Micah Pollak ☃️

@pollak
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Hi there! I'm an Associate Professor of #Economics at Indiana University Northwest in the Region (Gary, #Indiana). I'm interested in #Teaching, #Pwdagogy, #RegionalEconomics, #History, #HealthEconomics and more!

Also known for #Gardening and #RainGaugeContent, as well as hot takes on #apples and #chili (no beans!). #HoosierMast

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Getting ready to migrate to mstdn.social so I might be somewhat discombobulated for a bit.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion.

1st incident lasted 25s during the sportscast on the 9PM news on WGN-TV; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

Video: https://youtu.be/oqgeM6rWSkw

Never forget 11/22/87.

Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident

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Well, "Snowie" lasted a surprising amount of time (six days!) before suffering a noble death. #DeathOfASnowman
It’s really interesting to see how much media awareness there is these days in Denmark when it comes to the immigration from Twitter to Mastodon. Below is a link to an article from DR (the Danish BBC) who talks about how Mastodon is the civil society’s response to the privatization of the democratic communication infrastructure. Good stuff (sorry it’s in Danish): https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danske-twitter-brugere-flytter-til-det-mindre-sociale-medie-mastodon
Danske Twitter-brugere flytter til det mindre sociale medie Mastodon

"Der kan blive delt porno og grænseoverskridende ting, uden at nogen griber ind," siger forsker om mediet.

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This week Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. How did a sixth-century Roman give thanks? One way was a charitable gift that commemorated the event for which the donor wished to express gratitude. In this 🧵 , examples of Belisarius and Theodora.
#Roman #Byzantine #History #Thanksgiving #Gratitude
summoning my twitter friends like

Someone said that people on social media should be seen as a cooperative not a commodity and that rings true for me

This whole thing has made me realize that, the way I envision things, social media will never work with the platform being a corporate, for-profit venture

(or even as a corporate not-for profit venture, which is essentially a scam IMO)

Wrote up something explaining just why Elon's latest actions on Twitter were so problematic. It's not so much the final decisions (even as those are bad), but the process that shows his lack of concern about anything other than himself. That's no way to do content moderation.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/21/its-not-the-decision-but-the-process-musk-the-trump-decision/

It’s Not The Decision, But The Process: Musk & The Trump Decision

Going to put this up front, because I expect a bunch of people to not read and assume something very incorrect: I think there are valid arguments (even pretty strong ones) for why it makes sense fo…

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If you are from #Indiana and I don't follow you please respond to this so I can remedy it immediately

Also you can follow #HoosierMast if you like (if there is a better hashtag, I am all ears)

So you’re telling me I can #edit toots AND Mondays are for #Mondog pictures? I could get used to things around here.