Maximilian Schich

Putin pretends to care for Eastern Ukraine, which was under-expressed in Soviet Newsreel propaganda! Detail from Figure 1 in Tamm, Mikhail V., Mila Oiva, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Mark Mets, and Maximilian Schich. "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data." Nature Cities (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00380-1 "Significantly over- and underrepresented cities, insignificantly over- and underrepresented cities and cities which are mentioned roughly as expected are shown with cyan, red, grey-cyan, grey-pink and grey circles, respectively. Cities in Moscow and Donbas regions are shown in smaller circles to reduce their overlap."

"Here we measured geographical biases in the representation of cities in a large Soviet news-media corpus..."

@cudanlab.bsky.social in #NatureCities @nature.com

#MikhailTamm, @mila-oiva.bsky.social, #KseniaMukhina,
@metsmark.bsky.social & @schichmax.bsky.social

Free read rdcu.be/e1UvJ

#Ukraine 🇺🇦

Stare at this! And then stop #xenophobia at its roots!

Sieht aus wie Estland... 🇪🇪

One of the weirdest demographics I encountered in the US is the growing number of billionaire descendants of former businessmen, whose wealth is now self-accumulating, who have a hard time finding true meaning in life, while owning a lot of large empty warehouses with no further purpose...

Important thread...
"thinking never goes out of style"

[my personal take would be: using the new instruments benefits from understanding the foundations of subject domains, methods, aesthetics, cognition, and computation, aka the liberal arts my friends!]

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

Read the user manual for an ICE-Palantir app www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

crazy how you can just... do politics this way

In Oct 2016, I puzzled my #Texas neighbours by saying that electing Trump would result in fascism. I was considered hysteric. The guy with the "come and take it" pick-up truck suggested the joint Christmas lighting theme "All different and living together in peace". We did that & Trump got elected.

From the therewasanattempt community on Reddit: to separate church and state: The Kansas Senate this morning. I don't care who you are or what your religion is. This is unacceptable. This is wrong. Th... Posted by cannabidoc - 421 votes and 38 comments

3/3 #Kansas lawmakers define evil-doers in prayer,
implying women who get an abortion,
same-sex couples getting married,
and trans/non-binary individuals living their truth.

They aim for "being a terror to the evil-doer".

Unashamed #terrorist #theocracy.

"Prayer" www.reddit.com/r/therewasan...

2/3 The separation of church & state in Kansas is gone!

#Kansas lawmakers identify themselves and the nation as serving "Jesus, the conqueror king", "to execute justice, to defend truth, to protect the innocent, and being a terror to the evil-doer" ...

#Kansas is now the gold standard of fascist theocracy.

New law violates human dignity of trans (looking) folks,
forces young boys to pee besides grown up dicks,
enables anti-trans bounty hunters.

When "Christian" politicians signal "only 2 genders",
they are heading down this pipe! #Project2025

Good news everyone!

Dr. Mila Oiva @mila-oiva.bsky.social

our former postdoctoral senior research fellow at @cudanlab.bsky.social in #Estonia, has been appointed #professor in Digital Humanities at FAU @dhssfau.bsky.social.

Congrats to Mila & my home state of #Bavaria! 🎉

[ takes note with pencil on paper... ]

"So all human understanding begins with sense impression, from there goes on to grasp via terminology, and ends with ideas."

Preface opening quote in
Hilbert, Foundations of Geometry (7th Ed.)
cit. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2,2
[my translation]

3D Space > Theory > Denkraum
Leibniz & Cassirer

They shot a man in MPLS, and she watched him die.
They rolled around his body, just to count his wounds.
🧊💰🦌

How it started... How it's going...

OMG, this is so good: it is goods – plural – small renee goods!
Over a hundred forty foot containers – Ye are many.

Screenshot of TikTok terms of service For Legal Reasons We may share Information We Collect → to comply with the law, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries. We may also disclose Information We Collect → to enforce any terms applicable to the Services, and to protect and defend our rights, interests, safety, and security, and those of our affiliates, users, or the public. Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.

They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

This is very curious, indeed: If we imagine the graph, there are lots of programs that can be interpolated, e.g. to produce a scatter plot. But the best citations point to the one source of evidence, presupposing a specific form of literacy, and priming in the educated reader. No wonder it is hard.

Incredible

YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV) DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything

Not "everything". :)
It is just a 10 minute section of 90 minute talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8...

Live stream with sound:
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

via bsky.app/profile/digs...

If you're not intuitively amazed by the Kakapo nesting video, listen to Douglas Adams while watching it on loop:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCsH...
🎶 🦜🥚🎉

Minneapolis! Ye are many!

Art by @dreasdoodles on Instagram: depicts an adorable but heartbreaking drawing of Liam Ramos: reads "And then they came for a child in a bunny hat, and too many people were still silent!"

The Masque of Anarchy As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

Shelley's poem "The Masque of Anarchy"
again entered the category "Texts to be Read Aloud"
(cf. "A Mammal's Notebook" by Eric Satie).

Read it aloud, and it will make you cry, give you hope, and provide you with power:
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...

Paul Revere's Ride still works!

As flowers beneath May’s footstep waken,
As stars from Night’s loose hair are shaken,
As waves arise when loud winds call,
Thoughts sprung where’er that step did fall.

Ye are many – they are few.

Ride like the wind, to be free again.

Yes, the models are informed by the training data, which are informed by our interaction with the world. In different words, even Giordano Bruno understood this in principle, more than 425 years ago.

So after giving in on Greenland,
he brags about his achievements:
#transphobia, #xenophobia, and #kleptocracy,
in this sequence!

The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...