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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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histoftech, to random
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Just sent out my second (in 6 months) newsletter. If you like my work and EXTREMELY low volume email lists, hit me up: https://marhicks.com/keepintouch/

cyberlyra,
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@histoftech Hey congrats on your move!

cyberlyra, to random
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Canadian friends, I applaud this push for a boycott of Facebook and Instagram August 23rd and 24th. I understand it's to encourage those companies to let Canadians share news again.

https://act.friends.ca/page/133505/action/1

But don''t stop there. OPT OUT FOR GOOD. Canadians don't need the "social" giants--for news or anything else. We need an independent media sharing infrastructure away from those toxic tools. Get off for good, invest in independence, resilience and community connection, and don't look back.

cyberlyra,
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And while you're at it,
just pay @thetyee and the Walrus and the Vancouver Sun or the Globe or whatever a small subscription fee--even $2 will help!--so they don't they have to support Xittter and Facewhatever and InstaBS because they rely on social media advertising, clickthroughs and clickbait to stay afloat.

If we work together we can save Canadian media: keep our journalism independent from Silicon Valley machinery, keep their newspapers afloat, and save ourselves from toxic algorithms.

cyberlyra,
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And yes, I've seen all those hand-wringing pieces, blaming Meta for its news boycott putting Yellowknife and Kelowna at risk. But while our country burns they gloat at their good luck--they hold the cards!

But what ACTUALLY put us at risk? Our misplaced assumption that X/Meta are "public interest infrastructure" instead of blatant Silicon Valley investment vehicles.

We are not passive agents of technological determinism. We can be agents of technopolitical change. already.

cyberlyra,
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Corporations are not community. Speculative investment vehicles are not resilience. Our technological future is not their birthright.

Please, my fellow Canadians, take this moment to channel your energy into true connectivity. Vote with your feet by denying your clicks, scrolls, logins, and upgrades. Those who can, set up alternative channels, invest in partnerships, work with communities and news outlets in need.

You have more power than you think. Use it.

/end_rant (maybe).

cyberlyra,
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@mitchell Precisely why we have to block them for good.

Reddit and Twitter protests didn't matter because--surprise surprise!--the users didn't matter to the CEOs! They had other plans for the site, promises made to the Board for profitability. Like mining the existing dataset of conversations already delivered to develop an ML product, or building a mobile payment app that does it all. No user satisfaction needed.

Same with Meta. They have other fish they are frying. Two days won't do it.

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    cyberlyra,
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    @patterfloof @fixatedpersonsunit @PizzaDemon These were projects started by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum through their Obfuscation workshops about ten years back. Check out their book about it, which includes lots of tips and other systems they experimented with:

    https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3112/ObfuscationA-User-s-Guide-for-Privacy-and-Protest

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    The biggest jobs program on the planet would be saving humanity in light of climate change.

    cyberlyra,
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    @StillIRise1963 @Incognitim just wanna put in a plug for saving the biodiversity of the earth too.

    cyberlyra, to random
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    The spacecraft teams I work with taught me to love and care for aging equipment, the value of an ingenious fix that keeps something working long past it’s upgradeability, and that there is value in meaningful relationships with our devices and tools. Thanks to them (and the Rebble alliance), I still run a Pebble smartwatch!

    My fave case (not here) is of the New Horizons mission buying 1990’s PCs on eBay to sub in for their ground system over their 20 year mission.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230815-the-ancient-tech-keeping-space-missions-alive

    cyberlyra, to OpenAI
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    I love how this new paper about says the quiet part loud-- repeatedly.

    Thanks to @Mer__edith and @davidthewid and

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807

    SirTapTap, to random
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    It's wild how any vet or conservationist will tell you stress kills animals but when it comes to humans we're all Calvin's Dad about it and like "haha it's good for you it builds character"

    cyberlyra,
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    @SirTapTap Also, sell you headlines like “Climate change: 10 hot tips to beat the heat!”

    grimalkina, to random
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    The more I study and measure people's sense of belonging on software teams, the more central I believe its importance is. There are so many nuances to this initially straightforward idea: role-based belonging and communal affordances of roles, cues we create about it. There is so so much to be learned from adapting these measures to be about software teams' contexts.

