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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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judell, to random
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I will not miss the internal combustion engine my next car hopefully will not have.

But I am really going to miss the manual transmissions I've enjoyed for nearly my whole automotive life.

cyberlyra,
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@judell omg I have the same feeling. I am holding on to my manual Honda Fit until the engine falls out… in the meanwhile, she is giving me 45mpg on highways….

mekkaokereke, to random
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Some of y'all really care to hear what DeSantis has to say in the wake of a terrorist attack against Black people in Florida? Really?

I mean, you do you I guess.🤷🏿‍♂️

Couldn't be me. I don't have to be told twice to know what's up. I hear it clearly the first time.

cyberlyra,
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@mekkaokereke His statement…. I just couldn’t….

jeffjarvis, to random
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The ultimate Trump projection: On the tarmac in Atlanta, he says that "they" engaged in election interference when, of course, he did.

cyberlyra,
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@jeffjarvis
Wanna bet he's still at it, for this coming round?

evacide, to random
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It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @yaelwrites and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy:

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

cyberlyra,
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@evacide @yaelwrites genius!

cyberlyra, to random
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Wow that plane really did fall out of the sky. Not even metaphorically.

cyberlyra,
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@josh Maybe they figured there weren’t any windows nearby to fall out of?

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.

fixatedpersonsunit, to random
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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

    LarsJohannessen, to academia

    Incentives for academics have become increasingly perverse over the last 50 years, according to this 2017 article by Edwards and Roy

    The table below neatly summarizes their key findings ⬇️

    https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ees.2016.0223

    , ,

    cyberlyra,
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    @LarsJohannessen It’s missing, “invest countless hours in growing an audience on Twitter as a metric of academic success.”

    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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