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cyberlyra

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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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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 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, 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,

jeffjarvis, to random
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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.

jake4480, to microsoft
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With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

cyberlyra,
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@jake4480

@jay

ricci, to random
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At last, some information from Google that students can really use!

cyberlyra,
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@ricci

As a Princeton prof, this is why I don't sit on European thesis committees. Too risky.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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If you are an informed, intelligent, compassionate, in-any-way-science-literate person, how are you coping with living through these times? What's helping?

No snark, please. I'm interested in sincere, practical answers.

cyberlyra,
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@ShaulaEvans

hot chocolate. every day.

muz4now, to random
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Richard Sherman, Oscar-Winning Songwriter on ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 95 https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/richard-sherman-dead-1235693179/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

cyberlyra,
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@muz4now wow, that is a laundry list of classic songs!

cyberlyra, to random
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Zomg they just went ahead and ingested McSweeneys, the Onion, and all the Reddit shitposts…. Hold my beer, Google “A.I.” 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

cyberlyra,
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This also seems an opportune time to remind you that you can free yourself from Google. Since they are basically tanking their own product.

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

NunavutBirder, to random
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The Victor Bay Point crack has started for the season.

cyberlyra,
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@NunavutBirder
must be summer :)

harold, to random
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"Patriarchy is often defined as a social system that is male-identified, male-dominated, & male-centered. It depends on a heteronormative gender binary that serves to divide & outsource human traits to different halves of the population.

In patriarchal societies, human traits associated with power & control are outsourced to men: domination, assertiveness, independence, decisiveness, & ambition are called masculine, & men are expected to conform to masculine traits."

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

cyberlyra,
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@harold @dahukanna wow, this is amazing. Brilliantly written and explained.

kjhealy, to random
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Imagine how hard the authors of this paper had to work to call it “Social Media and Job Market Success" and not "Tweetment Effects”

cyberlyra,
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@kjhealy did these participants consent? Was there IRB approval for this? This sounds like grossly unequal outcomes that people were precluded from experiencing with significant downstream effects on their lives.

timrichards, to random
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That's odd. The UK election is being held on the USA's Independence Day, while the US election is being held on the UK's Guy Fawkes Night.

Don’t know if we can draw anything from that, but it's curious...

cyberlyra,
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@timrichards @josh Coincidence?

https://media1.tenor.com/m/hyziASgO6OIAAAAC/facepalm-dr-evil.gif

video/mp4

cyberlyra, to random
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This actually is so, so cool. As a review board member I learned how electric propulsion is part of what makes this mission compelling from a technical point of view (alongside so, so much great science!). Ion thrust makes a craft behave differently in space than other propulsion systems, so it’s interesting for engineers and mission planners as part of the learning curve/contribution for next gen spaceflight.

Via @verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/22/24162775/nasa-psyche-mission-hall-thruster-asteroid-belt-mars

ilpianista, to linuxphones
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I am blown away by 's new subscription model... I can understand why it is necessary, but at this point I would go with with : open source as I wish was

cyberlyra,
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@ilpianista They are seeking sustainability and features for market share in an otherwise closed marketplace of walled gardens. I don’t blame them for it.

cyberlyra,
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@thaodan @ilpianista I hear these concerns. I remind myself that this is part of their restructure toward independence, to remove Rostelecom as a source of investment and support. Hence also the spinoff companies for automotive and AI, to manage risk, income, stakeholders and debt separately from core SFOS. An attempt at financial stability and independence and for the community to help keep their lights on, not a subscription to keep your stuff on their cloud (I self host a ton of stuff too).

grimalkina, to random
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One of my favorite things about playing lever harp is that all my folk music books have "easy arrangement" on one side and "hard arrangement" on the other and I feel like more things in life should present us with that choice in our day

cyberlyra,
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@grimalkina wait you play the harp too? How did I not know we have that in common??

heka, to linuxphones Finnish
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Any #SFOS users? Really thinking on switching to full linux phone..

#SailfishOs #jolla #linuxphones

cyberlyra,
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@heka did you take the plunge? If you’re still on the fence here is my blog post about — TL;DR I love it.

https://www.optoutproject.net/sailfish-the-iphone-and-android-alternative/

cybette, to linuxphones
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11 years later, I get to attend the second in person!

https://twitter.com/cybette/status/336895663159779329

cyberlyra,
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@cybette omg lucky!! I am jealous …

rzr, to android
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https://invidious.fdn.fr/embed/1nEC3sVExAU# is back, assistant is there a market for freedom lovers ? I would rather consider buying a dualboot supported phone, anyone to suggest ?

cyberlyra,
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@rzr you can run Android apps on the Jolla phone, it runs a VM.

ansate, to random
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Senior Scientist for Mars Exploration posting on usajobs https://www.usajobs.gov/job/790851400

desperately sad that I am unqualified

cyberlyra,
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@ansate Boosting because I know a bunch of people who are qualified…

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