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varsha the hot dam historian

reposting because i didn't use hashtags @histodons #histodons #academics - i index academic books, and i have done around twenty so far. i can index almost any kind of book (written in english), and if you email me (in bio) i can send you my references and past work! please help a freelancer grad student out ❤️ i used the bird app to get jobs before, but that's probably dead, so...

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kristinafassler

Rewe spricht die Sprache, die DFB und FIFA vermutlich verstehen. 🙏 Mögen viele Brands nachziehen. Obwohl, das fängt das Problem schon an. Keine Marke zieht gern nach. #OneLove spiegel.de/sport/wm-2022-in-ka

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Croissandra

Shampoo für enthusiastische Appläuse. Landkarte der Orte, an denen grade Kuchen aus dem Ofen geholt wird. Fahrzeugschein für Gefühlsachterbahnen. Eintrittskartennachverkauf zum Nochmalansehen von Konzerten. Ein Securityschwan, der den Zugang zum Herz regelt. Eine Flüsterpostfiliale.

#SechsUnmöglicheDinge

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meta bene

#fisch

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Herd Of Gold

Hier im Wohngebiet hat jemand einige Hühner. Eine Henne büxt immer aus. Und die hat eine kleine Warnweste damit sie nicht umgefahren wird. Die läuft dann immer durch die Hood mit ihrer kleinen Weste und alle wissen: Aha Hennriette ist wieder on Tour.

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J.B.O.

Oh, die ersten 1.000 Verfolgerinnen und Verfolger sind erreicht 😊 Ein klein wenig Bedarf an Blöedsinn gibt es also auch im Fediverse. Wir können zwar keine $44 Milliarden öffentlich verbrennen, aber guter Blöedsinn ist ja auch deutlich günstiger zu haben 😉

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Sascha Wolfer

Postdoc-Stelle bei uns am IDS in Mannheim, zunächst auf 3 Jahre befristet, aber potentiell entfristbar.

Sprachforschung und #CitizenScience

#jobs #lingustik #linguistics

Schaut rein unter ids-mannheim.de/fileadmin/org/

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Mike Masnick ✅

Interesting explanation from a decently large Twitter advertiser on why they've paused their ad budget on Twitter after keeping it running for the past couple of weeks. teamblind.com/post/i-told-my-t

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Jeffrey Yost

Babbage Patch Finds--a daily deep dive into CBI's vast computing/software archivces

PLATO

In 1982 at the World's Fair, two boys are enthralled with the onscreen graphics of PLATO.

PLATO was an educational computing and software system developed in the early 1960s at Univ. of Illinois and purchased and expanded by Minneapolis-HQ'd Control Data Corp

#PLATO #Children #Computing #Games #Education #Graphics #HCI #CompSci #HIstory #Histodons #Sociology #Anthropology #AI #STS #videogames #Commodon

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Parents For Future :verified:

Elende Feiglinge. #DFB: rückgratloser Haufen. Kein Arsch in der Hose, aber ständig von Haltung faseln. Erbärmlich.. ("#OneLove war schon peinlich, denn eigentlich braucht es 🏳️‍🌈" - @hhoeppe )

#BoycottQatar2022

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Tino Eberl

Totally by accident. I just clicked on some dot, @firefoxx66. 🤣

#MastodonScience #ScienceMastodon #MastodonAcademia #MedMastodon

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Tino Eberl

@firefoxx66 Hi Emma, that cloud is a representation of the Twitter followers/follows of scientists including the ORCID ID. If you don't know it, than you maybe did not add yourself and the visible connections are from others to you.

twitter.com/OpenCheckNet/statu

You can add yourself to the list:
opencheck.is/scitwitter

And the cloud is from @LeonDLotter

leonlotter.de/twittergraph/gra

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Paula Kirby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Life in the #DDR: #Halle in smog, ca 1987. Courtyard of the Francke Foundation. Gorgeously atmospheric photo © Barb Holtz

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I also saw comments by artists of various kinds that most if not all of their audience and thus clients and thus income came from/via Twitter and they now have to re-start this side of their "business"

Similarly: When the airport BER did not open as announced but ~~months~~ years later, several small businesses selling food or flowers got bancrupt as they had already moved from Tegel to Schönefeld but without passengers no income

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Last week I paid a small fee to be able to download PDF from Threadreader App. Which is really comfortable and makes archiving relevant threads or discussions super easy—and the PDFs look nice, too.

Anyway, it got me thinking about all these maybe rather small things/tools for/around Twitter people/startups produce and sell for little money as a side income or maybe even as main income. Most probably Twitter will nod disappear over night. But when people leave or use it differently, they don't have a need for these apps any longer. So they stop paying (if it is a monthly/yearly fee and not a one-time price) resulting in reduced income for those developers. Or in them losing all of their income.

Are there any intuitions or even data on the impact of a massive change in Twitter audience and use on the surrounding eco-system?

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Merkwürdige Zeiten: Statt nach Schnee riecht es draussen nach frischgeschnittenem Gras. Und es sieht auch nicht so aus, als wäre das das letzte Mal in diesem Jahr, dass die Abwarte Rasen mähen. Gefühlt könnten jetzt bitte sofort Weihnachts- und Semesterferien sein, stattdessen ist eher goldiger Oktober und ich geh nachher Tanne für Adventskranz besorgen.

Liegt sicher alles nur daran, dass ich den Herrnhuter Stern nicht abgebaut hatte und der schon ein ganzes Jahr munter vor sich hinleuchtet

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

9/ This is the problem with "language" discussions. We need *curriculum* discussions. If someone asks you "what language should I use", please don't provide answers. Please ask questions. Good questions. The right questions.

10/ A lot of people reading this are techies who are sometimes asked to help out in schools. I beg you, please watch at least until 8m30s into this talk, "Curriculum Design as an Engineering Problem". You'll get it. It's written for you.

youtube.com/watch?v=5c0BvOlR5g

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

7/ For a long time, educators found curricula like SICP hard. (Now, they've just stopped talking about it.) This got translated to "Scheme is hard", because people can only see things through the overly simplistic lens of programming. But:

8/ What they missed is that SICP and other curricula, typically coming out of FP, had gone well past the "rubbing two rocks to get sparks" to the "igniting boosters" stage. It was blub all over again, at the level of curriculum, not language features. ↵

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

5/ The real problem in CS Ed is we don't think enough about how we can relax constraints, widen the space of methods, future-proof goals, etc. So we go from one blub language to another per decade: Pascal, C, C++, Java, Python…

6/ Here is my highly scientific visualization of the progress we've made in computing education. Whatever languages make easy become the default & determine lot other things. What languages make hard get ignored because folks are afraid to make CS hard for students. ↵

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

3/ Also, constraints. The constraints dictate what the admissible set of solutions is. Constraints vary across both space (different places) and time (different years). Without stating constraints, finding solutions is meaningless.

4/ Also, methods. Whereas, programming languages are a solution-space artifact. You don't *start* with them, you *end* with them, relative to everything else. So starting with the "which PL" question is guaranteed to lead to talking at cross-purposes. ↵

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