Jim Salmons @Jim_Salmons@qoto.org

Attention professors! Do you have any awesome students looking for a summer fellowship? MPOW (JSTOR Labs) is running its second Innovation Fellows cohort: https://labs.jstor.org/blog/innovation-fellows-2023/ This would be a good fit for someone with LIS, edtech, digital humanities, or related interests. Design thinking instruction + mentorship + independent projects. Last year's projects/fellows were SO COOL, and the person running the program is pretty amazing. (& yes of course it's paid)

I am loving this super well-written Intro to Python for Humanists by W. J. B. Mattingly--it's wonderfully accessible to students just starting out and exploring NLP, and it's timely and wide-ranging in its examples: combining word embeddings via spaCy and gensim with topic modeling via nltk--and best of all it's really for hunanist approaches to word salads. Super happy with Mattingly's stuff. :-) https://python-textbook.pythonhumanities.com/intro.html

This claim is false.

Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d). This is a famous "d-order" that has to be signed by a judge.

Companies can demand reimbursement under 2706. You can argue that 2703 should have a higher standard, but if the government can get to user data should it be free or should the companies ask for a nominal cost?

This is absolutely nothing to do with content moderation.

@Jim_Salmons @dhinamug @DHdKonferenz @cneud This is very funny!

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you’re new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:

Tips:

• Choosing a home instance isn’t as importance as it seems, don’t overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You always have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
• Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
• You’re supposed to “boost” AKA “reblog” toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
• Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
• If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
  Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
• Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. Keep it in mind

Useful tools & resources:

Twitodon - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
Trunk -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
Fediverse.info -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS
Tusky for Android

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

Today drinking in #DHinaMug style from a special #dhd2022 @DHdKonferenz mug 🥰! What is your favourite #dh mug? Please boost and sent pictures! 🙏 #DigitalHumanities

Hi new #DigitalHumanities people finding your way over here! If you're looking for DH folks, there's a list going here: https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon. Please add yourself with the link at top, and DM me if you need anything to be updated! #TwitterMigration

Added Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) to Planet Digital Humanities https://dmaus.name/pdh #pdh #digitalhumanities

We are happy to share that @thewunderalbert
will be the keynote speaker of the 2nd Intl. Workshop on Natural Language-based Software Engineering
Co-located with ICSE 2023 (https://nlbse2023.github.io/). The title of his exciting Keynote is "Trends and Opportunities in the Application of Large Language Models: The Quest for Maximum Effect":
https://nlbse2023.github.io/keynotes/

#ICSE2023