Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@social.cleverlibre.org

Good evening, Twitter was a 16 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Mastodon-Glossar:

Twitter = Mastodon
Tweeten = tröten
Tweet = Tröt
Tweeeeeeet = Trööööööööt
Retweet = Zurücktröt
Thread = Rüssel
Hashtag = Stoßzahntag
Blockieren = Wegrüsseln
Sifftwitter = Siffmastodon
DM = Geheimtröt
Follower = Mit-dem-Rüssel-am-Schwanz-Hänger
Like = Stern
Elon Musk = Eugen Rochko
Der Postillon = Der Postillon

So I reached out to admins of the few instances that block us with a polite email explaining some of the misinformation spread about us in the pastt and describing the situation in some detail in the hopes it will be resolved.

Luckily nearly all the instances are very small and its not a big deal since our federation footprint remains one of the largest int he fediverse, but I felt it was an effort worth making.

Anyway, seems the drama is already begining and even more flat out lies are getting thrown around be a few:

https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361052656757061

https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361011483467968

Luckily despite a few bad actors most of the people I contacted reached out to me in good faith and several seem to be willing to reverse the ban. Lets hope the people who actually bother to fact-check win out on this one.

I wrote this almost 10 years ago about Engelbart's unfinished revolution:

#ToolsForThought
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/07/23/177246/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

Obviously, #Galactica is still just a large language model, not some sort of universal knowledge engine.

You can't expect it to give correct responses to arbitrary questions about science and the broader world.

Sadly, the way Papers With Code/Meta AI designed the web page may lead to people trusting its language model outputs way too much, as @Michael_J_Black and many others are pointing out.

#NLP #NLProc

Schreibe gerade auf meinem emulierten DDR-Computer (KC85) mit der in der DDR staatlicherseits vertriebenen Raubkopie von WordStar einen Text über die Nachteile von Software as a Service aus technikhistorischer Sicht.

Twitter Drama, Seagull Management

Beim Lesen von #Luhmann sollte man im Hinterkopf haben, dass die Gesellschaft, die Luhmann beschrieben hat die selbe war, die #Loriot in seinen Sketchen parodiert hat.

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/

Trööt!

Wenn sich Elon Musk so viel Mühe gibt das Fediverse allgemein und Mastodon ganz speziell so zu pushen, dann schauen wir doch auch einmal rein. Und wenn wir so was machen, dann machen wir es richtig. Oder lassen es machen 😉

Wir haben seit heute Abend unsere eigene Mastodon-Instanz unter jbo.social - ganz frisch aufgebaut von Leo Skull. Wir richten uns da gerade noch ein, unser Bandprofil findet ihr unter @jbo@j

https://www.jbo.de/15878/troeoet/

#News #Fediverse #Mastodon

Wir sind J.B.O. und wir sind #neuhier 🤘🏻 Wer uns nicht kennt: Wir sind die Verteidiger des Blöedsinns, die Kickers of Ass, die fränkische Antwort auf die Frage, die niemand je zu stellen wagte…

Alles zu uns, zu unserer Musik und unseren Live-Auftritten gibt es natürlich auf https://www.jbo.de

For instance, a correctly formed citation to the above post would be:

Moreton, I.C.B. [@estrapade] (2022, November 12). We're all gonna need this sooner than expected so here is my proposed APA 7 style citation format for citing a ... [Mastodon post]. Kolektiva. https://kolektiva.social/@estrapade/109329872269455008

We're all gonna need this sooner than expected so here is my proposed APA 7 style citation format for citing a Mastodon post

Lastname, F.M. [@mastodon@handle.tld] (20XX, Month DD). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut ... [Mastodon post]. Name of instance. [URL of post]

As with the format for citing a Twitter post, the correct reference list title is the first 20 words of the post, and the correct short title is the first 5, both using an ellipsis if necessary.

As interest builds in archiving parts of Twitter, it’s a good time to check out Documenting the Now, a set of tools and guiding policies for archiving social media ethically, with guidance by communities at risk. It’s a years-long project led by archivists, who are specially trained to understand the ethical and practical implications of preservation. https://www.docnow.io

Very proud to picket in solidarity with the academic #workers on #strike at #UCLA! Read more about what UC grad workers are demanding: https://www.fairucnow.org/

Gerne würden wir uns als technisch fortschrittliche Gemeinde mit anderen innovativen Gemeinden und Städten im Fediverse vernetzen.

Aber ausser dem idyllischen @Hintertupfikon haben wir noch keine entdeckt.

Gibt es die hier überhaupt?

From the introduction of the paper “Here Come the ‘Computer People’: Anthropomorphosis, Command, and Control in Early Personal Computing” by @starkcontrast.

Considering ”tech” execs today, I can’t help but think ”plus ça change…”

#ComputerHistory

https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2020.3022964