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shawnmjones

@shawnmjones@hachyderm.io

Cat dad. Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory CCS-3. PhD from Old Dominion University Computer Science. WSDL 4 Life. I passed the Voight-Kampf test. Be careful, the sophons are listening. Boosts mean I think you should see it -- not always an endorsement. #TwitterMigrant

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Moved from: https://mastodon.social/@shawnmjones

Interests: #MachineLearning #ML #caturday #WebArchiving #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #WebScience #ComputerVision #SocialMedia #IDIC #DigitalPreservation

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shawnmjones, to Humanism
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I'm working through my thoughts on , very concerned about the loss of .

I've read "What We Owe the Future" by William MacAskill.

I'm a subscriber of the following Podcasts:

  • “The Tech Won’t Save Us"
  • "Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000”

I follow the (sometimes disturbing) subreddits:

  • r/artificial
  • r/ArtificialIntelligence
  • r/Futurology
  • r/singularity

I'm reading “God, Human, Animal, Machine” by Meghan O’Gieblyn.

Does anyone have any other reading/listening suggestions?

shawnmjones, to VideoGames
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After 481 hours, I just finished my first story on . While working on my , I played the new Hitman, but not more complex , and nothing like this. I have never played a game like . I now understand the emotional attachment others have to these fictional characters. I like how well Larian replicated most aspects of the rule system.

Though I can play it again with another character it won’t be the same story. Thank you Larian for the experience!

shawnmjones, to Cat
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One Marjon wanted me to get my own laundry basket. "This one's taken.”





shawnmjones, to random
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Starting Monday, I will no longer be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

I will be a SCIENTIST.

“””
Dear Shawn Jones,

We are pleased to offer you the position of Scientist 2 in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3). This represents a conversion of your student/postdoc appointment.
“””

shawnmjones, to TwitterMigration
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WashPost @taylorlorenz “News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos”

“Rachel Karten, a social media consultant in Los Angeles, said she believes that it’s better for media companies, and all brands, to simply stay away from subreddits they do not personally operate. Each subreddit has its own norms, history and cast of personalities, and media companies participating can make it appear that they’re giving their approval.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/01/reddit-twitter-snark-ethics/

shawnmjones, to Cat
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During the Holidays, Malala would like to remind you to get some rest, relax, and .


A gray cat laying on top of a square platform on top of a sisal column from a 6 foot cat tree. The background is blurred. This side-view shows her legs and tail dangling over the side.

shawnmjones, to Cat
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One , Malala was ready to put on the oven mitts and start the cookin’.


shawnmjones, to twitter
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just my PhD advisor Michael L. Nelson. He was covering how the wife of the US Speaker of the House had an anti-+ website and just took it down, but it’s still in . Due to the , we can view the tweets by URL, but cannot view the whole thread. He’s asked us to him in hopes of: (1) getting the word out about the shadowban, and (2) overcoming the shadowban (unlikely).

The URLs: https://gist.github.com/phonedude/e4970c74660d91622cb14e77d865d64e

A screenshot of four posts from a Twitter thread that read “This Post is unavailable. Learn more.”
A screenshot of a tweet from @phonedude_mln, somehow half blocked. The tweet above it in the thread reads “This Post is unavailable. Learn more” but the tweet under that reads: But the problematic text (pictured) is not in the website, it’s in the: “OPERATING AGREEMENT of ONWARD CHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES, LLC" Which is a PDF linked from the web site. Underneath this is an image of text that reads: Marriage and Sexuality. We believe the term "marriage" has only one meaning and that is marriage sanctioned by God which joins one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one's sex, or disagreement with one's biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God. We believe that in order to preserve the function and integrity of the Company, and to provide a biblical role model to the clients and the community, it is imperative that all persons employed by the Company in any capacity should abide by and agree to this statement on marriage and sexuality and conduct themselves accordingly. Because we believe in ...
A screenshot of a tweet from @phonedude_mln Michael L. Nelson that reads: The original @HuffPost article has a copy of the PDF hosted in scribd. There appears to be an original (?) copy of the pdf still available at: https://6ea37b86-6bd5-478a-93e4-d7e6f6a280b0.filesusr.com/ugd/a430fd_5bf898e6d0c044cfb4a8b4c5f387c63f.pdf "fileusr. com" is apparently a hosting service for Wix.

shawnmjones, to Cat
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Marjon reminds you to celebrate responsibly.


shawnmjones, to Cat
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This , Malala will be holding office hours on the topics of skritches, double boxes, cats in society, and what her brother can do to improve his service to her.


shawnmjones, to mastodon
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I have a potentially question that I’ve been wondering about for a while. It’s about the generic home and its simple .

