@pastajensen
Yeah, I left a year ago and for a while auto-posted some of my blog posts there and then stopped doing even that. But definitely it's a platform I'm not returning to.
I'm honestly surprised by how little I've missed it. This space has given me so much more.
My biggest regret is posting so much original content there that I will have to to sift through and preserve in a better way. Not giving away content to any platform in that way again.
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@sintrenton Definitely. I hope more people will come to realise this. For the sake of their own wellbeing.
(also at exactly 1/10th š
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@sintrenton
Agreed. I put up my Twitter archive on my own domain though, so I can reference old content without risking the links disappearing.
https://twitter.axbom.com/
I used the open source project Tweetback for this.
https://github.com/tweetback
Your friendly reminder to download your Twitter (X) archive as long as it's still possible. (And as long as you're still interested in keeping the content you produced there)
https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
@tanepiper
There is a logic to links in comments getting more engagement as you are forcing people to engage to receive the value of the link. Essentially you're holding the link hostage and forcing people to "pay" by tapping on your post.
I have a talk I do about this in which I ask a person in the audience if they want my book. And just as I'm about to hand it to them I instead throw it across the room and shout "It's in the comments!"
@weiming
@weiming Iām not even sure it really exists! Hootsuite ran an experiment a few years back and this is what a lot of people seem to be basing everything on. The LinkedIn algorithm has changed multiple times since then and LinkedIn certainly do not discourage linking. They have help articles on placing links in posts.
The Hootsuite experiment:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/
LinkedIn explaining how to add a link to a post:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301
For years, people have been getting and heeding the advice of adding links to comments on LinkedIn, rather than including them in the main post. The supposed reasoning is that LinkedIn penalizes external links and your post will receive less views if it has links to content outside the LinkedIn platform.
I explain why this widespread behavior bothers me so much.
https://axbom.com/linkedin-accessibility-link-in-comments/
#Accessibility #LinkedIn
@AasaMariaHedberg
Det Ƥr Jennifer Lyn Parsons: https://bio.link/pixelpaperyarn
Gillar den ocksƄ!
@selfcare
Excellent take on FSD (Full Self-Driving as marketed by Tesla, which of course is neither full or self-driving):
"one issue with reaction times, dulled perception, and loss of skill is that in normal driving, you only really need to react to sudden crazy shit other drivers can do, but with āfsdā, in addition to that, you also need to react to sudden crazy shit your own car can do. with no āfsdā, you usually would employ defensive driving principles to keep yourself safer, but how do you do defensive driving with your own car as the source of danger?"
- dima1109 on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/wwzjf6/comment/ilpaxsi/
ā ļø re: āJagā pĆ„ nƤtet, sociala kanalval
@dinkompismia @LeoR1010
Tack fƶr era reflektioner. Ni Ƥr bƄda personer som fƄr mig att stanna upp och tƤnka nƤr jag verkligen behƶver det. Komma ihƄg att vara mƤnniska. Att jag inte bara kan slƄss mot vƤderkvarnarna.
The Deutsche Telekom video reminding parents not to share photos of their child on social media is powerful. With all the research Iāve done into deepfakes over the past months it feels overwhelmingly important to boost awareness of online misuse and abuse of online contentā¦
This goes for everything youāre sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ_k0vUDM
If there is a word for it at least I know I'm not the only one. š. Hello all my fellow hurkle-durklers.
#HurkleDurkle
The reason I recommend @duckduckgo as your default search engine is not only about privacy.
Did you know that DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines?
This could be Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or beyond that: media, forums, shopping or research sites. Or even XKCD.
You control where the search ends upā¦ with a !bang.
https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/
#Privacy #SearchEngine
@potungthul
Thanks. Yes, I have been working with digital accessibility for 20 years now. It's important to me to lead by example. And I'm happy the Fediverse supports these long image descriptions.
@shimriez
Ā«Automation often unfolds in unexpected ways. Erik Duhaime, CEO of medical-data-annotation company Centaur Labs, recalled how, several years ago, prominent machine-learning engineers were predicting AI would make the job of radiologist obsolete.
When that didnāt happen, conventional wisdom shifted to radiologists using AI as a tool. Neither of those is quite what he sees occurring.
AI is very good at specific tasks, Duhaime said, and that leads work to be broken up and distributed across a system of specialized algorithms and to equally specialized humans.
An AI system might be capable of spotting cancer, he said, giving a hypothetical example, but only in a certain type of imagery from a certain type of machine; so now, you need a human to check that the AI is being fed the right type of data and maybe another human who checks its work before passing it to another AI that writes a report, which goes to another human, and so on.
āAI doesnāt replace work,ā he said. āBut it does change how work is organized.āĀ»
https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots
#AIHype
@mensrea
This is so good it actually is painful to read.
My favorite humoristic take on design controlled by clients is "Designing the Stop Sign". It really highlights the need to recognise and say no to detrimental design.
Of course, in the future clients will just use AI to get what they want.
And the kicker is that the AI won't say no.
Imagine the many messes that will need to be taken care of.
This video is 14(!) years old now.
https://youtu.be/Wac3aGn5twc
#AIHype #StopSign
āAnd Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.ā
āIf I let you know where Iām goingā¦ then I wonāt be on holiday.ā
Good insight.
#MI2
@shimriez Tack snƤlla! š