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@rastinza I like where you are taking this analogy, hope you develop it further!

To clarify my analogy: first of all, I don't talk about Mastodon but rather the fediverse 😉 semantics…

More importantly, I compare the fediverse not to a village but a network of villages. Which, to me, is the same thing as districts in a city. Separate but joined entities. So, in the end, I don't think our analogies diverge that much

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@rastinza @poterealpopolo

"Il mito del deficit: La teoria monetaria moderna per un’economia al servizio del popolo" di Stephanie Kelton (già economista capo della minoranza democratica di Bernie Sanders al Senato USA) è un saggio divulgativo con linguaggio accessibile a tutti, è disponibile sia in italiano che in inglese ed è anche su LibGen se non vuoi comprarlo:
ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacebtoiwwh

ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacecgty5al

Sempre sul lato divulgativo ci sono vari libri di Warren Mosler.

Un saggio sui risvolti socio-politici in ottica della MMT è "Reclaiming the State" (uno degli autori è uno dei tre "padri" della MMT):

plutobooks.com/9780745337326/r

Dal punto di vista accademico c'è un manuale universitario introduttivo alla macroeconomia con la lente della MMT scritto dai due principali economisti che se ne sono occupati a livello di pubblicazioni scientifiche (Wray e Mitchell) ed è adottato come libro di testo in alcune università:

amazon.com/Macroeconomics-Will

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It's been a while that I've been telling around I intend to write a about socializing on .
Of course I didn't finish the guide, in fact I didn't even start writing it... I'm still in the note taking phase.
However, today I took a plane and read an [article](yarmo.eu/blog/make-it-on-fediv) by @yarmo in which he compared Mastodon to a village and Twitter to a metropolis.
I didn't like this analogy very much, so I came up with my own in which Mastodon is a big city with a lot of different places where people hang out.
I didn't polish this yet, it's just some notes I jotted down quickly, so take it as an unpolished draft.
I'd like to know your opinion about it: if you're a long time user if you believe that this analogy actually reflects Mastodon and if you're a new user if the analogy made you understand some things about Mastodon you didn't previously know.
I'll take into consideration your comments while polishing this up and to decide whether to actually include it in the guide.

So, here we go:
Mastodon is like a big city with a lot of people that hang out all the time.
Since the city is big, people hang out in many different places where they meet their friends, and generally people always hang out more or less in the same places.
Some people live near the centre, where there's a lot of different people and they can barely recognise faces and other live in isolated outskirts where few people live and everyone knows everyone else.
Some people just hang out in places where they do things that interest them, such as churches, gyms, workshops, art galleries and so on and thus mainly hang out with people that shares their interests.
The more you hang out in one place, the more you get to know the people that stay there and become their friend; moreover, staying there you get to know their friends, which may just be passing every once in a while but who normally hang out in other places.
Some groups of people despise others and try to avoid each other as much as possible by not talking to each other, avoiding common friendship and not going to the places where those people hang out.

When you move to a new city it's difficult to make friends; if you already have a friend living there, it's good to go around with him for a while to see all different places and to get to know some friends so that you can then choose where to hang out and who to meet.
If you don't know anyone living there then you have to start making friends autonomously; a good way to do this is to just choose a place that you think you like and hang out there for a while, trying to talk to people and getting into conversations with them. It's unlikely that you'll immediately find your favourite place in the city or that the first people you meet will become your best friends, but it's good to start making these "introductory friends". Through these friends you'll meet other people and eventually you will meet someone who's really cool and with whom you get along very well. Eventually you may distance yourself a bit from these people as you hang out more with other friends you made and you may stop hanging out in the place you were initially hanging out as you discover places you like more.

Thus, you'll slowly discover the places and people of the city until you find a good spot that you like.
If you're like me, you won't be happy with just one place or just one group of people and you'll start going around many places and making several groups of friends.
On the other hand you may just find a few good friends and always hang out in the same place.

Thus, it's inappropriate to start by asking around who are the cool people to follow: if nobody knows you nobody will be able to tell you who you might get along with.
It's also inappropriate to ask people to present you other people who do your same job or have your same interests; the best thing to do is to go in places where such people hang out and try to meet them naturally.
Just imagine going to the barman and asking him for the list of engineers specialised in photovoltaic panels that go to that bar... And then just going to those guys and saying something like "I heard you do my same job, we shall hang out together." That's not nice, even though he does your same job he may loathe you or you may not have fun with the guy, this is a place to hang out and not a job board.

