L’Europa abbandona Big Tech? - Guerre di Rete Aziende, governi e cittadini sono sempre più consapevoli dei limiti dei servizi statunitensi, soggetti ai voleri politici e basati sul capitalismo della sorveglianza. Cambiare strada non è facile, ma ...

L’Europa abbandona Big Tech? - Guerre di rete
www.guerredirete.it/leuropa-abba...

YouTube video by Ciao Internet - Matteo Flora Truffa SPID: nessuno è al sicuro! Sei già vittima e non lo sai? #1414

@mgpf.bsky.social

🧵 Oggi l'università si ferma. Assegnisti di ricerca, ricercatori a tempo determinato, dottorandi, specializzandi stanno protestando per denunciare la precarizzazione crescente del sistema universitario e chiedere un’inversione di rotta nelle politiche di finanziamento e reclutamento universitario

a slide showing the ridiculous process of publishing a journal article, highlighting how universities both pay for the work to be done and then pay to access the work.

Recently did the annual walk through of our totally normal publishing system for my undergraduate research methods students. Never fails to boggle their minds.

The dataset is now available and ready for your analysis – feel free to request access anytime through the web form available at ds.datascientia.eu/marketplace/...

🤔 **Why join?**
1️⃣ Explore a rich, large-scale dataset for mobile sensing research.
2️⃣ Receive feedback for your work from an expert TPC.
3️⃣ Accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to @ieeepervasive.
4️⃣ Get the chance to win the Best Paper Award.

🤔 **Why join?**
1️⃣ Explore a rich, large-scale dataset for mobile sensing research.
2️⃣ Receive feedback for your work from an expert TPC.
3️⃣ Accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to @ieeepervasive.
4️⃣ Get the chance to win the Best Paper Award.

This dataset is a rich, flexible and valuable research resource that can be used to answer research questions in multiple fields: machine learning, mobile sensing, computational social science, behavioral recognition, and many others.

The dataset combines questionnaires about demographic and psychosocial variables from 18K participants, and passive smartphone sensor data and self-reported annotations from 782 students across eight countries.

🤗 The open challenge aims to let participants explore the all new #DiversityOne dataset, one of the largest and most geographically diverse datasets for everyday life behavior modeling with mobile data.

DiversityOne @ UbiComp 2025 Join us for an exciting UbiComp workshop exploring the all-new DiversityOne dataset

🚀 Call For Papers 🚀 for #DiversityOne Open Challenge at ACM UBICOMP
2025. The conference is to be held in Espoo, Finland in October 2025.

#ubicomp #chi #diversityone #mobilesensing #pervasivecomputing #percom #sensing #multimodalsensing #responsibleai #computationalsocialscience

Con la riforma dell’università e i tagli decisi dal governo Meloni, gli atenei rischiano di lasciare a casa circa due terzi degli oltre trentamila tra professori, assegnisti, borsisti e ricercatori. Le storie di chi vive questa condizione, nel reportage di Alice Facchini: intern.az/1LWI

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Freedom of speech? Don't travel to the US, it is not save

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com/...
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EuroStack Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty

The #EuroStack Report is out! It is about building a European alternative, to empower citizens, workers, industries to reclaim control of their digital future.

Read the report!
www.euro-stack.info
@bertelsmannst.bsky.social @ucl-iipp.bsky.social @ceps.eu @stiftungmercator.bsky.social

I stand with the American scientists who are trying to protect the data against a new scientific obscutantism.

Knowledge must be defended from the barbarians.

📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.03347
🌐 DiversityOne Website: datascientia.disi.unitn.it/projects/div...
📊 Dataset Catalogue: datascientiafoundation.github.io/LivePeople/

How could a dataset like DiversityOne support your research or work? Share your thoughts in the comments below, or tag a colleague who might find this resource useful!

✅ It's a Powerful Tool for Researchers Working on:
- AI and machine learning, especially for time series analysis.
- Understanding how technology impacts behavior across cultures.
- Developing responsible AI systems that work well in diverse contexts.

✅ Over 4 weeks, participants contributed:

- 26 types of smartphone sensor data (e.g., movement, location, app usage, screen time).
- Over 350,000 self-reports about their daily activities and behaviors.
- Psycho-social surveys and demographic information for deeper insights.

✅ It represents 8 Countries:
🇨🇳 China, 🇮🇳 India, 🇲🇳 Mongolia, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇵🇾 Paraguay, and 🇲🇽 Mexico.
This diversity captures a wide range of lifestyles and cultural differences, making it ideal for cross-country and cross-cultural research.

✅ It's Global and Diverse: Unlike other datasets that focus on one country or small groups, DiversityOne includes multimodal smartphone sensor data from 782 young adults across 8 countries—spanning both the global north and south.

DiversityOne is a resource for researchers working AI and machine learning.

We are excited to introduce 𝘿𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙩, one of the largest and most geographically diverse real-world datasets for modeling everyday life behavior with smartphone sensor data.

What Makes DiversityOne Special?

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Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions.

This piece echoes my sentiments on African AI development and governance.

"The continent’s AI research community needs to develop a coherent vision for AI regulation. Only then can Africa’s collective voice be better represented in international AI-governance forums."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

On the opposite, a race for scale in AI, leads to other power redistribution, as we discussed with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors

Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
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I documenti sul cellulare: argomento del giorno giustamente messo in evidenza dal post

A chi interessa, ne ho parlato qui: garantepiracy.it/blog/documen...

Come al solito, non ci sta tutto in un messaggino

Zooniverse The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

Gli scienziati chiedono aiuto per digitalizzare dati meteo italiani dal 1879 al 1940. Chi vuole dare una mano a comprendere l'evoluzione del clima può trovare tutte le informazioni a questo link
www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...