Notices by J Miller (jmmaok@mastodon.online)

@mkornblum @inthehands

Public health messaging is always a balance between rigor and what people will understand, what will motivate the correct action.

Also, the CDC could put more science into validating that measure. There are peer reviewed studies that make these estimates now. They compare wastewater levels to times and places where other methods were used to estimate prevalence.

@inthehands

You may find this lit review of interest https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00913367.2017.1339368?src=getftr&utm_source=wiley&getft_integrator=wiley

Something to keep in mind is that we can’t really compare with the past, because things like magazines, TV, newspapers and their audiences are not what they were before. So an auto dealer that used to advertise heavily in the Sunday paper needs to try something different.

@raphael

Are you implicitly assuming this is for software developers? (Rather than the more general labor market)

That would help with some challenges I see with this idea, but not all.

@raphael

As much as culture and fit matter, so much hiring is still based on skills and job descriptions. For this matching to add value, you would need a well-populated field of positions and applicants.

So, I think this would work best if you could focus on one specific occupation but multiple employers. Maybe nursing?

From what I’ve heard, dating apps have similar challenges, working best for those ‘in the middle,’ not so well for outliers.

@bean

These Society for Technical Communication contests might fit the bill https://www.stc.org/honors-awards-and-recognition/technical-communication-competitions/

@lrhodes

Yes. I’ve already had some negative experiences where LLM generated correspondence, some quite polished, gave the impression the writer had thought something through and meant what they wrote, when in fact neither of those were true. Our actual conversations were then a frustrating waste of time.

@kims

This is currently the top post on r/SelfAwarewolves, which would be a fitting venue for that award.

@inthehands @peterbutler @RnDanger

Yes, non-citizens are counted in the population but are ineligible to vote. Noncitizen residents include permanent residents (green card), various visa types, and undocumented residents, a number that will always be uncertain. This source estimates immigrants to be about 7% of the US population https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-citizenship-status/?dataView=1&currentTimef

@inthehands @emjonaitis

Please teach him the rest of the Greek alphabet with alternative meanings and see if you can get them to take off :-) Like, it’s not really “all the feels” it’s “all the phis”.

@natebowling @carrideen

This is a resource I found useful on misogyny as a gateway to right-wing radicalization, with a young audience in mind: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/when-women-are-enemy-intersection-misogyny-and-white-supremacy Toward the end there are some concrete tips. At least provides evidence neither you nor the parents are making this up.

The week after I assigned the reading, Ben Shapiro spoke on campus and I saw some of that chill you mentioned.

@clarity

While economists are not mathematicians, they do a lot of math, and usually in the most incomprehensible Greek they can manage, whether in chalk or LaTex. And their elitist gatekeeping is legendary.

May be the source of some of the complaints. My experience of actual mathematicians tends to match yours.

@evan

A conversation where you can’t change the subject is called a meeting.

@grimalkina @brainwane

Something I’d be particularly interested to learn is to what extent there has been systematic review of biographies of women removed on notability grounds. Which if any Wikipedias have done that? (I mean operational/ administrative review more than research.)

At a minimum, it seems likely that some of those people will clearly meet the criteria after a few years.

@inthehands

After seeing post 1, I already knew what you were going to say in post 2.

File this away for the next hype-driven “AI as a thought partner for students” session.

@Techaltar

I’m pretty sure the folks in Microsoft’s own recruiting function are doing a major ::head desk:: and mumbling ‘we said what where now???’ about this. For a company like that, with global name recognition, automating the application process is almost a DOS attack.

@algernon @evan

People who ignored the norm by mistake could delete their posts, and people who ignored it on purpose could be comfortably ignored.

@algernon @evan

Even as someone who mostly replies, I think these would be good features to have. If someone really only wants to talk to their followers or mutuals, I don’t want to be there. Giving people mod power over their replies appeals to me less.

Maybe until the feature is built folks could experiment with a hack, like start with # for followers only and ## for mutuals only? Some Twitter features started as hacks like that.

@inthehands @astrid

This is a great example of what stresses me out about LLMs: techies being so impressed by « Grammarly for Python » that they start posing it trolley problems.

@feditips @NatureMC @smeg

At this point you are absolutely exemplifying the problem people point out about reasonable criticism being met by ridiculous blaming of the users.

If you want to write a useful tip, maybe something like: when trying out PeerTube, it’s important to start by subscribing only to sites you trust. It doesn’t have a server covenant like Mastodon.

@evan @darius

I don’t think this is a reliable indicator. It might be true on Slack among people who share a workday, but these global online conversations among people with different priorities have an irregular pace.

With Mastodon, there is also the issue of gaps in timelines.

The audience for comments vs. original posts is also idiosyncratic.

Didn’t vote in the poll, because I think # of posts is wrong framing.