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  I know it's not caturday. Still cute. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon

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  OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, has posted on X to complain about a Chinese company publishing an open AI. OpenAI thinks that open AI is a bad idea, and here are some arguments: "Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist [slowing down AI development], and ... in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex." Good. Oh wait, you meant that as a bad thing? "One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism" Wh...

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  The director-general of Germany's second largest public broadcaster has forbidden an artist to perform a song he was invited to for the 100th edition of a political comedy show, against the protest of the show runners. The name of the song: Keine Angst (can mean both, don't be afraid and no fear) by Danger Dan The song calls to stand up to fascism. The name of the director-general who forbid the recording? Himmler. https://youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64?is=ElvvUHfpj5PadnBm #resist #fascism #da...

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  Team USA's top scorer, Balogun, received a red card in the game against Bosnia. Which means he would be suspended in the next game. President Trump called FIFA boss Infantino. Now FIFA states without further explanation that the suspension is lifted, and Balogun can play in the upcoming game against Belgium. Following that, Trump publicly thanked FIFA for that decision. If that would have happened 2018 in Russia, Putin interfering with the world cup, the explosion of the media would have...

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  The Web I grew up with and that grew up with me was already slowly fading. The Web of many people and organizations having their own small website. Capitalism and convenience lead to a concentration onto a small number of platforms and apps, but mostly these platforms let the rest be. People and small organizations and groups could still have their little website. #web #ai #llm #lament 1/5

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  Wikipedians and other Wikimedians! Vote for the name of the wiki that will have language-independent articles that can be used on Wikipedia and other places when there is a gap! Candidates are: * Multilingual Wikipedia * Wikigenerator * Proto-Wiki * Wikiabstracts * Abstract Wikipedia Vote here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Abstract_Wikipedia_naming_contest/Names #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikifunctions

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  I finished reading a novel, Playground, by Richard Powers. It came recommended by Markus Krötzsch. I have to admit I rarely read novels, and this one was a good one to make an exception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playground_(novel)

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  The recording of my @iswc_conf keynote is available online: Wikipedia and the Semantic Web -- 20 years of co-development, and the future Drawing on the roots of @wikipedia and the Semantic Web, how they influenced each other during the last two decades, leading to @wikidata and peeking forward to @wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. #semanticWeb #abstractWikipedia #knowledge #knowledgeGraphs #knowledgerepresentation #wikipedia #wikidata #wikifunctions https://videolectures.net/videos/i...

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  Morgen (Samstag 18. April) kommt der #Wikipedia25 Bus von @wikimediaDE nach #Stuttgart an die @stadtbibliothekstuttgart am #Milaneo Es gibt Informationsstände und Vorträge. Kommt vorbei und feiert 25 Jahre #Wikipedia! Ich gebe auch einen Vortrag zu @wikidata und @wikifunctions Eintritt frei Infolinks: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stuttgart/Der_Wikipedia-Bus_kommt_nach_Stuttgart_-_April_2026 https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/wikipedia-bus-kommt-nach-stuttgart-zum-25-geburtstag-wi...

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  Ian Horrocks gives a great talk on the history of ontology languages around OWL in the last 20+ years, where we are now, the progress we have made. I especially enjoyed the QnA, and the slide on scalability progress, far faster than Moore's law would have predicted (and a testament to the results of researchers and developers in that area). I especially liked the insight that it was far more important to come up with a standard than what exactly that standard is. https://www.youtube.co...

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  Reading the Artemis II article on Wikipedia, I noticed the Wikipedia BabyGlobe spinning in space on the side. Wonderful! #wikipedia #wikipedia25 #artemis2 #artemis

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  No human in my lifetime has been as far away from Earth as the Artemis II astronauts are right now. No one since Apollo 17 in 1972. They are right now in an orbit that takes them up to 74,000 km high. In comparison, the ISS is in an orbit 400 km high. Once this phase is over, their trip leaving Earth orbit and traveling to the Moon starts. #artemis2 #artemis

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  RE: https://aus.social/@Ex_spurt/116338051405618797 I'm imagining Rowan Atkinson dressed as a priest telling this joke and then explaining why the suffering inflicted on Jesus was necessary and right.

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  Sigh, Google...

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  On the latest episode of "Between the Brackets", Yaron Koren hosts me for a chat about Wikifunctions, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, AI, and much more. I hope you enjoy the episode. Thank you, Yaron, for hosting! https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-180-denny-vrandei #mediawiki #podcast #wikifunctions #Wikidata

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  The banality of evil: in Cambridge, Maryland, a woman had construction workers work on her roof for several days, and then called ICE on them to get them detained, and avoid paying $10,000 for the work. https://www.newsweek.com/homeowner-called-ice-on-migrants-she-hired-worker-says-11742032

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  While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not. Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/

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  "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" -- not in a world of LLMs, though, because whenever you fine tune the LLM to your task, you have to always consider what it has already learned in the initial pre-training.

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  The letter E appears 5,173,357,556 times in English Wikipedia.

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  Wieder mal Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan gehört, Folge 98 zu Mileva Marić, der ersten Frau Einsteins. Da hieß es, dass es in der kroatischen Wikipedia noch keinen Artikel zu ihr gab. Immerhin das Mal geändert. Den Artikel geschrieben während ich in der ältesten Buchhandlung der Welt sitze, weil mein Flug wegen dem Lufthansastreik verschoben ist.

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  Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, founded in 1732, is certified by Guinness to be the oldest, continually running book store in the world. A quick search reveals: Osiander, founded 1596 in Tübingen. Korn und Berg 1531 in Nürnberg. Beck'sche in Vienna 1724 (but closed since 2018?), Höllrigl 1598 in Salzburg, Orell Füssli 1519 in Zürich, Cambridge University Press (and store?) 1534. Now some of these started as print shops, but often also sold books. Anyone know a text discussing Guinness dec...

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  "Research shows that the less you know about AI, the more likely you are to use it." https://wapo.st/4luy1qI

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  Reuters doxxing Banksy Y?

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  I made a meme #wikipedia

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  Additions with unique digits: A tale of puzzling and AI The other day, Markus Krötzsch and I were catching up when one of his kids came in. She told us about a puzzle her math teacher gave her: How many integer sums are there where the equation uses each digit at most once? The simplest example is 1+2=3, but 12+47=59 also works. On the other hand, 1+9=10 isn’t a solution because the digit ‘1’ appears twice (in the first number and the sum). 1/19