Amelia Dodd has founded Girls Who Walk Sunderland in an effort to combat loneliness and promote positive mental and physical health. This article celebrates her achievement and also talks about similar groups set up for women in India.

#GoodNews #Loneliness #Walking #Groups #Sunderland #India #Women #Health #MentalHealth #Community

https://www.shethepeople.tv/art-culture/walking-groups-in-india

#Twitter / X# is a #garbage #heap now

9 spam comments from #scammers and #cryptobros and a "#message #request" of #spam #groups if I ever #login

They should just take it #offline at this point.

#IjustWishPeopleWouldMoveOnAlready
#RamblingsAlcea
https://nitter.net/Utsukushiotosuk/status/1673853917916962816#m

Super curious to know the latest about #bonfire @bonfire ...

Any news?

https://bonfirenetworks.org/

#fediverse #groups

"Die sozialen Medien sind tot - Gruppenchats und Messaging Apps sind Schuld"

Die DMs auf #Instagram, Gruppenfunktion, #Discord ect. helfen Nutzer*innen dabei ihre Aktivitäten immer weiter in kleinere soziale Gruppen zu verschieben, im Gegensatz zu früher, wo viele offen alles auf z.B. #Facebook geteilt haben.

#BusinessInsider Beitrag von
Sydney Bradley und Amanda Perelli auf englisch:

https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-dead-instagram-tiktok-bereal-replaced-group-chats-messaging-2023-8

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#SocialMedia #SozialeMedien #TikTok #influencerMarketing #Messaging #Groups

I can't wait for #Mastodon and the #Fediverse at large to have #groups integrated and interoperable with each other.

It feels like we're getting close.

The ability for anyone to be able to easily create / admin a group, have it show up in searches as a group, and to block groups will do a great deal for helping people find their communities, find like minded people when they first join and provide support to minorities. Of course it provides moderation challenges, too, but is still a plus imo.

Puzzlingly, some #animal groups decrease in size when #resources become scarce, while other #groups get larger. Kao et al. identified 6 unique benefits of #sociality and show how shifts in #groupSize under #scarcity depend
on which is the dominant benefit for that #species.

Read for free on the ahead of print page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725426

See you again tomorrow. #facebook #groups

#Signalling in #groups: New tools for the integration of #animal #communication and #collective #movement

#OpenAccess
@MethodsEcolEvol

"Identification of challenges associated with new tools and datasets, in particular issues associated with the #deployment and #synchronisation of multiple #tags, the #processing and #interpretation of resulting #multidimensional datasets & the benefits of combining tag-based data collection with experimental approaches"

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13939

@ml @academicchatter Be welcome. #Groups are still not so common on Mastodon, hashtags are. #welcometomastodon

Improved Group Robustness via Classifier Retraining on Independent Splits

Thien Hang Nguyen, Hongyang R Zhang, Huy Nguyen

Action editor: Aditya Menon.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=Qlvgq9eC63

#groups #regularization #group

Znáte nějakou fungující alternativu k facebookovým skupinám?

Na #facebook se vracím, i přes určitý odpor k němu, kvůli skupinám a to zejména kvůli tomu, že jsem bohužel stále nenašel plnohodnotnou alternativu a to zejména v oblůasti specifických lokálních komunit.

Na Redditu např. nenajdete lokální (české) skupinu lidí živících se tvorbou videa nebo uzavřené lokální skupiny týkající se různých zájmů apod.

#meta #facebookgroups #reddit #groups #community #fediverse

Hello fellow #mastodonians! Our good friend and teacher, @seb_tmg has just created a group called @movie-tv. If you want to share anything movie or tv-series related make sure to tag this group in your post to reach out to a wider audience. Of course follow the group to see other people's movie-tv related toots.

Other groups that might interest you are @meditation and @consciousliving

#movie #tv #groups #comments #reviews #discussion

Free #hybrid #conference this week! Highlights '23 of Logic, Games, and Automata. https://highlights-conference.org/2023/program

Lots of great talks!

