ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Just wanted to give a hearty thanks to all for the reblogs/retoots early on here. I know folks are arriving and looking for familiar accounts and they seem to be finding my very dumb posts, so I appreciate y'all! #StarTrek #twitterMigration

@ixy_pixy@mas.to Welcome! 🖖 😀

There are many educators here. Some tips to connect:

1) Add #EduTooter hashtag to your toots/posts;

2) Join the EduTooters Unite! List at tinyurl.com/joinedutooters;

3) Follow and include @edutooters group in every education related post;

4) Add hashtags #EducationTech to your toots. 🤩

5) Finally, check out these “tootorials” at go.mgpd.org/feditoots for quick tips. Don't be afraid to boost toots/posts and share a hashtag rich #Introduction with others with that hashtag. :-)

Saran Wrap isn't what it used to be.

https://shuttersparks.net/saran-wrap-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/

For those of you who have just joined #mastodon, especially if part of the #TwitterMigration, I found these two articles on getting started really informative.
The GitHub page from Joyeusenoelle had some interesting info I did not know (and I am a veteran of 3 weeks on Mastodon! 😂 )

Article from Wired's Justin Pot (https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/) and FAQ from Joyeusenoelle on GitHub (https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/#what-does--mean)

"Twitter can influence the behavior of its users. The carrot and stick of likes and abuse may have led some researchers to bend away from the norms‌‌ that underlie scientific activity, like objectivity and organized skepticism. For example, scientists who made pronouncements on controversial topics — “Schools need to remain closed!” or “Masks harm kids!” — could find large partisan audiences who appreciated those conclusions, perhaps more than the quality of the reasoning that led to them. Once followers became fans, some scientists may have been reluctant to revise or reverse their conclusions in light of new evidence if ‌doing so risked backlash."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/pandemic-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSVUaCibSRdkhrxqAwuDGxrAxg371aTSKSCpewv5TA5SF_w2FQ5tfUOYJ_mbRQs5dYvhoTeZuz-RbMgs8QgTw-8SIwNEMeStt7N_vVTtz1cydUPVn_zK1PjXlI7whlOb19wiLPzmRLa_b1H0qIQllo4I0Ng35nCxVmdqWV7J9ydJ83vw-BphlRTdmZCaCvvjgCRkWK8zRJ1iHqVFwA7cFLGmVyd2M6LsAcxFRCkbETh585mU-4dBdP7AHLUebaz1GDKI8ZImMnca504U&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#book recommendation:

Calling Bullshit, by @ct_bergstrom and #jevinwest (https://www.callingbullshit.org/)

From my point of view, this is perhaps the most underrated topic in #education today. The ability to extract valuable #information and truth out of fake news, propaganda, lobbyism and misleading advertisement is not only critical to personal development, but to the survival of #democracy itself. This bocomes today more visible than ever.
Bergstrom and West give insight into the mechanisms of manipulation and deception using data and provide a valuable toolset to dissect infoation and data to, well ... call bullshit. This is accompanied by lots of examples and additional material.
This stuff needs to be tought in school already.

Not new but still the best 2 minutes , well, sketch of the
Brout-Englert-Higgs
#Higgs mechanism I know. #Particles #CERN #Physics
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXpTIVFF7I

@digital_carver @ceoln #aiart is a huge rabbit hole. No time like the present to start to learn a bit though. The #AiArtCommunity is generally pretty helpful and willing share #knowledge

@ceoln absolutely! This was created by first creating a custom #discodiffusion model. From here I generated 5000 unique power crystals. I then took these images and used them as my dataset in #stylegan3 and trained a model I could then export interpolations from. 🪄✨💎

There's also the Two Massive Marys project, which I need to finally do some proper work on.

OK, #Fediverse, I have a request. What I would like to be able to get, if you're amenable, is recordings of your #CatsOfMastodon yowling. It's for a #Music project I'm starting.
I have this vision of a chorus of yowling cats that I would love to realise. Each cat used wll get a credit, of course.

Also can we just stop and appreciate how wonderfully the CW feature functions here? Twitter, Facebook, and other sites could REALLY learn from this. It’s simple. It’s opt in. And it works beautifully. #meta #cw

Hi to fellow #linguistodons ! A brief #introduction. My name's Robin, I'm a translator and linguist, currently studying for an MA in Corpus Linguistics. My first degree was also in #linguistics, but that was a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time ago.

I'm fascinated by anything to do with language, and currently I'm learning Finnish and Ukrainian on #Duolingo for fun.

I may post #music and #nowplaying tweets, because music is my other passion.

Oh, and of course my #cat, Marmite.

Late afternoon view from South Mountain looking back at Santa Paula. That magical golden light.💛

Curious about real archaeological evidence we have for Ice Age civilization?

Check out my video, "The Landscape of Early Greece" which discusses how Stone Age humans in the area of modern Greece adapted to climate change at the end of the Ice Age

YouTube link here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_fpskZGtCE

#archaeology #Pleistocene #Prehistory #Paleolithic #Mesolithic #ClimateChange #Paleoclimate #HumanAdaptation

@antiquidons @archaeodons
@histodons

The best photo of autumn I've ever captured. #LoveScotland #AutumnTrees

As I watch the many #mastoadmin do heroic work to scale technical capacity, who is growing content moderation capacity?

As the fediverse scales, it will become a greater target for harassment and manipulation, and that will require a lot of labor can’t be done by volunteers alone.

I publish and edit a speculative fiction magazine of award-winning stories, I publish a yearly fundraiser-supported reprint anthology, and co-founded and run an award-winning site for writers to find publishers and track submissions.
AMA

I'm wanting to fill my feed with news stories, especially ones from leftist publications.

Who should I folllow?
#leftist #news #recommendations