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One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for ātoo long; didnāt read.ā With the explosion of generative AI tools, weāre rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: ātoo long, didnāt write.ā A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT
Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
and
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817
There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
What are we waiting for?
He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
Moby and Jim Carrey left Twitter yesterday .. Big peeps can you help them find their way here?
If you have just made the leap to #Mastodon from the birdsite, then WELCOME!
I sincerely hope that you are finding it an enjoyable and welcoming place.
If it might be of use to you, I've put together a #MastodonFAQ post as a kind of #introduction to Mastodon land and how to find your way around.
Hope it's useful, and please let me know of any questions you'd like to see added!
Watercolor artists out there: what is it about Arches paper that my dog is so obsessed with?? Every time I take it out, she practically begs for it like Iām holding a steak!