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Trufi AssociationIf fire risk is the standard, shouldn't fossil-fuel vehicles be the first to be banned? Not e-bikes on trains?Lithium battery fires are rare. Victoria’s proposed e-bike and e-scooter train ban punishes clean mobility, ignoring the far greater fire and safety hazards of petrol-powered transport. via xitter @theage @pwhatch <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/ban-on-e-bikes-on-trains-a-response-over-the-top-cycling-advocates-say-20250808-p5mlg1.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/ban-on-e-bikes-on-trains-a-response-over-the-top-cycling-advocates-say-20250808-p5mlg1.html</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/publictransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publictransport</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ActiveTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActiveTransport</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ElectricVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElectricVehicles</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EV</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EVs</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mobility</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Multimodality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodality</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/publictransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publictransit</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TrufiAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrufiAssociation</a>

Jay<a href="https://mstdn.social/@stevendrowe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stevendrowe</a> There are local <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> models which can help with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> concerns. I think experimenting with video understanding is an interesting exercise, video is simply a series of frames and sometimes audio. One benchmark will be if an LLM can describe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lego</a> instructions for a person without sight. Currently an unsolved accessibility problem, maybe one day.

PPC LandGoogle reports 65% surge in visual searches as AI mode drives multimodal adoption: Advanced search features reach 1.5 billion monthly users while industry debates traffic impacts. <a href="https://ppc.land/google-reports-65-surge-in-visual-searches-as-ai-mode-drives-multimodal-adoption/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/google-reports-65-surge-in-visual-searches-as-ai-mode-drives-multimodal-adoption/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VisualSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VisualSearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIMode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SearchFeatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearchFeatures</a>

Nicolas MOUARTThis is a Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria L.), or lesser celandine or pilewort (as per Wikipedia and other sites).I have tested gemma 3 4b-it-q4_0 multimodal vision model for a while: it is not accurate, and can't be trusted. For instance, it thinks it is a Ranunculus acris (it isn't). It's really hit and miss with this model. I guess it could still be useful to provide some clues or vocabulary.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taximony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taximony</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localLLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#localLLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#review</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a>

PPC LandGoogle introduces AI Mode search feature to UK users: Conversational search interface brings advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities to British market. <a href="https://ppc.land/google-introduces-ai-mode-search-feature-to-uk-users/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/google-introduces-ai-mode-search-feature-to-uk-users/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIMode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SearchFeature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearchFeature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConversationalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConversationalAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodal</a>

Póg mo Joan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😷Petition to have all buses and coaches in Ireland fitted with these backers to carry bikes! 🚌 🚲 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Rothar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rothar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BikeTooter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MastoDaoine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoDaoine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicTransport</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MultiModal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MultiModal</a>

stadtmobil carsharing AG🚗 x 🚌 Gemeinsam unterwegs: Die starke Partnerschaft von stadtmobil & VVS und SSB macht Mobilität in Stuttgart noch smarter! Viele Wege lassen sich bequem mit Bus & Bahn zurücklegen – und wenn’s mal flexibel, spontan oder mit viel Gepäck sein muss, ist stadtmobil die perfekte Ergänzung. 🤝Wann nimmst du Bus & Bahn und wann greifst du lieber auf ein stadtmobil zurück?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stadtmobil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stadtmobil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VVS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VVS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SSB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SSB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Carsharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carsharing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stuttgart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Stuttgart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BesserMobil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BesserMobil</a>

Trufi AssociationHerrenberg is boasting about about their multimodal system for sustainable transport: stadtnavi. Hey, other cities, don't be jealous: Just adopt the solution, developed by Trufi. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/bus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bus</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BusRapidTransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BusRapidTransit</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BRT</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Herrenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Herrenberg</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Multimodality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodality</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/NotJustBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotJustBikes</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SharedMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharedMobility</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SustainableMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SustainableMobility</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TransportationInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransportationInnovation</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SmartMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartMobility</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/UrbanMobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrbanMobility</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/MobilitySolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MobilitySolutions</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/FutureOfTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FutureOfTransport</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/sustainabletransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sustainabletransport</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TransportationJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransportationJustice</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TrufiAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrufiAssociation</a>

😀🚲Is this [holding a butterfly shaped like S Moody Ave] <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/multiModal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multiModal</a>?

Boiling SteamAmazing real time AI conversation demo. very close to what you could see in the HER movie: <a href="https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/conversation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conversation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#model</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/sesame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sesame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/HER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HER</a>

Boiling SteamMicrosoft announces Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini: <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/empowering-innovation-the-next-generation-of-the-phi-family/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/empowering-innovation-the-next-generation-of-the-phi-family/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/phi4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phi4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#release</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/instruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#instruct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a>

Boiling SteamAI Demos from Meta: <a href="https://aidemos.meta.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://aidemos.meta.com/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facebook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#demo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a>

MiaFrom <a href="https://akademienl.social/@thomassmits" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thomassmits</a> posting on bluesky @thomassmits.bsky.social‬:Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890) (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social )<a href="https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.284" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.284</a>A 'Flask application enables scholars to use both textual and visual queries to search the 72,000 images' <a href="https://github.com/tpsmi/ilnmultimodalsearch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/tpsmi/ilnmultimodalsearch</a>Code for extraction and multimodal AI embeddings: <a href="https://github.com/tpsmi/multimodaliln" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/tpsmi/multimodaliln</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newspapers</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AI4LAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI4LAM</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CLIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CLIP</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a>

Prof. Julia LeydaHooray for pandemic co-authoring fun stuff via Zoom! Here's an article on the TV series Dickinson that I wrote with Maria Sulimma <a href="https://hcommons.social/@marsul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@marsul</a> for a special issue of Arts, called New Perspectives on Pop Culture, co-edited by Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. This piece has been taking shape for a while, but it came together despite how busy and/or ill we've been, and now it's up online and open access.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TelevisionStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TelevisionStudies</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TV</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Television</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PopCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PopCulture</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CulturalStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CulturalStudies</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Commodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodon</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaStudies</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Remix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Remix</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Intermediality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Intermediality</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Multimodal</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/LiteraryHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiteraryHistory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Biopic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biopic</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Dickinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dickinson</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AppleTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleTV</a>+ @television @communicationscholars @litstudies @poetry @histodons<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/2/62" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/2/62</a>

Reyhan Furman<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a> Hi Mastodon! I'm part psychologist, part linguist studying the development and use of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>. I'm particularly interested in how gestures and actions occur with speech to make up (spoken) language and what they can reveal about cognition 🤏 👆 🗣️ 🧠 My whole personality is based on being a dog's human and swimming outside all year long 😬

JaneEyreZHNow thatI have discovered how to make my posts visible to everyone, here is my initial <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intro</a> post! I am a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/genderqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genderqueer</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ADHD</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LitScholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitScholars</a> I study a lot of different things, including the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/multimodal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimodal</a> Novel, but I mostly tinker around creating neat <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FYC</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/composition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#composition</a> assignments and tools in my courses, but also teach <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sf</a> , <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/creativewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativewriting</a> and currently projects in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/speculativefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speculativefiction</a> ,<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gardening</a> with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nativeplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeplants</a> and getting back into creative writing. Absolutely love <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ghoststories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghoststories</a> 👻

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