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  RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117455465011243638 Good advice. I haven’t had any spam but I don’t want any either. I had six different apps authorized for my account because I’ve never found one I liked and never deauthorized them. Yes, I love the Mastodon native mobile interface, I think it looks great in any mobile browser, but mostly in DuckDuckGo mobile

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/117462924622718147 This is a nice essay about the power of scholarly literature to create necromancy in the imagination attn: @electricarchaeo

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  The combustion-engine-driven Mad-Max-style dystopian future we were all raised to believe in seems a lot more realistic if you imagine solarpunks charging ebikes before riding into battle. Also this looks like tremendous fun. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdpg7256yo

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  Wells and VanderVeen. 2026. "An Anthropological Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Transformations in Civic and Domestic Life, Labor, and Higher Education Through the Cybernetic Organism (Cyborg) Concept." Maguare 40(1). https://www.proquest.com/openview/639ef067e3f8c2598a88bcf491d198b1 "This essay uses cyborg anthropology to model interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) and highlights potential strengths and weaknesses of AI regarding learning and inn...

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  The Road

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  RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116983720071725567 Did Firefox just reinvent “iGoogle” (2005-2013)? https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/google-search

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  The kids are alright. Also, why aren’t more colleges and universities enlisting their students to help set policies? https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5853571/students-set-ai-policy

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  It just occurred to me that the combined works of the Iliad and the Odyssey could be named “Everybody Hates Agamemnon”

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  RE: https://fediscience.org/@josh/116924383788795803 In which I bring some books by @pluralistic@mamot.fr to meet the foundational ideas of cyborg anthropologist Donna Haraway, and discuss what the heck is going on with artificial intelligence

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites/116893016548981856 This isn’t just a win for right to repair, it’s a win for food security in general when farmers can manage their equipment to get food on the table, and a win for the cybersecurity of our farming infrastructure when people no longer have incentives to expose themselves to malware trying to crack firmware

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  “‘The most important thing in school is that our children ​learn to read, write and do mathematics,’ Stoere said, according to Reuters. When you put it that way, it seems pretty reasonable!” https://gizmodo.com/norway-says-ai-aint-for-education-2000774320

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  Canvas LMS is down globally due to a security breach. I received numerous emails from my uni IT today increasingly concerned ultimately warning everybody Don’t. Log. In. At. All. So the end of the semester is tomorrow at 23:59ET. Lots of finals haven’t been graded. Lots of final projects haven’t been submitted. Nobody has alternative modes for work and no backups exist. What is the most likely scenario here? #academicchatter #canvas #canvaslms #highered

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  I've been teaching administrators around my campus that it's easier to use Microsoft Teams in a browser. Less bloat, more responsive, more control over how it acts because the browser doesn't just let it take actions. That's step one. Step two, hey look how more responsive it is in Firefox. Step three, look how much faster Linux is and you can still use all that stuff. Step four, we leave the Microsoft shell and gain enlightenment.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116427426613274852 I’m imagining a performance where this poem is sung or chanted side by side, maybe in a round, with Alan Ginsberg’s “Howl”

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  Upcoming good discussion of #AI and #Indigenous #digitalSovereignty #dataSovereignty https://indigenousdatalab.org/webinar-ai-on-your-terms-running-local-models-for-data-sovereignty/

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  Folks interested in #archaeology #anthropology #openscience should follow @PCI_Archaeology https://archaeo.social/@PCI_Archaeology

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  TIL that there's an #openstreetmap feature that shows #fediverse instances. Edit: Adding thanks to @jaz for making the map https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/46.86/-46.58