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mardor, 3 months ago to random

Der Frühling beginnt jetzt schon im Februar, um im Juni und Juli Platz für die neue Jahreszeit „Inferno“ zu schaffen.

MNSpy, 3 months ago to Germany

Feb 22: On this date in 1943, members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed in Nazi Germany.

#WW2 #Resistance #antifa #Germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsY-cwIqKs

TheSpaceshipper, 3 months ago to random

After reading the rave reviews from so many people I like, I'm savoring the few days I have left before discovering one of my next favorite sci-fi films.

clouddosage, 3 months ago to gaming

Cloud Gaming now represents over 10% of Xbox game play. And, it is bringing new users into the Xbox ecosystem.

https://clouddosage.com/xbox-cloud-tops-10-percent

Every screen really is an Xbox! That is an absolutely massive number for cloud gaming.

#Gaming #CloudGaming #Xbox

SmudgeTheInsultCat, 3 months ago to random

Konghammer, 3 months ago to EldenRing

I hope you've got your alarms set for the #EldenRing #ShadowOfThrErdtree gameplay trailer reveal?

avatter, 3 months ago to random German

Wenn Volker Wissing Grüner wäre, hätte Springer ihm schon lange den Spitznamen "Wasserstoffwissing" gegeben. Sie hätten einen Plagiatsjäger auf seine Dissertation angesetzt, heikle Revisionsverfahren aus seiner Zeit als Richter genüsslich filetiert, Paparazzi zum Familienweingut geschickt und das Instaprofil seiner Tochter gedoxxt. 🧵 (1/2)

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/volker-wissing-verkehrsministerium-friert-wasserstofffoerderung-ein-a-7c77a968-6bc4-47a6-acff-650cbc952358

swr3, 3 months ago to random German

Fußball-Weltmeister Andreas Brehme ist tot

Der Weltmeister von 1990 ist tot. In der Nacht von Montag auf Dienstag wurde er noch in eine Notaufnahme in der Nähe seines Zuhauses gebracht – doch jede Hilfe kam zu spät.

https://www.swr3.de/aktuell/nachrichten/andreas-brehme-tot-fussball-bundesliga-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=%40swr3%40ard.social

#AndreasBrehme #Tot #Gestorben #WM #Bundesliga

Gargron, 3 months ago to random

There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

GrueneBundestag, 3 months ago to random German

4 Jahre ist es her, als in Hanau 9 Menschen aus rassistischem Hass heraus brutal ermordet wurden.
Wir gedenken der Opfer dieses rechtsextremen, grauenhaften Terrorakts, unsere Gedanken sind bei den Familien & Freund*innen.
Es ist wichtiger denn je, als Gesellschaft zusammenzustehen und unsere Demokratie zu verteidigen. Damit solche Taten wie diese verhindert werden können!

#NieWiederIstJetzt
#saytheirnames #hanauistüberall #hanau

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bonfantimike, 3 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

FractalEcho, 3 months ago to ChatGPT

The racism in chatGPT we are not talking about....

This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread.

A few weeks ago, I was working on a paper with one of my RAs. I have permission from them to share this story. They had done the research and the draft. I was to come in and make minor edits, clarify the method, add some background literature, and we were to refine the discussion together.

The draft was incomprehensible. Whole paragraphs were vague, repetitive, and bewildering. It was like listening to a politician. I could not edit it. I had to rewrite nearly every section. We were on a tight deadline, and I was struggling to articulate what was wrong and how the student could fix it, so I sent them on to further sections while I cleaned up ... this.

As I edited, I had to keep my mind from wandering. I had written with this student before, and this was not normal. I usually did some light edits for phrasing, though sometimes with major restructuring.

I was worried about my student. They had been going through some complicated domestic issues. They were disabled. They'd had a prior head injury. They had done excellent on their prelims, which of course I couldn't edit for them. What was going on!?

We were co-writing the day before the deadline. I could tell they were struggling with how much I had to rewrite. I tried to be encouraging and remind them that this was their research project and they had done all of the interviews and analysis. And they were doing great.

