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Loukas

@Loukas@mastodon.nu

Journalist, teacher, Londoner, Stockholmer.

Mostly thinking and writing about autism, ADHD and related disability issues.

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Garwboy, to random
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Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

stavvers, to random
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Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is what I wrote in mine, and the objection was immediately registered as successful, so feel free to copy.

Masto reply bores, this is not a post on which to fart out your opinions about Meta or AI or whatever. So don't. I'm sharing helpful info for people who need it, not for you.

black_intellect, to random
@black_intellect@mstdn.social avatar

Voters deliver upsets in Georgia House races with other contests headed to a June runoff • https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/05/23/voters-deliver-upsets-in-georgia-house-races-with-other-contests-headed-to-a-june-runoff/

neuralreckoning, to random
@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social avatar

OK, let's try something new. I'm not well connected because I'm bad at in person networking, and this is compounded by my decision to stop flying to conferences. So, can I use mastodon to find potential experimental colleagues who would like to work together?

Ideally for me, this would be people in Europe so I can visit by train, but it's not essential. I have some ideas for interesting projects and grant applications, and I'd love to develop those into concrete projects in close participation with experimental colleagues.

One of the main themes I'm interested in is how we can relate various neural mechanisms (e.g. inhibition, recurrence, nonlinear responses) to functions, using computational modelling to ask 'what if' questions that couldn't be answered by experiments alone.

I'm also interested in thinking about how we can use "information bottleneck" ideas to think more clearly about what computations networks of neurons are doing, going the next step beyond representing information to computing / discarding information.

A big question I'd like to answer is to find out how different brain regions work together in such a flexible and scalable way.

A technique I'm very excited about at the moment is using modern ML algorithms to train spiking neural networks at cognitively challenging tasks, making them directly comparable to both psychophysical and electrophysiological data.

Part of that could involve building in new mechanisms, like dendritic structure or neuromodulators into those networks and allowing the trained networks to make use of them in the best way possible.

I'd also love to build jointly motivated experimental and theoretical/synthetic datasets to test models against.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, take a look at some of my recent papers and get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.

http://neural-reckoning.org/publications.html

jon, to austria
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Article from Politico Europe on future European Commission nominees

https://www.politico.eu/article/frontrunners-next-european-commission-eu-election-2024/#austria

The only mention of transport? Cyprus 🇨🇾

Please no. Not one of only 2 countries in Europe that doesn’t have a railway. And not Stella Kyriakides again please…

clacksee, to UKpolitics
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Bring on the #GeneralElection!

#ukpolitics

Come On GIF by Max Morpheus: Bring it

clacksee,
@clacksee@wandering.shop avatar

Woo hoo! Here we go.

doktorzjivago, to random Swedish
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Hey baby är du Ryssland för du respekterar inte mina gränser

lzg, to random
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remember when we thought keyloggers were a bad thing? now companies assume we want them to log all of our keystrokes for yet unknown and never materialized benefits. good times.

lzg,
@lzg@mastodon.social avatar

when it came out, I thought grammarly was a keylogger. a cleverly packed one! it exploits everyone's insecurity about "writing the wrong way", which (idk who the fuck decided) is the way we know you're dumb.

nordicnews, to random
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Iceland presidential election: Former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir now leading in three major polls https://www.icelandreview.com/news/katrin-leads-prosent-poll-for-first-time/

timnitGebru, to random
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social avatar

❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

w7voa, to random
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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the US receives a huge boost with London's High Court ruling that Americans assurances over his case are unsatisfactory and he’ll get a full appeal hearing. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/wikileaks-julian-assange-given-permission-appeal-against-us-extradition-2024-05-20/

Jennifer, to Israel
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Wow. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas and for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant from Israel.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

erikdelareguera, to Israel Swedish
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🚨 Internationella brottmålsdomstolen ICC:s chefsåklagare Karim Khan vill utfärda arresteringsordrar mot Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu och tre av Hamas högsta ledare för misstänkta krigsbrott och brott mot mänskligheten som begåtts under kriget i Gaza.
Tre domare i ICC ska nu ta ställning till detta, innan arresteringsordrarna kan träda i kraft. #Israel #Hamas #Gaza https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html

SallyStrange, to random
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so... are @hachyderm mods just deleting other people's posts rather than, you know, moderating?

