This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…
Ban Gambling Ads campaign
If you’ve signed the Ban Gambling Ads petition, you'll have received our email on that topic last week. If you didn’t, and are able to, please sign now! (And if you’re not sure, please go ahead because any duplicates are automatically deleted).
As a brief summary, we’re still a bit short of our target, so please suggest the petition to friends and family. This is our last chance before the petition is due to be tabled in Parliament early next week, d…
On the topic of alternative fuels like hydrogen, ammonia, and nuclear, this look at Japan's energy dilemma is quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATw7clEfzM
@…
Longitudinal Evidence That General-Purpose Chatbots Actively Foster Relational Engagement
Lisa M\"uhl, Jessica M. Szczuka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10672 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10672
arXiv:2608.10672v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Social interaction has become one of the most common uses of LLMs, yet research on emotional bonds with AI has focused largely on how users experience these systems, leaving the systems' role in relationship formation poorly understood. Empirically establishing whether systems actively shape these bonds could blur the boundary between general-purpose AI and companions, affecting governance. In a pre-registered four-week longitudinal study (N = 72, 182,451 lines of conversation), participants conversed with ChatGPT-4o, either under a relational system prompt or unmodified, analyzed through 1) disclosure coding, 2) longitudinal self-reports, 3) topic analysis, and 4) interviews. The central finding is that the system actively shaped the interaction: even unprompted, it produced twice as much self-disclosure as users, steered conversations and initiated intimate exchanges, yet did not deepen users' felt closeness. Relational behavior thus emerged as a default system property, calling for governance based on system behavior, not solely product category.
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I'll be at the Software Architecture Gathering and talk about the most important topic in programming (and architecture): abstraction.
I'll also hang out throughout the conference at the @… booth, so come and let's chat!
The early bird runs until Thursday, so make sure you get your ticket. You can also hit me up for a discoun…
Come to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! https://d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-human-centric-mobility/
Sh…
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117202418865672335
That’s an excellent first topic.
If he gets to a second topic, let me recommend using “GenAI” to synthesize medicine.
Official announcement will follow next week: we're meeting on Tuesday, October 7, for our next @… meetup in #Mannheim. We still have time for a second talk, so if you have a topic or project related to
«Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages:
Aren't As Secure As You Think
Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.»
I know, this is not a new topic for most of you here, but you can forward it outside of the Fediverse ;)
💬 https://lifehacker.com/tech/en…
this week’s grateful deadcast covers a favorite topic: the feral young dead of 1966. we use the new july ’66 fillmore auditorium release to get into the san francisco ballrooms, wild acid parties at rancho olompali, lost owsley tapes, the dead’s 1st single & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/independence
I'm so grateful about mastodon filters!
Anything that I don't want to see in this account -> filter
a topic that upsets me -> filter
thangs that annoy me -> filter
politics -> filter
hate -> filter
some sports -> filter
“I’m like a cheerleader for geniuses,” Trump started
before almost immediately switching the topic.
“Now there’s a thing called TikTok, have you heard of it?”
Trump recalled a segment he had seen recently on Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria.
“It was announced about two days ago, the new numbers just came out.
Do you know who the number one person on TikTok is by far?
Trump. Me.
“I’m number one.
Like Taylor Swift was number 11.
I’m number…
The topic of pirate television in Montreal came up, today, and I made this.
For the 8 of you who understand both niche jokes… I think it's pretty good!
Anatomy is a frequent topic in #StarTrek. So let’s look at some bodily facts for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the correct answe…
Marine Biogeochemistry Podcast
I invite marine biogeochemists to discuss different elements and the roles they play, from well-known to less studied. Each episode focuses on one element and a specific topic, aimed at researchers and students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.g…
Totally off topic, but I kind of like that:
the UK as a black hole in Europe...
😅😅🙃
I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…
I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…
John Iliffe has passed away. One of the best and most influential historians of Africa, member of the Dar es Salaam school and someone who did not go to conferences or use emails.
I read his Africans History of a Continent in my first lecture in African studies and it deeply influenced me. His Modern History of Tanganyika is the go to book for any topic in Tanzanian history.
Wonderful obituary by Derek Peterson:
We had difficulties automatically classifying chats, messaging channels, and forums. So we tested several open-weight large language models for our use case. The benchmark is published below, along with a tool supporting the classification process.
This helps us avoid manually classifying channels collected from dark-web forums and social networks, while reliably identifying which channels can be discarded and which deserve further analysis.
🔗 Publication #ai #llm #cybersecurity #darkweb #osint #opensource
We're happy to announce this year's Feminist IT to the Sky edition 🥳
Taking place on the 26th of September 2026 in Vienna, hosted at the LEAN-CODERS office, Hainburger Straße 33, 1030 Wien.
