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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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cyberlyra, to random
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I am really very excited about this open access special issue on AI, power and domination, with papers from friends and colleagues, that says the quiet part loud. #aiethics

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm

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Cyberpunk trifecta

Me with Bruce Sterling on the streets of Turin
Me with Neal Stephenson at a bookstore in Seattle

cyberlyra,
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@pluralistic

@coreysnipes

this is awesome!!! Living the dream :))

BootsChantilly, to random
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I lol-ed.

cyberlyra,
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@BootsChantilly This is of course also true!

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In the 90s — so the story goes — the APA noticed that they were basically only diagnosing boys with ADHD, so they checked, and, yep, girls get it too, it just looks different because ✨reasons✨. So they invented the inattentive subtype for ADHD to make sure girls got diagnosed too. And anyway it is so strangely validating not only to finally have a formal ADHD Diagnosis, but also to specifically have Girl ADHD™, because yes, obviously, correct.

cyberlyra,
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@tilde
yep. comes with smaller pockets too, I'll bet.

cyberlyra, to random
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Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate!! May the fourth be with you :)

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The Top 5 Must-See Street Art Hotspots Around the World <3 https://streetartutopia.com/2024/05/03/the-top-5-must-see-street-art-hotspots-around-the-world/

cyberlyra,
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@streetartutopia You’re missing Vancouver, BC, home of Vancouver Mural Festival and hundreds of astonishing murals by First Nations, local and international artists aimed at visual sovereignty under gentrification. Walking tour via app.

Https://www.vanmuralfest.ca

https://vanmuralfest.ca/app

mattkenworthy, to random
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In my astronomy career I have had my foot run over by Stephen Hawking, had Neil deGrasse Tyson come to my seminar and promptly fall asleep, and stood in an elevator with Roger Penrose where he was wearing exactly the same clothing as the publicity poster on the elevator wall behind his shoulder.

cyberlyra,
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@mattkenworthy that sounds like the makings of an illustrious career indeed.

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    cyberlyra,
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    @ElleGray HAHAHAH this is hilarious.

    arstechnica, to random
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    The BASIC programming language turns 60

    Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    cyberlyra,
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    @arstechnica BASIC was my first programming language, after playing around with Logo. I remember writing little programs to get the computer to make sounds like music while my classmates struggled with 100 PRINT "Hello." Such a great introduction to programming and interacting with machines.

    morganth, to random
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    Trouble with a capital T, that rhymes with P, that stands for Pool? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely right here in River City?

    cyberlyra,
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    @morganth
    gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school!

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    cyberlyra,
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    @rooster Oooh you found a good lipstick! Nice choice :D

    cyberlyra, to random
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    The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

    cyberlyra,
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    @cherold Yes, that is the market niche! Whoever unlocks that problem, gets the prize.

    cyberlyra,
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    @dryak federated search ... can it be done? ;)

    glyph, to random
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    Watched the original Star Wars trilogy with the kid this weekend and it’s been a long time since I have seen it. One thing that really stuck out to me was… what, thematically, is the movie trying to say about droids? The message seems to be that they are regular people like everyone else, and also chattel slaves, and also that’s it’s fine and also kind of funny? Like both Han and Luke are repeatedly shown doing obvious villain shit to droids and I can’t tell why we are not supposed to care

    cyberlyra,
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    @glyph My fave is how they operate totally autonomously and never need to be plugged in to power or get an update. Save that one time in Dagoba where Luke plugs R2 in or the fact that R2 is always shorting out you’d forget they need power. Also they operate seamlessly in sandy deserts, on ice planets, in space, under thick foliage, etc.

    Basically, the droids are Laurel and Hardy, or Cagney and Lacey. The odd couple, in space, played for laughs. That’s as far as Lucas goes with it.

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    @grimalkina @glyph yes that is true. Also in Solo, which for all its foibles actually had droid rights at its core. Kind of in the same way that Mary Poppins makes fun of suffragettes, but at least it was in there, along with Lando caring for his robot companion, and the story line indicates continuity with the Falcon’s computer…

    cyberlyra,
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    @glyph @grimalkina lol I am one of the very few humans on the internet that loved TLJ. All the rest of em, prequels, sequels, basically everything else I can’t stand, with exception of most of Rogue One and Andor.

    (I realize them’s fighting words but I think I was just so, so mad about the squandered potential of literally everything released after ROTJ, that a movie that said, burn it all down, let the past die, don’t take any of this too seriously, made me feel seen ;)

    cyberlyra,
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    @glyph @grimalkina oh cool we have found each other then! The two people on the internet who loved it!
    RoS was the worst. Like a toddler having a tantrum with all his Star Wars toys. You didn’t miss anything, just the sad sad ending of a movie series that long deserved better.

    cyberlyra,
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    @luis_in_brief @glyph yes! I remember this about them too. The original is such a pastiche of Flash Gordon, Kurosawa, fairy tales and classic films that most characters are compound in some way.

    cyberlyra,
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    @asociologist @grimalkina @glyph Agh you know, I still haven’t found the time to watch Clone Wars… Sadly, it is still on my list. I think I’m overwhelmed at how much of it there is.

    cyberlyra,
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    @glyph Hey wait so did you watch all three in a row with your kid? We have done them one at a time but the 9 hour marathon is intense. How’d you make out?

    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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    @Irisherself thanks for catching that! I’ll fix it!

    cyberlyra,
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    @andytiedye @marvin nah it should be .ch for Switzerland. Sorry I didn’t notice when I uploaded the text. I will fix it!

    cyberlyra,
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    @marvin Fixed!

    cyberlyra,
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    @ryan
    well i always think you should give a try. :) it'll let you keep your android apps without a store cos it runs android apks on a virtual layer. and its an entirely third player, a separate OS, not android or ios. Plus full functionality.

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

    but others who aren't as resistant to Google products as I am are ok with e.
    i have tips on alternative mobile phones here:

    https://www.optoutproject.net/a-better-cell-phone/

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