@aardrian@toot.cafeTwo years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/07/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html
I made one anti-…
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.pageKernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
Owen Futter, Nicola Muca Cirone, Blanka Horvath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10701 https://
@muz4now@mastodon.worldDreamState - Awakening
The final release in the DreamState series
- #DreamState #NowPlaying -
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…
@servelan@newsie.socialDC Circuit orders EPA to review 2023-2025 biofuel standard for environmental harms | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-orders-epa-to-review-2023-2025-biofuel-standard-for-environmental-harms/
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialLinguist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Common Dreams writer C.J. Polychroniou on the subject of ChatGPT in this May 2023 piece. Chomsky's stance on LLMs is that as long as we're not able to atomically understand what goes on in the statistical black box that currently is an LLM, linguists won't be able to benefit from being able to see whether it learns language like a human does, or not.
"Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For"
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzBBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook
