Here is a totally innocent cat who definitely didn’t steal my spot when I went to refill my cup of tea
Inner Worlds is one year old today! 😮
4 issues
44 stories
900(ish) submissions
74,121 words published
33 current subscribers making it all possible
Thank you everyone for an amazing first year! 💖🎂
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Inner Worlds Zine
Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.Sarah I Jackson
PhD Student in Virology/Bionformatics
Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg
The project will investigate genomic features in DVG and DI formation in #enteroviruses using #molecular biology and #bioinformatics.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/otto-von-gueri…...
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PhD Student in Virology/Bionformatics
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!jobRxiv
The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
"The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians"
theguardian.com/world/article/…
#astronomy #mathematics #history
‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historiansWilliam Dalrymple (The Guardian)
APOD: 2024 September 1 – The Moon Dressed Like Saturn
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The hilly countryside spreads out below shrouded in mist. Everything is a dark blue. Tiny red and green and white/yellow lights peer out from the mist as evidence of human habitation.
@Karl Auerbach I was never part of a major improv group BUT I did study impro with someone who had worked directly with Keith Johnstone, the man who invented TheatreSports!
Is that Brandon Scott Jones in that video?!
The Moon Dressed Like Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Francisco Sojuel
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APOD: 2024 September 1 – The Moon Dressed Like Saturn
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Waiting for a train.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm
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I know a lot of tech-heads are on here, but Bluesky also deserves to have tech-heads. It’s lonely being the only guy talking about Hackintosh and distros on that site.
Let’s start a community over there. I’m here: bsky.app/profile/ernie.tedium.…
Hey Toronto! City staff are developing a new by-law to curb "renovictions"—when you get evicted because the landlord claims they need to do renos—and for the next month, you can tell them what you think: toronto.ca/community-people/ho…
There's an online survey as well as a Zoom session and in-person events.
#housing #toronto #TOpoli #TOcouncil
edit: accidentally a few words
Renovictions Bylaw Development
Have your say on Toronto’s renovictions bylaw by completing our online survey or attending one of the drop-in sessions listed below.City of Toronto
The creator of Newgrounds has considered adding ActivityPub support to join the fediverse but is worried it would make their hosting fees untenable by “serving files to millions of people on third party apps“. Can anyone with more knowledge on how this works help them?
newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/15375…
Having Newgrounds on the Fediverse would be incredible. Newgrounds has a huge art community, many features not available on any platform and has been around the longest (1999)
CC @dansup @Gargron @ruud
Monthly Voting Overhaul: Mobile, Art & Music!
The first day of each month traditionally kicks off Monthly Voting but starting next month: Voting for the Best of August will begin on Saturday, September 7th and end on the 14th. This will allow more time for late-month entries to settle in an...Newgrounds.com
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This woman's choreography cracks me up! Finding this in my inbox: what a great way to start the day!
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Going to be watching the new episode of #BloodOnTheClocktower from #NoRollsBarred ☺️
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played this at a friend's the other week, my first time and didn't understand the game one bit!!!
Apparently my team won
"Timelapse of the best multi-color meteor train I have ever seen, and other dark sky phenomena."
youtube.com/watch?v=DVHkUuUTfI…
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Elizabeth Villa's lab delivers big time again with in-cell cryo-electron tomography of the nuclear pore complex:
"The molecular architecture of the nuclear basket" by Singh et al. 2024.
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8…
#CellBiology #CryoEM #ProteinStructure #StructuralBiology
Latest comic: Critics to ignore
#uspol #elections #2024election #kamala #KamalaHarris #women #gender #comic #cartoon #media
Amazing jazz singer!
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When worrying about the harms from deploying AI, it’s issues like this that have caused and will cause the most harm. Not the AI suddenly turning into the machines from the Matrix and enslaving humanity.
The system that was meant to analyze income and health information to automatically determine eligibility for benefits simply didn’t work and often failed to load the correct data to analyze. 🤦🏾♂️
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-400-mi…
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits
Thousands of children and adults were automatically terminated from Medicaid and disability benefits programs by a computer system that was supposed to make applying for and receiving health coverage easier.Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)
techpolicy.press/challenging-t…
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.Eryk Salvaggio (Tech Policy Press)
APOD: 2024 August 31 - IFN and the NGC 7771 Group
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IFN and the NGC 7771 Group
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Mandel and Bob Fera
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APOD: 2024 August 31 - IFN and the NGC 7771 Group
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Playing with light and bokeh. Also, check out the cute little group of ladybugs!
#ladybug #ladybird #insect #bokeh #flower #flowerphotography #insectphotography #garden #gardenphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #stalbert #edmonton #yeg #t8n #alberta #canada #mastoart #mastophoto #fediart #fediphoto #bloomscrolling
Open Social Web / fediverse folks: with Elon Musk's fight with the Brazilian government likely to result in X being down in Brazil, there's an opportunity to invite more folks to the fediverse.
Is anyone working on plans to recruit and welcome people here, while ensuring their safety & quality of community? It's an obvious opportunity that can be planned for.
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Kitten Man, Kitten Man
Cute ball of fur rests upon his hand
Plays with yarn, chases flies
Makin' biscuits of every size
Meow!
Here comes the Kitten Man!
Is he cute? His paw goes boop
Even though daily his box you'll scoop
Runs 'round the house, in a whirl
Then upon your warm lap he'll curl
Meow!
There goes the Kitten Man!
In the deep of night, when the shadows unfurl
Like a treasured pet, at your side he will curl!
Kitten Man, Kiiten Man
Your friendly neighborhood Kitten Man
Let daily stress be ignored
Companionship is his reward
To him, life is a great big cat toy
To cuddle a ball of warm joy
Just ask the Kitten Man!
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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.
"As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have become ever larger and subjected to more sophisticated training, a lot of that problematic behavior has been ironed out. For example, I asked the current iteration of ChatGPT for five words it associated with African Americans, and it responded with things like "resilience" and "creativity."
"But a lot of research has turned up examples where implicit biases can persist in people long after outward behavior has changed. So some researchers decided to test whether the same might be true of LLMs. And was it ever."
image from paper: arxiv.org/html/2403.00742v1
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