Bringolo

@bringolo
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Discovering the fediverse and mastodon.
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🐱 A study by @universityofgroningen #researchers of #Dutch #cat owners reveals:

Many of them anthropomorphize their pets, attributing #human #social roles like family member or #child.

➡️ "Cat owners’ anthropomorphic perceptions of feline emotions and interpretation of photographs"

This can lead to misinterpreting #feline emotions and behaviours by projecting complex human-like social and emotional characteristics onto cats.

🔗 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159123003222?via%3Dihub

#OpenAccess #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Cat owners’ anthropomorphic perceptions of feline emotions and interpretation of photographs

Many cat owners describe the relationship with their cat in anthropomorphic terms like child or best friend. Attributing such human social roles to ca…

@Perkamentus Zonder meer de mooiste set die Bubb Kuyper te koop had deze keer. En ook de duurste :-)

No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

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Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#Bladblazers | Je kunt overlast voorkomen door een bezem te gebruiken💧Martin Perscheid ✍️

@laurenshof.online It's an open graph issue, and these two lines of html code cause the issue:

```
<meta property="og:image" content="https://fediversereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230113-01-5-e1681301358336-150x150.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:image:width" content="150"/>
```

@appassionato @bookstodon Thanks for the suggestion. Seems a very interesting book to me.
I just ordered it at the local bookshop 😁

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers @Iris and @olivia at Radboud University and others show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown.

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ The #Politics of Platform #Regulation. How #Governments Shape #Online #ContentModeration

🔗 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90834

This book analyzes the emerging field of platform regulation, exploring government strategies used to address harmful online content across different political contexts, with case studies in #Germany, #Australia, #NewZealand, and the #US.

#OpenAccess #MediaStudies #internet #digital #society #Politics #regulation #integrity #BigTech

The Politics of Platform Regulation

@pepijnl @martijnkleppe @zwartboekaanbesteden @publicspaces
Precies. Dat was ook mijn eerste gedachte. Dit is echt een gemiste kans