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> [[Vancouver]]'s new [[mega-development]] is big, ambitious and undeniably [[Indigenous]]:
https://macleans.ca/society/sen̓aḵw-vancouver/
Looks very promising to me!

Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca
In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think

If you have never heard of the "Society for American Civic Renewal" (the acronym is pronounced “#sacker” by its members), it’s because they’ve been trying to stay under the radar.
Now that they are getting uncovered, they are attempting to manage the news coming out about them. 
They are working to fundamentally reshape America to their vision. It sounds like a classic conspiracy theor…

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’
A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country is on a crusade: to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change…

What? You mean the market doesn't provide affordable housing? Is it possible that the profit opportunity just isn't there?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/16/construction-affordable-homes-londo…

What? You mean the market doesn't provide affordable housing? Is it possible that the profit opportunity just isn't there?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/16/construction-affordable-homes-londo…

happy #WorldSleepDay 😴 https://worldsleepday.org/

Whether afraid to speak out or simply don't care, regular Russians enable autocracy: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/whether-afraid-to.html

Survey finds telehealth is driving increase in abortions, despite state bans | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4662857-abortion-bans-telehealth-driving-increase-survey/

Survey finds telehealth is driving increase in abortions, despite state bans
In the 18 months since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the number of abortions in the United States has continued to grow, according to new data, even as 14 states have banned abortion completely.  Tuesday’s report from the Society for Family Planning’s WeCount project found much of that growth was likely related to telemedicine, which…

What the ever loving fuck.
Michael Milken!?! https://mastodon.online/@jetton/112096382193081623

The Best Wedding App - A Podcast For The Modern Lovers Of The World!
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-best-wedding-app-a-podcast-for-the-modern-lovers-of-the-world/ …

The Best Wedding App | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Best Wedding App – A Podcast For The Modern Lovers Of The World! Host: Charis White Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Tech & Cyber, Weddings & Events First Episode: 2023 Charis…

https://thenarwhal.ca/inside-bc-baby-bear-orphanage/
I have been supporting Northern Lights Wildlife Society shelter in Smithers, B.C. for some time now - ever since I saw their programs on Knowledge Network. They are not streaming right now but I expect they will …

See where 120 orphaned baby bears take shelter as wildfires and drought shrink their habitat
As climate impacts increasingly drive bears into communities, many cubs are left alone and starving. In northern B.C., a small group is dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating the orphans

Civil society orgs under increasing threats from ‘malicious’ state cyber actors, US warns https://therecord.media/civil-society-under-threat-nation-state-hacking

Civil society orgs under increasing threats from ‘malicious’ state cyber actors, US warns
State-linked hackers from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are setting their sights set their sights on NGOs, think tanks, human rights activists and journalists, the advisory warned.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08873 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Chapter: Vulnerability of Quantum Information Systems to Collective Manipulation
The highly specialist terms `quantum computing' and `quantum information', together with the broader term `quantum technologies', now appear regularly in the mainstream media. While this is undoubtedly highly exciting for physicists and investors alike, a key question for society concerns such systems' vulnerabilities -- and in particular, their vulnerability to collective manipulation. Here we present and discuss a new form of vulnerability in such systems, that we have identified based on det…

Deadline extended to 1 June.
"Textual scholarship, artificial intelligence, corpora and intelligent editions".
Nineteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Eötvös Loršnd University, Budapest 2-4 October 2024
https://elte-dh.hu/en/ests-2024/…

It’s a shame: there is a book to be written about the rise of weight-loss drugs, and how they will change society. But Hari has not only failed to write it; the way he’s done so has undermined his already dwindling stock of credibility https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/…

AI to hit jobs market like a 'tsunami'
And we don't have long to prepare
IMF MD: "It could bring tremendous increase in productivity if we manage it well, but it can also lead to more misinformation and, of course, more inequality in our society"
https://www.

AI to hit jobs market like a 'tsunami'
International Monetary Fund managing director Dr Kristalina Georgieva has warned of that AI is hitting the global labour market like a “tsunami.”

I'm very amused that the christofascists chose the name #SACR, since without it you can't spell "sacroiliitis", which is literally a type of pain in the ass.
Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross, indeed.

