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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
@chrischirp @TheConversationUK vaccines are for more effective and long lasting than the top line public health numbers make them out to be: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/974363
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RT @chrisjcondon
Janet Yellen delivered on a promise made to Stephen Colbert… her signature on US bills is legible.
@FrPaulHCastelli @ksenzee given the recent emphasis from Covid on "The church is not the building!" It doesn't surprise me. I certainly don't think this is the time for existing congregations to be building new worship spaces, and if I were planting a new congregation I would be looking to rent space not build.
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#people #silos #culture #PeoplePoll
Can you describe who these people are and what they are famous for?
(click each one that you know)
@bethsawin I agree. I think "post-Covid" is the wrong language for what we are looking at for the next several decades. I am struggling to find good language that describes the current period that neither implies that Covid is over nor that we are at the same place we were in March 2020. Many businesses and organizations are trying to strategize about how they function over the long term in light of the changes Covid-19 has brought and we need something better than post-covid to describe it.
Totally agree about the ongoing climate crisis. It's real; it's now; it is bad. We need to move away from "changed" to "crisis"
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> While I appreciate what you are trying to do here, I think one of the beauties of the "fediverse" is that instances are self moderating.
UFoI doesn't take over moderation for instances.
> I think that small instances are the best way to go and keep mastodon safe and friendly organically.
Reality is that neither you or I can’t force all instances to be small instances. I can say that the value of UFoI is massive to small instances.
As a small instance operator, I can tell you that smaller instances are constantly at threat of being defederated by larger instances if we don't do what they say. If one of them labels us as anything; who do other instances trust more? The 10-person instance or the instance with 10,000 people?
If the larger instance says that an instance has some hugely offensive problem, and you choose to not block that instance, well now it looks like you're in support of that thing. That instance now says you're that thing too because you didn't defederate and they're going to defederate you too.
Now, perhaps some of these are true, and some of these are just personal gripes between people. What the UFoI helps us establish is a set of minimal standards to adhere to for federation that most of the Western world can at least work within (I would expect very restrictive regimes would have problems with it). It establishes evidence requirements so that instances can’t be just defederated over personal issues if they’re a UFoI member.
For larger instances, this sort of thing also helps against inter large-instance issues for similar reasons, but also having a clear process and standard to work within reduces the amount of headache trying to just maintain a service.
UFoI doesn't take over moderation for instances.
> I think that small instances are the best way to go and keep mastodon safe and friendly organically.
Reality is that neither you or I can’t force all instances to be small instances. I can say that the value of UFoI is massive to small instances.
As a small instance operator, I can tell you that smaller instances are constantly at threat of being defederated by larger instances if we don't do what they say. If one of them labels us as anything; who do other instances trust more? The 10-person instance or the instance with 10,000 people?
If the larger instance says that an instance has some hugely offensive problem, and you choose to not block that instance, well now it looks like you're in support of that thing. That instance now says you're that thing too because you didn't defederate and they're going to defederate you too.
Now, perhaps some of these are true, and some of these are just personal gripes between people. What the UFoI helps us establish is a set of minimal standards to adhere to for federation that most of the Western world can at least work within (I would expect very restrictive regimes would have problems with it). It establishes evidence requirements so that instances can’t be just defederated over personal issues if they’re a UFoI member.
For larger instances, this sort of thing also helps against inter large-instance issues for similar reasons, but also having a clear process and standard to work within reduces the amount of headache trying to just maintain a service.
@mattasdata #PureScript is a very well designed functional programming language that learned a lot from the mistakes of #Haskell and F#. It also targets #Javascript as itd output.
@Robminchin @wnknisely WRT grape juice. Many of those churches are strongly tied to the temperance movement and still officially prohibit alcohol.
@mattasdata why elm? It has only half the useful parts of a functional language. A functional language that you can't define a Functor in - 😔
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As far as I can tell, basically ChatGPT is what you get when you ask a supercomputer to get really good at mansplaining. High confidence, low accuracy. Good discussion here: https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/
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France, with half of its 56 nuclear reactors out for maintenance, is planning rolling blackouts this winter.
Texas faced blackouts because its gas plants froze.
California faced them. India does, too.
The common denominator: reliability takes investment, planning, and smart regulation.
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Someone just said this and I think I'm going to tattoo it on my arm:
"Don't give up, but don't waste time. "
This is a decent and approachable 9 page overview on the challenges of content moderation. I commend it to all those who are working on #MastodonMigration issues.
My concern with this article is that while it mentions issues of race and culture, it treats them as a technical challenge instead of the fundamental issue that it is. The concern I want to raise it the inability of most content moderation systems to differentiate between what the paper terms bad-actors and people who have different cultural communication norms. Hate speech and harassment are most typically defined in the context of white "polite society" culture which ends up excluding BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other oppressed groups ability to express themselves.
#fediblock #TwitterMigration #moderation #HateSpeech #mastodon
I wrote a short essay explaining why content moderators can't design systems assuming their users will only act in good faith, but it's also undesi...
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Everyone knew Ye would reoffend & shouldn't get his Twitter account back. But the Star of David/swastika image that got him resuspended isn't ILLEGAL "incitement to violence." It's not even close. Despite his free speech ambitions, Musk chose to remove lawful-but-awful content
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If you're worried about unwarranted partisan blowback to Musk/Twitter's disclosures, reconsider your enthusiasm for forcing editorial transparency from Internet services. Those laws will routinely spur bogus partisan investigations & enforcements https://bit.ly/3fBYSA3
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I'm really happy today! A bunch of my best math/physics friend on Twitter are now here on Mastodon!
In this thread I'll introduce you to some of them. If you like my stuff - explanations of math, physics, and related things - you may like my friends, too.
Let me start listing some... I don't know the best way to do this, so it may take a couple of tries.
(If I left you out, it could be just my forgetfulness.)
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@nerdparker Narrenschnee?
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@kbexit@mastodon.world @Jake_Vig the place I remember is Tennessee where that are actually yield signs at the end of freeway ramps. 🤯
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
