tatzelbrumm @tatzelbrumm@qoto.org
Joined Jun 2019
@HerrSchmitz @elhotzo
Den Seeheimer Kreis zum Beispiel.
Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch
Aus dem das kroch.
@skdh@nerdculture.de
Hat der Zahnarzt gebohrt?
@sozialraumteam
ich fühle mich verfolgt.
https://youtu.be/iRsxS1uWF9A
#magic
@freemo
Not just the German ones …
@Gargron
Nicht nur die deutschen …
https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/heine_reisebilder02_1827?p=236
@freemo
Yet another case of context collapse,
cf. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
tatzelbrumm
boosted
If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
@freemo @berkes @rbe_expert @Gargron @trinsec @khird
Eugen Rochko is CEO of Mastodon.
He explicitly writes that
“I will take a listing down if it risks endangering the reputation of Mastodon”
A lot of the problems in our world is attributable to the typical CEO attitude.
In the case of mastodon, Eugen Rochko's attitude is:
"Mastodon, c'est moi."
So by PROVING him wrong with IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE,
you destroy Eugen Rochko's reputation, and because in his mind, he IS mastodon, you endanger not only his reputation, but the reputation of mastodon, and you and your instance MUST be delisted.
@freemo @berkes @rbe_expert @Gargron @trinsec @khird
Putt's Law of Insubordination applies here:
Rejection of management objectives is undesirable when you are wrong,
and unforgivable when you are right.
Gagron will double down on his mistaken decision precisely BECAUSE you PROVE him wrong, and you justifiedly put him on the spot for his wrong decision.
In addition, social media excommunication is based on the principle that any attempt at defending yourself is seen as admission of guilt.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, but here we go again.
@freemo It would be nice to have if you felt generous and made your LaTeX style file openly available
<nudge> <nudge>
<wink> <wink>
@freemo @trinsec @khird @barefootstache
The biggest danger with moderators is that they might pursue a hidden agenda what to purge.
Most dangerous here are cases where a moderator "finds even the question distasteful":
https://youtu.be/reJAzTE980s?t=109
You can't really rule this out in advance; you can only put an appeals process against moderator overreach in place.
But in the end, the buck stops somewhere.
@freemo, with your ham radio background, I'll draw the analogy that social media communication patterns, "trigger warnings" included, function like a bunch of superregenerative receivers
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_circuit#Superregenerative_receiver] oversensitive to triggers.
The superregenerative receiver most sensitive to false positives and most indiscriminate when quenching anything that triggers it wins.
If Mike Godwin, of all people, isn't immune to getting distracted from the important context by the superregenerative false trigger bugs du jour in Social Media, nobody is.
That <snow at intermute> guy knows something about superregenerative triggers of which your typical "safe space" admin knows nothing.
And if you want to explain to them why their cancellation policy is faulty, Putt's Law of Insubordination takes effect:
"Rejection of management objectives is undesirable when you are wrong and unforgivable when you are right."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat — Mandatory reading if you haven't already]
@ohuu, because academia is organized like a feudal society, with senior academics and academic publishers jealously guarding their exclusive right to assign credit and the right to commericalization
(which, unsurprisingly, goes largely to the folks in control).
@freemo Do you have a LaTeX compile option that adds a bibliography of your publications if the CV is intended for an academic setting?
(In your position, do you need to bother??)
@freemo @worldsendless
The timeline bargraphs are truly impressive once you realize what they show and how.
Do the blue bars get updated every time you compile the LaTeX with the current date?
@skdh@nerdculture.de
I thought that reference letters were an indicator that the candidate had the correct habitus
[cf. Wolf Wagner, "Uni-Angst und Uni-Bluff"] for the exclusive academic circle into which they were to be admitted,
i.e., to make sure that the candidate is not only technically qualified, but also knows the jargon and knows which fork to use.
When I studied physics in the last millennium, this was about the „Greiner Mafia“ in theoretical physics.
Nowadays, it's probably about the proper use of pronouns instead of forks, i.e., proper use of "inclusive" language as exclusionary criterion.
@freemo Running a social network where you can keep toxicity at bay without censoring every interesting deviation from the dumbest common denominator, at scale, would be yet another discovery of a lifetime.
A word of caution about going public:
Financial markets have rewarded the worst aspects of Social Media with astronomically high rewards, to the detriment of the more benign aspects.
Going public may force you to focus on the evil aspects.
@freemo
Social media consistently bring out the worst of us even in the best of us.
(Technically speaking, social media bring out all aspects of us superimposed, but the worst aspects propagate fastest and widest, including spooky action at a distance.)
Joined Jun 2019
