Tales Tomaz

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From 🇧🇷 living in 🇦🇹 | Researching media policy & economics, internet & platform regulation/governance, and alternative social media at University of Salzburg | Co-editor of "The Media for Democracy 2021" books: https://www.euromediagroup.org/mdm | Manager of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor: https://media-ownership.eu | Dad | Free time = heavy metal | #Commodon

A chapter on Mastodon is in the pipeline, hold on!

Tales TomazDec 20, 2022
Peter SterneDec 19, 2022
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Associated Press have all posted guides to using Mastodon, which in turn have been syndicated by numerous local news outlets. That matters. We're rapidly approaching a situation where the media will refer to things happening "on Mastodon" the way they referred to Twitter in, say, 2013.
Tales TomazDec 20, 2022
Timnit Gebru (she/her).Dec 20, 2022
I really don’t have anything more to say about ChatGPT, Galactica or whatever else they decide to put out next. We’ve written a paper about it, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 dealt with enough based on that. We need to spend our time slowly working on the technological future we think should exist, and we can’t do that if our time and imagination is hijacked by Open AI, the longtermists or whoever else.
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

ACM Conferences
Tales TomazDec 20, 2022

Grandes veículos dos Estados Unidos e do Reino Unido têm feito matérias sobre como começar no #Mastodon. E no 🇧🇷? Vi uma matéria no UOL uma vez, mas só. Nada no G1. Vocês têm visto algo mais? Tem algo que podemos fazer como comunidade brasileira para estimular o assunto?

@dobrado @renatolond @Anna @dani @Ursalzona

#noticia #jornalismo

Tales TomazDec 20, 2022
Tiffany LiDec 19, 2022

Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

People with disabilities reap benefits of surge in telework

The COVID-19 pandemic's silver lining for people with disabilities: a lot more remote work opportunities. Will it last?

Los Angeles Times
Show threadTales TomazDec 19, 2022
@josh @inquiline indeed! Still trying to find some time to be more active here though :D
Tales TomazDec 19, 2022
Show threadJosh BraunDec 19, 2022
@talestomaz @inquiline FWIW, I’ve definitely enjoyed sciences.social. I was on your instance previously, but felt I needed to migrate when they started blocking journalism instances. I get the reasoning, but I teach in a journalism department, so it wasn’t going to be viable for me. Anyhow, to your question, AoIR is supposedly spinning up its own instance in the near future. Critically oriented media research groups might also find homes on hcommons.social or zirk.us.
Show threadTales TomazDec 19, 2022
@josh @inquiline Exactly, I've considered changing as well because of similar reasons. And your tips are really great! Thanks!
Tales TomazDec 19, 2022
@inquiline I've been looking for this instance as well, great tip, thanks!
Tales TomazDec 18, 2022
Paris MarxDec 15, 2022

Netflix promised a streaming revolution against cable to benefit viewers and empower creators. But as catalogs splinter, prices rise, and advertising increases, it’s clear that was always PR.

Even worse, if we knew the history, we could have seen this coming. Cable once promised a revolution of its own, only to empower the entertainment industry’s oligopoly. After a decade of hype, streaming will do much the same.

Read my latest for Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-streaming-tv-got-boring-netflix-hulu-hbo-max-cable-2022-12

#netflix #streaming #film

Why have Netflix, Hulu, and the rest of streaming TV gotten so boring?

We have dozens of streaming apps, hundreds of new TV shows, and thousands of movies at our fingertips. So why is there nothing to watch?

Insider
Tales TomazDec 18, 2022
Paris MarxDec 16, 2022

As the tech industry moves from boom to bust, an increasingly reactionary set of tech CEOs are waging a campaign against workers to reset expectations of labor in the sector.

On this week’s #TechWontSaveUs, Wendy Liu returns to discuss this shift and how executives are emboldened by Elon Musk’s actions since taking over Twitter.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11871797-tech-billionaires-are-coming-for-workers-w-wendy-liu

#tech #podcast #elonmusk

Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to discuss what it was like to work in tech in the 2010s and why structural changes in the industry are empowering an increasingly reactionary capitalist class to strike back at workers and upend the expectations ...

Buzzsprout