mapto.bsky.social
@mapto.bsky.social
Studying how people interact, in the past ( #CulturalAnalytics) and today ( #EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform.

I'm also on the fediverse https://linktr.ee/mapto
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Great to be at #chr2025 in #luxembourg!

Currently ongoing is the short paper session, with a broad range of fresh work in "Computational Humanities Research".

See the programme here: https://2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/#lightningtalks
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Today at #chr2025, I will be presenting our work on the evaluation of the historical adequacy of masked language models (MLMs) for #Latin. There are several models like this, and they represent the current state of the art for a number of downstream tasks, like […]

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December 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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"The results speak for themselves. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources, with only a small fraction—roughly 1%–3%—coming from flexible thermal plants, such as those powered by natural gas. They are used only when hydroelectric power cannot fully cover […]
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December 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I know several Chechens committed to the cause and they have told me some out-of-this-world horrors about the dangers they face even in Europe, not to mention their families and relatives back in Chechnya.

We could at least share the article to make it known.
oc-media.org/opinion-chec...
Opinion | Chechen voices are being silenced, even those abroad
Until the fear of collective punishment ends, even the simple act of speaking publicly is a privilege that most Chechens don’t have.
oc-media.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Today is Mamuka Gatserelia’s birthday.

He’s imprisoned for life in Russia, taken as a hostage during the Siege of Azovstal.

He had to flee Russian occupation from Abkhazia, Georgia… fought Russians in Ukraine, and is currently their hostage.

1/2
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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@tedunderwood.com not sure how representative for the overall space OpenRoute is, but at least to me, this contains the first empirical taxonomy of actual use cases for GenAI
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The bigger picture / my thoughts:
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models - arxiv.org/abs/2511.01805 "Our analysis exposes the hidden risk of belief shift as models undergo extended sessions of talking or reading, rendering their opinions and actions unreliable." fascinating #ai #llm
Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models
Language model (LM) assistants are increasingly used in applications such as brainstorming and research. Improvements in memory and context size have allowed these models to become more autonomous, wh...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world's news, and have won 36 of AP's 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917. See their most striking photos of 2025.
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025: AP photos that defined the year
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world’s news, and have won 36 of AP’s 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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"The number of women globally who commit violent crimes is very small – in 2021 they were responsible for just 10% of homicides. Indeed, women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. But when women do kill, in many cases the victim is a male partner or family member and there is a […]
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November 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The story of Spain's #podemos from within. I do believe that anyone interested in politics, the way it is made today, should read this account.

It has so much in common with Italy's #m5s, Germany's #piratenpartei and probably dozens of other movements in Europe and across the world that have […]
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November 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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I dislike the term “AI” too, but it’s well rooted at this point. We’re more likely to change assumptions about AI than to replace the term.

And the dichotomy between “machine learning” and “LLMs” being proposed as a substitute would actually be worse; it doesn’t identify a real difference. +
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.

What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?

Choices.
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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The thing is, as bad as this sounds, i don't believe that it was always that different, but gatekeepers simply cut off the folkways at a certain threshold. Online media now reveal the full spectrum of communicative purposes—play, identity, partisanship, performance, outrage, and sometimes: truth.
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”
300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.
Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…
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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉

Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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You can read & download the chapter for free in the new open-access volume, Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures (edited by Matthew Kilbane).

I highly recommend checking out the whole book! Especially if you're interested in literature and social media.

www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr...
Ebook of Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...
https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr70t?locale=en#/6/22[ch10]!/4/2[c5]/2/2/2[p63]/1:0
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Tolkien “One of the recurring plots of The Lord of the Rings is in fact stories about human beings who try to be immortal and are corrupted by that attempt,”

Sound familiar? #Thiel
A simple explainer of Talkein's Lord of the rings for billionaire tech nerds: the unchecked combination of power and ambition is toxic.
https://www.vox.com/culture/466858/lord-of-the-rings-conservatives-right-republicans-elon-musk-jd-vance-peter-thiel
November 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other.”

I’m grateful for the Rev. Sharpton’s powerful words of unity this morning and against the cynical politics of fear and division.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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#newmexico joins countries such as #norway & #belgium that offer #free #universal #childcare for #children under 3, & #bulgaria, where early childhood #education is free for all children until elementary school. New Mexico is going further by offering no-cost child care for children up to age 13 […]
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November 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Dear friends and colleagues, I am recruiting prospective PhD students for Fall 2026, in Digital Humanities, Cultural Analytics, Critical Data Studies, Social Media, and/or Platform Studies. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions, or share this with anyone who might be interested! Thanks!
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Ever since Windows 95, for 30 years the problem remains Windows

https://www.theverge.com/games/807711/xbox-ally-sleep-fail-bazzite-fix-performance
Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds
The Xbox Ally is better with Bazzite.
www.theverge.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM