Posts by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
(DIR) Post #APqWKQifBtYWGFVEzA by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-21T20:48:45Z
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You’re not going to believe what Elon is doing now. Strange days.
(DIR) Post #APrwbvRyylCgScfD2u by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-22T14:09:07Z
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So many of @GreatDismal’s characters are well realized in this adaptation of The Peripheral, but none more indelibly than Alexandra Billings as Inspector Lowbeer. She owns every scene. As the inspector should. https://twitter.com/ThePeripheralPV/status/1594782944899788800
(DIR) Post #APucohMBH5NyuDdv04 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-22T13:32:24Z
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The biggest obstacle to joining #Mastodon is step one: Choose an instance. I suspect that most #Twitter users who would like to migrate give up right there.Meanwhile, some fear https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius/109383027753990134 that the largest servers account for too much of the whole.What can be done? There are a few lists, but none capture anything like the full range. And it’s a moving target.Would a Wiki be feasible? Freely editable, lightly moderated? Flexible categories. Who would initiate such a thing?
(DIR) Post #APw4ECLA6iJW9xVg12 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-24T17:09:48Z
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A spectacular Democratic failure. For anyone who cares about #NewYork or #politics or both, this is essential reading. By @JosephONeillx. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/11/24/new-york-rusty-political-machine/?utm_source=nybooks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share
(DIR) Post #APyWRRmxAV4arvXEK8 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-25T15:24:12Z
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Mad at your co-workers? Want to kill a bunch of them RIGHT NOW? But wait—how can you buy a gun on short notice, no questions asked?The United States is the country for you.https://breaking.iavian.net/article/322984
(DIR) Post #AQ4LVwsJb9gjtPkKkC by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-11-28T16:04:44Z
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Who owns your tweets? I think you do, even if Elon Musk has possession. The question of archiving Twitter’s past has some urgency. https://activehistory.ca/2022/11/archiving-twitter-during-the-upheaval/
(DIR) Post #AQV9FKUiZlBW2fw5j6 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-11T15:19:24Z
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That’s the lead headline in the online New York Times now. For me it requires a content warning, because “Both Sides” tells us that yet again the Times is going to take a political situation that is inherently asymmetrical and try to make everything balance.And look at the language used to frame this issue. It’s all about winning and losing …https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/us/abortion-roe-wade.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AQVlr4avw3yBzaGfAG by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-11T22:46:45Z
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Remember that Times story about how Musk’s politics were complicated? He might not really be “conservative” but might be “independent” or “part of the center”? That was yesterday.How’s that working out? https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/12/11/elon-musk-tweets-my-pronouns-are-prosecutefauci-heres-the-response/
(DIR) Post #AQag99aqSgO6lzGSAq by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-13T20:47:35Z
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What a tragedy that this good man, who has devoted his life to public service, who has made mistakes and learned from them, and who still expresses a profound understand of America’s public-health problems, should remain a target of vitriol from the worst among us. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04432-7
(DIR) Post #AQbOoffWVTCu6q3lmy by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-14T14:43:16Z
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The one thing I miss from Twitter is the ability to do a wide-ranging search for text. Is that truly impractical for #Mastodon, or undesirable for some reason?
(DIR) Post #AQdMVvQtrPeHuH4bkO by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-15T14:43:04Z
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Whatever you think of ChapGPT and other AI, they’re here to stay. They will force changes in education and the workplace. @zeynep says the crucial thing here: It’s an occasion to think about what we value in humanity—what makes us human—and what we must do to honor that.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/opinion/chatgpt-education-ai-technology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AQdSSvq6UZW61WomIK by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-15T15:49:39Z
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What is going on at the #MetOpera? More than a week after they were hacked, their website is still down, and I haven’t seen any information about who attacked them or why? This seems astonishing.
(DIR) Post #AQdTNT6G1831OcKfaa by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-15T15:57:19Z
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Have we forgotten what the internet is? It’s still there, if only you know where to look. Strong piece by @jomc https://www.thenation.com/article/society/aol-facebook-america-online/
(DIR) Post #AQdq4qVn2w3PRyMeC8 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-15T19:23:17Z
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Has a cheesier, tawdrier, more pathetic grifter ever inhabited the state of Florida?
(DIR) Post #AQehSPhxeGsaqBBEau by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-16T05:00:22Z
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This is a bad look for the NY Times. Don’t beg Elon to allow your reporter back. That place is fatally corrupted. Better idea: start your own Mastodon instance.
(DIR) Post #AQkM5lBQhnnchC51yy by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-18T19:35:18Z
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Today in the Kleptocracy.
(DIR) Post #AQlomc9T9VLt0lLVb6 by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-19T16:03:48Z
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Further proof that #NewYork needs, and does not now have, a functioning Democratic Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
(DIR) Post #AQqBYcdLdffo1uSTCa by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-21T18:45:50Z
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Is your book a “threat to the order and security of the institution”? The Marshall Project @marshallproj has created a database of #books banned in prisons. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-list-find-your-state
(DIR) Post #AQqP30r9RWdtFLji8O by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-21T18:50:20Z
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@ricmac @blaine I happen to agree with this: “Many people would like to join a Mastodon instance that lets them open their posts up for indexing, so that we can search content on that instance — it’s good for topic tracking, monitoring news, etc.”
(DIR) Post #AQswExaP72QbNo7xJo by JamesGleick@sciencemastodon.com
2022-12-19T15:18:10Z
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“resigning from Twitter” seems like the wrong formulation. He’s the owner, not just the “CEO.” Either he sells it or he doesn’t.