Prof Austen Rainer

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Professor at Queen's University Belfast | story thinking & computational thinking | leading team based software innovation | positive academic leadership | (he/him/his)
I gave up my Twitter and am starting over here, sans the crazy billionaire. I saw someone else simply ask for a boost, and tons of you lovely people did it! So I thought why not, would you consider it? (I'm an actor/comedian who will mostly post silly jokes that come to me, which will likely become part of my stand-up someday or maybe one of my TikTok videos) #WelcomeToMastodon #Youtuber #actor #comedy

RT @DrJoGrady
I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TWEET TO PLEASE RT IT.

Tomorrow nurses strike. They will be put through hell by the media, politicians and the establishment.

Ahead of the action please share this tweet if you back the nurses and find it sickening that they are being vilified.

Hi all, I'm new here, so here's an #introduction.

I'm an impact AI entrepreneur who's worked with algorithmic influence for more than a decade.

A while back, when I was running a social games startup, I realized the dangers of addicting people to games with behavioral algorithms. And then Netflix, Spotify and TikTok happened.

Ever since I've worked on algorithms for positive impact, now building healthier social with https://equelsocial.com.

I've been writing mostly on LinkedIn, but also spoken in TV, podcasts and conferences, educated media houses and governments, and built multiple products and communities.

We run a Mastodon server for entrepreneurs and professionals who want to network with their real identity at https://equel.social. We are building topic-based discovery, one-click cross-posting to LinkedIn, and many more features geared for professional networking on Mastodon.

I'm currently finishing a book titled "The Servant Influencer".

I look forward to contributing to the #fediverse!

Home - Equel Social

Equel is a multilingual community app. Chat in your own language, and it is automatically translated to the other parties in their own native languages.

Equel Social - Multilingual Professional Communities

This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Credit: Eric Brummel
https://www.instagram.com/brummelphoto

#photography #milkyway #space

On Twitter it took us almost 5 years to reach to 50,000 followers.

Here at Mastodon we may be able to do it within one month.

Support our mission & amplify our voice.

#follow #Auschwitz #memory #museums #memory #history #fediverse #mastodon

Welcome @gerifitz to the Not The Bird Site Site.

Wishing my academic colleagues in Britain and Northern Ireland all the best as they participate in important strike action starting tomorrow.

UK universities generated £41 billion in revenue last year.

And yet a third of academic staff remain on temporary contracts, academic pay is declining in real terms, pensions have been slashed, and workloads are so unreasonably high that on average, UK academics do TWO days additional work unpaid PER WEEK.

Solidarity!

#UCU

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12636/Biggest-ever-university-strike-begins-in-fight-over-pay-pensions--conditions

Biggest ever university strike begins in fight over pay, pensions & conditions

Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities across the UK begin three days of strike action over attacks on pay, working conditions and pensions. The strike is the biggest in the history of higher education and UCU is predicting historic turnout on its picket lines.

Ardvreck Castle:

So this is my second proper day of Mastodon.

Boost if you are staying. Are you happy here? Reply to boost your account. 🖖

Thanks to a #huggingface demo of the open-source code, I finally got to try #galactica. I have thoughts. https://www.aiweirdness.com/galactica/
Galactica: the AI knowledge base that makes stuff up

It seems like it's every couple of months that a big tech company releases a language model that's supposed to do amazing things. The Allen Institute for AI's Delphi [https://https://www.aiweirdness.com/stealing-a-giraffe-from-the-zoo-only-if-its-a-really-cool-giraffe/] , whose authors said it "demonstrates strong promise of language-based commonsense moral reasoning" would judge anything

AI Weirdness