Posts by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
(DIR) Post #AXK7vqne10DMy8Gzy4 by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-03T02:38:04Z
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My tip for newly-arrived #Twitter expats: ignore the accounts whose entire brand is doling out advice about the Fediverse. This place really isn't as difficult to navigate as those folks would have you believe.If all you want is a place to exchange ideas, follow experts, and get breaking news, then all you need to know is how to log in/out of your Mastodon account and where the "Follow" button is. If that's all you want, this place really is just like any other online social network./2
(DIR) Post #AXK7vuF3DYv5e07QbQ by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-03T02:43:30Z
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The only time things get more complicated around here is when you start venturing out beyond Mastodon-land, but if you're like the 85% of folks on the "Fediverse" then it's safe to ignore all the other chatter about WordPress plug-ins and RSS feeds and the ActivityPub protocol. All that chatter is just us computer geeks doing what we do. Don't let that intimidate you, and don't let the well-meaning but misguided (and sometimes overly aggressive) how-to Fediverse accounts confuse you/3
(DIR) Post #AXQkStZFJJ0xboozM8 by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-06T21:14:54Z
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3/ Real talk: the way things are going, Mastodon *needs* Meta to follow through on its promises to become AP compliant in order to stand a chance long term. And, we better hope that Threads signups slow down enough to give Meta a reason to care about the European market because, at the current clip of signups, Threads could easily coast for 2-3 years without the EU. /XX
(DIR) Post #AXTF0lyxP990s1pzqy by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-07T22:49:24Z
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After spending some time over at Threads, it's pretty clear that their strategy is to offload the burden of content moderation onto the Fediverse, particularly as it relates to news and political discourse. To the extent that moderation decisions are harvestable via ActivityPub (very) they'll likely feed that data back into their algorithm. IOW: Mastodon and the Fediverse would be Threads' equivalent to Twitter's "Community Notes" (aka Birdwatch)— a free content moderation service that scales
(DIR) Post #AXnA87RUS4OP9SoBlY by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-17T03:33:12Z
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Mastodon is the best social network for breaking news from trusted sources. I wish the Mastodon Core project would prioritize features such as global search that would make it easier to discover boots-on-the-ground reporters and OSINT (and no, hashtags don't work so spare me the proselytizing)
(DIR) Post #AXnA8Ag8Q4tDBkgQVc by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-17T03:41:08Z
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And before my mentions are flooded with flimsy arguments about privacy, I'd like to point out that there are 4(!) visibility settings in addition to a "noindex" and a "discoverable" setting. There are plenty of ways to indicate that you want your posts to be excluded from a search index. "Public" posts should mean public not "check with every individual about every single post"
(DIR) Post #AXte2N9KEhzHnisgm8 by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-20T19:18:17Z
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Folks still spending too much time worrying about how Meta *might* monetize the Fediverse and not enough time figuring out how to make the Fediverse financially sustainable. Is the "plan" to live off donations forever? Is it to *hope* that everyone self-hosts? If so, how are they supposed to gain that knowledge, and how are systemic inequities factored into this "plan"?Or is the "plan" to tone-police everyone onto managed hosts that obfuscate capitalism behind a virtuous layer of abstraction?
(DIR) Post #AXte2S7jk2ghEFAzUe by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-20T19:36:21Z
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Pointing to email or podcasts as a counterpoint isn't the compelling argument the folks in my mentions seem to think it is.
(DIR) Post #AXtfblaNTTIhg7yYE4 by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-20T20:37:19Z
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@wjmaggos I hear this a lot but this is a vision statement, not a plan. What are the concrete steps to achieve this vision and who's leading the way? Who is communicating the vision and securing stakeholder buy-in?
