Ither Seed 
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Ither Seed 
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Senior backend software developer from Argentina.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Boost me you cowards 💀
Don't make me install Justin Bieber Linux on your PC.
Jeff JarvisIf Substack were a decent company, it would have federated its Notes with ActivityPub. The last thing we need is another conversational platform controlled by one company known for promoting questionable opinions.
https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
TechnoTim
Šime VidasIf you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
Nature letter by @brembs et al:
"There is now a golden opportunity for every scholarly society to implement a Mastodon instance for anyone interested in their field. If the academic community can create a public resource protected from private interests, it could become a model for bringing the remaining scholarly record — encompassing text, data and code — into the Fediverse."
Paper:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771#.Y_S6OOzMKhc
Article:
https://www-nature-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
h/t @fediversereport
"There is now a golden opportunity for every scholarly society to implement a Mastodon instance for anyone interested in their field. If the academic community can create a public resource protected from private interests, it could become a model for bringing the remaining scholarly record — encompassing text, data and code — into the Fediverse."
Paper:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771#.Y_S6OOzMKhc
Article:
https://www-nature-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
h/t @fediversereport
Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. Both historically and conceptually, this is not a new situation for the scholarly community. Historically, scholars were forced to leave social media platform FriendFeed after it was bought by Facebook in 2006. Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. For both short form (Twitter/Mastodon) and longer form (journals) scholarly discourse, decentralized solutions exist, some of which are already enjoying some institutional support. Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. Demonstrating that the scholarly community is capable of creating a truly public square for scholarly discourse, impervious to private takeover, might renew confidence and inspire the community to focus on analogous solutions for the remaining scholarly record – encompassing text, data and code – to safeguard all publicly owned scholarly knowledge.
Cees GrootesWhy Smart People Believe Stupid Things.
Intelligence is not rationality.
An absurd ideological belief is a form of tribal signalling. It signifies that one considers their ideology more important than truth, reason, sanity. To one's allies, this is an oath of unwavering loyalty. To one's enemies, it is a threat display.
🔗 https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/why-smart-people-hold-stupid-beliefs
#psychology #sociology #rationality #irrationallity #peerpressure @sociology #beliefs #loyalty #delution #intelligence #idiological
Drew HarwellMastodon List Manager. Makes a big table for bulk list editing. So simple and smart. Nice work by @acbeers.
Casey NewtonTwitter's For You page right now really is just Elon Musk and his replies to other accounts ... you could not write a funnier parody about a billionaire taking over a social. network
David SlifkaThe fediverse has come this far despite being very capital-constrained.
What if that constraint were lifted?
If you have a project or idea (for- or non-profit) that helps build or grow the fediverse and would benefit from funding, I hope you'll apply here. Thank you!
https://bit.ly/fediverse-funding
Fediverse Funding Opportunities
Fediverse funding opportunities If you have a project or idea to grow the fediverse or Mastodon, and if funding would help you do it faster/bigger/better, I hope you’ll apply for funding here: https://form.typeform.com/to/eMY7s8S8 Increasingly, there’s interest in supporting the fediverse from b...