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"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013714 "revealing a universal high-dimensional spectrum of visual information that emerges despite individual differenc…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. By examining large-scale neuroimaging recordings of human vision using a spectral approach more common in physics than neuroscience, we reveal the universal scale-free structure of population codes in visual cortex, which is found in all subjects and at multiple stages of visual processing. Moreove…

"Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, new research published in the journal PLOS Climate suggests.

Ein Artikel in Plos One beleuchtet den politischen #Bias von #Chatbots und zeigt, dass viele KI-Modelle eher linksgerichtete Antworten geben.
Dies könnte auf das Supervised Fine-Tuning zurückzuführen sein, bei dem KI durch menschliche Beispiele lernt. Interessanterweise weisen unterschiedliche

Linksgerichtete Chatbots? Eine Analyse der politischen Ausrichtung von LLMs
Politischer Bias in ChatGPT und Co.: Gibt es eine politische Ausrichtung in LLMs und wodurch könnte sie entstehen?

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337549

Visual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: The TTC-AMD study
Little is known about whether and to what degree people with different amounts of visual impairment rely on hearing instead of vision for mobility, particularly in judgments of collision. We measured how much importance was assigned to visual and auditory cues during time-to-collision judgments made by people with age-related macular degeneration (Impaired Vision Group; IV) compared to a control group without age-related macular degeneration (Normal Vision Group; NV). A virtual reality system s…

🥁 Blink to the beat: Scientists discover that when we listen to music, we unconsciously blink our eyes
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-scientists-music-unconsciously-eyes.html

Blink to the beat: Scientists discover that when we listen to music, we unconsciously blink our eyes
Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology detailing their findings about a new way our bodies naturally respond to music. Given a steady beat, our eyes blink in synchrony.

"“I’m going back to the #Fediverse. Back to #Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Contrary to Neuralink Blindsight's lack of evidence concerning applicability to people born blind, there is the 2012 paper titled "'Visual' acuity of the congenitally blind using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution
Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that…

"There’s been a new feature in my #Mastodon feed lately: People who have abandoned #Bluesky in protest at various controversial decisions there that don’t bode well. There have been flurries of departures related to trans rights, the treatment of Black users and Blacksky including banning accounts…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

"I ... think the odds of #Bluesky following #Twitter’s path is (sic) very high, given the structural similarities. Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue" — @…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…