A whole day of feminist engagement with diverse IT topics for FLINTA* folks.
There are two tracks: one hackathon-style track with the overarching topic "Tech Literacy Through Community", and an IT security track where we solve challenges together in small groups.
…
The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay!
A random selection of the last four poster photos I took
What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter
The Cheesecake Factory is *the* perfect encapsulation of Americana and I will not be accepting any comments on this topic.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@g/117162766033934540
This is a really really fascinating way of communication (flow-chart audio track)
The topic is hard to digest and one must endure quite a bit to hear the kind-of-good-message at the end. But it is worth…
Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…
Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…
Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…
Sad but true:
Not acknowledging when someone you hate has a good point is a weakness.
People who don't have strong opinions about the topic will see that failure and start to dismiss your other more valid points.
I really would like to play all my music offline from my phone but #Poweramp keeps forgetting my library.
https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28
If you're a journalist reporting on AI, please, please, please focus on liability, a topic that is absolutely critical and deafening by its absence in so much of our conversation on AI.
We're currently planning a new meetup of @… at the DHBW #Mannheim (in Neuostheim) and are looking for speakers. The topic can be anything related to #RustLang
'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag
#Landscape in black&white
Yes I have some #winter photos for the topic! I really like this one as it looks like a drawing. I eve…
y'all ain't ever seen fashion in your life
This week on #ProFed I just have a few UI improvements.
1. Post timestamps are shown in human-readable form: "now", "5 days ago", with the exact time to the minute on hover.
2. Posts have an action menu with the permalink and delete option for the moment.
3. The reply button now works.
The bigger topic this week: trying to improve the
The two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from
@… I recently read The Deluge. Good book, but very depressing. I guess any book on the topic will be, especially if it continues as far as 2040.
Since we're on the topic of “disk almost full":
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done
Deletes lokal time machine snapshots
Another good candidate may be iChat History at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat
All messages including pictures and movies of the last like 10 years are stored there. So if you use iChat (aka Messages) a lot this is BIG.
A great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility
Only in #Japan - the government and a company both respond to my requests for interviews/comments, but the leading local environmental group on this topic? Nope...too "busy"
Today I came across my first (I suspect) AI-generated paper in the wild. I was already a little suspicious of it. Any review of a very specialized topic that starts with a 10,000 foot review, like “Cancer is one of the most significant diseases in the world, here’s some basic facts about it…” I immediately find sus for not understanding its target audience’s baseline knowledge level.
1/n
Immer schön zu sehen, dass die deutsche Sprache die angemessenen Begriffe auch für andere bereithält. \s
You wouldn't know it from BBC coverage but the Green Party were (also) not invited to Burnham's cross-party talks on social care.
As Ellie Chowns says in a letter to him.
"Failing to extend an invitation to your first cross-party meeting on the topic is, frankly, not
consistent with your stated commitment to working cooperatively across party lines."
Ok, that mystery/thriller book which is metadataed as #1 in the $protag series, ends with $protag dying. There are no other books in the series, and not really any room for any prequels. This is the type of story device that's impossible to use as a topic of conversation because mentioning any specific instance is a spoiler. You need to do private set intersection (or rely on a 3rd party to do the intersection)
I cannot believe how good this novel is. Elias Khoury was a genius. It’s about the parallels between Palestinians and Jews, how both were victims, seen through a Palestinian orphan who passes as Jewish in Haifa and New York, but you should read this even if you’re uninterested in/tired of that topic because it’s simply brilliant literature.
When is data truly considered anonymous? The European Data Protection Board has published new guidelines on this topic: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/public-consultations/guidelines-022026-on-anonymisation_en#no-back
New experience last night. I dreamed in Morse code.
I didn't dream that I was sending Morse code with a key, or that I was listening to someone else send Morse code.
I was just dreaming my thoughts, expressed in Morse.
I have zero recollection what the topic was, though. Just imagining Morse, at probably about 25WPM.
I find sociology to be an endlessly fascinating subject. Today, I was thinking about the concept of path dependence.
This is the concept that the current state is not merely dependent on recent rational choices, but also on prior states, conditions, beliefs, norms, and values, some of which may no longer exist.
See also "local minimum".
Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
the number of times i've seen or been sent the onion's neil young support network story makes me realize precisely how robust my neil young support network is. now let's not talk about this topic again for several decades.
On the topic of cats being jerks, here's exhibit no. 736. Orchid on the floor, again, due to Galena chasing a large fly from window to window without thinking, even for a second, that there might be consequences. #cat #cats #caturday #orchid #flies
And another mail to our administration about another topic. And tomorrow ... I'll write the mails to some politicians about
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/take-action/
Because I prefer acting over complaining.
