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
Jason ColditzDec 18, 2024
Stefanie KoglerDec 16, 2024

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

Jason ColditzOct 25, 2023
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
Show threadJason ColditzSep 14, 2023
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.
Show threadJason ColditzSep 13, 2023
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.
Show threadJason ColditzSep 1, 2023

🧵 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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Jason ColditzSep 1, 2023

🧵 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?

Jason ColditzAug 31, 2023
ErrantScienceAug 31, 2023
Experiments are all about slow improvements and rarely about eureka... or at least mine are ⁠
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#Pie #PieChart #ScienceGraphs #Science ⁠
#errantscience
Show threadJason ColditzAug 30, 2023
@dozens @chrisamaphone Before it was a meme, I feel like this ran parallel to a common addiction recovery trope (especially related to alcohol). Something to the effect of: "Bad stuff happens, but it doesn't mean we need to drink about it." Admittedly, "drink" being the first verb that came to mind probably says more about me than it does about the verb. It's an interesting edge case though.
Show threadJason ColditzAug 22, 2023
@jbigham @Gilgongo I voted for this, mostly for funsies, but I figured it could go in one of two directions: (1) AR implants are common and the next stop is The Matrix or (2) "I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
Show threadJason ColditzAug 21, 2023
...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.