Heikki Wilenius
@hw.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Anthropology, politics, software, LLMs, sound, ecology, Indonesia; technology, pedagogy; electronic music, outsider beats
Editor of @suomenantropologi, Journal of the […]
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Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html
#pandoc #wasm
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html
#pandoc #wasm
Pandoc in the browser
pandoc.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html
#pandoc #wasm
https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html
#pandoc #wasm
Freudian slip in Meske et. al 2025. http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21928
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Freudian slip in Meske et. al 2025. http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21928
Kevin Xu argues that it's misleading to characterise the US–China AI competition as a race, since there's mutual co-operation and co-optation going on all the time: https://interconnected.blog/from-race-to-co-opetition/ #AiResearch #llm #AIResearch
From Race to Co-opetition
How I plan to write about US-China AI going forward
interconnected.blog
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Kevin Xu argues that it's misleading to characterise the US–China AI competition as a race, since there's mutual co-operation and co-optation going on all the time: https://interconnected.blog/from-race-to-co-opetition/ #AiResearch #llm #AIResearch
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🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉
This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants).
It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.
Thanks to all who contributed! […]
This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants).
It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.
Thanks to all who contributed! […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🆕 pandoc 3.8.3 🎉
This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants).
It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.
Thanks to all who contributed! […]
This release adds three new input formats (Asciidoc, PPTX, and XLSX) and one new output format (BBCode + variants).
It also fixes a number of bugs (including some regressions in 3.8). See the changelog for full details.
Thanks to all who contributed! […]
Reposted by Heikki Wilenius
The new issue of Roadsides includes also my photo essay "Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations".
In the essay I discuss how unequal relations and struggles over them between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in and enacted through […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
In the essay I discuss how unequal relations and struggles over them between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in and enacted through […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The new issue of Roadsides includes also my photo essay "Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations".
In the essay I discuss how unequal relations and struggles over them between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in and enacted through […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
In the essay I discuss how unequal relations and struggles over them between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in and enacted through […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
RE: https://fediscience.org/@suomenantropologi/115614886106180185
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, Mauss's plural economy […]
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, Mauss's plural economy […]
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
RE: https://fediscience.org/@suomenantropologi/115614886106180185
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, Mauss's plural economy […]
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, Mauss's plural economy […]
This website illustrates nicely how the US lost the competition–at least for now–in open(ish) LLM models: https://www.atomproject.ai/.
What it fails to mention is that the new open(ish) models are, more or less, on par in their capabilities with closed models as well.
It'll be interesting to […]
What it fails to mention is that the new open(ish) models are, more or less, on par in their capabilities with closed models as well.
It'll be interesting to […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This website illustrates nicely how the US lost the competition–at least for now–in open(ish) LLM models: https://www.atomproject.ai/.
What it fails to mention is that the new open(ish) models are, more or less, on par in their capabilities with closed models as well.
It'll be interesting to […]
What it fails to mention is that the new open(ish) models are, more or less, on par in their capabilities with closed models as well.
It'll be interesting to […]
Reposted by Heikki Wilenius
We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]
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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @gargon@mastodon.social as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @gargon@mastodon.social as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/115570916223136211
Nothing like a #cloudflare crash to show how fragile the internet really is. So many sites down at the moment...
Nothing like a #cloudflare crash to show how fragile the internet really is. So many sites down at the moment...
Maybe #cloudflare should have a fediverse account. That way people can still reach them when cloudflare is down.
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/115570916223136211
Nothing like a #cloudflare crash to show how fragile the internet really is. So many sites down at the moment...
Nothing like a #cloudflare crash to show how fragile the internet really is. So many sites down at the moment...
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Received my review copy of @anthroprofhage.bsky.social s “Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being” ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) today!
Can’t wait to read it and write about it … like Bourdieu‘s, Ghassan’s work is never boring 😊 #anthropology #sociology #theory
Can’t wait to read it and write about it … like Bourdieu‘s, Ghassan’s work is never boring 😊 #anthropology #sociology #theory
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Received my review copy of @anthroprofhage.bsky.social s “Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being” ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) today!
Can’t wait to read it and write about it … like Bourdieu‘s, Ghassan’s work is never boring 😊 #anthropology #sociology #theory
Can’t wait to read it and write about it … like Bourdieu‘s, Ghassan’s work is never boring 😊 #anthropology #sociology #theory
"I found these ads after I was targeted by one suggesting I join this ethnically ambiguous, dead-eyed family of generic blue hat wearers at the World Series to root on, I guess, the Dodgers." […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"I found these ads after I was targeted by one suggesting I join this ethnically ambiguous, dead-eyed family of generic blue hat wearers at the World Series to root on, I guess, the Dodgers." […]
Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index […]
The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: https://firstdonoharm.dev/. I think it's a great idea, and I think we need a similar derivative license for Creative Commons.