#SMBC shows us more of our society than we might expect from a #comic strip.
This time: news coverage of #violence and its end point some day:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12923 has been replaced.
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Asynchronous Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Opinion spreading in a society decides the fate of elections, the success of products, and the impact of political or social movements. The model by Hegselmann and Krause is a well-known theoretical model to study such opinion formation processes in social networks. In contrast to many other theoretical models, it does not converge towards a situation where all agents agree on the same opinion. Instead, it assumes that people find an opinion reasonable if and only if it is close to their own. T…

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"Gove thinks racist jokes are funny, has elevated scientific racism within the Department for Education, and worked with an organisation – the Henry Jackson Society – which for years has acted as a transmission belt amplifying mainstream far-right white nationalist ideas into the centre-right of UK policymaking"
#Extremism

Michael Gove: The Extremist – Byline Times
Whether laughing at racism, or associating with the promoters of eugenics and anti-Muslim think tanks, the Communities Secretary is indicted by his own definition

US RWNJ thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order: Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal, which is rooted in Christian nationalism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

That we even need to discuss such a law is a sign of how broken society is. That said, rock on, Illinois.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/proposed-illinois-law-would-make-it-illega…

The movies Bicentennial Man and A.I. are two of my favourites growing up.
I realise now why that is. They are stories of individuals, albeit robots, knowing who they truly are and being told by society that they aren’t who they KNOW they are.
These are imperfect allegories, but I still resonate with them.
#trans

Today I'm heading to Florence, for the “European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy”, where I'll be on a panel on «Artificial intelligence – Which skills do I need?». At least one big skill is being able to cut through the BS-hype, and see how AI tends to reproduce the worst parts of society – but on steroids. https://voicesfestival.eu/conference-event/skills-for-artificial-intelligence/

Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-based Interventions
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08869

Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-based Interventions
The proliferation of unreliable news domains on the internet has had wide-reaching negative impacts on society. We introduce and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing traffic to unreliable news domains from search engines while maintaining traffic to reliable domains. We build these interventions on the principles of fairness (penalize sites for what is in their control), generality (label/fact-check agnostic), targeted (increase the cost of adversarial behavior), and scalability (works at w…

📉 No respite for Georgia's civil society
#georgia

No respite for Georgia's civil society
Last year, when the ruling party announced its decision to adopt the bill it was met with large public outcry as well as international criticism.

The birdsite is trying to do all it can to prevent being attractive to new users. Just the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
Some moderation is needed for any society (physical or virtual) to succeed.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon

#ScienceStudies, #Metascience or #bibliometrics are small fields but I wonder whether we neglect science communication way too much. The complicated, uncertain, boring, troublesome or failed things that happen in research labs around the world are almost never told by those who have championed science communication. I am not against positivism but a modern, educated and “knowledge-based”-society should always strive for nuance and complexity.

stylish asymmetric bras for people with one breast
How cool is this?
Architect & cancer survivor Katy Marks "turned her architectural eye to a very different engineering challenge by designing a one-cup bra for post-surgery, asymmetric bodies."
"I just want some clothing that I can wear with the body I have, & if no one else is going to make it, then I will"
On sale already, & she plans to release open-source patterns for download!
#mastectomy #bras #clothes #design

Review of my book from the American Numismatic Society Magazine. @…
#histodons #numismatics

Der von der World Sleep Society ins Leben gerufene #Weltschlaftag findet in diesem Jahr am 15. März statt. Er soll Bewusstsein dafür schaffen, dass Schlaf wesentlich für die Gesundheit ist. Wir feiern den Weltschlaftag auch im @…: Schweigeminute, kurze…

"Across virtually every aspect of life, people’s freedoms are under assault in the United States. The forces attacking these diverse freedoms ultimately want to create a rigid, restrictive society according to their worldview only, with little room for those of different beliefs, values, or expression."
https://<…

MID
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods #AusPods

MID | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: MID Host: Holly Wainwright Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 Welcome to MID the grown-up conversations women deserve.

Source: OpenAI has fired two researchers on its AI safety team for allegedly leaking information, including Leopold Aschenbrenner, an ally of Ilya Sutskever (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking
OpenAI has fired two researchers for allegedly leaking information,according to a person with knowledge of the situation.They include Leopold Aschenbrenner, a researcher on a team dedicated to keeping artificial intelligence safe for society.Aschenbrenner was also an ally of OpenAI chief ...