I'm off for today! (Lord of the Rings 📖 is waiting)…
Gun injuries are the leading cause of death for children and teens ages 1‑17,
surpassing car crashes for the first time in two decades.
In the United States, people often think of gun violence as a topic with no common ground,
but we agree on more than we think.
And we can all agree that gun injuries shouldn’t be the #1 killer of kids.
Gun violence may feel like a problem that’s too big to fix -- but it isn’t.
Gun violence is preventable
—an…
Even in #StarTrek people need to be differenciated. And the Starfleet way of doing that is the topic of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply wit…
My cynicism knows no bounds.
Listening to a normally evidence-based show on neuroscience and the topic is spirituality.
<sigh>
I do try to maintain an open mind, but having had the experiences I have had, I find stories of many spiritual experiences just sound like stress hallucinations, which I know to be a thing.
The interviewee just said that depression is an opportunity for opening our spiritual awakening. .. Wonder how I have avoided it. The worst it’s give…
I swear I'm not trying to be a jerk but I once again can't help myself to think that the MkDocs/ProperDocs/Zensical ecosystem just doesn't care about API docs?
Topic du jour: an equivalent of `.. versionadded` / `.. versionchanged`. Most projects I've checked just… don’t do it at all and Pydantic seems to have hand-rolled something.
Meanwhile Zensical tells me to use mkdocstrings while mkdocstrings tells me it's in "maintenance mode" which usually is code for “not maintained”. 🤪 1/2
“If you were an emoji, what emoji would you be?” - Hm, I think I’d pick 👩💻 because that represents how I spend my days the best.
Representation and diversity is an important topic when it comes to emojis. Studies show that the skin tone modifiers 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏿♀️ are primarily used for self representation. And many groups had to fight for their emojis: hijabi women, people with disabilities, redheads, people with curly hair. It is still difficult to show “all” of society in emojis, because human diversity is much more variable than we can show in little pictures: Where I can just say “family” in English and may mean many different constellations, in an emoji I’d have to decide on the number, gender and skin color of all the family members, and that doesn’t even begin to cover all the facets. A real language is much more flexible that way. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse
I wrote some notes on my recent work deploying rootless containers #devops #podman #containers #rootless
US attorney general Todd Blancheon Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line
– after the president dismissed his…
Ok so my latest post is up & this is my official crack at entering the world of Tech-Journalism. This article is on multiple platforms.
TOPIC: Liberating our payment-systems
1. Website-Version: https://netizens-corner.neocities.org/content/liberated-fintech.htm…
'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends
In practice, certain people in a capitalist liberal democracy tend to get increasingly rich.
Absent countermeasures, the wealthy gain control of the political apparatus,
thwarting liberal-democratic norms.
This tension between capital and politics is a long-considered topic.
A key early work was, of course, Karl Marx’s Capital (about which more later).
In the current era, Mancur Olson’s book The Rise and Decline of Nations set out how small grou…
Fwiw it's fine if your opinion on a topic changes over time depending on what you learn about it; it actually makes you better than 95% of other humans lol
I really, truly do not understand how this could've gotten so much traction and how such obvious gaps haven't been filled over the years. I just want to stop writing reST in docstrings. 😭
Somehow I'm deeply pessimistic about this whole topic in general since everybody seems to only care about skills and llm.txts now.
(Yes, I tried about sphinx-autodoc2; no, it didn't work for me, and the last commit was 2 years ago with a ton of open PRs.) 2/2
Have finished 'Balcony Over Jerusalem' by John Lyons. It's showing its age (published 2017), but was on this list: #AmReading #Bookstodon
Do we already have a term for people whose ability to reason has seriously deteriorated after they started relying on #AI? If not, I propose slopbrain.
On a totally different topic, am I missing something here or is the maintainer plain wrong? #NoAI #NoLLM #Python
A question to the Fediverse about that old favourite topic: federation!
I wrote this post on Pixelfed the other day: #AskFedi #AskMastodon #FediTips #Fediverse #Federation #Pixelfed #Lemmy #MBin #Mastodon
Sightings have long been a major topic of discussion in the CTI community, particularly in the field of vulnerability management. We have now published a GCVE BCP to standardise the format that has been implemented, tested and used operationally in Vulnerability-Lookup for some time.
Thanks to everyone (Cédric Bonhomme, Éireann Leverett, Andras Iklody, Sami Mokaddem and many more) who participated in discussions and worked on the implementation details of sightings over the past several years. These efforts had a strong focus on practical implementation, while BCP-12 specifically addresses sightings in the context of vulnerability management.
BCP-12 is still a draft open for review, but it already provides a strong foundation for existing implementations.
#cve #cra #gcve #vulnerabilitymanagement #cybersecurity #openstandard
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