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Професионален изследовател на човешките отношения в миналото и днес. Основател на #GabrovoGameJam, преподавател по игрови дизайн в www.uni-vt.bg. Създател на […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ masto.bg/@mapto, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Rivoluzione mobilità urbana🚲 @rivoluzioneurbanamobilita.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

# Da una settimana a Torino c'è una lunga fila di persone che protegge una pista ciclabile www.ilpost.it/2026/09/30/torino-cic… La morte di Nicolò ha scosso gli animi. Era un bambino di sette anni, e _voleva solo andare a scuola_ A differenza di altre […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

“Palestinian rights or safety are not the concern, even for people who are in the opposition,” said Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst on Israel-Palestine with International Crisis Group. “The settler violence is an issue [for them] because it’s making Israel look bad, and also the idea that the […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Microsoft killed the open PC For sure the campaign of One Laptop Per Child had many flaws, but M$ management made sure they don't take any chances. www.theverge.com/podcast/1000517/wh… @fuck_bigtech

OLPC XO-1: The price of free

Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative started simple: What if we could give every kid in the world access to a computer?

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"OpenAI models attack websites and take anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company... Respect for the law could literally be written into the source code of a model: If OpenAI is aggressively downloading data from everywhere, the least they could do is drop […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Over reliance on imported technologies is a source of security breaches. www.politico.eu/article/russia-tech…

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

На 28 септември 1987 започват известите протести на русенските майки Въпреки безспорното значение на тези протести за свалянето на комунистическия режим в България, определението "първата в най-новата история на България мирна протестна демонстрация" е противоречиво защото от поне 3 години […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-tech…

September’s ozone hole biggest in 20 years, warning signs appeared months ago

The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million sq km in September, the second-largest ever observed for this time of year.

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

This is also how Berlusconi's Forza Italia opened the door for fascists to rule Italy. "The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who argued that passersby are “walking over or even stepping onto the names of […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Three countries render the UN dysfunction: the US, Russia and China "Writing in a 2022 article for US publication Lawfare, analysts John Ramming Chappell and Emma Svoboda noted that the France-Mexico initiative and others like it are “couched in voluntary language” and lack consensus “from the […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This is true in Germany, as it is true in Italy and other EI counties: the EPP has long been playing along with the fascists. And not even for any economically reasonable votes, as if that would've changed something. It's pure cronyism and these two forces are what drags Europe down […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A nice overview of the state of all-things-ai www.techpolicy.press/what-policymak…

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"In one revealing example, a restaurant owner is closing up shop and comes across a deranged drunk person, who violently attacks. The owner had simply encountered a homeless man who’d come into the restaurant after it closed, looking for food and a bathroom. The exchange was completely […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

oh no, the hashtag police!!

Getting closer to muting all Pixelfed domains by the day.

The way the hashtags are displayed here is simply offensive, and Pixelfed users appear to be particularly prone to adding a shit ton of them too.

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

A very sober and exhaustive review. Let's hope it really is a watershed moment, but I doubt it. theintercept.com/2026/09/16/ed-shee… If I could dream a bit, I wish for this tour still taking place at alternative, probably underground, locations... with or […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Wiley was right about Ed Sheeran

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The Haidt vs Gray debate is very important science and will take decades to resolve (rather converge). But the fact is that commercial (billionaire-owned) social media is hurting everyone, not only kids. And this doesn't have to do with wellbeing, it's enough that it has to do with […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"Europe keeps getting measured against the US and China as though all are playing the same game, and they aren't. America spends about 17% of GDP on healthcare, roughly $15K a head for a life expectancy of 78 years.The EU spends around 10% and gets 81. That 7-point gap counts as economic […]

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mediapool.bg @mediapool-bg.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Кой кого надлъгва за контрола върху съдебната власт "Въпреки че позицията на премиера Радев звучи съвсем принципно, два дни по-рано “Прогресивна България” издигна цели 11 кандидати за членове на ВСС. Толкова е цялата парламентарна квота в управленския орган на съдебната власт, въпреки че […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Кой кой е сред кандидатите за ВCC на Румен Радев През 2016 най-големият съдийски протест пред ВСС изкара на улицата стотици магистрати и съдебни служители. Поводът бе, че от години ВСС игнорира проблемите на най-натоварения съд в страната.. Отговорът на ВСС бе да назначи бившия прокурор Стефан […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"To mitigate AI risk, society could pass laws to put executives in jail when their models do harm. There is precedent: Oliver Schmidt, general manager of Volkswagen's environmental and engineering office in Michigan, received a seven-year prison sentence for his role in the car maker's effort to […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Apparently, GenAI developers believe there are non-ignorable chances it could kill us all. No kidding, Sherlock? How did you figure that speed-crashing the planet's climate could be deadly? Did you need help from your chatbot to arrive at it?