In fact, the qualitative write-up they had done the night before was better, and I was back to just adjusting minor grammar and structure. I complimented their new work and noted it was different from the other parts of the draft that I had struggled to edit.

Quietly, they asked, "is it okay to use chatGPT to fix sentences to make you sound more white?"

"... is... is that what you did with the earlier draft?"

They had, a few sentences at a time, completely ruined their own work, and they couldnt tell, because they believed that the chatGPT output had to be better writing. Because it sounded smarter. It sounded fluent. It seemed fluent. But it was nonsense!

I nearly cried with relief. I told them I had been so worried. I was going to check in with them when we were done, because I could not figure out what was wrong. I showed them the clear differences between their raw drafting and their "corrected" draft.

I told them that I believed in them. They do great work. When I asked them why they felt they had to do that, they told me that another faculty member had told the class that they should use it to make their papers better, and that he and his RAs were doing it.

The student also told me that in therapy, their therapist had been misunderstanding them, blaming them, and denying that these misunderstandings were because of a language barrier.

They felt that they were so bad at communicating, because of their language, and their culture, and their head injury, that they would never be a good scholar. They thought they had to use chatGPT to make them sound like an American, or they would never get a job.

They also told me that when they used chatGPT to help them write emails, they got more responses, which helped them with research recruitment.

I've heard this from other students too. That faculty only respond to their emails when they use chatGPT. The great irony of my viral autistic email thread was always that had I actually used AI to write it, I would have sounded decidedly less robotic.

ChatGPT is probably pretty good at spitting out the meaningless pleasantries that people associate with respectability. But it's terrible at making coherent, complex, academic arguments!

Last semester, I gave my graduate students an assignment. They were to read some reports on labor exploitation and environmental impact of chatGPT and other language models. Then they were to write a reflection on why they have used chatGPT in the past, and how they might chose to use it in the future.

I told them I would not be policing their LLM use. But I wanted them to know things about it they were unlikely to know, and I warned them about the ways that using an LLM could cause them to submit inadequate work (incoherent methods and fake references, for example).

In their reflections, many international students reported that they used chatGPT to help them correct grammar, and to make their writing "more polished".

I was sad that so many students seemed to be relying on chatGPT to make them feel more confident in their writing, because I felt that the real problem was faculty attitudes toward multilingual scholars.

I have worked with a number of graduate international students who are told by other faculty that their writing is "bad", or are given bad grades for writing that is reflective of English as a second language, but still clearly demonstrates comprehension of the subject matter.

I believe that written communication is important. However, I also believe in focused feedback. As a professor of design, I am grading people's ability to demonstrate that they understand concepts and can apply them in design research and then communicate that process to me.

I do not require that communication to read like a first language student, when I am perfectly capable of understanding the intent. When I am confused about meaning, I suggest clarifying edits.

I can speak and write in one language with competence. How dare I punish international students for their bravery? Fixation on normative communication chronically suppresses their grades and their confidence. And, most importantly, it doesn't improve their language skills!

If I were teaching rhetoric and comp it might be different. But not THAT different. I'm a scholar of neurodivergent and Mad rhetorics. I can't in good conscious support Divergent rhetorics while supressing transnational rhetoric!

Anyway, if you want your students to stop using chatGPT then stop being racist and ableist when you grade.

#chatGPT #LLM #academic #graduateStudents #internationalStudents #ESL

fulelo, 3 months ago to Russia

BREAKING NEWS:
#Russian opposition leader #Navalny has died, #Russia 's prison service says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68315943

DavidBHimself, 3 months ago to mastodon

Your reading assignment of the day if you're on the Fediverse. Yes, especially you Mastodon users, who think Mastodon is a social network and is synonym with Fediverse.

https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/display/b64.aHR0cHM6Ly9odWIubmV0emdlbWVpbmRlLmV1L2l0ZW0vYjk3NTRkNzAtMTRmNi00MDYxLTliOTAtOWM4ODc4NzY1MjNm

