Clement Tahershamsi 
@Clementulus@social.cleverlibre.org
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Joined Nov 2022
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The four stages of Mastodon user:
* what’s a Mastodon
* I feel lost and alone how does this work
* oh wow this is actually pretty cool
* I have compiled a linux kernel
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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.
(Please boost for reach)
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my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.
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Wow! Once in a lifetime shot!
This amazing image of a meteor was captured by Jonathan Eggleston in West Virgina, USA, during the recent lunar eclipse.
#Photography #Astrophotography #BloodMoon #Meteor #Meteorshower
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Quaking Aspen
Eagle County, Colorado.
Photo credit: Peter-Paul de Meijer
@elizadys I feel like I should not be tunnelling on this but I am trying to imagine what "wearing their girdles slung low" means. Were these nymphs pioneering 21st century urban apparel, or am I reading too much into this?
P.S: This is a beautiful poem.
I was reflecting the other day on the "like" function on multimedia sharing platforms like youtube, instagram etc... I wish that it was a scaled value calculated something like this: (amount of media consumed)/(number of likes given). So for someone who watches a lot of content but drops a lot of likes, those likes will add moderate boost to the algorithm, but then someone like me, who watches a good amount but only likes things if they are truly phenomenal can just drop like bombs on content that is actually superb. #youtube #instagram
@thetitanborn Would do this in a heartbeat but being Canadian I am always on the lookout for toots about the mating habits of bull moose so no "musk" would leave me dead in the water.
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@freemo Dawn, northern Norway #photography #sunrise #sky #landscape
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#Astrophotography may be the ultimate hobby for introverts.
I've been doing it for about a year now and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. My ADHD normally makes me end hobbies after three months tops; not so this one.
You don't need to live in the boonies either, with camera sensors these days you can make amazing images even with light-polluted city skies.
And if you do want to be social, there's star parties and other events with fellow amateur astronomers. By necessity outside, so COVID-safe!
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Cederblad 214 as seen from my driveway, around 54 hours total exposure time.
@Misinfo As someone who works in law enforcement I can tell you that petty criminals are 0% afraid of CCTV. The footage is only sometimes (rarely) usefull if a major crime just happens to occur in their vicinity.
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Agreed. The back story is long and crazy. But in short the LGBTQ and others in the community at the time were being mass banned simply for following bad actors, even when they didnt boost, promote, or in any way show sympathetic leaning towards those bad actors.
The reason they were following them was to watch their account for violent threats and then disseminate that throughout their community for safety. But many instance admins didnt care and blocked/banned anyway.
As a result the LGBTQ community in masse migrated here for their safety.
We added a feature for them called subscribe. It lets you follow a person without them knowing you are following them. BUT it only lets you access the posts that person gives you permission to view (basically public posts, you cant see follower-only posts on a subscription). We did this so members of our community could follow these bad actors without alerting them and putting themselves at risk of violence or retaliation.
People again twisted this feature into being privacy violating despite the fact that it honors the privacy rules set by the poster.
Needless to say a lot of people were very mad that their blocking and banning abuses were coming back to bite them in the ass and ultimately distorted and lied the truth about QOTO and our feature to try to make it sound like something evil when it wasnt... those lies persist to this day.
@simondoubleday Yes it is true that framing essays in a certain way can force out more original ideas but that seems to be difficult in practice, especially in more introductory courses. I do not think that conversations are necessarily difficult to grade so long as you are sticking to standard letter style grading in terms of one's understanding of a set of ideas, but of course the presentation of those ideas will not be as smooth as they would be if they were written out and edited ahead of time.
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#SelfPromotionSaturday is a thing here? Ok, I’m giving a webinar on my research on #TrashyStreams on Wednesday and it’s free and open for anyone interested in #geomorphology of #UrbanStreams or #PlasticPollution. Details & registration here: https://csumb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdu-qqDsuHNKh4-95Lfd4zJLYpwwcEHBg
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Frodo: I will take my account to Mastodon, though—I do not know the way.
Aragorn: you have my server
Legolas: and my boost
Gimli: and my toot!
@simondoubleday From my experience as a student, most undergraduate essays might as well be written by AI; since a sizable number (perhaps majority) of students just look up a bunch of essays on google then just reword them slightly for their assignments without even trying to formulate a somewhat original thought or interpretation. AI won't really change this, just make it easier. The only real way to gauge someone's understanding of a topic is either a conversation or an in-exam essay. If AI ever starts writting original masters or phd theses, we should be terrified.
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John beat his addiction to chocolate, marshmallows and nuts.
But it was quite the rocky road.
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My phone just fell down a flight of stairs, but it's ok, it was in my pocket.
Just another statistic.
Joined Nov 2022