For those who do not use tools to curate their home timeline, I understand that my post shows up in their timeline based on its datetime. If I post something and then a bunch of additional posts, am I burying my “real” post?

shawnmjones,
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@AAKL Thanks. I needed a sanity check.

shanselman, to random
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Now that my son is doing college tours and getting ready to graduate high school, I’m thinking it’s time to take these off the cabinets

shawnmjones,
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@shanselman We need this sort of thing to keep the cats from exploring the kitchen containers and other equipment.

shawnmjones, to twitter
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I wonder how many will pay. I'm not being facetious. At this point, I'm not sure enough have left to make a dent in its cultural and sociopolitical impact and I'm concerned that competing platforms (e.g., , , ) are losing each back to .

Per Variety:"Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform”

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-charge-all-x-twitter-users-fee-1235726693/

shawnmjones, to Cat
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Last , Malala called an emergency inspection during my shelf-building.


A grey tabby cat on a metal wire shelf sniffs at a piece of plastic on the shelf above.
A grey tabby cat on a metal wire shelf tilts her head to the lower left with the right side of her head facing up to examine a piece of plastic on the shelf above.
A grey tabby cat on a metal wire shelf hunkers down to exame a piece of plastic on the shelf above.

shawnmjones, to iPhone
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Due to Apple's change, we have decided to review our collection of , small peripherals, and other items surrounding our .

Much pictured here is being organized. We determined that we have enough:

  • Apple extension cables
  • USB-C to cables
  • USB-A/USB-C to lightning
  • management velcro

Not pictured: my CAT-5 cables, HDMI, coax, etc.

I’ll be consulting our city’s department.

shawnmjones, to Cat
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Last , Malala guarded her kingdom from threats, both real and imagined.


A grey cat’s right ear sticks up while her left ear flattens in response to faraway noises. She is sitting among rocks and desert brush in front of a stone wall.
A grey cat’s left ear sticks up while her right ear turns in response to faraway noises. She is sitting among rocks and desert brush in front of a stone wall.

williamgunn, to random
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This probably wasn't the outcome the media was hoping for here, but I hope it's clear that a better way for emergency response agencies to serve the public is through things like Pulsepoint and Watch Duty, not mandated distribution via social media.
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/110973031691262261

https://www.watchduty.org/how-it-works/overview
https://www.pulsepoint.org/download
(Note the .org on both of these!)

shawnmjones,
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@williamgunn Thanks for this. Watch Duty looks like a decent wildfire app. I’ve needed a competent one of those.

shawnmjones, to mastodon
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Every morning, with my cup of coffee, I look forward to joining the Mastodonians in conversation.

A coffee cup showing cartoon mastodons fishing and frolicking in the forest on a clear day.

shawnmjones, to twitter
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Elon is planning to effectively kill social cards on . Social cards were a big part of my dissertation work. I published a few papers about generating them via , , and because they make for nice bits of document and . Now Musk wants them gone to force journalists to write articles directly on Twitter.

Ref (paywall): https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/
Ref (article about paywalled article): https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/21/twitter-to-hide-news-headlines/

shawnmjones,
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In 2020, we developed a special tool, MementoEmbed, for generating/extracting metadata from archived web pages. We presented this tool at the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop (WADL2020).

We found out that , , , and others could not reliably create cards for archived web pages. We use MementoEmbed’s cards in with our tool Raintale to create a of this .

Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00137

shawnmjones, to twitter
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's pic issue is one of those moments demonstrating WHY WE NEED & : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/21/elon-musk-x-glitch-deletes-twitter-photos-pictures-links

It highlights the important work of:
@BrendaReyesAyala
@VickyRampin
@anj
@archivist_Liz
@azaroth42
@brewsterkahle
@edsu
@electricarchaeo
@euanc
@ibnesayeed
@ingridbmason
@internetarchive
@liblaura
@martinklein
@mickylindlar
@netpreserve
@peterwebster
@textfiles
@webrecorder
@weiglemc

And so many more. Please reply with others.

shawnmjones, to Cat
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One , I bought Malala a sling. I was looking for a way to reacclimate her with going outside after a number of invasive vet visits.


A grey cat peeks out of a sling worn by a bald, bearded white man in a blue T-Shirt. This photo zooms in on the cat.

shawnmjones, to Cat
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I have to say, I like Malala's current project better than some of her other attempts. This was the first time I found her like this, but not the last. How did she get up there in the first place?


A grey tabby cat reaching between the top of a door and the top of a shower stall.
A grey tabby cat standing on top of a shower stall.
A grey tabby cat jumping down from the top of a shower stall.

ivory, to random
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Ivory for iOS and Mac have both been updated over the weekend! If you haven't gotten it yet, go grab it here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Also, a sneak peak of what is coming next:

https://tapbots.social/@paul/110810670955995893

shawnmjones,
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@ivory Thank you for all of your hard work!

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