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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I told my nine year old nephew I had a blog and he said "a vlog?"

No, a blog.

What's that?

😭

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@gglockner/112196284617843193

see also:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549

and of course

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6214

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans 2015

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1418680112

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

University of Cambridge, January 2015

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/computers-using-digital-footprints-are-better-judges-of-personality-than-friends-and-family

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The app used in the study in question was called myPersonality and was banned by Facebook in 2018 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

TechCrunch reports that there is no connection to Cambridge Analytica, but the app was suspended because it may have shared info with companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/facebook-bans-first-app-since-cambridge-analytica-mypersonality-and-suspends-hundreds-more/

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• Facebook suspended the app around then, saying “we believe that it may have violated Facebook’s policies.” That suspension has graduated into a ban, because the creators “fail[ed] to agree to our request to audit and because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

TRUTH

https://sfba.social/@pinskal/112263864473583433

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pinskal@sfba.social ("Jon Pinter") wrote:

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socketwench@hackers.town wrote:

Hard problems in tech:

1. Naming things.
2. Cache invalidation.
3. Convincing developers from privileged backgrounds that [their] experience is not universal.

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kfury@mstdn.social ("Kevin Fox") wrote:

Before trusting an AI to tell you about stuff you don’t know, ask it to tell you about things you’re an expert in.

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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Me realizing that every AWS service I just touched to get an application up existed in 2014 and I’ve wasted the last decade of my life:

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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Ah, excellent; Google Gemini can also be bullied into ranking US presidents by absorbency.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Pastor Shane Vaughn:

"I still think she talks monkey talk. I still think that she's ignorant, dumb and should not be wearing a robe, and should be living in the jungle as Judge Jumanji, but her physical appearance—off limits."

the racist statements of this so-called "Christian" should make any American hide their head in shame.

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-doubles-down-apology-racist-supreme-court-justice-rant-1889962

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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

MAGA Pastor Doubles Down in 'Apology' for Racist Supreme Court Justice Rant https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-doubles-down-apology-racist-supreme-court-justice-rant-1889962

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matrix@mastodon.matrix.org ("The Matrix.org Foundation") wrote:

We are thrilled to welcome @gnome and @kde who, like @EclipseFdn, have joined us as Associate Members 🚀

Associate Members are FOSS foundations, nonprofits, and other communities that share our values, such as: software freedom, open source, open standards, privacy, and decentralization.

Like our other members, we have allocated several seats on our Governing Board for Associate Members, and they get to be part of how Matrix is governed.

Learn more about membership: https://matrix.org/membership/

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dopaulosilva ("Paulo Silva") wrote:

@futurebird
Is the cat a liquid?
French physicist Marc-Antoine Fardin was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his groundbreaking research in rheology, which is the study of how matter flows and deforms.
In school we learned that a liquid is the state of matter that takes the shape of its container, but not the volume.
The main point of the award-winning paper, "On the rheology of cats," is whether cats can fit the scientific definition of a liquid.
https://blogdopg.blogspot.com/2019/07/o-gato-e-um-liquido.html

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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Why does the U.S.S. Enterprise in the first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) - ST:TMP - have silly ROUND screens on the consoles?

In a way, you can sort of blame me. Or at least, blame bad timing on my part.

When I was working on this film I saw production drawings showing the round screens, which I found ludicrous. I brought this up with the powers-that-be. I pointed out that the Enterprise displays should not emulate 1950s TV sets, and that round screens wasted display space unnecessarily. I also suggested that by the time of the film, displays would probably be holographic (the franchise eventually caught up to this idea in the more recent productions).

My criticism was taken seriously. It was agreed that the round screens would go and that rectangular screens would replace them. Mission accomplished!

Except ... a few days later, I was pulled aside and told that, unfortunately, the round screens would stay. Why? It turned out that they had already been cast in fiberglass by the Paramount set crews, and there wasn't sufficient budget to redo them. So the silly round screens are what you see in the film today.