#Mastodon #BlueSky #Fediverse

verge, 3 months ago to random

It’s time for Microsoft to build an Xbox Steam Deck https://www.theverge.com/24073201/microsoft-xbox-handheld-steam-deck-editorial

panos, 3 months ago to bluesky

OK this will probably be an unpopular opinion, but regarding the #bluesky #bridge and whether it's ok to be opt-out... For me the discussion doesn't make much sense because this is how fedi works. When you enable federation, your posts are federated to any activitypub-supporting server, unless you opt-out by fediblocking. Do you approve all of these servers? Do you agree with their ToS? Have you read the ToS of all of them, or know where they belong to? No. I know this might make you insecure about your data, but it's better to be honest than create a false impression of control, which then feels attacked when Threads or Bluesky appear. I understand that somebody may not want their content appearing in Zuckerberg's or Dorsey's platform. But they could already be running an AP server that's federated to your server, and you will never know. This is what we signed up for, adopting an open protocol and using software that federates with everyone as the default. And tbh I like it this way - an opt-in federation would be a disaster for smaller servers, it would practically be impossible to federate. By using an AP-enabled server, I'm telling everyone that it's ok to interact with my content - unless I actively block them. It doesn't include an agreement for how or from whom this content will be used. The fact that both servers run AP-compatible software is only a technicality. So if Bluesky implemented AP support it would suddenly be ok that interacting with their users would be opt-out, like with every AP server?

Don't get me wrong, I understand that everyone wants to be in control of their social circle, and I support you if you want to block Threads or Bluesky bridges. But I don't really see how it's unethical to have a bridge that is opt-out, just like any other AP-server. Our only "agreement" is using an open protocol, not any common ToS. ActivityPub is not ethically superior by definition, anyone can adopt it, and we have the right to block them, and this is all by design, it's not a different corner of the internet, everyone in the internet can use the protocol and see/display your public content. The drama every time some server does basically what we allowed them to do and we don't like it, is getting really old quickly. It doesn't "protect" fedi, it only makes it hostile and boring. If you're concerned about who sees your content, please run a followers-only account and control your followers. Running a public account in an openly federated platform and then getting angry when you don't agree with every single server you're federating with is a recipe to make sure you'll be angry for years to come.

pwaring, 3 months ago to DoctorWho

Prydonians are red
Ceruleans are blue
If Gallifrey was burning
I'd choose to save you

#DoctorWho #Valentines #Poetry

TheSpaceshipper, 3 months ago to random

You can now fly an ornithopter on Arrakis! In Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Here's your chance to take George Hull's design into your own hands.

This expansion includes three tutorials (take-off, landing, and freefall) and six activities: five-time trials and a daring rescue mission.

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TheSpaceshipper, 3 months ago to random

The Expanse (Season 4, 2020): The Rocinante, art by Ryan Dening

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Sven, 3 months ago to lotr

First laughing moment of the day. 😄

#LotR #Funny

BlackAzizAnansi, 3 months ago to random

Confession: When I first joined the fediverse I couldn't stand this place but now I love it here, it feels like how the internet was back in 2008.

NiklasMM, 3 months ago to random German

Nun hat es mich auch erwischt. Vorratsschrank aufgemacht und alles verschlüsselt vorgefunden. Natürlich kein Backup vorhanden. Gefordertes Lösegeld 1000$.

Tja jemand hat meine ...

linuxgal, 3 months ago to StarTrek

#DrWho #StarTrek #A035

tagesschau, 4 months ago to random German

Kommentar zur FDP: Die Vier-Prozent-Partei als Standortnachteil

Die FDP verkauft sich gerne als Partei der Wirtschaft. Indem sie mal wieder versucht, Gesetze in Brüssel zu stoppen, schadet sie dieser aber, meint Helga Schmidt. Der Kanzler sollte die Vier-Prozent-Partei in ihre Schranken weisen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/kommentar/kommentar-fdp-eu-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Kommentar #FDP #Lieferkettenegesetz #Veto

TheSpaceshipper, 4 months ago to random

Upcoming ship for Elite Dangerous (2014): The Python Mk II

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