Jason Colditz

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Researcher at Univ of Pittsburgh. Primarily studying psychosocial mechanisms of online support in addiction recovery. Prior work on #SocialMedia use and #MentalHealth outcomes (TL;DR: it's not looking great). #Python veteran. #NLP rookie. #Linux enthusiast. Mediocre #guitar player. Dad life.
Profilehttps://onlinerecovery.pitt.edu/people/colditz

Mastodon #research 🚀

I’m working on my master’s thesis at the University of Vienna, and I’d love your input! My research focuses on sustaining long-term user activity on Mastodon, contributing to a more active Fediverse. If you have a few minutes, please take my short survey:
👉 https://sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonActivity/

Your thoughts will contribute to meaningful research. Feel free to boost this post so we can reach as many users as possible. Thank you so much! 🙌

#Mastodon #Survey #FediverseResearch

Questionnaire | page 1

Interesting read about visual artists waging a technological counteroffensive to "poison" AI image generation models.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/?fbclid=IwAR3hdG9QPieHnVrlKwVYFA89N4qMSVFzbXNpJcyHd3tCwHSDmupvQ828YMg
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

MIT Technology Review
Took about 6 hours to work out the video driver issues and install the usual software suite. On the upside, I learned an important lesson about doing system backups (and where to find that setting on Ubuntu). Now I have a fresh install and a backup to revert to, for when I inevitably update a driver and crash some seemingly unrelated yet critical system process. If I can go one more year without completely crashing this laptop, that would be about on par.
Follow-up on my Ubuntu saga: I spent the last few days attempting to repair my operating system after Dell forced an update to the BIOS. Everything went downhill quickly and every fix I tried only hastened the decline toward BSOD. I can confidently say that running Ubuntu on a Dell laptop with an NVIDIA video card is not worth it. Now I'm back to Ubuntu 20.04.6 and its old familiar bugs.

🧵 Definitional stuff: (1) While definitions of #recovery vary widely, a general understanding from substance use research is: "a process, related to stopping or reducing use of an addictive substance, while making other positive changes, in order to improve health and wellbeing."

Here are 16 other published definitions of recovery and a word cloud lovingly created from them...

https://onlinerecovery.pitt.edu/near-far/recovery/defining-recovery

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🧵 September is #NationalRecoveryMonth in the US (leading up to International Recovery Day on Sep 30). When I post on Mastodon, it's more often about the technology side of research. This month, I'd like to spool up a thread about the #addiction #recovery side of things.

Please help me out! Are there topics you are interested in hearing about, at the intersection of technology use and addiction recovery? Ideas for how social technologies might be useful for people who are exploring recovery?

Experiments are all about slow improvements and rarely about eureka... or at least mine are ⁠

#Pie #PieChart #ScienceGraphs #Science
#errantscience
...and I'm back from #Ubuntu upgrade! I got a warning that PostgreSQL will probably be broken, but I haven't used that in a while anyway. So far, things appear to be working as expected.
Spent the better part of today backing up and reorganizing files. Nothing like an Ubuntu OS upgrade (20.04.6 - 22.04.3) to strike the fear of everything crashing down. Crossing my fingers and installing now...
This has absolutely no business, none whatsoever, being as good as it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR9HwhhlkA
tony ann - iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

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