Nikolay Marinov

@professorniki.bsky.social

430 followers 200 following 690 posts

Academic in Sweden, elections, sanctions, propaganda. Advocate for corruption-free Bulgaria. Професор в Швеция, избори, санкции, пропаганда. Застъпник за Варна, Морската Градина.

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Political science 51%

Sociology 22%

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Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · 3d

this bad biggie bad

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13d

Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
archives.yale.edu/repositories...

Worn papyrus with drawings of figures, symbols, and writing in Coptic. More here https://smarthistory.org/coptic-magical-text/

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15d

There’s a non-zero possibility that this sort of epistemic closure is a big piece of the male crisis in America.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 27 more Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jennifer A. Richeson, Suzana J. Camargo, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Glenn Lyons, Rosemary A. Joyce, Henning Melber, Paul Bowman, Peter Holmes, John Foot, Robert Wolfe, W. Andy Knight, Michael Zimmer, Adrian Daub, Gerald Friedman, Anne Norton, Nikolay Marinov, Kent Johnson, Ann Bartow, Mary Jane Curry, Ryan K. Brook, Eric J. Sundquist, John H. Knox, Albin Wagener, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Jaap Kooijman, Kristina McElheran

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16d

Make it viral.

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 27d

Today my 85-yr-old mother told me that she no longer watches videos on facebook or youtube because of gen AI. They're losing the octogenarians.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Rebecca Tushnet, Nikolay Marinov , and 3 more Fabián Muniesa, Rebecca Tushnet, Nikolay Marinov, Katrina Navickas, Charles T. Mathewes, Esther Peeren

Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · Dec 20

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Luke Moffett, Brian Keegan , and 3 more Efrén O. Pérez, Luke Moffett, Brian Keegan, Nikolay Marinov, Madeleine Pownall, Juan Ramón

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Dec 16

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public

synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human
participation with synthetic data

author: Abeba Birhane

abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the
use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction
in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim
that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically
unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and
cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight,
and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations,
Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human
participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic
harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Dec 15

tozi borobachkadosta mozhe li da se sledi w BSKY

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Dec 12

@timmiller.bsky.social joined the latest episode of @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's podcast to talk how Donald Trump is starting to make the mistakes of a normal politician and much more. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLi...

Can We Win Back The Turning Point Bros?

YouTube video by This is Gavin Newsom

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Dec 11

Anti-government protest draws tens of thousands in Bulgaria

u.afp.com/S7sv

Reposted by Melissa Johnson, Nikolay Marinov

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Dec 7

SilentMiddleChild
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Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Dec 3

Мирчев има по 1-2 хиляди преглеждания на статус - този е с 8 хиляди дотук. Може бе не трябваше да ги хваща за сакото - ама па ся кво

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Dec 2

а и сега какво им пречи

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ju @anonymous.bg · Nov 30

няма да се случи този концерт по този начин

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Nov 29

плащат по 6 лв на час за превод

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Nov 29

бе да дадат по една мазна баница и да си ходим

Булевард България (Бот) @boulevardbulgaria.bsky.social · Nov 29

“Магазини за хората”, ама друг път - сега ще има само щандове.

“Магазини за хората”, ама друг път - сега ще има само щандове

boulevardbulgaria.bg

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Булевард България (Бот) @boulevardbulgaria.bsky.social · Nov 29

“Магазини за хората”, ама друг път - сега ще има само щандове.

“Магазини за хората”, ама друг път - сега ще има само щандове

boulevardbulgaria.bg

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Nov 29

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Nov 28

Имало е да става

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Nov 28

Reportedly, this is one more photo of the burning Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Black Sea.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Nov 28

Reportedly, this is one more photo of the burning Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Black Sea.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Nov 28

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Nov 28

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

www.washingtonpost.com

Nikolay Marinov @professorniki.bsky.social · Nov 28

Да

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Булевард България (Бот) @boulevardbulgaria.bsky.social · Nov 28

"Няма да позволим да ни излъжат" - задава се нов протест срещу бюджета.

"Няма да позволим да ни излъжат" - задава се нов протест срещу бюджета

boulevardbulgaria.bg

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Веселин Дремджиев @vdremdjiev.bsky.social · Nov 28

🔴Путин провежда в момента #хибридна атака в центъра на София. Коли на привърженици на проруската партия #Величиe имитират повреди и спират и без това натоварения трафик. Причината - най-сетне обвинения в огромни #мошеничества ивИлин дава обяснения за фараонските си схеми.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Nov 28

Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.