I find representing political opinion across a single left/right dimension completely useless in representing opinion and frustratingly simplistic.
In fact I'm on record as calling the 'political compass' 'somewhat valid' because showing human political opinions across two dimensions is superior to a single dimension of left vs right. But, in truth, without yet more dimensions it remains overly reductionist.
I finally uploaded my #twitter archive to a personal website, in this case using Github Pages!
I did it in a few minutes even though I have 0 knowledge of website creation (not counting the twitter archive download).
The website (not the nicest, but better than loosing all my posts): https://elduvelle.github.io/
(I recommend: 'Browse' > 'Most Popular)
Anyone knows of a #Mastodon app that allows you to do drafts one or more #threads ? (Not facebook - actual threads) @feditips ? 🙏
Edit: to be more specific: I’d like to be able to create a thread in the app, so a sequence of posts (not just 1 post) that can each have text, images etc. and are in a specific order, and if need be save it and come back to update it later, and eventually post it.
Also, I am using iOS and desktop (Windows). If you check the comments you’ll see that Fedilab seems to allow this but for Android.
Yeah, as someone pointed out these new names like "Threads", "Meta", "X" etc are guaranteed to cause confusion and they're impossible to filter out because of this.
@david_megginson@elduvelle seconding this, Windows' built-in anti-malware tool is already there and seems to work decently. It's what I use on the Windows portion of my Win/Linux dualboot.
If you don't already, another useful idea would be to install adblockers (i.e. uBlock origin) on all browsers you have. Makes for a much quieter browsing experience and reduces your attack surface a bit, as advertisements can be used as malware vectors (see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising ).
projects that you’ve already almost completed (hiding the fact that they’re almost completed, so that you can use the funding for completely new projects), or
new projects that you haven’t really started yet (for which you might just have some preliminary data)?
Do you think 1) is unethical? Do you think 1) is necessary? Do you think 1) has the highest chances of funding? Please comment :)
There is a third option - write about almost completed projects, but don't hid the fact they are almost completed. Some funders are well known for only funding projects that are almost complete - the joke being that they fund the last figure.
Now the onus is on removing from evaluation criteria the "it's a <glamour journal> paper" shortcut, and disqualify anyone using that from membership in search committes or grant/dept./unit evaluation panels.
And to further drive the stake in by raising the issue with high-retraction rate journals, among which many glamour journals. Publishing in a glamour journal should sound suspicious, should require special dispensation to be included among evaluation criteria for recruitment/promotion/awards.
-] Tasks “manager”: tried Obsidian, One Note, Google Keep, Notebook… I can’t seem to find The One that works for me (and syncs with my laptop & phone). Taking suggestions!
-] Something to read and annotate pdfs: I got a Remarkable2 tablet, and then an Onyx Boox Note Air 2, and they’re just too slow and do not easily sync with my laptop and Zotero. For the most important papers I have to say I might prefer paper.. Also taking suggestions for this.
Edit: trying to make the bullet points not disappear in #IceCubes is still hard
for a task manager/todo list, I've abandoned digital and gone to a paper notebook. syncing issues disappeared:)
I found the #BulletJournal system very useful in providing a flexible, minimalist structure to my notebook. See #RyderCaroll's book or YouTube channel for details. be warned though, a lot of people have become quite taken with the name "bullet journal", and use it to describe very complicated scrapbooking hobbies that don't have a lot in common with Carroll's actual method
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Recent instance debates made me wonder what is a set of good moderation rules that moderate but do not silence or censor anyone?
Is there a “moderation bible” somewhere? What is the overarching goal of moderation?
For example, discrimination according to protected characteristics (age, gender, religion etc.) is clearly bad, but what if someone is just saying something that you disagree with?
What if someone is lying, either on purpose or just because they don’t know what they’re talking about?
@elduvelle sounds like the thing is all of those rules silence and censor people, and a person needs to start by accepting that if they’re going to go on to figure out who to silence and censor.
Maybe the censorship is for the best, but a person needs to at least admit that that’s what they’re doing.
@elduvelle I don't have an easy answer, and in fact I'm pretty sure there is no easy answer. But I can say that "what is the goal of moderation?" is the right question. Start from an understanding of your (community's) values. Then work toward what you want the community to be.
I also think framing things in terms of rules puts the burden on members to conform. You're better off framing things in terms of policy, and action to promote community health, however you define that.
@elduvelle
inadequate for sure. we used a rule at my coop where you had to have 2 negative antigen tests on 2 consecutive days after an infection, and even then most people would still mask up (gotta be sealed k/n95) afterwards. it's the testing not the time period that matters, but bureaucracies are designed to merely appear as if they are doing something.
highly recommend getting a HEPA air filter or three for your workspace
Hey @spreadmastodon and @maystodon , I know we haven’t advertised #Maystodon so much but it starts tomorrow (1st of May) and maybe we should communicate a bit around it?
-> the goal for individuals is to only (or at least preferentially) post on Mastodon for the month of May
-> we could have themed events (e.g. on our neuromatch instance a Neuroscience Q&A??)
-> the goal for instances is to advertise the themes and benefits of their instance
-> we should also amp up our welcoming of new people by helping newcomers and answering to Intro posts
What do people use nowadays as #RSSReaders? (Does the concept even still exist?)
It’s to keep track of relevant #ResearchPapers of interest as my main source used to be… Twitter and ResearchGate, which I’ll both be leaving before 2024
@elduvelle a lot of journals have shut down their RSS feeds. I think your best bet for papers might be something like openalex, dimensions or (unfortunately) scopus, but i bet the librarians know better
@elduvelle same reason that all the "enhanced PDF readers" exist despite everyone hating them and why all the paper metadata is technically uncopyrightable but bound by proprietary databases (and why openalex is necessary in the first place): gotta drive people onto the surveillance mediums. The papers that you read, how long you read them, what you click on, what you search for, etc. is extremely valuable "research intelligence" data that is actively and presently repackaged and sold as products like SciVal for eg. recommending maximally fundable topics to researchers and funding agencies, or to pharmaceutical agencies to poach the competition, etc. Semantic Scholar is "AI" in the sense that any natural language parsing algorithm is "AI," as far as I know it isn't part of the surveillance apparatus directly, although AI2 seems passively headed in that direction.