Show newer

The local feed appears to have vanished.

Okay, that sort of worked but it required a new page.

While trying to post this one, one failed with a 500.

Show thread

Well, so far, the next update to the science post mentions human rights a bit more and expands on the VR paragraph (as I mentioned last time, I wanted to get something out on that, as there were a few unpleasant abstract / hypothetical takes out there, so this is going to be a supplement to that).

Even if it's forensic adjacent, if a paper fails to find a link between something and crime, then that might still be interesting, but it's concerning if it's interpreted as there being a lot of criminals.

Show thread

Also, there is a paper which admits that their samples were forensic adjacent now which I guess is progress.

I'll get around to working on that science post. I didn't know what to make of the update so that got delayed a bit.

It's honestly annoying when someone pretends as if a clearly unreasonable politician is making a valid argument.

Religion isn't really an excuse for being a horrible person.

What do you think the fascists mutter to themselves? In the name of the censor, the fascist, and the holy algorithm? Amen. ?

Olives  
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382465676_Reported_Consequences_of_the_Ban_on_Sex_Dolls_With_a_Childlike_Appearance_-_A_Content_Analysis_o...

"other scales"

An example of something which someone might use is a Likert scale, so that might be something like Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, and Strongly Agree. There are other kinds of scales though.

Show thread

Given Mozilla's financial state, this is not a surprising decision.

Sarah Jamie Lewis  
"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising." "we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embr...

Remember that there is qualitative and quantitative research.

Quantitative research involves collecting numerical data (things like yes / no and other scales can be encoded as numbers), often from large groups of people, and analysing that to figure out what the various variables describe.

Qualitative research delves into more subjective experiences in things like interviews (and textual data) and they involve smaller groups of people (analysing the data requires more resources which makes it harder to carry out studies with larger groups of people).

Mixed methods research does both.

That's a brief summary.

Olives boosted

"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."

"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im

I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.

Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.

The home feed appears to have repeated the same post three times.

Jeanne doesn't appear to have spoken to a single newspaper, media outlet, or even a blog about her findings. This is a good example of how someone can fail at communications.

Show older
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.