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Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

An interview with BBC News analysis editor Ros Atkins about his viral explainer videos, use of OSINT by journalists, fake news, and more (Emma Vowles/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders/ros-atkins-interview-2/

BBC's Ros Atkins on AI, switching off (or not), and staying curious
BBC News analysis editor Ros Atkins on AI, the importance of data and OSINT, how he (doesn't) switch off, and tips for new journalists.

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

‘Cluelessly #Racist’: Joy Reid and Michael Steele Call Out Fox Personality Over Trump’s Sneakers
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/cluelessly-racist-black…

‘Cluelessly Racist’: Black TV Hosts Call Out Fox Personality Over Trump’s Sneakers
Republican Trump is hawking "ugly" $400 shoes sneakers 2024 election MSNBC Black voters racist Joy Reid Michael Steele Raymond Arroyo Fox News

Investigating Bias in LLM-Based Bias Detection: Disparities between LLMs and Human Perception
Luyang Lin, Lingzhi Wang, Jinsong Guo, Kam-Fai Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14896 …

Investigating Bias in LLM-Based Bias Detection: Disparities between LLMs and Human Perception
The pervasive spread of misinformation and disinformation in social media underscores the critical importance of detecting media bias. While robust Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as foundational tools for bias prediction, concerns about inherent biases within these models persist. In this work, we investigate the presence and nature of bias within LLMs and its consequential impact on media bias detection. Departing from conventional approaches that focus solely on bias detection in m…

Ofcom warns UK broadcasters on the importance of impartiality ahead of the general election, but stops short of outright banning using politicians as presenters (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://t.co/ksNyNSpZKP

Semantic Evolvement Enhanced Graph Autoencoder for Rumor Detection
Xiang Tao, Liang Wang, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16076 ht…

Semantic Evolvement Enhanced Graph Autoencoder for Rumor Detection
Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Recently, numerous rumor detection models which utilize textual information and the propagation structure of events have been proposed. However, these methods overlook the importance of semantic evolvement information of event in propagation process, which is often challenging to be truly learned in supervised training paradigms and traditional rumor detection methods. To address this…

Interesting ITF report on active travel, its benefits and barriers. How moto-normativity shapes our view of urban mobility, why we need to treat walking & cycling separately, the role of safety in different dimensions.
https://www.itf-oecd.org/improving-quality

Good morning friends!
One more #photo from last week's hike with friends.
We were just leaving the summit when I looked back and wanted to a say 'good bye 👋' when I saw this perspective. The cross on the left and the #tree winding itself around.
I just thought this is a stron…

Have you checked out the #TNC24 Programme? Are you interested in discussing the importance of #sustainability, or how to approach #AI to support

I've big sympathies with the core message of this article. Maybe because I'm also using a IMHO quite potent, but old OnePlus 3T and observed that a significant part of boring plain web stuff has become a PITA to use on the go.
The importance of bloated web sites gets much, much bigger if you look at it with a global PoV taking the inequalities into account.
Great writeup. Worth reading even if the technical aspect is not key for you!

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

Uh huh.
“Our research focuses on generating visual affective skills for virtual AI avatars, aiming for positive applications. It is not intended to create content that is used to mislead or deceive …
“The benefits – ranging from enhancing educational equity, improving accessibility for individuals with communication challenges, and offering companionship or therapeutic support to those in need – underscore the importance of our research and other related explorations.”

“He focused on issues like infrastructure & downplayed the importance of reproductive rights. ‘It's certainly an issue that needs to be dealt with,’ he told Politico, ‘but not our top issue. I don't think that this is the issue that wins or loses the race.’ That calculus turned out to be wrong, & Lands just gave Democrats good reason to believe Powell will be only the 1st of many Republicans to pay the price at the ballot box this year.”

Alabama Democrat flips GOP seat after campaigning against threats to IVF
Democrat Marilyn Lands defeated Republican Teddy Powell on Tuesday in a nationally watched special election for a GOP-held seat in the Alabama House of Representatives. While Republicans will ...

Point of importance for organizations in need of turnaround, from an article about the turnaround of General Electric.
"One advantage was that Mr Culp was an outsider... The turnaround probably could not have been pulled off by a lifer."
https://www.

What Boeing, Disney and others can learn from General Electric
Lessons from the tenure of Larry Culp

"Studies investigating autistic community research priorities indicate a mismatch between what #autism #research focuses on and what #autistic people want to see researched."
A MILLION …

Axios changes strategy in response to AI: more events, a $1K/year membership program, and more subscription newsletters; Aja Whitaker-Moore will be the new EIC (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/axios-ai-stra…

Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy
“The premium for people who can tell you things you do not know will only grow in importance, and no machine will do that,” says Jim VandeHei, C.E.O. of Axios.

