ailiphilia

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Willem Dafoe è il nuovo Direttore artistico del settore Teatro della Biennale di Venezia per il biennio 2025-2026. La nomina è stata deliberata dal Consiglio di Amministrazione della Biennale presieduto da Pietrangelo Buttafuoco.

Dafoe parla italiano ha la doppia cittadinanza italiana e statunitense, proprio come sua moglie Giada Colagrande. Si sono sposati dal 2005 e vivono tra Roma, New York e Los Angeles.

 

Gli smartphone sono una presenza invadente ai concerti ormai da un decennio. Già nel 2013, durante un’esibizione a Toronto in occasione del trentesimo anniversario del suo primo album, la cantante Cyndi Lauper chiese al pubblico di evitare di fare foto e video: finì per strappare via lo smartphone dalle mani di un membro del pubblico che continuava a puntarglielo addosso, e glielo restituì poi alla fine del concerto.

Non è un fenomeno che riguarda tutti i concerti. In molti contesti ormai da alcuni anni si è consolidata una sorta di etichetta, che suggerisce di filmare al massimo qualche decina di secondo di concerti ogni tot canzoni, in modo da poter conservare dei ricordi – da pubblicare anche eventualmente sui social – senza limitare troppo a lungo la visuale di chi sta dietro. Può capitare di finire alle spalle della persona sbagliata, ma la maggior parte delle volte la presenza degli smartphone è sopportabile. Nel caso di concerti di cantanti e band più alla moda, e soprattutto più popolari tra i giovani, oppure dotati di una base di fan particolarmente ossessiva, le cose cambiano.

 

I sistemi più recenti di traduzione automatica delle voci sono stati resi possibili dai rapidi miglioramenti nel campo dell’intelligenza artificiale e in particolare dei processi di machine learning, cioè le attività di apprendimento dei computer tramite i dati. Sono di conseguenza sistemi che funzionano molto bene con le cosiddette lingue ad alta disponibilità di risorse, come l’inglese ma anche l’italiano, di cui esistono grandi quantità di dati.

Senza associarla direttamente alla diffusione dei sistemi di traduzione e doppiaggio tramite software di intelligenza artificiale, l’Atlantic ha segnalato una recente contrazione nel numero di persone che studiano lingue straniere in diversi paesi occidentali. Negli Stati Uniti sono diminuite del 29,3 per cento dal 2009 al 2021. In Australia la quantità di studenti delle superiori che studiavano una lingua straniera nel 2021 è stata la più bassa di sempre (8,6 per cento). E in Corea del Sud e Nuova Zelanda le università stanno chiudendo i dipartimenti di francese, tedesco e italiano. Anche la conoscenza dell’inglese è diminuita tra i giovani, secondo un rapporto di EF Education First, una società internazionale che organizza corsi di lingua inglese e scambi culturali in tutto il mondo.

Uno dei rischi principali nella prospettiva di un mondo in cui si usano le lingue straniere senza studiarle è considerarle tutte equivalenti: che è un modo molto riduttivo di intenderle. Oltre un secolo fa, contribuendo a definire il concetto moderno di relatività linguistica, linguisti come Wilhelm von Humboldt prima e Edward Sapir e Benjamin Lee Whorf poi teorizzarono che la lingua non è un mezzo di trasmissione del pensiero, ma un modo di interpretare la realtà stessa. Imparare una nuova lingua equivale, sotto molti aspetti, ad apprendere un modo nuovo di vedere il mondo e di pensare.

L'articolo dell'Atlantic con paywall o senza paywall.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago

Sehr kreative Übersetzung, vielleicht geistert es bald überall herum hier ;-) 👻

 

Das Unternehmen hat einen Umfrage gestartet und möchte von der Community gerne wissen, welche Funktionalitäten sie erwarten.

 

The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. There is a survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 3 points 9 months ago

As @onion@feddit.de already said, I cross-posted the article from an Italian-speaking community and didn't change the link as I noticed that the petition is in English anyway. But it's perfectly right that there should be correct language setting. I changed the link now. My apologies for the irritation.

 

German scientists and civil rights organizations urge universities and educational institutions to abandon centralized services such as Twitter/X, TikTok, and Facebook over health and privacy issues.

Signatories say that their web presence should be established on Mastodon and other Fediverse servers, because decentralized design is "much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable cooperation."

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

I don't speak this language and have no idea of this culture, but as always we must be careful as any literal translation from one language into another often conveys a different meaning, even when the words are the same.

Among others, the Tourism New Zealand website says about the haka and its origin:

Today, haka is used as a sign of respect and is performed on important occasions, such as sporting events, weddings, funerals, and powhiri (a traditional welcome).