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RT @TheArduinoGuy
I defragged my zebra....

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@rastinza

I'm building a neural net that predicts stability of solid phases. The details are not quite settled yet, there's a lot of trial going on. Generally it's a classifier that guesses if energy above the hull is greater than zero or is equal to zero.

Convex hull is a thermodynamic concept: set of compounds that are thermodynamically stable, and their unstable polymorphs are higher in energy (hence E above the hull).

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Potere al Popolo!

RT @Giul_Granato@twitter.com

Una SpA che fattura più di 20mln di € l'anno cerca personale con “Master in Gestione Risorse Umane e ottima conoscenza della lingua inglese e di Excel” in cambio di uno schifo di stage pagato 500€ al mese.
3,12€ l'ora.

Basterebbe questo per dire che gli #stage vanno aboliti.

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Eva Amsen

I've been sharing @skrishna 's guide to Mastodon with people. I found it very helpful myself! It's not just technical but also about the culture of Mastodon. #mastodonhelp #guide swapnakrishna.com/blog/mastodo

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ :protein:

Nature getting in on the #Fediverse #Academia

nature.com/articles/d41586-022

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ :protein:

Crystallisation robots go Brrrrr
#Science #Crystallography #StructuralBiology #SciComm

youtube.com/shorts/Rd91A4VwLLg

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I've been working with a bunch of ML and quantum chemistry lately. At this point the hardest part is to actually come up with the problem (i.e. translate chemistry into reasonable mathematical expressions) and then make all the servers and packages work. The code and NN architecture themselves are like 10-20% of the work.

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

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Branching colors

#generative #CreativeCoding #Processing

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Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:

@neurob c'è poco da fare, quando i gruppi crescono oltre una certa soglia la massa spersonalizza e deresponsabilizza gli individui.

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David Adler

As I was struggling with writing my PhD today, I was wondering if a #git based publication system could not be one element for getting out of the scientific #publishing crisis. Basically you could start working on you paper privately, start to invite trusted reviewers and commentators at first, then switch to publication later. But publication is not the end. It gives a broader community the opportunity to read and comment on your paper. #science

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Ho abbandonato da molti anni il mio marxismo, ma da comunista libertario quale sono la lettera del ministro dell'istruzione e del merito (merda merda merda cacca pupù) è uno schifo assurdo.

"Il crollo del Muro di Berlino segna il fallimento definitivo dell’utopia rivoluzionaria. E non può che essere, allora, una festa della nostra liberaldemocrazia. (...)".

Lettera agli studenti italiani del ministro Giuseppe Valditara. 9 novembre 2022

FALLIMENTO DELL'UTOPIA STOCAZZO

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Steve Zissou

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages :blobcatscared:

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Visto che la guardia di finanza ha implementato tutta una serie di metodologie all'avanguardia per scovare gli evasori, come il socialometro, volevo comparare il numero di evasori trovati con queste innovazioni con quello precedente.

Io ho cercato un po', sul sito della guardia di finanza, sui giornali, su vari siti istituzionali e via così.
Di dati sull'operato della GdF non si trova davvero nulla eccetto i saltuari "trovato ingegnere che ha evaso tot allo stato".
Voi sapete dove posso rimediare questa informazione? Chessò, un numero di evasori identificati ogni anno o quantità di denaro trovato.

Mi sembra assurdo che non sia possibile monitorare l'efficienza dei nostri servizi pubblici. D'altronde li paghiamo, mi pare il minimo avere informazioni sull'efficienza di qualcosa che si paga.

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Following the was a mistake; thank you all folks, you're very cool but after a week of introductions flowing in my home timeline I'm a bit annoyed.
I guess I'll go back to the flow of boosts by my good old and reliable @GustavinoBevilacqua

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Guided matter waves lab 🇺🇦

today I learned, that Pauli called Fermi merely a "quantum engineer", and since it was Pauli, most definitely in a super condescending fashion. Can't stop laughing from today's perspective 🤣

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Anakin Skywalker®

Anyway. I'll do my #Introduction post too.

Hello people of #mastodon!
My name is Anakin and i suffer from #BPD and other mental health issues.

Sadly my body couldn't cope with the 3rd & 4th vaccine, so now i also have #PostVac/LongCovid with all of its fun. ☹️

I really love #science , #Lego & #StarWars

My hope? A cure for LongCovid (#BC007 ) and intranasal Vaccines.

I wish we would have #mandatorymasking and #CleanAir

I survived BPD so far. I Don't wanna die because of LongCovid.

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