'Get those glasses on': Browns, Bills, Jets and more celebrate total solar eclipse https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39900964/sports-world-celebrates-solar-eclipse-social-media-boston-ce…

Bills, Jets, Celtics and more teams celebrate solar eclipse - ESPN
From Boston Celtics center Luke Kornet blocking out the sun to Buffalo Sabres mascots demonstrating the importance of protective glasses, here's how sports teams prepared for Monday's event.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00264 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Playing With Friends -- The Importance of Social Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In early 2020, the virus SARS-CoV-2 evolved into a new pandemic, forcing governments worldwide to establish social distancing measures. Consequently, people had to switch to online media, such as social networks or videotelephony, to keep in touch with friends and family. In this context, online games, combining entertainment with social interactions, also experienced a notable growth. In our work, we focused on the potential of games as a replacement for social contacts in the COVID-19 crisis.…

Explaining Veracity Predictions with Evidence Summarization: A Multi-Task Model Approach
Recep Firat Cekinel, Pinar Karagoz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06443

Explaining Veracity Predictions with Evidence Summarization: A Multi-Task Model Approach
The rapid dissemination of misinformation through social media increased the importance of automated fact-checking. Furthermore, studies on what deep neural models pay attention to when making predictions have increased in recent years. While significant progress has been made in this field, it has not yet reached a level of reasoning comparable to human reasoning. To address these gaps, we propose a multi-task explainable neural model for misinformation detection. Specifically, this work formu…

Axios changes strategy in response to AI: more events, a $1K/year membership program, and more subscription newsletters; Aja Whitaker-Moore will be the new EIC (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/business/media/axios-ai-stra…

Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy
“The premium for people who can tell you things you do not know will only grow in importance, and no machine will do that,” says Jim VandeHei, C.E.O. of Axios.

Q&A with Craig Erwich, president of Disney Television Group, on determining what shows air where, from Hulu to ABC, the continued importance of ABC, and more (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/hulu-abc-disney-craig-erwich-interv…

Q&A with Craig Erwich, president of Disney Television Group, on determining what shows air where, from Hulu to ABC, the continued importance of ABC, and more (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/hulu-abc-disney-craig-erwich-interv…

Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani talks about cord-cutting, the importance of niches for digital media, threats from AI, and how it feels to break bad news (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/media-layoffs-max-tani-sema…

How It Feels to Be the Go-To Guy for News About Media Layoffs
Also: what he thinks will be the future of media.

Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani talks about cord-cutting, the importance of niches for digital media, threats from AI, and how it feels to break bad news (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/media-layoffs-max-tani-sema…

How It Feels to Be the Go-To Guy for News About Media Layoffs
Also: what he thinks will be the future of media.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11640 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Not All Asians are the Same: A Disaggregated Approach to Identifying Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media
Recent policy initiatives have acknowledged the importance of disaggregating data pertaining to diverse Asian ethnic communities to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their current status and to improve their overall well-being. However, research on anti-Asian racism has thus far fallen short of properly incorporating data disaggregation practices. Our study addresses this gap by collecting 12-month-long data from X (formerly known as Twitter) that contain diverse sub-ethnic group repre…

News Corp CEO says it is in advanced talks with major AI companies to license its content and that Sam Altman understands "the social importance of journalism" (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/02/08/business…

News Corp in 'advanced' talks with AI firms on deals to license content, CEO says
Thomson said News Corp believes “courtship is preferable to courtrooms” to solve the hotly debated issue.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18314 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Chinese Offensive Language Detection:Current Status and Future Directions
Despite the considerable efforts being made to monitor and regulate user-generated content on social media platforms, the pervasiveness of offensive language, such as hate speech or cyberbullying, in the digital space remains a significant challenge. Given the importance of maintaining a civilized and respectful online environment, there is an urgent and growing need for automatic systems capable of detecting offensive speech in real time. However, developing effective systems for processing la…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11640 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Not All Asians are the Same: A Disaggregated Approach to Identifying Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media
Recent policy initiatives have acknowledged the importance of disaggregating data pertaining to diverse Asian ethnic communities to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their current status and to improve their overall well-being. However, research on anti-Asian racism has thus far fallen short of properly incorporating data disaggregation practices. Our study addresses this gap by collecting 12-month-long data from X (formerly known as Twitter) that contain diverse sub-ethnic group repre…