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Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114440131512138899

Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend.
• Bildung – Ländersache, trotzdem wichtig
• Familie – singular, wohl ein Abstraktum¹
• Senioren – plural, also wohl die konkreten Menschen
• Frauen – ebenfalls plural, wie Senioren
• Jugend – nicht etwa Jugendliche, sondern eher der Zustand, oder gleich die ewige welche?
Bildung beschreibt ein zu förderndes Konzept, Familie entweder auch oder doch die Menge der auf eine bestimmte Art zusammen…

"How much (little) are the AI companies making?"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income

Thread made me smile.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114785898841904625

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Hey, Pho Cue too, buddy!

I always find the use of first person plural pronouns in discussions of the distant future to be too cute…
Humans didn’t exist a million years ago. There were some crafty hominid apes but not the sort you could clean up and mistake for a human.
There is no “us” 7 billion years from now. There is very likely no “us” in half a million years. We may or may not have descendants but they won’t be “us” in any sense.
A billion years is longer than Earth has had visible life

Another essential thread from @… ...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733317506784669
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17602 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

A Unified Multi-Scale Attention-Based Network for Automatic 3D Segmentation of Lung Parenchyma & Nodules In Thoracic CT Images
Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to include the juxta-pleural nodules) and lung nodule segmentation, the primary symptom of lung cancer, play a crucial role in the overall accuracy of the Lung CAD pipeline. Lung nodule segmentation is quite challenging because of the diverse nodule types and ot…

Media Pluralism Monitor 2025: results for Belgium
https://cmpf.eui.eu/mpm-interactive-results/

Kion volas la popolo de sia regado? Mi divinas, ke unu el la gravaj aferoj estas, ke ĝi ŝirmas la preskaŭ senpova individuo de la rabemaj riĉuloj; kaj ke, nuntempe, tio ne okazas, do ili glitas al la ekstremoj kun la ne-plenumiĝota espero ke la promesita renverso rebonigos la ekvilibron. La centraj partioj pereos, se ili ne traktas severe grandajn komercajn kompaniojn, aparte la interretaj firmaoj. Legindas

There are many parallels between the changes happening in academia and those in tech laid out by @….
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
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