Corey

@coreylindsey
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Life before death

Strength before weakness

Journey before destination
CoreyDec 23, 2023
Taylor LorenzDec 23, 2023
Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367
Longitudinal analysis of sentiment and emotion in news media headlines using automated labelling with Transformer language models

This work describes a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We use Transformer language models fine-tuned for detection of sentiment (positive, negative) and Ekman’s six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) plus neutral to automatically label the headlines. Results show an increase of sentiment negativity in headlines across written news media since the year 2000. Headlines from right-leaning news media have been, on average, consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets over the entire studied time period. The chronological analysis of headlines emotionality shows a growing proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness and a decrease in the prevalence of emotionally neutral headlines across the studied outlets over the 2000–2019 interval. The prevalence of headlines denoting anger appears to be higher, on average, in right-leaning news outlets than in left-leaning news media.

CoreyJun 13, 2023
Matt BlazeJun 12, 2023
Every time I have to solve a captcha I'm forced to confront unresolvable semiotic edge conditions. Is the post that supports a traffic light itself part of a traffic light? I just don't know. I am inadequate to log in.
CoreyMay 15, 2023
Mastodon MigrationMay 14, 2023

Clarification

You do not have to worry about your mastodon.social (m.s) account being defederated.

There is a well meaning, but misleading post currently promoted that suggests you should move your m.s account because:

1) "Instance admins are considering defederating them"
2) "Their admin is making spam accounts easier to create."

Very few, if any, instances are considering blocking m.s, and the recent spam attacks are worthy of sober discussion, not hyperbole. [more]

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#moderation

Show threadCoreyMay 15, 2023
@scalzi AM is used quite heavily for weather and road information broadcasts and is important in the western states like Montana. FM doesn’t travel as far in the mountains as AM.
CoreyMay 13, 2023
Show threadSaftyKumaMay 13, 2023

@craigfrancis @specwill @pluralistic

Look at the typical output from ChatGPT:

Sometimes impressive at first glance but under further scrutiny vapid, generic, full of untruths, and lacking any real deep, meaningful content.

The C-Suite are the very FIRST people ChatGPT should replace.

CoreyMay 11, 2023
Catherynne M. ValenteMay 11, 2023

I don’t know why everyone suddenly has amnesia about the fact that #CNN was bought by a conservative asshole & is just hoping you won’t notice long enough to radicalize you based on the network’s former reputation, inertia, & brand loyalty.

Nothing like #Twitter, of course.

CoreyMay 9, 2023
(moving) APODMay 9, 2023

Shadows of Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230509.html #APOD

APOD: 2023 May 9 – Shadows of Earth

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

CoreyMay 8, 2023
Scientific FrontlineMay 8, 2023
#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.
CoreyMay 8, 2023
Jess👾May 7, 2023

The funniest/saddest thing about tech bosses fighting unions so hard is that many of the very same things they complain non-stop about their employees would vanish with a healthy and strong union.

Worries about employees hopping from company to company? Offer them a pension and unions have perks and promotions based on seniority, people won't be leaving.

Struggling with DEI initiatives? Giving the Union rep a seat at the table means that you'll be rid of toxic managers and keep your most valuable diverse employees.

Struggling with recruiting talent? A clear union contract showing what the company will give in exchange for what expectations, you'll have a whole class of people who want stability over chasing the highest paycheck beating a path to your doorstep.

Activist shareholders bullying you about needing to do layoffs even when you know it's not going to actually benefit the company? Tell the investors "Sorry, but we can't do layoffs without risking Labor action." The Activist investors will go away and you'll get more investors who want to hold for the long haul.

Worried about hostile takeovers? Not with a union. Vulture capital will leave your business far alone - Unions are their kryptonite.

CoreyMay 5, 2023
pixelfedMay 4, 2023
We're preparing the release of our mobile apps on the App Store and Play Store by the end of this month to coincide with our 5th birthday!