@taterthoughts.bsky.social
Just a tater growing limbs 🥔🌱
Occasional writer of introspective poetry and ranty takes on the economy 📈🖋️
Data nerd with a cat named Chicken Nugget 📊🍗
Occasional writer of introspective poetry and ranty takes on the economy 📈🖋️
Data nerd with a cat named Chicken Nugget 📊🍗
@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 😭
January 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
@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 😭
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM
It’s fashion Kevin
November 28, 2024 at 2:07 PM
It’s fashion Kevin
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
I can't explain how much my mental health has improved since I got Bluesky. I still mindlessly open X and retweet a bunch of my sports teams out of habit, but my enjoyment here has decreased my overall social media consumption, which has been so freeing. Feels nice to break that addiction a bit.
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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
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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. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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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
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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
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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...
The Return of The Erosion of the Pillars of American Power
American structural power will decline slowly and then suddenly.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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
Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ techcrunch.com/2024/...
November 27, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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.
Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...
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November 26, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I will not. Collect. Degrees.
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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
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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
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One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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
November 26, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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
The decline of legacy corporate media (reporting), rise of AI, and growing hegemony of index investing all stems from the same underlying assumption — that there’s someone out there doing the work and providing signals/quality data that technology can scrape and parse without having to vet too much.
November 26, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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
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Please everyone stop sharing this as evidence that people are biased by the media.
See this explanation on the other site
x.com/dggoldst/sta...
See this explanation on the other site
x.com/dggoldst/sta...
November 25, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Please everyone stop sharing this as evidence that people are biased by the media.
See this explanation on the other site
x.com/dggoldst/sta...
See this explanation on the other site
x.com/dggoldst/sta...
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Why do cows have hooves instead of feet???
Because they lactose
Because they lactose
November 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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📢 Join us next Tuesday at the Bremen #dataviz
meetup! 📊
We'll discuss Visual Science Communication with Ekaterina Burakova & @tduscher.bsky.social - you can attend in person at the Digital Hub or remotely via Zoom 👇
In-person: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
Online: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
meetup! 📊
We'll discuss Visual Science Communication with Ekaterina Burakova & @tduscher.bsky.social - you can attend in person at the Digital Hub or remotely via Zoom 👇
In-person: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
Online: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
📢 Join us next Tuesday at the Bremen #dataviz
meetup! 📊
We'll discuss Visual Science Communication with Ekaterina Burakova & @tduscher.bsky.social - you can attend in person at the Digital Hub or remotely via Zoom 👇
In-person: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
Online: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
meetup! 📊
We'll discuss Visual Science Communication with Ekaterina Burakova & @tduscher.bsky.social - you can attend in person at the Digital Hub or remotely via Zoom 👇
In-person: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
Online: www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
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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
Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...
Trump’s Trade Agenda Could Benefit Friends and Punish Rivals
Donald Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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
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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.
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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
November 25, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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
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What else is different than other platforms ? A complete firehose for academics, researchers and anyone !
Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 PM
What else is different than other platforms ? A complete firehose for academics, researchers and anyone !
And they’re not bots 🤖
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:36 AM
And they’re not bots 🤖
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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.
ourworldindata.org/owid-covid-h...
It's about the impact we hoped to achieve and how it felt to us during that time.
ourworldindata.org/owid-covid-h...
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.
ourworldindata.org
November 24, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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.
ourworldindata.org/owid-covid-h...
It's about the impact we hoped to achieve and how it felt to us during that time.
ourworldindata.org/owid-covid-h...
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What a forced sale of Chrome could mean for Google and the internet
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2024 at 2:19 AM
What a forced sale of Chrome could mean for Google and the internet
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
#EconSky
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Great post by @theverge.com on how to make the most of Bluesky. www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
www.theverge.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Great post by @theverge.com on how to make the most of Bluesky. www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...
I don’t think it’s just rare medical events that lead to this re-assessment of rarity. I’d say any significant quality-of-life altering experience would bring a person to this state
I wrote (and visualized a bit) about rare medical events and how experiencing one can change how we evaluate risks. I'm curious whether this resonates with others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...
Rare Diagnoses Change People’s Perception of Medical Risk
How experiencing an unusual health issue can alter a person’s understanding of “rare”
www.scientificamerican.com
September 28, 2024 at 6:32 AM
I don’t think it’s just rare medical events that lead to this re-assessment of rarity. I’d say any significant quality-of-life altering experience would bring a person to this state