Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

And if you'd like to dig into the social and political implications of BBS culture, you might click on...

📚 An essay based on excerpts from my book, "The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media," published in ISSUES in Science and Technology
https://issues.org/prehistory-social-media-modem-world-driscoll/

🥳 And a thrilling roundtable on the theme of "Imagining a Better Internet" with @tamigraph, Finn Brunton, @apdamegriff, Kat Brewster, Frances Corry
https://issues.org/imagining-better-internet-driscoll-forum/

Happy BBS DAY 2023! It's been 45 years since the creation of CBBS Chicago.

📻 Northern Public Radio published a nice piece about the legendary system https://www.northernpublicradio.org/education/2021-02-15/this-week-in-illinois-history-worlds-first-bbs-goes-live-feb-16-1978

📹 To hear the story from Ward and Randy, watch BBS: The Documentary by @textfiles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU

🕸 Redditors are posting videos of themselves BBSing from all sorts of weird devices https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/

📠 To light up a few boards yourself, check the Telnet BBS Guide https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

MEDSCAPE article on NICE and Evusheld, with comment from me and others.

Owing to government & process delays, this committee was pushed back & back while COVID continued to mutate. By the time the committee met, almost a full year after the MHRA gave marketing authorisation for Evusheld it was no longer proven to work against the most recent variants

https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/nice-rejects-covid-drug-evusheld-nhs-use-2023a100038j

Bourse doctorale Henri Rieben 2023-2024 https://www.infoclio.ch/de/bourse-doctorale-henri-rieben-2023-2024?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #infocliojob

Are you studying #History or #ClassicalStudies? Do you want to share tools, methods, tips&tricks with fellow researchers? Fantastic! Join the #DHNB2023 online workshop "Exploring Digital Tools and Platforms for Individual Research of History and Antiquity" on March 9, 2023, 9 to 12 CET. Info and registration on the workshop website https://vlandau.notion.site/vlandau/Workshop-Exploring-Digital-Tools-and-Platforms-for-Individual-Research-of-History-and-Antiquity-2cc4fdf1d3ba420493fd39fcb0fb3bef

Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.7.4 With Fix for Safari Favorite Icons https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/15/apple-releases-macos-big-sur-11-7-4/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Do platforms like Uber, Upwork, Google, and Amazon represent a fundamental transformation of capitalism – or merely a digital form of neoliberalism?

In a recent publication in @BigDataSoc, I use regulation theory to answer this question. 🧵 1/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231153808

And another workflow acquisition by one of the big four surveillance publishers:

https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-acquires-researcher-created-writing-tool/24020648

Soon, there will be no escaping the surveilance...

#openscience #surveillance

#whataweekhuh

I turned this thread into a blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Thread continues here: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109869401190959051

"AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article/

Language is a form of virtual reality. If you can manipulate language, you can render worlds inside people’s heads

That’s why large language models are so powerful…they tap into our native programming language

Major news outlets are now being mirrored to the #fediverse by press.coop https://press.coop/directory (see 🧵 for easy to follow list)

Don’t have access to Bing+AI, but examples shown seem to indicate that’s just Galactica+

Lets see how long it will take till MS has to shut it down (or “modify” it)

Zu den wiederholten Plagiatsfällen in der Causa #Koppetsch gesellt sich eine merkwürdige Fügung. Nicht nur die Professorin selbst scheint offenbar Plagiieren als „alternative“ wissenschaftliche Methode zu sehen. Es gibt Anlass für die Vermutung, dass sie das sogar lehrt. Kleiner Thread, den ich gestern so auch auf der Vogelapp gepostet habe:

Ivory v1.1 is now out on the App Store!

Release Notes:
- Edit Posts
- Report Users and Posts
- Support for Mastodon server language translation services (if your server has them).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274