George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

I just had the worst #interview of my entire #career . It turned out to be an insightful list of precisely how NOT to attract talent. In that way, it was really useful to me as a candidate.

Presented for your amusement, here's a thread of what I asked. It's going to be a longboi, but here's my absolute favorite:

🚩 Do you have any queer peers? Is this a safe place for them to work? "We don't talk about that here."

#lgbtq #trans #job #discrimination

Just thinking about how we had dozens of ideas for Twitterrific over the years that we didn't even try because we were worried they'd probably violate the Twitter TOS somehow and they'd ban us.

Instead, Twitter arbitrarily changed or redefined some rule that has yet to be identified (and might not even be published) and banned us anyway out of the blue.

They've still not said a word and I don't expect they ever will.

Canadian selfies

We're seeing a lot of posts about #ThisIsFine and that IS fine, but we're long time friends of the meme's creator KC Green. Don't forget you can get official merch from his store and support the #art and #artist so check it out!
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Okay, I’m excited for this now.

https://youtu.be/TIfMfLbCbzY

Mastodon Etiquette 101

Boost what you like, do not just Favorite (like) a toot/post. It is all about lifting others up. This is not twitter.

It can take a bit of getting used to but I have found it to be a much better experience without an algorithm driven by bot likes.

For more Mastodon navigation and help follow @feditips

#TwitterMigration #Boost

Whoa, cool blog post summarizing a bunch of available studies on quote tweeting behavior -- research that I was unaware existed!

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/

No silver bullets that will end any debates here but, you know, here's some data at least

Reminder: The Pre-defined Compiler Macros wiki is a treasure trove for us cavemen working on portable C programs: https://github.com/cpredef/predef

#firewall 🤭

The sunset sky is getting hazy. At least I don't smell the volcano. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1613746046651498497

Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54 https://www.voanews.com/a/lisa-marie-presley-singer-and-daughter-of-elvis-dies-at-54-/6916681.html #voiceofamerica #voanews

Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:

Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon

It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”

It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.

Here goes: https://searchtodon.social

if you're wondering how he learned it, this was the chain of events:
1. when the dogs barked, my mom would yell "shut up!" and whack them with a slipper
2. the parrot, having little concept of slipper-based violence, believed that "shut up" is what made the dogs quiet
3. one day when the dogs barked, the parrot said "shut up" and the dogs, expecting slipper-based violence, stopped barking
4. parrot gradually applied this concept onto other annoying noises, such as my mom being on the phone, to similar effect

The reactions to ChatGPT in education, both at the K-12 and Higher Ed level really remind me of some prior technology wars going back to...
Calculator bans (students will forget or not learn how to add and subtract)
Graphic calculator bans (students will store formulas and forget critical math formulas)
Word processor/typed paper bans (students will forget how to write in cursive and how to spell and do grammar)
Laptop bans (students will just cheat and Google everything)
Wikipedia use ban (students will use unreliable and entirely too easy to access information)
I know ChatGPT is "different" from these, but it's also the same.
What other "tech innovations" fall under this history?

@edutooters #edutooter #edutooters

"Connected car skeptics have a right to be concerned about the widespread problem": Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/hackers-discover-that-vulnerabilities-are-rife-in-the-auto-industry/

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#nextcloud #partner

1. For years, @walgreens@twitter.com and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business.

The claims generated a MEDIA FRENZY

Now, Walgreens is quietly backtracking

https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media