Masters Preferred
@masterspreferred.bsky.social
whatever you want me to be, baby
“Always ask: What is someone trying to make me feel, and why?”
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Always ask: What is someone trying to make me feel, and why?”
This is also how to think of everyone posting here, on Al Gore’s internet
This is going to keep getting used until the American people find some maturity.
October 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is also how to think of everyone posting here, on Al Gore’s internet
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![Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid4vie3df7ltmh7capumhhqcpbejyr7ya7y762fasdeq46ud3gyva@jpeg)
researchers, librarians, laywers, anyone with familiarity with the LOC: What do you think is most at risk if the current administration gained more control over the Library of Congress?
March 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
researchers, librarians, laywers, anyone with familiarity with the LOC: What do you think is most at risk if the current administration gained more control over the Library of Congress?
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.
March 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.
maybe jeremy renner had the right idea about social media and we should just have our own individual apps we make our loved ones use
February 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
maybe jeremy renner had the right idea about social media and we should just have our own individual apps we make our loved ones use
Now Playing at the Kennedy Center: Ariel Pink and Friends!
February 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Now Playing at the Kennedy Center: Ariel Pink and Friends!
an unfornate truth! At least Guinness gave us the t-test
Eugenics was the excuse to invent many fundamental statistical techniques in the late 19th century that we still use.
December 12, 2024 at 8:14 PM
an unfornate truth! At least Guinness gave us the t-test
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So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
this is kind of a niche issue but: if you are getting weird and hostile responses that feel a little off, there are some folks on here making accounts that automatically reply to large quantities of posts in a vaguely hostile manner. you can ignore them, and also, it's not personal
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 PM
So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
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🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th.
Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com
Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th.
Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com
Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com
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More thoughts on Bluesky & business models. We need social networks with business models akin to Craigslist, where money is intentionally left on the table.
Do you think they could live with that?
tedium.co/2024/12/05/b...
new @tedium.co
Do you think they could live with that?
tedium.co/2024/12/05/b...
new @tedium.co
What Bluesky’s Business Model Could Learn From Craigslist
More thoughts on what Bluesky’s ultimate business model could look like: A modern take on Craigslist, a company that never exploited its users.
tedium.co
December 6, 2024 at 3:54 AM
More thoughts on Bluesky & business models. We need social networks with business models akin to Craigslist, where money is intentionally left on the table.
Do you think they could live with that?
tedium.co/2024/12/05/b...
new @tedium.co
Do you think they could live with that?
tedium.co/2024/12/05/b...
new @tedium.co
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Every public action on Bluesky is available via a stream of events known as the firehose. By monitoring the firehose for repeated text, it is sometimes possible to quickly detect groups of spam accounts as they spawn.
December 6, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Every public action on Bluesky is available via a stream of events known as the firehose. By monitoring the firehose for repeated text, it is sometimes possible to quickly detect groups of spam accounts as they spawn.
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I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....
In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Online harassment remains a prevalent problem for internet users. Its impact is made orders of magnitude worse when multiple harassers coordinate to conduct networked attacks. This paper presents an analysis of 231 threads in Kiwi Farms, a notorious ...
dl.acm.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....
In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
best thing that ever came from 90s SanFran
it takes a special guy to laugh at himself
@craignewmark.bsky.social is that guy & a great deal more
you may not know this, but he donates generously to educational institutions, one of which @jeffjarvis.bsky.social can vouch for
he isn’t a shitty tech billionaire
be like craig
cc: elno skum
@craignewmark.bsky.social is that guy & a great deal more
you may not know this, but he donates generously to educational institutions, one of which @jeffjarvis.bsky.social can vouch for
he isn’t a shitty tech billionaire
be like craig
cc: elno skum
November 25, 2024 at 1:57 PM
best thing that ever came from 90s SanFran
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If more people understood how dysfunctional the building code update process is there would be a revolution. It stopped being mostly about safety a long time ago. It's now more about turf (trades) and monopoly (supplier) protection, but untangling the self-interest from real safety concern is hard.
November 22, 2024 at 5:02 PM
If more people understood how dysfunctional the building code update process is there would be a revolution. It stopped being mostly about safety a long time ago. It's now more about turf (trades) and monopoly (supplier) protection, but untangling the self-interest from real safety concern is hard.
& it's only hard by design! I could rant about the industrial gatekeeping for pages/hours. Teams of people with less than ten years of cumulative building exp could be raising code-compliant buildings by the hour!
There is far more money to be made in housing than rocket launches. The reason there is no Elon Musk of housing is that it is several orders of magnitude harder than rockets.
November 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM
& it's only hard by design! I could rant about the industrial gatekeeping for pages/hours. Teams of people with less than ten years of cumulative building exp could be raising code-compliant buildings by the hour!
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Starter packs are really a great counterpunch to algorithmic following recommendations. Turns out actual people are better than a snippet of code at suggesting who you might like to follow, and they actually enjoy doing it.
November 22, 2024 at 5:22 AM
Starter packs are really a great counterpunch to algorithmic following recommendations. Turns out actual people are better than a snippet of code at suggesting who you might like to follow, and they actually enjoy doing it.
Trivia/context: A handful of other sources corroborate other folks giving/getting these tats- allegedly bc they were afraid of forgetting it. SSNs started in 1936 (this picture is '39) and wasn't for individual IDing until people realized it was a national Unique Identifier in the computing era.
I think a lot about the Dorothea Lange photo of the guy with his social security number on his arm. Just a totally different information world! www.loc.gov/resource/fsa...
November 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Trivia/context: A handful of other sources corroborate other folks giving/getting these tats- allegedly bc they were afraid of forgetting it. SSNs started in 1936 (this picture is '39) and wasn't for individual IDing until people realized it was a national Unique Identifier in the computing era.
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
docs.bsky.app
November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
@bencollins.bsky.social can y’all make InfoWars’ viewership and engagement metrics public? There are certainly some numbers we’d like to crunch 👀
November 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM
@bencollins.bsky.social can y’all make InfoWars’ viewership and engagement metrics public? There are certainly some numbers we’d like to crunch 👀
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ok, my hottest hot journalism take is that journalism which relies on paywalls for funding and restricts access to those who cannot afford it or otherwise just cannot be bothered to jump through the hoops to read that content is not accessible journalism, and access matters a ton right now.
November 12, 2024 at 5:19 PM
ok, my hottest hot journalism take is that journalism which relies on paywalls for funding and restricts access to those who cannot afford it or otherwise just cannot be bothered to jump through the hoops to read that content is not accessible journalism, and access matters a ton right now.
@chriskenny.bsky.social My API connection with #blueskyr is live. Topics for network analysis welcomed!
November 12, 2024 at 4:29 AM
@chriskenny.bsky.social My API connection with #blueskyr is live. Topics for network analysis welcomed!