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Andreas Wagner

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I am #DigitalHumanities Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (#mpilhlt) #Frankfurt Also collaborator of […] [bridged from https://hcommons.social/@anwagnerdreas on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ] .. more

Andreas Wagner is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his work on the role of robustness and innovation in biological evolution. Wagner is professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zürich. .. more

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Flipboard @flipboard.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to […]

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 8h

Re-reading Kari Kraus's essay "Conjectural Criticism: Computing Past and Future Texts" from 2009. Imho, still one of the best essays ever published in DHQ. Also a fascinating read in light of LLMs and the fate of textuality.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23h

Fellowship on AI and Knowledge at Wisconsin-Madison. H/T Scott Newstok irh.wisc.edu/irh-fellowsh... Deadline Nov 20.

The Center for Humanistic Inquiry into AI and Uncertainty, an autonomous research center administratively housed within the Institute for Research in the Humanities, is pleased to announce its first annual competition for one external fellowship for a scholar who is working on a project that explores the theme of “AI and Knowledge” from a humanistic (or descriptive social-scientific) perspective. Joining a team of three to four internal fellows studying AI and uncertainty at UW-Madison, the external fellow will undertake full-time research, participate in the Center’s intellectual community (including weekly meetings with the other fellows), collaborate on the publication and dissemination of the Center’s annual whitepaper, and contribute to the Center’s other activities.

Thanks to an NEH AI Humanities research grant, external fellows will be in residence for the full academic year and will be given a $60,000 stipend, plus health benefits (if accepting the award through UW-Madison payroll), office space, and access to university facilities (libraries). Fellows may extend their residency through the following summer on a non-stipendiary basis. However, the fellowship may not be deferred for any reason.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/nanochat/

Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …

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Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@tedunderwood.com already in Lem, Star Diaries number 7 (1964). Ijon Tichy creates time travel duplicates of himself to get repairs done. Hilarity and oblique critique of collectivism ensue

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

I'm teaching Ancillary Justice, and a student points out that there's a bit of a trope in contemporary speculative fiction where characters divide their consciousness in order to multitask / learn things / get more than 24 hr days. True? And if so, is this a response to internet overwhelm?

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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

We just released Mastodon 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27.

These versions contain security fixes, as well as a few other bugfixes mostly related to handling of quote posts.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, since many people are obviously not reading the article, here's a pertinent figure from it showing the top actions to reduce emissions.

A horizontal bar chart titled “19 climate-friendly choices, ranked” shows actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint, ordered from most to least impactful. The x-axis represents projected impact in tons of CO₂ equivalent per capita per year (tCO₂e/cap/yr), ranging from 0 to about 2.5. Each action is color-coded by sector: transportation (blue), energy (orange), and food (green).

Go car-free – highest impact (blue bar extending to about 2.5 tCO₂e).

Fly less (blue, about 1.5).

Shift to renewable home energy (orange, about 1.4).

Switch to EV or hybrid car (blue, about 1.2).

Go vegan (green, about 1.0).

Walk, bike, or take transit more (blue).

Make energy-efficient renovations (orange).

Use clean cooking equipment (orange).

Go vegetarian (green).

Shift driving habits (e.g., carpooling) (blue).

Increase telecommuting (blue).

Shift to regional/seasonal diet (green).

Move to energy-efficient home (orange).

Decrease food waste (green).

Eat less meat (green).

Use less energy at home (orange).

Reduce packaged food, dining out (green).

Use energy-efficient appliances (orange).

Compost – least impact (green, under 0.1).

A note clarifies that these are meta-analytic estimates of greenhouse gas reduction potentials, drawn from 659 estimates across 47 academic journal articles. The average person emits 6.28 tonnes of CO₂e per year, though this varies widely by income and country. Wealthier populations may emit up to 110 tonnes per year, while lower-income populations may emit as little as 1.6 tonnes.

Source: WRI, based on data from Ivanova et al., 2020.

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Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) @suzannealdrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says.

This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops.

Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Wrote more about why I find these so interesting on my blog, including a note about how Jesse is using Graphviz DOT graphs as a prompting language! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/superpowers/

Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025

A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. Jesse is one of the most creative users of coding agents …

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This is a wildly creative set of customizations for Claude Code, using the new plugin system they just released. There are SO many fascinating ideas in this! Strongly recommend reading it and then spending some time exploring the accompanying repo: https://github.com/obra/superpowers […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 4d

N (# of observations) needs to be > 80 and in the cases they test, i (# of annotators) is double-digit.

