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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-09 10:20:57

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)
wired.com/story/is-craigslist-

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.”

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-02-09 04:58:30

Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

James Gleick (@gleick@mas.to)
I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store. Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-09 20:06:05

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)
wired.com/story/is-craigslist-

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.”

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-05 14:51:22

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

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research
This poster presents work in progress that brings interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and members of the public together in a series of workshops to discuss the ethics of machine learning-engaged online participatory research (often called ‘crowdsourcing’), wherein machine learning (ML) is a component at some stage of an online participatory research project. The discussions from these workshops will be used to produce the first-ever framework for ML-engaged online participatory r…

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-02-06 11:26:19

'I am scared to live in a society whose members are incapable of having deep discussions and arguments'
From: @…
scholar.social/@gedan…

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
«At the time, it seemed ridiculous that people spent so much time writing long arguments explaining why strangers were in error. And even today, I am not pining for some Golden Age of Internet Argument. But I’ve come to wonder whether the only thing worse than arguing on the internet is not arguing on the internet.» How Big Tech Killed Online Debate https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big-tech-killed-online-debate

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-04 09:18:58

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

A white woman with a dark bob on stage with a slide 'Five ideas for Fantastic Digital Futures'
@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-02-02 13:09:31

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror
theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror
The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-29 16:35:21

"Fury over Alex Pretti’s killing has flooded forums for golfers, cat lovers and bourbon aficionados, reflecting a growing outrage over the Trump administration’s crackdown."
Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces - The Washington Post
archive.ph/o1NUO

@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-04 01:36:45

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Optimal Hardness of Online Algorithms for Large Independent Sets
David Gamarnik, Eren C. K{\i}z{\i}lda\u{g}, Lutz Warnke
arxiv.org/abs/2504.11450 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/
- An Approximation Algorithm for Monotone Submodular Cost Allocation
Ryuhei Mizutani
arxiv.org/abs/2511.00470 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/
- Expected Cost of Greedy Online Facility Assignment on Regular Polygons (v3)
Md. Rawha Siddiqi Riad, Md. Tanzeem Rahat, Md. Manzurul Hasan
arxiv.org/abs/2512.00506 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/
- Nested and outlier embeddings into trees
Shuchi Chawla, Kristin Sheridan
arxiv.org/abs/2601.15470 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/
- Bankrupting DoS Attackers
Trisha Chakraborty, Abir Islam, Valerie King, Daniel Rayborn, Jared Saia, Maxwell Young
arxiv.org/abs/2205.08287
- An Algorithm for Fast and Correct Computation of Reeb Spaces for PL Bivariate Fields
Amit Chattopadhyay, Yashwanth Ramamurthi, Osamu Saeki
arxiv.org/abs/2403.06564 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_bot/
- On Densest $k$-Subgraph Mining and Diagonal Loading: Optimization Landscape and Finite-Step Exact...
Qiheng Lu, Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos, Aritra Konar
arxiv.org/abs/2410.07388 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_bot/
- A New Quantum Linear System Algorithm Beyond the Condition Number and Its Application to Solving ...
Jianqiang Li
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05588 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_b
- On Purely Private Covariance Estimation
Tommaso d'Orsi, Gleb Novikov
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26717 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/
- The Query Complexity of Local Search in Rounds on General Graphs
Simina Br\^anzei, Ioannis Panageas, Dimitris Paparas
arxiv.org/abs/2601.13266 mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/
toXiv_bot_toot

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-01-28 12:44:06

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

Social media and communication platforms play a key role in how businesses, public organisations, and individuals communicate, engage with their audiences, and shape public narratives. At the same time, growing concerns around data protection, platform dependency, and control over digital infrastructures are pushing organisations to rethink the tools they rely on. European-developed social media and communication platforms offer concrete alternatives rooted in privacy and transparency, while …
@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-20 14:22:54

This thread is the kind of quality content we keep coming back for here on the fediverse.
And it’s well past time i re-read The Lord of the Rings. mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115582

Pepijn (@Pepijn@mastodon.online)
Huh. Someone has been DM-ing (with what I assume are sock-puppet accounts) telling me I'm wrong and the correct #LOTR quote is "You shall not pass!". As they're rather boring I just block & report them. It seems server admins have removed all or most of the accounts :-) If you're the troll: thanks for the incentive to spend time with the books. Also: WTF dude. For everyone else: I took the opportunity to go through my English copies of the fellowship and took photos of the actual text: 1/x

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-02 23:24:03

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

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-11-24 18:13:44

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!

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-10 20:04:56

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more
In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully