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JMMaok

@JMMaok@mastodon.online

Advancing open knowledge and civic technology

PhD in Public Policy, M.S. in Technical Communication. Research focused on science and technology policy, especially scientific workforce and university research centers.

Current interests: open science, including science as a human right and multilingual science. Also an active civic tech volunteer with current / recent projects in open government and open data.

Posts will include policy, politics, and propaganda awareness content.

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ai6yr, to random

Seeking eggplant recipe ideas, as I have one limp eggplant in the fridge and 8 eggplants growing in hydroponics (which may produce a massive amount of eggplant).

So far my repertoire includes 2 dishes:

  1. Eggplant Parmesan (Italian)
  2. Eggplant in Garlic Sauce (Chinese)

(the family hates eggplant, except me, so we never eat it 🤔 )

#eggplant

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@kc2ihx @ai6yr @BakerRL75

Don’t forget ratatouille ! https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ratatouille-12164

Also eggplant can be stuffed with various other things you enjoy.

I, too, would like to know about the squirrels. My husband has a bird/squirrel feeder attached to his office window. There could be entertainment potential there.

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

JMMaok,
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@evan

A conversation where you can’t change the subject is called a meeting.

JulianOliver, to random
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Last night I opened up YT in a private window, & clicked on an unrelated video to that of the one I had just watched. It was a video on arctic ice melts that turned out to be 100% denialist.

One click & there I was in endless fetid scroll of Jordan Peterson, climate change denial, 'what is woke' explainers, 'lol snowflakes' shorts, Trump propaganda, knife fights, & misogynistic, racist garbage.

Don't tell me Big Tech aren't culpable for the hate out there. They're farming it, on a vast scale.

JMMaok,
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@JulianOliver

Yes, some of that may be what I call ‘adversarial promotion,’ where a search for something like sea level rise or even climate itself is used to target climate denial content.

Something I have observed anecdotally is that my recommended content and targeted ads vary as my neighbors change. Not sure to what extent your blank slate removes geography. But under realistic conditions your targeted content may reflect your neighbors’ interests.

JMMaok,
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@JulianOliver

Admirable op sec. Hard to know who even would be your ‘neighbors’ in that context :-)

A few years back living in an apartment some new neighbors brought a marked increase in gun content :-(

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@JulianOliver @adam_harvey.

There has already been quite a bit of research on YouTube radicalization. One example

https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/youtube-video-recommendations-lead-more-extremist-content-right-leaning-users-researchers

Not all of it has such clear cut results, though.

grimalkina, to random
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I would never, ever, ever bother to try to get into contributing on this stuff in the topics of my expertise. So maybe look inward guys.

https://wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation/112122065590727479

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@grimalkina @brainwane

Something I’d be particularly interested to learn is to what extent there has been systematic review of biographies of women removed on notability grounds. Which if any Wikipedias have done that? (I mean operational/ administrative review more than research.)

At a minimum, it seems likely that some of those people will clearly meet the criteria after a few years.

ai6yr, to Montana

PBS: Montana city grapples with rise of unhoused people living in vehicles https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/montana-city-grapples-with-rise-of-unhoused-people-living-in-vehicles

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@exador23 @ai6yr

Not sure if this makes it better, but that’s a student project, and they are trying to use the school colors. So it’s more likely a lack of experience making charts than anything nefarious.

mimsical, to random
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I spent the past two weeks using generative AI in every aspect of my life, both personal and professional.

At the end of my total immersion, here's my verdict:

The last time I had an experience this eye-opening and transformative was when I bought my first smartphone.

(gift link)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jobs-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-openai-cea961d5?st=wrosu8uv2tej8c8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

1/🧵

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@mimsical

I’d love to see you turn your attention to the people whose work is being disrupted by other people’s “increased productivity.” Talk to the recruiters fielding unsustainable volumes of applications of dubious authenticity. Talk to publishers canceling fiction writing contests, or taking hits to their reputations as obvious LLM text slips through their editorial process. Talk to college admissions officers.

impactology, to random
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Visiting cultural art centers in Mumbai feels like a very disorienting experience to me.

Just visited a newly launched cultural art center in mumbai which is designed like a 7 star hotel from inside.

It showcased talented artists showing indian handicrafts but the way the designed the corridors & lobbies felt as if designed to make middle class people feel like they don't belong.

I just felt bit icky by the ostentatious display of that elite hotel like aesthetic for an art center

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@impactology

I’d say we have the full range, from opulence to grungy basements, and everything in between.

DrTCombs, to random
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hate having to ask this, but what are our most trusted AI detectors for writing assignments?

JMMaok,
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@DrTCombs

One option might be a regular Turnitin check for passages that appear elsewhere but aren’t correctly cited. The AI got its text from somewhere.

Also, consider whether you suspect clear violation of a clearly stated policy. Anything fuzzier than that, probably let it go. But if it is clear and egregious, a conversation with the student (with a witness) can be enlightening.

Sorry you’re having to deal with this.

JMMaok,
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@DrTCombs

Have heard absolutely nothing good about any of them. Lots of ethnically biased false positives.

mxtthxw, to random
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I've been asked to do an online meeting on Friday and this will involve screen sharing. I tend to avoid these things like the plague and have already told them I don't use Zoom or Teams.

Are there anythings I need to be wary of from a privacy point of view?

Boosts welcome!

:freddy:

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@mxtthxw

The main thing to be aware of is not having anything on your screen that you don’t want to share. Close everything you don’t need. Keep in mind any notifications that might pop up.

You generally have options to share a window, a program, or your entire screen. Try out the actual software you will be using in advance. Window is most private, but awkward if sharing many windows.

A privacy option is to set up a user account that you only use for videoconferencing.

ai6yr, to random

Hi folks, I know folks mean well when they post information on news events, but PLEASE vet your sources before reposting dramatic articles/etc. you see. If you're not familiar with the publication, DON'T POST IT. Or check on the source...

For example, I recently saw an article posted from the Daily Caller, which is essentially a channel for white supremacist propaganda, interspersed with other normal news.

https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/daily-caller-has-published-white-supremacists-anti-semites-and-bigots-here-are-ones-we

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@ai6yr

Great point! A useful resource to vet sources is Wikipedia’s list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

raiderrobert, to random
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I've heard many times that "billionaires should not exist."

I've never heard of a viable idea to actually make this actionable policy. Every country I'm aware of with a wealth tax in Europe has repealed it.

But suppose you just declare, "100% tax above $100M USD on wealth" anyhow.

The ultra wealthy people can just leave and go elsewhere. If they can't just leave, it implies the freedom in their country is a sham like Russia or China.

Anyone willing to thoughtfully weigh in?

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@raiderrobert

The main weakness I see with my own statement above is that the US is so central to the world economy that even other countries’ billionaires are invested in controlling our political system. So do they ever really leave?

Another factor, though, is philanthropy. Many would choose that over taxation. There are problems with their pet projects, but our spending of tax dollars isn’t perfect, either. So we might wind up with an OK mix overall. 1/2

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@raiderrobert

This country is capable of generating value. We have considerable human, natural, and infrastructure resources. Perhaps it would be OK if many billionaires left, rather than continuing to exert disproportionate power within our political system? We could continue to generate value, this time with a more equal distribution. The billionaires excelled at capturing value and aren’t necessary to create it. 1/2

bennett, to random
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can't get past how on-the-nose it is to cancel your Muslim valedictorian's speech in favor of an orgy of drones and pyrotechnics; pure militaristic aesthetics

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@inquiline @bennett

Was it this hat? https://shop.travisscott.com/products/journey-hat because that seems even more on the nose.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Oh Columbia is trying to suspend students so that they can say those people are no longer students and can be arrested.

Oh, Fuck Columbia

JMMaok,
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@gentrifiedrose @Adam_Cadmon1

Just clarifying that yes, Columbia also did have a rapist doctor https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyregion/columbia-university-robert-hadden-settlement.html

impactology, to random
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Historical research is the easiest out of all kinds of research.

No existential crises over imagining novel theories, concepts, methods. Simply tracing a genealogy of the past. Cumbersome and tedious yes but not anxiety inducing since you are not inventing anything.

Doesn't require any courage, you are not taking any stance, any hypothesis on what can/could/should exist just following what has already happened.

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@impactology

Umm, I dare you to tag even one historian in this thread :-)

I’m not even a historian, but they absolutely need courage, such as when they find evidence that completely upends the conventional wisdom.

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@impactology

To me it sounds like you’re taking a superficial view of what historians actually do. It’s easy to miss what is difficult about other people’s jobs.

For example, they need to generate a narrative out of facts. That requires creativity. A bunch of receipts, letters, photos, newspaper articles, etc. don’t just arrange themselves into a narrative. I think there are probably historians in archives asking “What on earth do I say about all this???”

JMMaok, to random
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Anyone have an example of a @Codeberg repo that is particularly well organized? Toot your own horn (hah!) or lift up someone you know who’s doing great.

Looking for things like a useful readme, tagged issues, etc.

JMMaok, to random
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@algernon @evan

Even as someone who mostly replies, I think these would be good features to have. If someone really only wants to talk to their followers or mutuals, I don’t want to be there. Giving people mod power over their replies appeals to me less.

Maybe until the feature is built folks could experiment with a hack, like start with # for followers only and ## for mutuals only? Some Twitter features started as hacks like that.

impactology, to random
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Is there any legal system in the world where inside courtrooms there is an official who is simply there to observe judicial conduct of judges?

Who tracks the quality of their judgements in accordance to the constitutional values and legal standards, to check abuse of authority

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@impactology

In the US there are several civil society court observer groups who do this. This review article discusses several: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/keeping-eye-courts-survey-court-observer-programs

JMMaok, to random
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Have blocked the Meta instances as an individual for now.

impactology, to random
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Would the universities of today, like the way they are run today, fully MBAized, recognized Wittgenstein's contribution

"It (Tractatus) was examined in 1929 by Russell and Moore; at the end of the thesis defence, Wittgenstein clapped the two examiners on the shoulder and said, '"Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

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@impactology

Wikipedia tells me his "family was at the centre of Vienna's cultural life" and describes his family home as a palace. His father had an "industrial empire."

Thus, I think the MBAs would find a way to make it work.

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