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RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/115512191968527981
Bring back urban spaces where buildings don't tower over you, making you feel small and inconsequential. Max 5 storey courtyard blocks. Small stores, not super stores.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

AI Eyes on the Road: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traffic Surveillance
Ziming Wang, Shiwei Yang, Rebecca Currano, Morten Fjeld, David Sirkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06480 h…

AI Eyes on the Road: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traffic Surveillance
AI-powered road surveillance systems are increasingly proposed to monitor infractions such as speeding, phone use, and jaywalking. While these systems promise to enhance safety by discouraging dangerous behaviors, they also raise concerns about privacy, fairness, and potential misuse of personal data. Yet empirical research on how people perceive AI-enhanced monitoring of public spaces remains limited. We conducted an online survey ($N=720$) using a 3$\times$3 factorial design to examine percep…

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-…

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

On the eve of Fantastic Futures #FF2025, two things I want to share: firstly, I'm super-excited about seeing people in person and online tomorrow to Friday! And secondly, huge thanks to everyone who's helped - everyone who put in a proposal, all our reviewers, the British Library's excellent International and Events teams, the incredible Digital Research team

Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the @… community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free!

Hierarchical Semantic RL: Tackling the Problem of Dynamic Action Space for RL-based Recommendations
Minmao Wang, Xingchen Liu, Shijie Yi, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Fei Pan, Qingpeng Cai, Peng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09167

Hierarchical Semantic RL: Tackling the Problem of Dynamic Action Space for RL-based Recommendations
Recommender Systems (RS) are fundamental to modern online services. While most existing approaches optimize for short-term engagement, recent work has begun to explore reinforcement learning (RL) to model long-term user value. However, these efforts face significant challenges due to the vast, dynamic action spaces inherent in recommendation, which hinder stable policy learning. To resolve this bottleneck, we introduce Hierarchical Semantic RL (HSRL), which reframes RL-based recommendation over…