Hey, #Mormon #MAGA! #DezNat! #LDS #GOP #Utahns!
You thought you were part of the in-group? You thought the return of Trump would mean political power for you?
Check it out:
#TCoJCoLDS.
So much for that dream of superiority. You're out with the rest of us. 😛

“Ultimately, I’ve seen completely unhelpful views on both sides,” Jayasena said. “There’s an overly affirming view of let’s just do everything. This results in what I’d call bro-science. We’re getting that disconnect between evidence and assumed knowledge because the internet is an echo chamber. Then there’s the other side of things – a more rightwing, moralistic view. Unfortunately, some members of the medical community are immersed in these views.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/this-isnt-how-good-scientific-debate-happens-academics-on-culture-of-fear-in-gender-medicine-research

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Good! Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca https://macleans.ca/society/sen̓aḵw-vancouver/

World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
The principle that ⭐️everything looks the same everywhere⭐️ is a fundamental pillar of the standard model of #cosmology,
which aims to explain the big bang and how the universe has evolved in the 13.7bn years since.
But this week a meeting of some of the world’s leading cosmologists will convene at London’s R…

CONTEXT: Details of why Apple might actually mail you a warning are at https://support.apple.com/en-us/102174
messages come from threat-notifications@apple.com to the email address associated with your AppleID.
AccessNow.org apparently offers a security helpline for “civil society…

Making plans what to visit on my last day in The Hague. Found the "International Pyrotechnics Society" on the map. Probably that's something better suited for @… and his Institute for pyrotechnical cleaning...
I've been to the ICC and Scheveningen, planning to visit Escher and Gevangenpoort. Any suggestions what is a must-see in

An interview with Ian Hislop, editor of UK satirical and investigative magazine Private Eye for 38 years, on the privilege of editing, being in print, and more (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Ian Hislop on journalism, 'privilege' of editing and why he is committed to print
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has told the Society of Editors that print is "still kicking” as he accepted a fellowship of the organisation.

Blatant racism and overt sexual harassment, that’s the #tesla way.
#cars
“The Toxic Culture at Tesla”
https://www.…

The Toxic Culture at Tesla
The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.

やっとですか。個人的には良いニュース。
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/7a75f6568ae343889c211de05d829e44

ローマ字表記70年ぶりに改定か　文科大臣が諮問｜日テレNEWS NNN
「ヘボン式」と「訓令式」、日本で2つの表記法が混在している「ローマ字」について使い方や表記の整理に向けての議論が始まります。

How civil society groups in #Karnataka are fighting for the Indian Constitution. ♥️ (By The News Minute).
#ConstitutionofIndia
https:…

Physics, scientific investigation and society in Argentina, 1920-1930
Alejandro Gangui, Eduardo L. Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09593 https://

Physics, scientific investigation and society in Argentina, 1920-1930
We analyse the scientific research carried out at the Institute of Physics of the National University of La Plata in the first half of the 20th century, and the cultural and social context in which they were immersed. We focus especially on the activities carried out by the Argentine physicist Ramon G. Loyarte, who was an emblematic personality in the scientific, educational, cultural and political world of Argentina in those years. We discuss his most important works in experimental physics an…

A trustless society? A political look at the blockchain vision
Rainer Rehak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

This was an easy blog post for me to write! There is so much wrong with the State of Nevada’s request for an injunction to prevent Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. For starters, WhatsApp has had E2EE since 2016, Apple iMessage since 2011 … and more.
Hopefully the district court in Nevada will agree and NOT allow the injunction! We’ll see.
#E2EE

The birdsite is trying to do all it can to prevent being attractive to new users. Just the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
Some moderation is needed for any society (physical or virtual) to succeed.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon

Navigating the Quantum Divide(s)
A. Ayda Gercek, Zeki C. Seskir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08033

Navigating the Quantum Divide(s)
This article explores the possible divides resulting from the introduction of emerging quantum technologies (QT) to society. It provides the multidirectional impacts of QT on science, technology, geopolitics, and societal structures. We aim to challenge the idea of a singular "quantum divide" by presenting a more comprehensive perspective. To complement the existing literature on the quantum divide, we propose four distinct divides that could result from the emergence of QT. Firstly, we examine…