#opensource #ethics
#opensource #ethics
The Hippocratic License: An Ethical License for Open Source
The Hippocratic License (HL3) is an ethical source license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to violate universal standards of human rights.
firstdonoharm.dev
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: https://firstdonoharm.dev/. I think it's a great idea, and I think we need a similar derivative license for Creative Commons.
#opensource #ethics
#opensource #ethics
So, the new LLM from Zhipu, GLM 4.6, is about as good at coding as Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5. but roughly 8 times cheaper. It's impressive since, apparently, Zhipu has raised 13x less capital than Anthropic. Additionally, since GLM 4.6 is an open(ish) model, the inference costs will come down […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
So, the new LLM from Zhipu, GLM 4.6, is about as good at coding as Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5. but roughly 8 times cheaper. It's impressive since, apparently, Zhipu has raised 13x less capital than Anthropic. Additionally, since GLM 4.6 is an open(ish) model, the inference costs will come down […]
Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows significantly increased situational awareness when testing for alignment, here's a fascinating example from p. 59 of the system card (https://assets.anthropic.com/m/12f214efcc2f457a/original/Claude-Sonnet-4-5-System-Card.pdf). #anthropology #AiResearch
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows significantly increased situational awareness when testing for alignment, here's a fascinating example from p. 59 of the system card (https://assets.anthropic.com/m/12f214efcc2f457a/original/Claude-Sonnet-4-5-System-Card.pdf). #anthropology #AiResearch
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"Sagdeev took stock of his situation. The future of Soviet science was looking grim. Within a few years, government funding would crater further. Sagdeev’s most talented colleagues were starting to slip out of the country. One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many of them went […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"Sagdeev took stock of his situation. The future of Soviet science was looking grim. Within a few years, government funding would crater further. Sagdeev’s most talented colleagues were starting to slip out of the country. One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many of them went […]
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Across continents and millennia, what truly unites humanity is our need to be left the fuck alone at home.
From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.
From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.
August 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Across continents and millennia, what truly unites humanity is our need to be left the fuck alone at home.
From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.
From “The shortest history of China” by Linda Jaivin.
Annals of anthropology beefs:
Just received an email from the organizing committee (OC) of the WAU (World Anthropological Union) Congress, which was very confusing. Apparently some kind of beef between the WAU Steering Committee (SC) and the OC? Perhaps SC people are angry because their […]
Just received an email from the organizing committee (OC) of the WAU (World Anthropological Union) Congress, which was very confusing. Apparently some kind of beef between the WAU Steering Committee (SC) and the OC? Perhaps SC people are angry because their […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Annals of anthropology beefs:
Just received an email from the organizing committee (OC) of the WAU (World Anthropological Union) Congress, which was very confusing. Apparently some kind of beef between the WAU Steering Committee (SC) and the OC? Perhaps SC people are angry because their […]
Just received an email from the organizing committee (OC) of the WAU (World Anthropological Union) Congress, which was very confusing. Apparently some kind of beef between the WAU Steering Committee (SC) and the OC? Perhaps SC people are angry because their […]
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This is an important decision: food #Couriers in #finland recognized as employees by the Supreme Administrative Court.
I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
May 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an important decision: food #Couriers in #finland recognized as employees by the Supreme Administrative Court.
I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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The supplementary jubilee issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society is out! https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/issue/view/12302
The jubilee essay marks the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
The jubilee essay marks the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
May 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The supplementary jubilee issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society is out! https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/issue/view/12302
The jubilee essay marks the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
The jubilee essay marks the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion […]
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
May 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Another incisive and lucid text from Audrey Watters: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares/
#ai #edutech #mediahistory
#ai #edutech #mediahistory
Swords into Plowshares
Yesterday marked my fifth Mother's Day without him. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his passing. My beautiful boy, for whom I still grieve and will grieve every day forever; and despite his death, why I still fight. When I was a sophomore in college (about a year before I
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Another incisive and lucid text from Audrey Watters: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares/
#ai #edutech #mediahistory
#ai #edutech #mediahistory
This video features a #genai avatar of a murder victim delivering their own impact statement in the murder trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs-_8etNts.
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @404mediaco […]
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @404mediaco […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This video features a #genai avatar of a murder victim delivering their own impact statement in the murder trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs-_8etNts.
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @404mediaco […]
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @404mediaco […]
Hiddenlayer came up with a security bypass for all LLMs. Just ask for a script of a Dr. House episode and inject some policy XML. Also, use l337sp33k: https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/
#llmsecurity #llm
#llmsecurity #llm
Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs
HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.
hiddenlayer.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Hiddenlayer came up with a security bypass for all LLMs. Just ask for a script of a Dr. House episode and inject some policy XML. Also, use l337sp33k: https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/
#llmsecurity #llm
#llmsecurity #llm