John L. Taylor @johnnylogic@qoto.org

I like the Tank Girl avatar, as well. It brings me back...

@verb Hello! It is always nice to meet a fellow data nerd, especially in the security space.

@obi Yeah, the dispute is around qoto's completely open policy. I'm glad that Mastodon gives the flexibility to implement numerous policies thus allowing a variety of spaces deliberately embrace different standards that serve their users. This also leads to a very explicit tension between safety and freedom. Complete openness to white nationalist, spam, and pornographic servers is seen as a problem by some other server admins, so they block qoto.

I'm giving another server (mstdn.social) a try at the moment, due to qoto being blocked by some of my friend's servers. So far there are some things I like better there (it is not blocked by some of the more safe-space-oriented servers, it is a bit prettier and has some good discovery enablement) and some I don't (no markdown options, a much smaller character limit, generic community). I'm undecided at the moment, but I might migrate in the near future.

Ironically, I have logged more time on #twitter since Musk purchased it than I have in the entire year previous. The #schadenfreude is just too good!

@ambulocetus Yup-- it takes most people 10 to 15 years to get one, and boy can you feel the years of experience when sparring with them!

@ambulocetus Cool. I am a purple belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu, though I have been interrupted in my practice of late. I enjoy learning about the many martial arts of the world and I occasionally watch MMA.

I just started *Caste* by Isabel Wilkerson and am already engrossed.

"[W]e are all born into a silent war-game, centuries old, enlisted in teams not of our own choosing. The side to which we are assigned in the American system of categorizing people is proclaimed by the team uniform that each caste wears, signaling our presumed worth and potential. That any of us manages to create abiding connections across these manufactured divisions is a testament to the beauty of the human spirit."

By way of #introduction, I am a Director of Research working on online #fraudprevention. I aim to protect people from fraud while establishing trust and safety for businesses.

My professional interests include #datascience, #machinelearning, #dataengineering, #designthinking, #innovation, #research, and #dataethics. My personal interests are numerous and include #philosophy (esp. #ethics, #science, and #epistemology), #psychology (esp. #cognition, #positivepsychology, #therapy), and philosophies of life (esp. #buddhism, #humanism, #stoicism, #taoism).

Hobby-wise, I am an #exercise and #martialarts enthusiast. I also enjoy #nature, #hiking, and the #outdoors, generally.