Die RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), die älteste und größte Tierschutzorganisation der Welt in England und Wales hat ein neues grafisches Erscheinungsbild.
Ich mag das Design. Und auch sehr das aktuelle Video, das zeitgleich gelauncht wurde:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Va1…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Georg Philipp Telemann, Holland Baroque Society, Judith Steenbrink & Tineke Steenbrink:
🎵 Concerto Polonois in B-flat Major, TWV 43:B3
#GeorgPhilippTelemann
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mDtNBwe5JKWZM4zr8qcN6

Our previous science director Katrine Krogh Andersen (now science lead at Copenhagen University), launching the joint Danish, Greenlandic and Faeroese Changing Arctic meeting in the Black Diamond in Copenhagen..
Katrine was previously an ice core scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute before she took the leadership route.
This year the themes are defence, society and environment #SignOfTheTimes

Digital Twin Evolution for Sustainable Smart Ecosystems
Istvan David, Judith Michael, Dominik Bork
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07162 https://

Digital Twin Evolution for Sustainable Smart Ecosystems
Smart ecosystems are the drivers of modern society. They control critical infrastructures, ensuring their stable and sustainable operation. Smart ecosystems are governed by digital twins -- real-time virtual representations of physical infrastructure. To support the open-ended and reactive traits of smart ecosystems, digital twins need to be able to evolve in reaction to changing conditions. However, digital twin evolution is particularly challenging due to the intertwined nature of physical an…

Hah, catch this small world moment where my uncle @… cites my brother in (correctly) calling out my employer as "ahead of their skis"
Thanks for the pointer, Uncle Dan !
https://

This article is old, but I think about it often.
“Five hundred years ago, this swath of California was populated by the Ohlone, who survived without farming or animal domestication”
#NativeAmericans #Nature #technology

digressionsimpressions’s Substack || Adam Smith on Commercial Society; On Paul Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered, Pt 2
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/adam-smith-on-commercial-society

MissPerceived
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MissPerceived | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: MissPerceived Host: Professor Leah Ruppanner Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Social Sciences First Episode: 2024 Leah Ruppanner is a no-nonsense Sociologist on a mission to dispel…

Free and online, a generative AI course by the Harvard Kennedy School,
#AI

The Science and Implications of Generative AI
This is a collection of videos and course content from a Harvard Kennedy School course on generative AI. The course is designed to equip students with a solid introduction and understanding of how generative AI works, how to use it, and the larger opportunities and challenges it poses for society.

All these words on how Jack Dorsey feels about Twitter, but not once does Solana or Dorsey address Musk's inaccurate, inflammatory, anti-semitic, racist, anti-LGBTQ tweets that have attracted the dregs of society to the platform and ruined everything.
The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

NHS, heart treatment waiting lists
"The number of patients with serious heart problems forced to wait more than 18 weeks for care has risen fivefold since Covid struck"
"Likely factors include “severe cardiac staff shortages” in the NHS, the ageing population and widening health inequalities"
And heart damage from covid, one might expect? But no mention of _that_ possibility!
Covid probably killed or disabled some of the heart experts as well.
#covid #CovidErasure

#Society

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05985 has been replaced.
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Using Persuasive Writing Strategies to Explain and Detect Health Misinformation
Nowadays, the spread of misinformation is a prominent problem in society. Our research focuses on aiding the automatic identification of misinformation by analyzing the persuasive strategies employed in textual documents. We introduce a novel annotation scheme encompassing common persuasive writing tactics to achieve our objective. Additionally, we provide a dataset on health misinformation, thoroughly annotated by experts utilizing our proposed scheme. Our contribution includes proposing a new…

"Mental wellbeing has plummeted in the UK further than in any comparable nation. How was this not headline news?" -- George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/artic…

Providing Safety Assurances for Systems with Unknown Dynamics
Hao Wang, Javier Borquez, Somil Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05771 https://

Providing Safety Assurances for Systems with Unknown Dynamics
As autonomous systems become more complex and integral in our society, the need to accurately model and safely control these systems has increased significantly. In the past decade, there has been tremendous success in using deep learning techniques to model and control systems that are difficult to model using first principles. However, providing safety assurances for such systems remains difficult, partially due to the uncertainty in the learned model. In this work, we aim to provide safety a…

