Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins... H/t @naitian.org for the link

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vszw3ess46odfhnzdsy4huae/post/3lre66pfvjc22

institutional/institutional-bo...

Applications are now open for an artist in residence at the newly built X-Reality Lab at Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Up to €40,000 for the production of their artwork, which will be presented during the Lab’s opening festival in March 2026.

https://www.moz.ac.at/de/news/2025/05/open-call-artist-in-residence-program

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If anyone needs a sufficiently complex example on semantic reference in fiction for teaching or to use in a paper, I'm sure this may do the trick (plus you'll have plenty of goodwill of the Star Trek community, I'm sure):

'So, one could reasonably conclude that not only does Patrick Stewart canonically exist in the Star Trek universe, but Jean-Luc Picard is aware of him from reading this book!'

(Roughly in the middle of the blog post.)

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/

Harvard is now offering free civic courses online
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government

The best LLM for education? Widely advertised "open" solutions like Llama are open in weights only, providing no access to training code or to the all-important instruction-tuning data. What to use instead?

https://osai-index.eu/guides/open-llms-education

The future of AI-powered software development is here!

https://github.com/Zorokee/ArtificialCast

(Warning: don't stop until you've read the text below the subheading, "Why This Exists")

OPEN LETTER TO JOHN SWINNEY FROM SCOTTISH BUSINESS r.e SUPREME COURT RULING

If you are a business or enterprise you may like to sign up to this open letter to the First Minister and Minister for Business expressing concerns following the Supreme Court ruling.

The letter has a particular focus on business and enterprise and appeals to him from this perspective.

https://lettertothefm.notion.site/Letter-to-the-First-Minister-from-Businesses-in-Scotland-following-the-Supreme-Court-ruling-1f244263ebbd8042b822c08368b023b4

This more or less real time documentation of the current administrative carpet bombing of UK higher education was just pointed out to me. Sometimes it helps not just to intuitively know that life's shitty but to have some numbers.

https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/

I’m not sure it has sunk in yet how effective LLMs are at persuasion: there are now multiple empirical studies demonstrating significant, durable belief change effects

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adq1814

@mplouffe That's why can't have nice things.

Dear philosophy journals, it is sort of appalling how many of you still do not offer an RSS feed to track new articles. This is, in internet terms, an ancient technology that can be implemented cheaply. Consider making life a bit easier for scholars in times of an increasing flood of publications.

#philosophy #rss #internet

One of my favourite gins these days.

"Kleine Fächer Digital" - ein Themenheft der it - Information Technology, herausgegeben mit @resonanzfilter vom @CCeH, @UniKoeln und @hubertmara vom Institute of Computational Ancient Studies (CompAS), @freieuniversitaet . Ganz herzlichen und lieben Dank an alle, die als Autor:innen oder Reviewer:innen zum Gelingen beigetragen haben! Unser Editorial ist - neben einigen Artikeln in Vorabveröffentlichung - bereits Open Access erschienen:
https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2025-2001
#DigitalHumanities #kleinefächer

@DominikDammer I am indeed, thanks! Both are interesting and relevant, but what I'm looking for at the moment is more analytical and applied material.

What recommended moral philosophy literature is out there regarding proportionality from an ethical perspective? I am familiar with discussions in just war theory (e.g. McMahan, Lee, Shue); what interesting stuff is there beyond this?

#philosophy #proportionality #ethics

Everyone and their dog believe that 'place' is important for the Radical Right. But how? We identify the 4 links between 'place' and the Far Right. 🌍🔍 Click, it's open access 👉 #GeographyMatters #FarRight #Research #OpenAccess 📚
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827

Reminder:

'Is that still good or should we toss it? Democracy in the 21st century'

Call for Papers for a panel on democracy at the Conference for Practical Philosophy at the University of Passau, Germany. The general conference language will be German but English language contributions are very welcome.

For details, please see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fpodschwadek/tfpp-2025-demokratie-im-21sten-jahrhundert/main/abstract_tfpp_2025.pdf

#philosophy #politicalPhilosophy #conference #cfp #tfpp2025

On the + side:
- Record turnout of 84%
- The libertarian party that held the coalition hostage and staged a government collapse will probably get zero seats
- There's a chance the left-turned-authoritarian splinter party BSW also stays out
- Comeback of the Left party
- Of the coalition partners, the Greens held up the best. A 2%p loss is respectable.
- Conservative CDU <30%, despite predictions up to 37%, 2nd worst result ever
- Neonazis <=20%. Way too much, but still less than predicted
#BTW25

Das ist die
"Ich hab schon gewählt" La-O-La-Welle

Ihr dürft erst boosten, wenn ihr schon gewählt habt.
(Wer noch nicht wählen war, gibt ein Like)

#BTW25