Another limitation is that in a case like this you probably want to ask an additional question: Can multiple LLM annotators also reproduce human *variability*? Not addressed here.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 4d

If you know ground truth, you can evaluate LLM annotation by measuring accuracy. But what if the annotation task is subjective and you have many judgments by different observers? This paper offers a method for assessing whether divergence of a single LLM is outside expected human range. +

Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks

Many evaluations of large language models (LLMs) in text annotation focus primarily on the correctness of the output, typically comparing model-generated labels to human-annotated ``ground truth'' usi...

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

#carlzimmer and colleagues at the #nytimes have launched a series of interviews -- 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 -- with US scientists whose grants have been terminated. Recommended.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/science/ecology-forests-pollinators.html

(At the bottom of each interview you can find links […]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Where will I be in early March 2026?

In Stuttgart! At the deRSE conference. I intend to submit a couple of work items dealing with my favourite workflow management system. And the call for contributions is open: https://mastodon.social/@de_rse/115270954346336457

To give you an idea of what I […]

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

New publication: "Reviewing research software"

"Every research project in computational science requires writing some code, even if it’s only a few scripts. This code is instrumental in generating results, and often important for understanding in detail what was done. Nevertheless, unlike […]

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 5d

Nur dank Euch: AfD-Verbot.de gewinnt den Grimme-Preis 2025! Die Laudatio hat’s in sich. Danke an alle, die für das größte Beweisportal gegen die AfD abgestimmt haben. ❤️

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Michael Blume @blumeevolution.sueden.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Freue mich sehr, dass „unser aller“ #Mastodon einen #GrimmeOnlineAward (einen #GoA 🤭) erhalten hat! Sehr empfehlenswert zu lesen ist die Begründung der Jury für das #fediversum & gegen antisoziale #konzernmedien (die entsprechend wenig berichten werden) […]

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 6d

Gather around, friends, for a friendly 🧵.

Propaganda was not a widely used word before WW2. Sergeï Chakhotin was one of the first theoreticians of authoritarian propaganda in his 1939 book The Rape of the Masses, which was immediately banned by fascists.

Here are his 7 rules of propaganda:

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #doi.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]

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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin @karldietzverlag.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Wer auf Instagram ist: Bitte helft, den Fake-Account, der sich als uns ausgibt, zu löschen:
❌ karl__dietz_verlag
= ist ein privater Account, hat eine Handvoll Follower (wir > 7500) und ist erkennbar am doppelten, extralangen Unterstrich nach dem ersten Wort […]

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Screenshot vom Fake-Account auf Instagram, der vorgibt, Dietz Berlin zu sein

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

We need to acknowledge that working effectively with AI programming tools is HARD - they're unintuitive, full of traps and can churn out huge volumes of bad code if you let them

But they can also greatly amplify your existing programming expertise if you know how to wield them

It turns out […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"! (with my tongue only partially in my cheek) […]

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Bianca Kramer @msphelps.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

In this new preprint with @HLdeJonge, we analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/ndx3f_v1 […]

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Metadata coverage by publisher for abstracts, affiliations, references, funding, ORCIDs and licenses, categorized by their submission" system.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 7d

It’s shocking to me, actually, that our intellectual traditions proved so powerless here.

100 years of fiction about thinking machines that blur the boundaries of … now, wait just a second! I didn’t mean you could *actually* blur those boundaries

Same story with Foucauldians

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Ralf Stockmann @rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Der Vollständigkeit halber hier meine anderen Mastodon-Tools:

Mastotags (die besten Hastag-Kombinationen für die Mastowallwall finden)
https://rstockm.github.io/mastotags/

Mastothread (teilt Longreads wie diesen in Einzelpostings auf)
https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread/

Fedipol […]

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Ralf Stockmann @rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Wer das doof findet darf sich a) fragen ob VibeCoding nicht auch für Aktivismus ganz neue Felder aufschließt oder b) das von mir ebenfalls sehr geschätzte, handgebaute Alternativprodukt fediwall nutzen:

https://fediwall.social

Denn im (echten) Internet ist immer Platz.
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Ralf Stockmann @rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Mit einem weiteren Klick kann man sehen, was die Leute so zuletzt zu den Hashtags geschrieben haben, Mensch will ja nicht wild allen folgen. Darum gibt es auch keine "folge Allen" Funktion.

Wie alle bisherigen Versionen ist auch diese zu 100% durch KI entstanden, also #vibecoding - verwendet […]

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