Ari Meier @arisphere@qoto.org

“You have journalists and activists in authoritarian regimes in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia who are now even at the mercy of even more vicious trolls with no ability to fight back. It's literally life or death for people.” Musk doesn't appear to care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/twitter-musk-reverses-suspensions/ #tech #technology #twitter #elon #twittermigration #twittermigrate

“Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the App Store,” said @esqueer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/twitter-musk-reverses-suspensions/ #tech #technology #twitter #elon #twittermigration #twittermigrate

The Ultimate Coding Setup for Data Science

In this video I go though how I setup my operating system to code for datascience. We talk about operating system, terminal, IDEs and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbeymTcYYE

I'm going to say this again - my white friends who aren't racists do not mind me talking about racism. If you find yourself disturbed by or uncomfortable with topics on racism, you may want to tell yourself some hard truths. And then, work on your findings. You may be racist.

I'm a freelance #illustrator - I love all things #microbes and #cartoons - find me here and...

My website for my portfolio: https://lizawolfson.co.uk

Insta for #WIP and studio life of #freelance #ScienceIllustration: https://www.instagram.com/eliza_coli/

Ko-fi for #microbiology #sciart and #comics content: https://ko-fi.com/intothemicroverse

I'm on discord as @eliza_coli too, so don't be a stranger!

HUMAN COMPUTERS AT JPL

AND FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN IN A TECH POSITION AT THE LAB

A 1953 photo- women human computer workforce for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL.

Janez Lawson (front, fifth from the left) - 1st African American hired into a technical position at JPL. These women did the calculations to launch the first American satellites & lunar missions. NASA photo.

#NASA #JanezLawson #computing #AfricanAmerican #black #history #BLM #Math #HIstodons #sociology #technology #science #JPL

This variable is partly determined by internal author traits, such as the author's persistence, but is also influenced by the external success of the author's works, and this can be enough to flip the correlation. 5/n

Intuitively, one would then expect that an author who has written a lot of bad books is more likely to be an incompetent author than an author who has written very few bad books. But this is not necessarily the case! The problem is that there is a confounding variable, namely the number of books each author writes. 4/n

Let's see how. For sake of discussion, let's say that the field is book writing, and that there are only two types of book one can produce: good books (successes) and bad books (failures). Let's also say for simplicity that authors fall into two classes: competent writers, who produce good books 3/4 of the time and bad books 1/4 of the time, and incompetent writers, who produce good books only 1/4 of the time and bad books 3/4 of the time. 3/n

One such unintuitive fact (basically a special case of Simpson's paradox) is the following: the number of failures that a person experiences in a field can be positively correlated with how competent that person is in that field: the more failures a person generates, the more likely that person is to be competent! 2/

Probability and statistics abounds with many fallacies, "paradoxes", and otherwise unintuitive statements, often caused by the presence of various sampling biases that might not be immediately obvious without some mathematical (or similarly careful) analysis. Some of my favorite examples of these phenomena are Simpson's paradox, Berkson's fallacy, and the friendship paradox (all of which can be found for instance on Wikipedia). 1/n

@dango_ @jerry This chart shows Monthly Active Mastodon users.

People returning to their Mastodon accounts were mentioned by @joinmastodon on Twitter on 11/12: "Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!" https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1591519312338210816

With devastating precision, @propublica details how two lives intersect, and two systems of justice diverge. If you read one piece of accountability journalism, read this https://www.propublica.org/article/milwaukee-fire-brunner-belen-landlord-tenant #journalism #media #news #longread #longreads #journalist #TwitterMigrate

Yesterdays's *daily* migration to Mastodon was a record.

The picture doesn't capture fully what happened in the 24 hour period after Musk's 'hardcore' deadline. In that particular 24hour period there were 240 thousand registrations!

A few weeks ago, back in October and prior to Musk being in charge of Twitter, there were only a few thousand daily registrations to Mastodon.

@mastodonusercount
#twitterexodus #riptwitter #Mastodon #MastodonMigration

Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

I wrote this three years ago:

“One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.”

Own your content.

Publish on your own site.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)