    All the more reason it's really hard to not know where to publish work like this. So many barriers to communicating about it.

    cyberlyra,
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    @grimalkina this sounds like something that’d be at home in or circles, like the work of @richmondywong …

    timbray, to random
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    I think this court finding, in the publishers-vs-Internet-Archive case, is really significant: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.216.0.pdf

    Quote: The Court adopts the Internet Archive's position. For the following
    reasons, the Consent Judgment defines "Covered Book" to extend to books that are "commercially available for sale or license in any electronic
    text format."

    cyberlyra,
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    @timbray Wow, congratulations to @internetarchive :D

    cyberlyra, to random
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    I’ve visited Lahaina many times in my life and I just can’t believe these images of the whole town, burned to the ground. In addition to the lives, livelihoods, homes, businesses, Lahaina is not some built-up tourist spot, but an important historic site, once the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom and a witness to successive waves of visitation, colonization and struggles for independence. Its 19th century buildings and Banyan tree were a living museum of the story of Hawaii. An incalculable loss.

    baldur, to random
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    “Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’”

    More accurately, AI researchers have always said that this isn’t fixable but y’all were too obsessed with listening to con artists to pay attention but now the con is wearing thin. https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/

    cyberlyra,
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    @baldur Hmm, weird ...these tech hype cycles are getting shorter and shorter all the time... it took like 8 years for the 'sharing economy,' 2 years for people to abandon crypto, this is only a matter of months before the companies pushing AI are going, yeaaah, it's not really ....

    cyberlyra, to climate
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    I was chatting with a friend last week who lives in Iqaluit. She mentioned some of the planned gov't buildings for construction are considering including air conditioning as a near-future requirement.

    For context, Iqaluit is on Baffin Island, 3 degrees south of the Arctic Circle.

    Air conditioning, in the Arctic.

    cyberlyra,
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    @andresmh yep pretty much

    BBCRadio4, to random
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    Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

    cyberlyra,
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    @BBCRadio4 welcome!

    BBC_News_Labs, to random
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    Hi, we are BBC News Labs

    We’re charged with driving innovation for BBC News. Our team of technologists and journalists explore how new tools and formats affect how news is found and reported.

    You can find out more at https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/ and we’ll be posting here about our work

    This account is part of an experiment from BBC R&D in establishing a BBC presence in the Fediverse.

    cyberlyra,
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    @BBC_News_Labs Thrilled to see you on the Fediverse and to join the experiment!

    josh, to random
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    It’s hot

    what temperature is an average infrared sauna? between 120°F and 140°F An infrared sauna can operate at a lower temperature (usually between 120°F and 140°F) than a traditional sauna, which is typically between 150°F and 180°F. May 29, 2018

    cyberlyra,
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    @bkeegan @josh These are good questions for Tiffany Nichols, who studies large gravitational wave and detection teams, and relationships with environment and materiality, but I don't think she's on Mastodon...

    cyberlyra, to random
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    Really getting a kick out of the header image accompanying this story. That says it all.

    https://theintercept.com/2023/07/25/strike-hollywood-ai-disney-netflix/

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

    cyberlyra,
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    @taylorlorenz the part where the article prints “reading desserts” instead of “deserts” says it all about why they actually need libraries and literacy education.

    Deglassco, to history

    If you were Black and woke up in NYC on Monday, July 13, 1863, things got terrifying quick. For Black New Yorkers, there was no reprieve. Black life was dispensable to white mobs & law authorities. The Civil War, poverty, & rabid racism in 19th-century New York explains the events of that week. For Black Americans, the NYC Draft Riots were a heinous episode in an already brutal age. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum.

    1/

    @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

    cyberlyra,
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    @Deglassco
    This is so informative and well described, thank you! It truly shows the value of an intersectional approach: racialization processes and labor history must go hand in hand.
    Also, omg that whole '[insert displaced racialized group] are taking our jobs!!' sure goes a long way back... and bodes poorly for current and future climate migration crises ...

    ironicsans, to random
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    ♫ I am a language model of a modern major general ♫

    cyberlyra,
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    @alex
    @kjhealy @trochee @emilymbender

    Friends, in a true context collapse moment,
    my brother @ohthehugemanatee just polished off the last four verses for you. He is a professional opera singer and longtime open source whiz who runs an opera company in Berlin. I volunteer him to sing it for you.

    if you're lucky, we will both do it...

    perspektivbrocken, to sociology
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    So, ich habe mal eine Liste mit Accounts gemacht, damit sich Soziolog*innen hier finden können. Gerne bescheid sagen, wenn noch jemand drauf (oder runter) möchte, ich würde dann versuchen auf meinem Blog eine aktuelle Liste zu haben: https://www.perspektivbrocken.org/2022/10/28/soziologinnen-auf-mastodon-eine-liste/

    Zur Vernetzung als Gruppe: @sociology

    Personen und Institutionen:
    @AKOrgaBewertung (Arbeitskreis Orga + Bewertung)
    @AlexMitterle (Alex Mitterle)
    @amateur_garde (Désiré Waibel)
    @Bindestriche
    @bjoernkrey (Björn Krey)
    …

    cyberlyra,
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    @perspektivbrocken @fursthenrik @sbg_arch @sociology thank you!

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