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@justrwc.bsky.social I’m so confused why you added me to the furry blocklist? I swear I’m just a data nerd who loves her cat 😭

Discussion questions, everyone loves discussion questions (they don’t, but it’s a great time buy strategy)

#roastmycat

It’s fashion Kevin

I dunno man, Joffrey Baratheon was kind of a prick

I’ve noticed this too, there is something profoundly insidious about how the larger social media algorithms leverage dark patterns. I was the biggest champion for ubiquitous tech growth back in the day, I deeply regret this stance as the damages have revealed themselves over time

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

The Return of The Erosion of the Pillars of American Power American structural power will decline slowly and then suddenly.

Very much this, from Dan Drezner. He focuses a lot on universities, but rightly so. U.S. educational, scientific and technological preeminence are closely linked — and all have a lot to do with the past openness of our society 1/ open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

This is kind of the running issue with tech right now - a complete disregard for the principles of product management and user needs in favor of strategies directed at short-sighted quarterly earnings

I will not. Collect. Degrees.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.

Wage stagnation, the prioritization of cost cutting over innovation, deregulation and the defanging of public-interest entities, all that jazz

The assumption is also that these are representations of reality, rather than reality itself. Media isn’t a reflection of fact, it becomes fact; AI isn’t the collective of intelligence, it becomes the network of intelligence; index investing isn’t a reflection of the market, it is the market

Please everyone stop sharing this as evidence that people are biased by the media.

See this explanation on the other site

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I am beginning to believe universal tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Broadly, yes. But I also think in an alternate universe, it could have been a wonderful tool for creative expression, especially for people who don’t necessarily have artistic skill sets

What else is different than other platforms ? A complete firehose for academics, researchers and anyone !

And they’re not bots 🤖

How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19 Our small team made COVID-19 data clear, reliable, and accessible to a global audience. This is how it happened.

Saloni, Edouard, and Lucas wrote up the history of Our World in Data during the COVID pandemic.

It's about the impact we hoped to achieve and how it felt to us during that time.

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Google could be forced to sell Chrome. What could that mean for the internet? US regulators are taking legal action against the tech giant, saying Google's browser has too much power.

What a forced sale of Chrome could mean for Google and the internet

#EconSky

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Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

Great post by @theverge.com on how to make the most of Bluesky. www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

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YouTube video by EightBitHD Do What You Want, Cause A Pirate Is Free... You Are A Pirate

The loops this one embedded in my head: youtu.be/J0e9UiXbd5o

I haven’t used it in depth, but Zotero is the go-to in PKMS circles