I'm Wigging Out
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I’m Wigging Out | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: I’m Wigging Out Hosts: Lucy Neville and Kee Reece Searles Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Personal Stories, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2024 Everyone’s just pretending…

Good! Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca https://macleans.ca/society/sen̓aḵw-vancouver/

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Impact of Dystopian Literature on Society and Technology - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/impact-of-dystopian-literature-on-society-and-technology

"The order and subsequent investigation into #Musk comes as #Brazil calls for “urgent” focus on #socialmedia regulation.
“We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of…

Elon Musk and Brazil are beefing over X
Brazil has opened a new investigation into Elon Musk over potential obstruction of justice after X defied an order to block certain accounts in the country.

Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/medicine-shortages-in-england-beyond-critical-pharmacists-warn?CMP=Shar…

⚠️ Please beware of fake/counterfeit eclipse glasses. You could permanently damage or lose your eyesight. 🚨
https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses

📣 ‘The purpose is getting lost’: debate obscuring point of Scottish hate law, say campaigners
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/08/anger-debate-scottish-hate-crime-law-campaigners-stirring-up
…

https://lithub.com/why-a-new-adaptation-of-the-master-and-margarita-is-setting-russian-society-aflame/

Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame
One of the most celebrated lines from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita emerges from the lips of the devil himself. “Manuscripts don’t burn,” Woland, the mysterious Professor …

An interview with Ian Hislop, editor of UK satirical and investigative magazine Private Eye for 38 years, on the privilege of editing, being in print, and more (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Ian Hislop on journalism, 'privilege' of editing and why he is committed to print
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has told the Society of Editors that print is "still kicking” as he accepted a fellowship of the organisation.

やっとですか。個人的には良いニュース。
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/7a75f6568ae343889c211de05d829e44

ローマ字表記70年ぶりに改定か　文科大臣が諮問｜日テレNEWS NNN
「ヘボン式」と「訓令式」、日本で2つの表記法が混在している「ローマ字」について使い方や表記の整理に向けての議論が始まります。

Why Europe has high hopes for Ukrainian civil society: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/why-europe-has.html

disability benefits rant
"Work is the best path to long-term financial security" says someone at the DWP.
Not if you can't work it isn't!
Glib, callous invisibilising of long-term conditions. How are these people in charge of anything.
#disability #benefits #UK #austerity #poverty

US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order
The president of the rightwing #Claremont #Institute and another senior Claremont official are both closely involved with the shadowy 🔹Society for American Civic Renewal🔹 ( #SACR

True Tall Tales Podcast
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True Tall Tales | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: True Tall Tales Podcast Host: Sonny-Boy Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 Welcome to True Tall Tales, the podcast where the extraordinary becomes…

Federalist Society co-Chairman #Leonard #Leo said Thursday he is “not capitulating” after he announced Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) filed a #subpoena against him.
“Today, I received an unlawful and politically motivated subpoena from U.S…

Leonard Leo says he’s ‘not capitulating’ after Durbin subpoena - Washington Examiner
Federalist Society co-Chairman Leonard Leo said he is "not capitulating" after he announced Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) filed a subpoena against him.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00349 has been replaced.
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Visual Political Communication in a Polarized Society: A Longitudinal Study of Brazilian Presidential Elections on Instagram
In today's digital age, images have emerged as powerful tools for politicians to engage with their voters on social media platforms. Visual content possesses a unique emotional appeal that often leads to increased user engagement. However, research on visual communication remains relatively limited, particularly in the Global South. This study aims to bridge this gap by employing a combination of computational methods and qualitative approach to investigate the visual communication strategies e…

僕にとってこれは他人事 (異性愛者だから)。でも、同性婚が認められても僕には何の影響もない。それに、人の権利が広く認められるのはよい事だ。幸せに人生を送れる人が増えるといい。
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/bb83e746ad3e4ab3815aa7fd5122208c

