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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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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 #MusicNews

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

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

cyberlyra,
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@NunavutBirder
must be summer :)

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/

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.

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.

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.

cyberlyra, to random
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This actually is so, so cool. As a #Psyche 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

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

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??

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…

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.

rhys, to android
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Preordered a #Jolla Community Phone.

I've wanted to try non-#Android #Linux on mobile for ages and this looks like the best way to do it.

The cost is reasonable, but there's a subscription necessary after a year — which I'll pay if I still love the device and want to support Jolla still, or I'll abandon the device and use as a toy if not.

It apparently supports Android apps to some degree, but I won't mind if stuff doesn't work and prompts me toward digital hygiene.

https://shop.jolla.com/details/91eb91d3-c3de-41d0-b3c0-7075a339112d/

cyberlyra,
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@rhys I love my Sailfish devices. That’s my daily driver and has been since 2014ish. The subscription is new, part of their sustainability model. I currently have Sailfish running on a Sony Xperia 10iii and it’s perfect. APK functionality with no Google elements at all (I am allergic to Google and won’t even run e). These are the people formerly known as Nokia who guilt the gorgeous Meego Harmattan based on Debian, only to get taken over by Microsoft. It’s a beautiful OS and fully functional.

cyberlyra,
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@rhys yes I have only very rarely downloaded one that won’t run as it demands Google play services. Else everything is fully functional. It can’t do threaded multiparty MMS conversations but most ppl use text apps like Signal anyway. Brush up on your red hat commands as it runs on Fedora instead of Debian. There is an active and helpful community, check out forum.jolla.org , also the CHUM and Warehouse repos and openrepos.net for community-made apps.

cyberlyra,
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@rhys also here, I wrote a thing or two about it — https://www.optoutproject.net/sailfish-the-iphone-and-android-alternative/

pluralistic, to random
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Oh, fuck you, British Airways.

cyberlyra,
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@tob @pluralistic this sounds like a really twisted Yo Dawg meme…

cyberlyra, to random
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Love love love what the #Jolla team is doing with AI — reimagining and building systems that are data-ownership centered to put privacy first —privacy as autonomy, not privacy as information security for cloud providers holding your data.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/20/jolla-takes-the-wraps-off-ai-hardware-with-a-privacy-centric-purpose/

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.

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).

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 …

valthonis, to random
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Oh gods... someone called running a computer homelab "suffering-as-a-service," and I may never recover from that body blow... 🤣

cyberlyra,
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@valthonis oh that hits a little too close to home lol

MaryAustinBooks, to Illinois
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Courtesy of a friend: a cornfield in #Illinois in the #cicadapocalypse 😬

My heart goes out to all you Midwesterners!

cyberlyra,
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@MaryAustinBooks @Incognitim We had the same a few summers ago in NJ, with Brood X during the pandemic. I remember walking outside and saying, “hey kids, today we’re going to learn how to count to one billion…”

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

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/

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