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cyberlyra

@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io

Sociology Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical HCI; remote work. Longtime data economy resistor. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. www.optoutproject.net
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stux, to random
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Time to clean the world!

Roomba leaves the house and go further cleaning outside

cyberlyra,
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@stux Roomba’s Big Adventure.

cyberlyra, (edited ) to random
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I've said it before: Harriet Tubman is the original American superhero. I don't know why they bothered making up Superman or Batman or whoever when they already have Harriet Tubman.

You can leap over buildlings in a single bound--but can you free 800 people in South Carolina at one go? I didn't think so.

"https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/112547559739906346/

cyberlyra,
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(I mean, I do know why they bothered, I am a sociologist after all, so you don't have to point it out. But hopefully we all get the point.)

cyberlyra,
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@jackcole EXACTLY! Precisely my point.

I see your laser eyes, Superman, and raise you THIRTEEN TRIPS by foot across enemy lines into Maryland to lead groups of people to freedom via the underground railroad.

cyberlyra,
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@jackcole

Actually we should just rank Harriet Tubman on a list with Superman and Batman and Captain America.

In the same way as how they just integrated the ANL stats and it is now OBVIOUS that Babe Ruth was NOT actually the best baseball player of all time.

Because then it will be OBVIOUS.

(* said list could even note how many of each superhero's accomplishments are real and not fictional!)

glyph, to random
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You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.

What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?

cyberlyra,
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@glyph
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evanprodromou, to fediverse

I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.

In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.

I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.

Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.

In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.

Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.

https://evanp.me/2024/06/03/i-turned-in-my-manuscript/

cyberlyra,
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@evanprodromou Wow, congratulations!! Finishing a book is a mighty task. We are grateful for your careful work of building, documenting, curating, and spreading the good word!

nora, to random
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it is not useful to tell people who do not control what operating system they use at work to use a different operating system at work.

cyberlyra,
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@nora
absolutely.
if you can only use windoze at workx switch to something else at home.
keep your private materials off those machines so they arent 'recall' captured
render to caesar only what is caesar's.

cyberlyra, to random
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Your gaming systems are tracking you too! In a spirit of evasion, I've been playing with retro-systems: all the fun, more of the data privacy.

https://www.optoutproject.net/offline-gaming-go-retro/

cyberlyra, (edited )
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@julian id love to give an open source versions a try!

Maybe it’s as simple as, here you can build it and try it?

Or putting certain family members on it so there is a community there.

(What do you say, @ohthehugemanatee ? Shall we set it up?)

cyberlyra, to random
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Start here by deleting everything Google thinks it knows about you.

https://www.theverge.com/24141741/google-data-delete-how-to

Then pick up with my tips for Google free living.

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

It’s so much better out here without a data-sucking behemoth controlling everything you see, flooding your search results with spam and injecting the internet with LLM-generated sludge. Bonus, if you leave, your data stops contributing to serious ethical problems.

Thanks for @Em0nM4stodon for passing The Verge’s How To along.

cyberlyra,
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@ScottStarkey @Em0nM4stodon yes and this needs updating! I’m constantly trying out new services and new ones are coming to the fore. Love peer tube. I’ll get on an update asap. I have several other items to post as well.

cyberlyra,
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@ScottStarkey @Em0nM4stodon Ok I went back and looked at my blog post drafts and I had actually set aside a whole post just for YouTube replacements. That's on the list to get out ovre the next two weeks. Do you have other faves?

(Sorry I had to put the blog aside a bit to write an academic book about NASA)

stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

cyberlyra,
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@stux
i knew it was bad but not this bad.

@Incognitim

human3500, to privacy
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What is the best non invasive / respecting app these days?

Five people and a one hour call.

No AI training. No tracking. No evil corporation like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.

Bonuses:
no need to sign up.
Decent encryption but that is less of a requirement then the operator not mining our conversation and profiling us.

cyberlyra,
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@human3500
jitsi

cyberlyra, to random
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When the ice cream truck outside is playing the classic Tetris theme that is also currently playing on your hacked alternative Gameboy emulator on which you're running Tetris from the original catridge circa 1987...

jbigham, to random
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a year and a half in… it's kind of disappointing that nobody was able to just copy Twitter and not be Elon. that's all we ever really wanted.

cyberlyra,
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@jbigham I mean, that isn’t at all what I really wanted, so you’ll have to speak for yourself.

Twitter is and always has been a complete dumpster fire.

HCI is so busy looking at the interfaces it always forgets to look under the hood at the structural and political economic underpinnings of these systems.

cyberlyra, to Starwars
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Finally watching #starwars #clonewars. Fave do-not-miss episodes, fediverse?

cyberlyra,
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@asociologist
dude those three Mandalore episodes in S2 were better than the whole Mandalorian series IMO...

weirdwriter, to tech

I know I shared this before, but this is just good! The Case Against Substack https://theluddite.org/#!post/case-against-substack

cyberlyra,
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@weirdwriter yep, I’ve written about this too.

https://www.optoutproject.net/why-this-site-isnt-a-substack/

andymckay, to random
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I gave Jira AI a try. So I typed this into AI to see what would happen. Was not disappointed. Well alright I was. Haven't found it give a useful or correct answer yet.

cyberlyra,
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@andymckay @ginahelfrich think how much money we will save on dev salaries!

michaelzimmer, to random
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There's no way anyone could've possibly predicted this. /s

OpenAI finds Russian and Chinese groups used its tech for propaganda campaigns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/openai-disinfo-influence-operations-china-russia/

cyberlyra,
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@michaelzimmer
no way, no writing on any walls anywhere. Unintended consequences all the way down yessiree

bmac, to random
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Looks like they're at it again, which calls for a song...
(original version by @VeryBadLlama)

🎵
I’m a bitch
I’m an orca
Sinkin’ yachts
Off Majorca
I’m a mammal
I’m a whale
Capsize you with my tail
Sink your boats
Eat the rich
Or else I’ll feed ya to the fish
And then I’ll teach the other whales to do the same
🎵

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/orca-rams-into-yacht-near-scotland-behavior-may-be-spreading-180982429/

cyberlyra, (edited )
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@bmac I for one love it that they are fighting us back given everything we are doing to their numbers, their food supply, and their habitat. And we have long overlooked the potential for orca internet and the spread of revolutionary activity underwater. I can’t wait for the resistance to spread to our beloved and diminishing hometown J-pod!

(Excellent parody lyrics @VeryBadLlama btw!)

cyberlyra, to Facebook
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I could not agree with this more.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec/index.html

I spoke out against sharenting for years at when research was presented on parents' sharing, and how good it was for moms to use because it connected them to each other while isolated. I was constantly the debbie downer arguing wtf privacy implications and autonomy of the child... But the research was funded so just kept beating the same yay-socials drumbeat.

we are complicit in this nightmare,

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This headline leaves out a critical word in the lede: He has "a visceral reaction against" taking down Confederate statues. He's defending the Confederacy. But The Post softens that for the headline. Headlines matter.
RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction to tear-downs of Confederate statues https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/rfk-jr-confederate-statues/

cyberlyra,
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@jeffjarvis

This note at the end, tho, re Columbus Day -> Indigenous People’s day:

“I think it’s important for us to be part of a community where we can recognize all kinds of people. We can recognize Italian Americans to whom that is an important holiday, and at the same time we can recognize the Indigenous people who made the ultimate sacrifice,” [Kennedy] said.

“Made the ultimate sacrifice,” like honoring fallen soldiers on Memorial Day?
Italian American pride is equivalent?
I can’t even.

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