SallyStrange,
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Like... I bet if you're a hachyderm user, you can't see this post unless you log out of your account: https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/112445209722431786

A little transparency would go a long way!

@hachyderm

theindex, to random
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🇳🇨 New Caledonia unrest: 3 dead, 130+ arrested after France approves voting changes seen as diluting Indigenous Kanak vote. Riots, looting, and shooting amid worst violence since 1980s. Curfew imposed, airport closed.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

erikdelareguera, to random Swedish
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Det här är samma krav som de senaste veckorna förts fram i studentprotester vid universitet i USA, Frankrike, Spanien och andra länder. Man kan så klart tycka att det är fel att ställa denna typ av krav, men särskilt förvånande är det inte, med tanke på proteströrelsens bakgrund.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Is Trump ahead in the polls, because Biden is losing support amongst one of his key demographics: Black men? Or are the polls all a lie?

Trump ahead in polls?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Biden camp doesn't believe the polls?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election

Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! 🤡 Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!

1/N

mekkaokereke,
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If a man asks a woman out, saying that he's "a nice guy," the woman might still politely decline. She might start to explain why she's not comfortable giving her phone number to men on the street. If the "nice guy," suddenly calls the woman a stupid ****, and tells her "Chad is worse!" and "Have fun getting hit! You deserve what happens to you!" we see that he was never a nice guy.

Pretend that you do understand this, but that you don't understand why "Trump is worse!" is so ineffective.🤡

2/N

mekkaokereke,
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I don't care if Black men vote 100% for Biden.

Or 90% for Biden.

Or 80% for Biden.

Or 70% for Biden.

Or 60% for Biden.

If Biden doesn't win, it will be the fault of people who vote more than 50% for Trump. Stop expecting Black people to save you. That's not what we're here for. We exist outside of the world of being a voting block every 4 years.

Your "democracy" only works if Black people vote 90% plus for a candidate whose policies exposed them to genocide levels of harm. That's garbage.

tess, to random
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manic pixie torment nexus

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155652/chatgpt-voice-mode-gpt4o-upgrades

trochee,
@trochee@dair-community.social avatar

@tess

I feel obligated to contribute this

hanse_mina, to Bulgaria
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

The Council approved on May 14 the Plan, a document that sets out the Ukrainian government's plans for recovery and reconstruction and is a necessary step for the implementation of a 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) assistance program.

Today's approval of the plan will allow the EC to disburse up to 1.89 billion euros ($2 billion) in an additional pre-financing tranche before the start of regular payments tied to the implementation of reforms.

https://kyivindependent.com/eu-approves-kyivs-plan-for-ukraine-facility/

w7voa, to random
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Another Russian Defense Ministry senior official is arrested for bribery — Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, head of the personnel directorate. https://t.me/sledcom_press/13293

SethRudy, to random
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Everybody thinks about poor Prometheus stuck to the mountain but no one spares a thought for the eagle who is also trapped in this relationship and is probably thinking “ugh, liver? Again?!”

salometsereteli, to Georgia
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The Russian government of Georgia🇬🇪 approved the Russian law in the third reading in 64 seconds.

Protests are taking place in all major cities of Georgia.

If the Russian army enters Georgia tomorrow to save this government, don't be surprised, it is a standard procedure.

Europe is our home, look at our culture and history.
Never back to pigsland! Never back to russia!

Here we go again!


Shrigglepuss, to random
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The whistles in Thomas the Tank Engine are mating calls. They're all actually a type of mechanical flightless bird. It's complicated and that bit isn't really explained because it's a kids show

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