I've built tools (like Django) that can be used for truly evil things, and I hate that If Mastodon had been explicitly designed to support evil behaviour I would reject it This particular case feels more to me like rejecting email software because that can be used for evil too
CULTURE
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AI Advances Spark Imposter Syndrome Among Graduate Students
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Every grad student with imposter syndrome is now looking over their shoulder
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Empathy Over Wealth: Building a Better World
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Empathy may not make you rich, but it makes the world a better place.
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Billionaire Narcissism and Economic Inequality in Tech Acquisitions
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As I said in my post, "I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s (current) richest man pay the billion dollar annual interest on the loans he took out to buy the place on a weird narcissistic whim."
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Student Conference Access and Educational Equity Priorities
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Fair is another question. But if it's a question of my student going to a conference or not, I'll do whatever I can to send them. Things don't always work out fair.
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Human Connection and Conversation as Mental Health Healing
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3/ Reach out, connect, talk: Seek out people you are comfortable with and just talk. It does not have to be profound, career defining conversations. Discussing the latest Netflix series will do too. But you will find that a conversation, any type of conversation, is a healer.
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5 Tips to Navigate Layoff Impact and Mental Resilience
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5 tips if you are impacted by a #layoff.
1/ Don’t brood…too much: ‘Why me?’ thoughts could swarm your mind. It’s natural to some extent, but futile beyond a point. Because the layoff was not about you. How to stop it? Practice thought separation… -
Twitter Ouroboros: Self-Referential Feedback Loop Dynamics
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I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity)
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 novembre 2022
People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/rux4AFKwb1I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity) People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter.
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Social Networks Reduce Ethnic Tensions Through Cross-Group Connections
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There are glimpses of a world where social networks are a force for good, the way they lowered ethnic tensions in Bosnia. People randomly chosen to deactivate Facebook had more dislike of other ethnic groups after, since it was the only place they met people from those groups!
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Wikipedia and SCP Foundation: Internet’s Most Successful Social Networks
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The only large, long-term, productive social network to come out of the first 40 years of Internet may be Wikipedia. And possibly the SCP Foundation shared story universe.