If I had been able to move on this a bit earlier, this probably would have turned out differently. But I did try.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

American “activism”

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

When the sun begins to set, you can see the buildings cast shadows on each other from really far away. View from Central Park, NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

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• A bush of purple flowers behind black benches together with a lit street lamp, yellow traffic lights hanging over a road, behind it, more trees; in the background, skyscrapers illuminated by the setting sun, and casting long shadows over each other.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The omitted hyperlink links to a NYT timeline of coverage:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150202100519/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/proceedings_of_the_national_academy_of_sciences/index.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Comparing the article to the 2015 version, a hyperlink to the referenced study is no longer included.

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• From archive.ph without the hyperlink to the study: The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that computers could replace humans in practical settings that require personality analysis, said the lead author, Youyou Wu, graduate student in psychology at Cambridge.
• From web.archive copy from 2015 with the hyperlink to the study: The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that computers could replace humans in practical settings that require personality analysis, said the lead author, Youyou Wu, a graduate student in psychology at Cambridge.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Ever noticed how loud voices for feminism & BLM and other public issues suddenly go silent on Gaza? That’s because taking a stand on Gaza risks careers, networks, & relationships.

It’s not activism if it's safe, and these people are all cowards.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Wait a minute. This reads as if NYT is reporting on Cambridge Analytica, not just something reminiscent of what CA did later.

The kid that Cambridge Analytica purchased that study from went to university of Cambridge. He used a quiz. He applied the OCEAN model to create psychological profiles.

This was published a full year and a half before the presidential election.

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• Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University tested their algorithm on more than 17,000 Facebook users, who completed a personality survey and provided the researchers with access to their “likes.” Many of their friends, colleagues and family members also completed a survey describing the users.
• The survey rated each subject on the five OCEAN personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Then the researchers compared those results to the subjects’ Facebook activity to establish links between “likes” and specific personality traits.

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ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@fromjason
Facebook Knows You Better Than Anyone Else - Here's a paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/SuXFp

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Facebook Knows You Better Than Anyone Else - The New York Times (2015) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-you-better-than-anyone-else.html:

> Given enough data, the algorithm was better able to predict a person’s personality traits than any of the human participants. It needed access to just 10 likes to beat a work colleague, 70 to beat a roommate, 150 to beat a parent or sibling, and 300 to beat a spouse.

This story was published a full three years before the NYT broke the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal. Amazing.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Bill Owens, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Scott Swift, United States Navy (Retired)
General Charles F. Wald, United States Air Force (Retired)
https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/112264167431708783

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Former Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James
General John Jumper, United States Air Force (Retired)
General Charles Krulak, United States Marine Corps (Retired)
Admiral Samuel Jones Locklear, III, United States Navy (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus
General Craig McKinley, United States Air Force (Retired)
General Craig McKinley, United States Air Force (Retired)
Admiral John B. Nathman, United States Navy (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Navy Sean O’Keefe

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Steve Abbot, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard\ (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera
General George Casey, United States Army (Retired)
General Peter Chiarelli, United States Army (Retired)
General Carlton W. Fulford, Jr., United States Marine Corps (Retired)
General Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (Retired)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Admiral Steve Abbot, United States Navy (Retired)
Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard\ (Retired)
Former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera
General George Casey, United States Army (Retired)
General Peter Chiarelli, United States Army (Retired)
General Carlton W. Fulford, Jr., United States Marine Corps (Retired)
General Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (Retired)

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BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

One of the funnier things I’ve seen today.

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• Screen shot of a social media post by a man named Andrew Saltz who say “I’m a Leftist public school teacher and if were to indoctrinate your children they would wear deodorant and stay off their phone during class.” (remote)

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Dianora@ottawa.place ("Dianora (Diane Bruce)") wrote:

@TCatInReality @steverocky @DrALJONES One big problem with the catch phrase of the right wing "Marketplace of ideas..." is with money you can control that marketplace and smaller players are forced out of the market. (Those that own the media control the propaganda) It's always been thus. It's one of the things totalitarian government do first and has happened with our Oligarchy (Chomsky/Lippmann) I like Stanley's thoughts on it as well.