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Rivoluzione mobilità urbana🚲 @rivoluzioneurbanamobilita.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

MilleMilaBici 2026, domenica 11 ottobre, Milano La grande pedalata cittadina gratuita, aperta a tutte le età, le abilità e i generi Mille Mila Bici è una grande pedalata cittadina gratuita, aperta e accessibile a chiunque voglia insieme a noi ribadire la […] [Original post on poliversity.it]

Manifestazione Millemilabici 2025, moltissime bici sul ponte della Ghisolfa e sul cavalcavia di viale Monte Ceneri a Milano (foto di Filippo Giraudi / Legambiente Lombardia)

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Guy Emerson @angloperanakan.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This Is Just To Say I have trained on the proofs that were on our servers and which you were probably saving for publication. Forgive me I can't rule out that your proofs improved our models but burning $15m on a $1m prize so lean and so slop

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

The contrasting disaster responses in Nepal and Chinese Tibet reveal why a healthy state needs free speech “The government needs journalists to uncover uncomfortable truths because it needs accurate information in order to govern effectively,” they say. “But if journalists are given completely […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

BBC on the assassination of Georgi Markov "Stefan Sverdlov, a colonel in the Bulgarian secret police until he defected in 1971, told the BBC in 1979: "Every department of the Darzhavna Sigurnost [Bulgarian secret service] is controlled by an advisor from the Russian KGB, sometimes known as an […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Bulgaria's Radev accepts the role of the messenger for Russia's menaces Radev summed up his position with the words: “In my opinion, Europe can exist without Russia. But Europe will hardly exist for long against Russia.” […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

How to disentshitificate "Apple takes 30 cents out of every dollar that an Apple user spends in an app. If your app tries to use another payment method, they’ll turf it out of the App Store. And of course, iPhone owners can’t replace Apple’s app store with another one, because the iPhone has an […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

How to disentshitificate "Apple takes 30 cents out of every dollar that an Apple user spends in an app. If your app tries to use another payment method, they’ll turf it out of the App Store. And of course, iPhone owners can’t replace Apple’s app store with another one, because the iPhone has an […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

"The issue is not simply that investors are borrowing more, but that leverage is interacting with high valuations and market concentration, in particular the increasing cross-investment between artificial intelligence (AI) companies and hyper scalers, in a way that could amplify a future market […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

In case you need some motivation to degoogle... Did you know that a first step could be disabling google play services? Then you need to disable the one specific notification for each app that complains. That's it. And if you're so desperate about your google maps or docs or youtube, you can […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy8TLMSbKhg

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=57TgoeqTdew…

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Uk-Apache AKA-Abdul Wahab : I Was A Nutter www.youtube.com/watch?v=QET2v9ttTsA

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Благодарение на bridgy fed, списъкът с новинарски акаунти във федилената набъбна сериозно fedidevs.com/s/NjMy Имаме и няколко бриджнати лични акаунти, но настройките за поверителност на повечето потребители на блускай не позволяват да ги поканим да се бриджнат.

Новини на български - Mastodon Starter Pack

Новинарски сайтове, които пишат на български. News sites in Bulgarian language.

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

APAC: Prisons without guards, police, weapons, violence, corruption, drugs and discrimination Hard to believe, isn't it? But they do exist and show positive results […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

За първите енергийни общности в България “Законодателството не е лошо. Лошо е неговото приложение и начинът, по който ЕРП го четат, защото те имат интерес от това. В България все още е позволено да имаме мрежови оператор, който е под шапката на холдинг, който едновременно с това произвежда и […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The Guardian decided to ignore the rules about what constitutes news and start writing about positive climate stories And so was born the Alternatives, a weekly news column where we cover these different projects. We’re constantly amazed by some of the things we learn. Norway has heat pumps in […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyt0pImMtiI

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

still loving gathio (after I saw @thechaoszone using it) ezpz make event pages for your low-stakes events for friends or friends+ …and a great excuse to make a @mags@post.lurk.org (or @mags@mags.omg.lol ?)-esque collage ^.^ gath.io

screenshot of simple event page

mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Асен Василев: при отчитане на производителността минималната заплата трябва да се увеличи с 11% до 690€ "Винаги ще има кой да предложи по-ниска цена на база евтин труд. Доскоро беше Азия. След няколко години ще дойде ред на Африка. Успехът на българския бизнес и развитието на българската […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Microsoft deleted data of over 170,000 non-profits When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it. This is your regular reminder that digital sovereignty is not luxury, but a requirement […]

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mapto @mapto.masto.bg.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC "What the public record does not establish – and cannot, from the outside – is how often the destroyed physical books are the last or among the last surviving copies of a given work." I'd argue that it's not "how often" - the frequency […]

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