ardern
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-cult-of-kindness-the-reality-of-jacinda-arderns-leadership/

Beyond Connectivity: An Open Architecture for AI-RAN Convergence in 6G
Michele Polese, Niloofar Mohamadi, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06911

Beyond Connectivity: An Open Architecture for AI-RAN Convergence in 6G
The proliferation of data-intensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications at the network edge demands a fundamental shift in RAN design, from merely consuming AI for network optimization, to actively enabling distributed AI workloads. This paradigm shift presents a significant opportunity for network operators to monetize AI at the edge while leveraging existing infrastructure investments. To realize this vision, this article presents a novel converged O-RAN and AI-RAN architecture that uni…

Generative Lagrangian data assimilation for ocean dynamics under extreme sparsity
Niloofar Asefi, Leonard Lupin-Jimenez, Tianning Wu, Ruoying He, Ashesh Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06479

Generative Lagrangian data assimilation for ocean dynamics under extreme sparsity
Reconstructing ocean dynamics from observational data is fundamentally limited by the sparse, irregular, and Lagrangian nature of spatial sampling, particularly in subsurface and remote regions. This sparsity poses significant challenges for forecasting key phenomena such as eddy shedding and rogue waves. Traditional data assimilation methods and deep learning models often struggle to recover mesoscale turbulence under such constraints. We leverage a deep learning framework that combines neural…