Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@social.cleverlibre.org

"Also, zuerst sucht man sich eine Instanz aus!" 🐘🫶⭐️

From what I have seen, the texts produced by galactica.org tend to start off strong, but then quickly become repetitive. Of course, circular definitions are great for internal coherence…

And as it says in the fine print: “Language Models are prone to hallucinate text.”

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Piotrowski%27s+double+definition+of+digital+humanities

Gotta love these US scholars who discover that there are other languages besides English and who then feel the urgent need to ‘educate’ everybody about this because they assume everybody’s like them.

One of the most dangerous myths about the digital world is the idea that once something is online it’ll be available forever. Digital preservation is complicated, expensive, and many companies aren’t interested in doing it.

This is a serious problem…(here is a link to a Technology Review article about historical preservation and Twitter)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

Als ich das Känguru zum ersten Mal in meine Wohnung ließ, habe ich leider Twitter gekauft. Schönen Dienstag!

I don’t think #COVID is “mild”, not in regard to possible longterm effects. So while most are celebrating their “freedom” (to infect others) and their “high immunity” (from having to stay at home while sick), I’m happy to remain in the control group.

Along with the warm fall weather, the drop in case numbers has stopped now, first in the age group 10–19, then in the 80+. For ⅔ of the 70+ the last dose was over 9 months ago and the current boosting rate is hesitant.

Die Johann Caspar #Lavater Briefedition ist ab sofort online!
Hier geht's zur Edition:
www.jclavater-briefwechsel.ch
#DigitaleEdition #Briefe

I just posted the latest episode of the radio show: https://www.waywordradio.org/if-grandma-had-wheels/ We particularly had fun with the segment about all the different terms for weak or bad coffee: https://www.waywordradio.org/names-for-weak-coffee/

🎉Coming in 2023: The Hodcroft Lab!!🎉
I'm so so excited to announce that my @snsf_ch@twitter.com Starting Grant was funded!
I'll be focusing on the amazing world of #Enteroviruses at the fantastic @SwissTPH@twitter.com as an Assistant Prof!
💰👩🏻‍🎓🦠🧬

Schweiz, ich bleibe! 🇨🇭❤️

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Today we bade farewell to a claim and a banner image that we’ve been using for two years on Twitter¹ and for two days here: le-tex total tagscaping.
We thought that few of you are old enough to understand the allusion², and those who remember probably think it’s trite and there needs to be a new meme.
In the absence of such, we are now presenting an aerial view of our premises with the company’s IL-18 turboprop plane.³
¹ https://twitter.com/letexml/status/1325940894915293184
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference
³ https://twitter.com/letexml/status/1272585823519719428

Are you a #linguist (or in a field adjacent to #linguistics)? Add yourself to the list at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mastodonlinguists and make it easier for colleagues to find you!

(Is the hashtag #linguodon? #linguistodon? #linguistidon? Nothing much seems to be going on under any of those)

Ohne Ankündigung: Twitter entlässt offenbar Tausende Leiharbeiter | golem https://www.golem.de/news/ohne-ankuendigung-twitter-entlaesst-offenbar-tausende-leiharbeiter-2211-169735.html

President of @snsf_ch sounds alarm over Horizon Europe exclusion.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/horizon-europe-egger/48052392

Artists 4 Action Interviews Pete Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-DlDO9uYSg

Mastodon is is the 5th or 6th social media platform I've engaged with in a serious fashion, but it's been awhile since I had to start a profile from scratch. In the process I have relearned the one constant truth of all social media -- until you have accumulated at least 300-400 connections, the flow of information is going to seem skewed and limited, and you are going to wonder whether it is worth your time and effort.

Thus, echoing what others have said, you need to do more than just set up a profile and lurk, thinking an algorithm will direct information your way. You need to peruse the "Following" and "Follower" lists of people whose contributions you find interesting, then connect. Start with your local server and its Group and Profile directories (much easier to do from the web instance). Look for people you have followed on other platforms, and then look through their connections. The distributed nature of the fediverse (the so-called siloes that seem to cause a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from people still clinging to twitter) can make it a bit more difficult to find and connect to people quickly, but patience will be rewarded. Take the time to dip into other people's timelines, and connect to those that maintain interesting and active feeds. You will quickly notice a perception of increased 'quality' in your newsfeed once you have a few hundred links.

Being a professor is being told u can read all day but actually ur just in meetings