@michael_levet@twitter.com (collab & now-former! student) will present "Descriptive Complexity of Groups w/o Abelian Normal Subgroups" https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13725 Friday

#groups #algebra #logic

"the #idea that #people can be separated into unchangeable and unquestionable #groups of "good guys" and "bad guys" is seriously the #bane of revolutionary #theory. the idea that if we have "good guys" in charge and kill/exile all the "bad guys" #society will be fixed is fundamentally flawed.

nobody is born evil. being evil is a #choice every shitty #person makes somewhere down the line. someone can be a nice person in their youth and grow up to be a dickhead. someone can be the biggest jerk alive as a young adult and then change their ways. people are assholes because they choose to be assholes, not because there was some "inner darkness" in them. fundamentalist christian original sin doctrine has rotted some of y'all's brains fr."

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchywoofwoof/723745597645012992?source=share

Does anyone know if #Mastodon is planning #groups like on Calckey/Firefish and Twitter respectively?
Friends of mine and I have worked with closed & moderated groups on certain political topics. If groups don't come on Mastodon, we'll all have to move to Firefish. But actually we'd like to stay on Mastodon. At the moment we're trying to work through groups -DMs, but you can't thematically delimit them, so it's all a huge mess.

Unfortunately, no one on Github could help me.

@Gargron

this bullshit keeps coming up from #telegram #channels and #groups
#conspiracy #conspiracies

"It may seem positive that Islam is being discussed by former detractors beyond the prisms of #extremism and #terrorism, but this exchange is part of a growing trend of something more ominous that involves #ideological borrowing in both directions.

The language of the #incel “red pill” #movement has been translated into Arabic, and its #terminology can be found in Arabic #chat rooms and on other #websites.

Conversely, conservative #male pundits in the West are hosting #Muslim voices on their #podcasts and #shows.

And while these #groups have historically been at loggerheads, the overlaps in their values are also clear in their opposition to #feminism and the #antisemitism that is rife in both #communities."

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-red-pillers-of-islam/

The source code for the @3dprinting #bot has been released at https://github.com/e-dreyer/mastodon-3dprinting-group-bot

And the generic and #opensource code for the bot off which it is based has been released at https://github.com/e-dreyer/mastodon-group-bot

The source code is being kept separate but the @3dprinting bot is a fork of the original code. Updates will be made to the generic version before being transferred over to the @3dprinting bot.

More detailed documentation of how to deploy your own bot will follow in the next few days and I will be working on the proposed functionality in https://github.com/e-dreyer/mastodon-group-bot/discussions to improve the bot.

#group #groups #Github

"I still think it's insane that the known #fact that the #CIA used #NATO to give #paramilitary #training to #neoNazi #terrorist #groups all over #Europe gets enough attention in the Broad Debate TM

It was known as Operation Gladio and (Officially) ran between 1956 and 1990, during the course of which nearly every #European country had a neo-Nazi terrorist group armed and trained by the CIA, NATO and often their own intelligence agency. They started with the notion of being stay-behind in case of Communist invasion or victory in the elections, but then shifted their strategy to trying to crush the broad Left (socialists, communists of all stripes and Anarchists) by both directly attacking us and by carrying out terrorist violence and having their friends in the police blame it on us. In Italy, where we know the most about the operations of Gladio, they carried out dozens of terrorist attacks, killing and maiming hundreds and leading up to the Years of Lead as the Left responded to the violence by defending itself. But Italy was not their only area of operations - there was a branch in most European countries, and there has not been sufficient research to establish exactly what these groups did. In Sweden, where I'm from, the local branch is suspected of being Legion Wasa, but we simply don't know because there has never been an inquiry of any kind, for example. But this might very well be the link explaining how Nazis got a hold of a bunch of millitary hardware that they used to launch a spate of robberies and murders, as well as tossing handgranades at offices and members of my union, the syndicalist SAC.

Again, we'll never know if NATO was the reason my political beginnings was carried out in an atmosphere of fear and defensiveness, but the fact that it might have been is in itself remarkable. Whatever the truth of that, we do know for a fact that they've injured and murdered hundreds, and from the only country where this was ever properly researched."

https://www.tumblr.com/blackcat-brazil/722674494532108288?source=share

I think I'd like to get involved in #Discussion groups again, but w/o using email. I wonder if #Mastodon #Groups will fit the bill.