(DIR) Post #AXuMTXaDwnl5xlEBSi by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-21T04:25:07Z
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The moral of the Oppenheimer story is that you can secretly expose communities to nuclear radiation and set humanity on a path toward self-annihilation, but so long as one studio executive thinks they can make money by cherry-picking facts to sell a story of moral redemption, then you should absolutely keep doing the evil things you're doing, and trust that everything will work out in the end ☺️
(DIR) Post #AXuRtfHgRBgv9Apdse by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-21T05:04:33Z
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- Curious residents went to ground zero to picnic and take artifacts, including the radioactive green glass known as trinitite and contaminated pieces of cloth that were used to make christening dresses. They learned the bomb was atomic about a month later.- Cordova says no one from the movie ever contacted survivors.- "We've done everything to reach out to the filmmakers from the time that they were filming until today."source: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/j-r-oppenheimer-movie-new-mexico-hispanics
(DIR) Post #AXuRtgI4hDbAGg1T84 by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-07-21T05:08:29Z
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"Oppenheimer led a group of scientists during World War II to build the bomb first tested in New Mexico near the homes of Hispanic and Native American residents.""Known as the Trinity Test, scientists first detonated the bomb near the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa and the Mescalero Apache Reservation on July 16, 1945."https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/j-r-oppenheimer-movie-new-mexico-hispanics
(DIR) Post #AYtnYwhPZFsV3bIxrU by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T07:24:32Z
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I'll never forget how, in July-ish 2020 a (different) NYT reporter publicly admonished me on Twitter for suggesting that her article was misinforming the public by arguing that COVID reinfections were improbable. I pushed back w/ evidence showing COVID reinfections were already taking place but that the CDC wasn't tracking on the data. She doubled-down. A few months later, I was proven right. She won some kind of journalism prize for her COVID stuff. Anywho, better late than never, NYT ⤵️
(DIR) Post #AYtnZ7L80Rac3fxp9k by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T08:07:20Z
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And for the record, there's no real debate among reasonable experts: multiple COVID infections are bad. To the extent that there's *any* reasonable disagreement among experts it's over a very narrow range of extreme badness— from more likely to suffer permanent damage to vital organs (lungs, heart, kidneys, brain) ➡️ more likely to end up dead. I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that "you'll be perfectly fine" is part of the debate because it most definitely is not.
(DIR) Post #AYtnZB6O1CArj766jY by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T08:36:13Z
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The great thing about being the self-appointed "paper of record" is that you get to write your own revisionist history that completely ignores the role your editors and reporters played in minimizing the threat of COVID— time, and time, and time, and time again
(DIR) Post #AYtnZHiBRZyQE4pNTs by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T08:42:19Z
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And let me be clear: this isn't a case of "the science evolved and so did our reporting" — I was personally, publicly admonished by their lead (now award-winning 🫠) COVID reporter in *July 2020* even after I provided data showing that the *data science* was already telling us that COVID reinfections were a) happening and b) harmful
(DIR) Post #AYu5fVWCp0QFxYLGeu by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T20:14:10Z
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Why bring this up now? Because I now see the same playbook being applied to climate change (WaPo moreso than NYT). They're peddling nonsense, like suggesting that the human body can somehow adapt to live in extreme heat. That's simply not how physiology works— at all. There's a reason why Death Valley, CA isn't a thriving metropolis: deadly heat. And Phoenix, AZ isn't far offI urge anyone reading this to vociferously reject climate change both-sideismBelieve your eyes. Look up. LOOK. UP.
(DIR) Post #AYu5flQ3hd0pH7aaIa by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-19T20:39:36Z
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LOOK. UP.
(DIR) Post #AZ3twgGOrwP6L2yFPM by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-23T21:02:50Z
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When you realize that Four Seasons Total Landscaping was the most deftly executed part of the plan
(DIR) Post #AZ6Vj6DHmDgvLANuyG by DataDrivenMD@fedified.com
2023-08-25T18:04:28Z
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It ain't the flu, folks: flu test positivity is currently at 0.87% but COVID test positivity is currently at 13.4%. If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, kindly test yourself for COVID and wear a mask at least until the symptoms resolve. Please and thank you.