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👓 Cage the Mastodon | Join Mastodon

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An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment

Along with some of the strategies practiced by micro.blog and their community, these are some intriguing methods for tamping down abuse within social spaces online. The are certainly worth studying and delving into deeper.

Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia

So that’s already a huge advantage over other platforms due the basic design. And in my opinion it’s got advantages over the other extreme, too, a pure peer-to-peer design, where everyone would have to fend for themselves, without the pooled resources. ❧

Definitely something the IndieWeb may have to solve for.
August 13, 2018 at 07:41AM

Mastodon deliberately does not support arbitrary search. If someone wants their message to be discovered, they can use a hashtag, which can be browsed. What does arbitrary search accomplish? People and brands search for their own name to self-insert into conversations they were not invited to.

What you can do, however, is search messages you posted, received or favourited. That way you can find that one message on the tip of your tongue. ❧

August 13, 2018 at 07:41AM

Another feature that has been requested almost since the start, and which I keep rejecting is quoting messages. ❧

August 13, 2018 at 07:43AM

Each individual message can either be:

Fully public, appearing to your followers, the public timelines, anyone looking at your profile

Unlisted, appearing to your followers and anyone looking at your profile, but skipping the public timelines

Private, appearing only to your followers and people mentioned in it

And direct, appearing only to people mentioned in it

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August 13, 2018 at 07:45AM

👓 The harm of harmless jokes | lu popolvuh – Medium

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A #MeTooSTEM story about requesting a change in tradition

I’ve followed bits of this story for a while since it touches on an area I follow, but I had no idea the harassment was so terrible. The Romeo and Juliette business is just deplorable.

👓 Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism | The Economist

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Populism, pointless work and panicked youth: an interview with David Graeber of LSE

An interesting thesis to be sure. I’d bookmarked his book to read a while ago. Certainly looks more intriguing now.

👓 ‘Hard Day’s Night’: A Mathematical Mystery Tour | NPR

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The jangly opening chord of The Beatles' hit "A Hard Day's Night" is one of the most recognizable in pop music. Maybe it sounds like nothing more than a guitarist telling his bandmates, "Hey, we're doing a song here, so listen up." But for decades, guitarists have puzzled over exactly how that chord was played.

👓 A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote ‘In My Life’ | NPR

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Over the years, Lennon and McCartney have revealed who really wrote what, but some songs are still up for debate. The two even debate between themselves — their memories seem to differ when it comes to who wrote the music for 1965's "In My Life."

Mathematics professor Jason Brown spent 10 years working with statistics to solve the magical mystery. Brown's the findings were presented on Aug. 1 at the Joint Statistical Meeting in a presentation called "Assessing Authorship of Beatles Songs from Musical Content: Bayesian Classification Modeling from Bags-Of-Words Representations."

👓 A Provocation for the Open Pedagogy Community | Hapgood

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Dave Winer has a great post today on the closing of blogs.harvard.edu. These are sites run by Berkman, some dating back to 2003, which are being shut down. My galaxy brain goes towards the idea of …

An interesting take on self-hosting and DoOO ideas with regard to archiving and maintaing web presences. I’ll try to write a bit more on this myself shortly as it’s an important area that needs to be expanded for all on the open web.

👓 The case for quarantining extremist ideas | Joan Donovan and Dana Boyd | The Guardian

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When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should consider ‘strategic silence’

👓 Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat Alex Jones | The Verge

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Jack Dorsey thinks unfettered speech will save the world, but all the evidence says it won’t