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Twitter has (I presume it still has) 2 very useful search functions:
1. You could paste a third party URL into its search and get back all the posts that are referencing it.
2. You can share search results, because the results returned are at a URL with parameters for the query.
I would like Mastodon to have these please
When I decided to get more serious about learning to code, I decided to subscribe to https://fosstodon.org/@realpython/. Hats off to them for making their "Split Your Dataset With scikit-learn's train_test_split()" quiz available to the public. It was fun to see that I actually know some things now. Here's the quiz:
https://realpython.com/quizzes/train-test-split-python-data/results/
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As #Mozilla is busy adding AI crap to #Firefox, I would like to point out that it's about 13 years since they removed the #RSS button from default Firefox GUI, and six years since RSS support was completely dropped from Firefox.
Thus making feeds invisible and impossible to discover for most web users.
RSS/Atom/JSON feeds are an immensely useful and important tech that can help solve the content discovery problem *without* going through gatekeepers. 👀
But obviously not a priority for Mozilla.
Come & be my colleague at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies / Writing, where we have two assistant professor positions open and one tenured professor search upcoming!
“Applications from scholars with advanced degrees in science, engineering, or other technical fields are also invited to apply, so long as the social dimensions of science and technology are core to their work.”
If you want to know what grief looks like for an academic, especially for a folklorist, then you need look no further than this image of an empty library bay which once held a myriad of folklore reference books: indexes and bibliographies covering a variety of areas and peoples and approaches. Those books are all gone now, swept away because they were not checked out often enough. THEY. WERE. REFERENCE. BOOKS.
Our library has not seriously purchased books in 20 years: the English department hasn't had a book budget above $3500 (for a department of 30+ faculty members) since 2005. It's not like we need to clear out shelf space for all the new books flooding in.
Jonathan Schofield
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