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 11 points 10 months ago

Lorde performs one of her songs also in Maori (the song's OV is in English, the song is called 'Solar Power'). You may also be in interested in Olivia Foa’i, a singer who also performs in Gagana Tokelau, the indigenous language of Tokelau, a collection of atolls between Australia and Hawaii, and in this story.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 6 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately, this is not only your country which is wasting time on meaningless (and sometimes harmful) things. If big (!) business is involved, there is no such thing as a "country" imho. It's just big corporations and the rest.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Italian Blocking Demands: Following a Bad Example

While [Quad9's] case in Germany has been found in favor of Quad9, we have been served with another demand from commercial interests in an EU nation to block domain names, again based on alleged copyright violations. Italian legal representatives have presented us with a list of domains and a demand for blocking those domains. Now we must again determine the path to take forward fighting this legal battle, in another nation in which we are neither headquartered nor have any offices or corporate presence.

 

The ‘Fediverse’ provides tools and technologies that are ideally suited to bring scholarly societies out of their digital caves and into the 21st century.

Due to the open source nature of the Fediverse and the widespread digital competence in the scholarly community, there is ample potential for societies to take a central role in developing a new scholarly commons

 

Svoboda, which means "freedom" in Russian, represents a significant step forward in the quest for unrestricted access to information in a region where media freedom faces numerous challenges. The bouquet will enable Russian-speaking viewers to access a wide range of independent journalism and international news, with the aim of fostering a more informed and diverse media landscape.

Eutelsat, known for its expertise in satellite services, will provide the satellite broadcasting capabilities, ensuring that Svoboda reaches audiences.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

It doesn't appear to be limited to racism.

Humans inherit artificial intelligence biases

Artificial intelligence recommendations are sometimes erroneous and biased. In our research, we hypothesized that people who perform a (simulated) medical diagnostic task assisted by a biased AI system will reproduce the model's bias in their own decisions, even when they move to a context without AI support. In three experiments, participants completed a medical-themed classification task with or without the help of a biased AI system. The biased recommendations by the AI influenced participants' decisions. Moreover, when those participants, assisted by the AI, moved on to perform the task without assistance, they made the same errors as the AI had made during the previous phase. Thus, participants' responses mimicked AI bias even when the AI was no longer making suggestions. These results provide evidence of human inheritance of AI bias.

 

The German Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) said that Assange’s work and positions have focused "our attention on illegal state actions, injustices, murders and war crimes – things that were meant to remain in the dark, concealed and obscured from the public view, from the citizens."

Assange’s work has resulted in the disclosure of the cash flows of powerful figures, hidden accounts and official e-mail correspondences, has uncovered images of murdered unarmed civilians and journalists in Iraq by members of the U.S. Army, has disclosed the arbitrary killings of civilians in Afghanistan and secret service projects aimed at the manipulation of public opinion, has brought to light the humiliation and torture in souvenir photos taken by laughing perpetrators at Abu Ghraib Prison, the Academy said in its statements.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they can get any non-bluesky-the-company folk to create instances then that's just scaling they don't have to pay for and a convenient legal scapegoat for the inevitable consequences of their lax moderation.

Yes. This exactly is their whole business model. There has been a very good article about bluesky around for some time about that fyi.

 

On 16 February this year, seven Just Stop Oil protesters were found guilty of peacefully blocking the distribution of oil from the Esso Fuel Terminal in Birmingham in the UK. All were sentenced to 12 months conditional discharge with costs of up to £500. However, it was the views of District Judge Wilkinson, in sentencing them, that caught the news. “It is abundantly clear that you are all good people,” he said. “It’s unarguable that man-made global warming is real and we are facing a climate crisis. That is accepted and recognised by the scientific community and most governments (including our own).” Nevertheless, Wilkinson was forced by his position to conclude: “If good people with the right motivation do the wrong thing it can never make that wrong thing right.”

 

The 90,000 follower-strong account typically picks targets who appeared in other viral videos, or people suggested to the account in the comments. Many of the account’s videos show the process: screenshotting the video of the target, cropping images of the face, running those photos through facial recognition software, and then revealing the person’s full name, social media profile, and sometimes employer to millions of people who have liked the videos.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@som

Just a question: Are the tech managers in Silicon Valley also idiots? I posted the article already, but here's it again as the thread has become long: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/dec/02/schools-that-ban-tablets-traditional-education-silicon-valley-london

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is doable, but the parents must contribute to that.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tablets out, imagination in: the schools that shun technology (2015)

In the heart of Silicon Valley is a nine-classroom school where employees of tech giants Google, Apple and Yahoo send their children. But despite its location in America’s digital centre, there is not an iPad, smartphone or screen in sight.

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