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To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

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Internet Archive has many contributing Citizen Archivists, and one of them is Marcin Wichary (who is fascinating in his own right) who has uploaded hundreds of Typewriter-based knowledge and documents. They're in a collection here:

archive.org/details/wicharytyp

The building started to be restored at the end of the 19th century leading to one of the first usages of archaeology and history in order to rebuild a castle in a historically accurate way.

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The castle's most famous prisoner was François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician, who was imprisoned here between 1530 and 1536. He inspired Lord Byron to write the poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" in 1816

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Château de Chillon is built on a small island in Lake Geneva guarding the passage between the Rhone Valley and the Vaud Riviera. Its history goes back to the 12th century and these days it is among the most visited medieval castles in Europe. #switzerland

A key sign of how broken CS/AI/ML #PhD programs is when there is an *unspoken* requirement that if you want to be competitive, you need to published already.

I mentor at least 5-10 PhD applicants every year, esp from the Global South/Majority World.

One super talented applicant asked me: "Isn't the PhD supposed to be the training to learn how to publish & be a good scientist?"

I wish I had a better answer than the one I gave her.

#academia #academicChatter

Is “Jim Bridger Story” by Leon Payne (Czech cover by Wabi Danek youtu.be/1MMbGB70sLs) influenced by “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Stan Jones (great version by Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash youtu.be/-zol906ltPU)?

I thought the song by Wabi would be a cover of the riders, but no “Yippie-yi-o, yippie-yi-yay” and only then I found out it's two songs!

In many ways I'm still very much a man of the 20th C. When I refer to the 'turn of the century' I still mean the turn from the 19th to the 20th. A romantic part of me is still waiting for the (by now broken) promises of the 20th C to be fulfilled. We once so keenly believed in the idea of a utopian future. When I was a child, I'd try to imagine the technological/ social advancements we might make by the year 2000. Where are they? Where did the future go, and why did we abandon it?
#hauntology

Oh man... just found that the "MASTO 95" theme is the correct way to use this site.

"2,3 Mio € für (Klima)Forschungsprojekt bewilligt"

Juhu, wir Wissenschaftler:innen werden alle Millionäre!

Oh wait, nicht? Wieso? Da steht doch 2,3 Mio bewillligt!

Wie funktioniert Projektbeantragung und wo geht das Geld hin?

Ein #WissKomm Thread

1/23

Bewilligungschancen liegen bei den Anträgen irgendwo zwischen 10 und ~30%. Kommt SEHR drauf an.

Also, um es nochmal zu schreiben: 70-90% der Anträge, in die SEHR VIEL Zeit geflossen sind, werden abgelehnt.
15/23

Die @Junge_Akademie@twitter.com hat mal einen Rechner erstellt, welcher zeitliche Aufwand sich für welche Fördersumme "lohnt"

In der Realität macht das aber vermutlich kaum jemand. Es gibt eine Idee, einen Mittelgeber, man schreibt halt so lange, wie es dauert

ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.
12/23

Meta 

Erst jetzt, wo ich hier ständig Posts darüber lese, dass Mastodon keine Algorithmen hat, die uns häufig gefavte Posts, ältere Posts von Followings, thematisch relevante Posts usw. anzeigen, wird mir klar, dass es tatsächlich Leute gibt, die auf Twitter die Home-Timeline statt der chronologischen Timeline verwendet haben. Kein Shade, es wundert mich nur.

Also wenn nachts um 3 wer klingeln würde, um mich zu fragen, ob ich zufällig 20 Jutebeutel zu Hand habe – Ich wär vorbereitet!

We are hiring again, but now with hashtags! We are looking for new Assistant Professors in the areas of multimodal communication, social media, human-computer interaction, or conversational interfaces! #hiring #jobs #rug #hci #chatbots #academic

rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/j

Offenbar kam unser Anzeigentext "Wir testen nur mal das Werbedings, weil wir Elon Musk ärgern wollen." bei Twitter nicht gut an. Die Anzeige wurde nicht nur abgelehnt, sondern der Postillon auch noch komplett für Twitter Ads gesperrt wegen ...

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Ich bin gespannt auf die kommende Zeit auf #Mastodon! Auf #Twitter ist es (mir zumindest) praktisch nicht mehr möglich, selbst sachliche Themen zu posten, ohne dass eine Lawine an beleidigenden Kommentaren kommt oder solche, die fake news verbreiten. Tweets ohne Antwortfunktion sind auch nicht die Lösung. Also ab jetzt lieber hier!

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