The value of land is governed by its accessibility and by the reasonable time to reach it.

Comparing accessibility of a 19th century urban grid pattern Vs. a post 1950 suburban cul-de-sac pattern 👇

How far can you go by

🚗car in 2m
🚲cycling in 5m
🚶walking in 10m

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

This seems like a huge step forward for #DataAccess with respect to #SocialScience #data in the US!

https://www.science.org/content/article/accessing-u-s-data-research-just-got-easier

My latest: "Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class"

#econtwitter

https://sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-9/december/SocSci_v9_454to472.pdf

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf

I've seen a number of threads, blog posts, essays, etc., discussing the implications of Large Language Models such as the ChatGPT implementation of GPT3.5.

The worry is that these systems do a decent job at writing answers to fairly specific prompts, in that they bring together multiple elements to form a question. I've included an example below. If I asked a question like this on an exam, I'd give an answer like this full marks.

#teaching #gpt3 #highereducation