Notices by J Miller (jmmaok@mastodon.online), page 2

@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.

@shanselman Missed opportunity for ‘Crows have solved more problems than NFTs ever will.’

Planning a #conference? Include Mastodon at least as prominently in your materials as you do other social media. If you ask presenters or attendees for handles, ask for their Mastodon handle. This is an important opportunity for the Fediverse to reach, welcome, and engage key global audiences. #academia #event