Mark RiedlWatching people I know and respect in the Twitter META team being laid off. These were some of the best and brightest when it comes to AI/algorithms for social good. 😿
The world is a little bit darker today.
Emily M. Bender
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Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington // Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) // she/her
Look what fell right into my hand as I was walking to campus looking at my phone. Is this the universe telling me to touch grass?
Alex HannaAn #introduction:
I'm Alex Hanna, the Director of Research for the Distributed #AI Research Institute. I'm a #sociology PhD who has been studying #tech and society for over 10 years. I'm involved in #labor and #trans organizing, and am currently Chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice. I sometimes teach at Cal #Berkeley. The rest of my free time goes to #RollerDerby -- I skate, announce, and sometimes referee with Bay Area Derby in #Oakland.
Tamara KneeseHere is a layoff guide for Twitter employees from Collective Action in Tech and reprinted by the Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter #tweeps #layoffs #Twitter https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/11/03/issue-16/
Wow -- what a great set of replies! Thank you everyone. For #1, I see it on the browser version now and will look for a better app. For #2, I see the point about how QT changes the dynamic, but still really wish for the ability to weave in references (not dunk). It sounds like getting & pasting the link to the toot I want to quote is the way to go, as @mikarv says.
Michael Veale (@[email protected])
@[email protected] the second is also an app thing, if you copy the link to a post and paste it, many apps will expand it as a visible link snippet. it won’t notify the poster so you should tag them if you want them to see your comment. people can’t go from the post to your comment though as they can on the bird site. as mentioned elsewhere, bookmarks exist, but some apps don’t implement all parts of mastodon as they aren’t actively maintained and improved.
@noleli Thank you! I see that on the web interface but not the app I'm running. So, app level for sure :)
As I start using Mastodon more, there are a few features from the birdsite that I'm really missing:
1) The ability to bookmark posts. I see things and want to read them later...
2) The ability to quote another post and post about it (birdsite's QT)
#1 might be an app-level thing. Is there a good Android app for following Mastodon?
It brings a whole new nuance to subtooting, too!
@AndyPerfors lol
I'm pretty sure toot==fart is way older than Mastodon & I've definitely heard it in a US context. And yet still hadn't made that connection on here.