Mastodawn

Is it #weird I don't like the #fact that I turned 30 a couple years back?

Does anyone have #midlife #crisis #points in their lives anymore?

I still don't #feel I'm over 25.

I #think #age is just a number but the more I'm #forced to prove I'm over 18, the less I feel like I am #confident with the age #bracket I fit into.

And it's not because I would get #specialized #attention or because I don't. But because, I don't want to #remember looking back and #appreciating the #future that feels more #distant than ever now. Especially when considering that I didn't know back then I would have come to #exist as me today.

I #hate #government #reminding me how untrustworthy it thinks I am because of its #algorithmic priorities that are so far above and beyond mine, that it's laughable, totally absurd and absolutely #real sad to say.

I miss my 20 something #self really bad.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 11

“Rather than over-regulating to prevent a #financialcrisis that is not coming, they should focus on risks to the real #economy: #workerdisplacement, #algorithmic bias, #dataprivacy, and #competitive dynamics.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

An AI Bubble Won’t Trigger a F...

An AI Bubble Won’t Trigger a Financial Crisis

Lenny Mendonca & Martin Neil Baily argue that the current US investment boom is not analogous to the earlier dot-com and subprime bubbles.

Project Syndicate

N-gated Hacker News Mar 8

🥴 Ah, the age-old dilemma: to push or to pull 🤔. Our brave author embarks on an epic quest of #overexplaining the obvious, inventing a mythical "push-pull" combo like it’s the Fusion Cuisine of #Reactivity. 🧙‍♂️ Because who doesn't love wading through #algorithmic #soup to solve a problem no one had? 🍜
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/ #pushpull #FusionCuisine #HackerNews #ngated

Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms | Jonathan's Blog

It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks. The Problem Statement The simplest way to visualise reactivity, in my opinion, is as a spreadsheet. You have a series of input cells, containing your initial data, and a series of output cells containing the final results. In between are many more cells containing intermediate computations that need to be done to figure out the final results.

WINGS_radio Mar 8

Balancing the scales: #Understanding and #addressing #algorithmic #gender #discrimination

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780443329647000129

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 5

“Thanks to the #algorithmic tracking of demand and the algorithmic delivery of supply, #digitalmedia has for the last twenty years promoted an ideal of perfect #form—not a Platonic ideal but a #consumerist one.” open.substack.com/pub/newcarto...

Creative Work in an Age of Dig...

Creative Work in an Age of Digital Production

On machine formalism.

New Cartographies

Daniel Cardoso Feb 26

Would anyone like to work with an amazing team focused on #gender and #digital media, and on #algorithmic censorship in social media - AND get paid to do it? I’m #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?

Here's the application information!
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/funding/research-grant-doctoral-studies-digiplart/phd/2026

Research grant for doctoral studies - DigiPlArt/PhD/2026

COFAC – Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural. CRL, is opening a competition for the award of one (1) national research grant, hereinafter referred to as the National Research Grant for Doctoral Studies in the area of Social Scie

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