【速報】同性婚認めない規定は「違憲状態」東京地裁が判断示す　賠償請求は退ける｜日テレNEWS NNN
同性同士の結婚が認めてられていないのは憲法に違反するとして全国各地で同性のカップルらが国を訴えている裁判で、東京地裁は14日、「違憲状態」との判断を示しました。

Providing Safety Assurances for Systems with Unknown Dynamics
Hao Wang, Javier Borquez, Somil Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05771 https://

Providing Safety Assurances for Systems with Unknown Dynamics
As autonomous systems become more complex and integral in our society, the need to accurately model and safely control these systems has increased significantly. In the past decade, there has been tremendous success in using deep learning techniques to model and control systems that are difficult to model using first principles. However, providing safety assurances for such systems remains difficult, partially due to the uncertainty in the learned model. In this work, we aim to provide safety a…

My brother pointed me to this entertaining but also cuttingly accurate essay
Goodbye to Publications, by Bert-Jaap Koops
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15751/10284
it&…

As if more evidence was needed, we have it. Highly processed foods are bad for you, full stop.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

ConspEmoLLM: Conspiracy Theory Detection Using an Emotion-Based Large Language Model
Zhiwei Liu, Boyang Liu, Paul Thompson, Kailai Yang, Raghav Jain, Sophia Ananiadou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06765

ConspEmoLLM: Conspiracy Theory Detection Using an Emotion-Based Large Language Model
The internet has brought both benefits and harms to society. A prime example of the latter is misinformation, including conspiracy theories, which flood the web. Recent advances in natural language processing, particularly the emergence of large language models (LLMs), have improved the prospects of accurate misinformation detection. However, most LLM-based approaches to conspiracy theory detection focus only on binary classification and fail to account for the important relationship between mi…

https://lithub.com/why-a-new-adaptation-of-the-master-and-margarita-is-setting-russian-society-aflame/

Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame
One of the most celebrated lines from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita emerges from the lips of the devil himself. “Manuscripts don’t burn,” Woland, the mysterious Professor …

The Drawing Room
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Podcast: The Drawing Room Host: Andy Park Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2017 Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
The Reed Conservation Society:
🎵 Aux rochers rouges
#TheReedConservationSociety
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SLt1HytIgljHIgnGttAFF
https://thereedconservationsociety.bandcamp.com/track/aux-rochers-rouges

Repeal the #Comstock #Act
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00797 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Metarobotics for Industry and Society: Vision, Technologies, and Opportunities
Metarobotics aims to combine next generation wireless communication, multi-sense immersion, and collective intelligence to provide a pervasive, itinerant, and non-invasive access and interaction with distant robotized applications. Industry and society are expected to benefit from these functionalities. For instance, robot programmers will no longer travel worldwide to plan and test robot motions, even collaboratively. Instead, they will have a personalized access to robots and their environmen…

Sustainaroo Travels Podcast
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Podcast: Sustainaroo Travels Podcast Hosts: Freddi and Maria Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 The Podcast to sustainable living…

good rant on public health
From Julia Doubleday back in January:
"... demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes...
"Zero public health projects in the history of ever have had a stated goal of “ignore it because we have to live life.” It’s fundamentally antithetical to the very concept of public health."
#covid #health #AirQuality

Mad About You
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Podcast: Mad About You Hosts: Jade´ Brycki and Lachie Brycki Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Parenting & Pregnancy & Families, Personal Stories, Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2024…

Sip With Us
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Podcast: Sip With Us Hosts: Jess Martin and Izzy Furniss Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations First Episode: 2024 Welcome to the Sip With Us podcast with best friends…

Time For Trust
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Podcast: Time For Trust Host: Professor Terry Flew Category: Technology Sub-Category: Tech & Cyber, Universities & GLAM First Episode: 2024 Governments, the economy and civil society depend on the…

Grave Matters
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Podcast: Grave Matters Hosts: Anthony Levin and Nadine J Cohen Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Careers, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 While death may be one of life’s only certainties…

Grave Matters
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Grave Matters | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Grave Matters Hosts: Anthony Levin and Nadine J Cohen Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Careers, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 While death may be one of life’s only certainties…

She Wasn't Born Yesterday
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Podcast: She Wasn’t Born Yesterday Host:s Janet Evans and Dr Amelia Haines Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Sexuality & Relationships First Episode: 2024 She Wasn’t Born Yesterday tackles the…