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mia

@mia@hcommons.social

Digital Curator, British Library

I do digital, UX and collections stuff in libraries, museums and archives, especially crowdsourcing / digital participation / public history. Formerly @mia_out on twitter. Trying tootfinder to make my posts searchable

Also posting from https://glammr.us/@libcrowds https://zirk.us/@LivingWithMachines https://techhub.social/@BL_DigiSchol

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josh, (edited ) to random

I find my best mobile Mastodon experience is in a mobile browser (usually Firefox). I find it just as easy to navigate as any app and I also have access to all my lists and settings. I just reloaded the apps this evening to see if I felt improvement (I did not).

What’s your preferred mode of mobile Mastodon? Feel free to add details in the replies.

mia,
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@josh Meta on ios, occasionally icecubes if I need to edit a post. If I use the browser I end up with lots of open tabs; reading in the app browser forces me to look at one thing at a time

mia, to ai
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Critical AI, a new journal with a 🔥conclusion to Editor's Introduction: Humanities in the Loop

'“AI” is not so much a technology as a political economy designed to concentrate power and profits in tech companies at the expense of everyone else. Ted Chiang makes a similar point ...AI is “dangerous inasmuch as it increases the power of capitalism.”'

https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-10734016/382460/Editor-s-Introduction-Humanities-in-the-Loop

#AI #ML

joelanman, to random
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UK legal question - I had a 1 year appliance repair contract. Seems they auto-renewed it when it expired, and now I'm paying monthly for another year. Is that legal?

mia,
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@joelanman annoyingly it is, if they warned you ahead of time that they were going to auto-renew. They've all made it opt out, which isn't exactly within the spirit of recent changes about fair pricing between old and new customers

timbray, to LGBTQ
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I, a straight person, have a question. I'm talking about homophobia in a draft blog piece, and what’s a good choice of word for the people that homophobes dislike and abuse? Has it got to the point where “queer” is respectful and appropriate? Is “LGBTQ” better? “Gender-diverse”? (I think I’m correct to think that “homophobe” has grown to include anti-trans and gender-related bigotries generally?) Who has written a really good essay on the subject? Thanks in advance.

mia,
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@timbray where are your readers? Queer was reclaimed in at least the 90s in the Australia and the UK, but apparently not in the US. Not sure about anywhere else

joelanman, to Podcast
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ah Google why are you like this?
https://www.theverge.com/23891397/google-podcasts-youtube-spotify-alternatives-pocket-casts
Anyone recommend a #podcast service that works across iOS, Android and web?

mia,
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@joelanman I really like overcast on ios, not sure if it's on Android too

mia, to random
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Charmed by this 'small language model made from matchboxes':

'MESLaM is a set of matchboxes, each labelled with a single word and each filled with little bits of paper. Each bit of paper has a single word printed on it. The set of words in each box was chosen to reflect the text of Green Eggs and Ham2 by Dr Seuss. And that’s it: no computer, no wires, no AI. And yet it can generate new text!'

https://dcorney.com/thoughts/2023/09/23/matchboxes.html

HT Henry on the gov data science slack

codingconduct, to random
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Starting a human-AI interaction reading group. Anyone has good syllabi, starting points, their own experience to share? 🙏

mia,
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@codingconduct @CatherineFlick this!

simon, to random
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Here's a thought-provoking take:

"We already know one major effect of AI on the skills distribution: AI acts as a skills leveler for a huge range of professional work. If you were in the bottom half of the skill distribution for writing, idea generation, analyses, or any of a number of other professional tasks, you will likely find that, with the help of AI, you have become quite good."

Ethan Mollick - https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/everyone-is-above-average

mia,
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@simon I'd also be interested in the impact on language learning, and the related loss of different ways of thinking that learning languages gives you. It must all have a chilling effect on people who've chosen not to learn creative skills that seem AI-replaceable

mia, to random
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'Olivia ... said that unlike traditional news media, she can post controversial claims without confirmation. "I have the power to do that," she said.'

That's... such an interesting claim.

Part of a wider piece where chasing growth has a cost: 'TikTok's algorithm and design means people are seeing videos which they wouldn't normally be recommended - which, in turn, incentivise them to do unusual things in their own videos.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66719572

mia, to random
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If everything feels a bit much for whatever reason, don't forget that it's #bleptember season on mastodon. Cute cats and dogs and maybe even a giraffe are just a hashtag away...

mia, to ai
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'Artificial intelligence in the context of cultural heritage and museums: Complex challenges and new opportunities' - briefing note for European parliament
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2023)747120

PDF https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/747120/EPRS_BRI(2023)747120_EN.pdf

#AI #MuseTech #GLAM

josh, (edited ) to random

🤤?

mia,
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@josh ooh, it sounds a bit like a French Saint-Félicien or Saint-Marcellin? In which case it'd definitely get my vote

joelanman, to gardening
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What are some vegetables I can grow at this time of year in the UK? I have a small greenhouse if that helps
#gardening

mia,
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@joelanman you can start things to eat in spring (broad beans, purple sprouting broccoli), things that bolt when it's too warm (lettuces, coriander), Asian greens, maybe chard, kales (off the top of my head)

mia, to random
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What's the future of crowdsourcing and citizen science in cultural heritage?

I've had a go at it with @sam and @meghaninmotion based on our experience with the Collective Wisdom project - but what have we missed?

Or which of our points do you want to boost? Comment and let us know!

We've made a version commentable on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNEshEmS01CIdM31vX68Tg90-CNVSY0R2zbd7EUaCIA/edit?usp=sharing

#crowdsourcing #OnlineVolunteering #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory

mia, to random
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I just used https://tootfinder.ch to find one of my own posts - it's better than nothing while search is still being rolled out across mastodon!

mia, to random
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Who are folk using for domains these days after Gandi put their prices up?

simon, to random
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Love Tom Scott's latest on the British Library - he got to go and film in their huge warehouse full of robots! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVuIU6UUiM @tomscott

mia,
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@simon @tomscott @lewiscowles1986 if you know anyone who does want to work there... https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/join-the-british-librarys-universal-viewer-product-team.html

mia, to random
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'A decade from now...we will probably be using AI not just to gather material and analyze it, but to communicate interactively with customers and colleagues. All the forms of critical thinking we currently teach will still have value in that world. It will still be necessary to ask questions about social context, about hidden assumptions, and about the uncertainty surrounding any estimate. But our students won’t be prepared to address those questions unless they also know enough about machine learning to reason about a model’s assumptions and uncertainty. At higher levels of responsibility, this will require more than being a clever prompter and savvy consumer. White-collar professionals are likely to be fine-tuning their own models; they will need to choose a base model, assess training strategies, and decide whether their models are over-confident or over-cautious.'

@TedUnderwood Liberally-educated students need to be more than consumers of AI https://tedunderwood.com/2023/09/10/liberally-educated-students-need-to-be-more-than-consumers-of-ai

Edent, to random
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🐨 I always thought Koalas were cute and fuzzy and made sweet little snuffling noises.
Huge thanks to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary for proving me wrong a few years ago.
🔊 Sound up!
😱

Koalas scream like demented chainsaws. A harsh raspy sound that terrifies even the bravest heart.

mia,
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@Edent aww, the sound of childhood holidays! Terrifying if you don't know what's making that sound outside the house...

Edent, to random
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I want to read an old book which appears to be out of copyright.
The only version I can find online is a scanned PDF with no OCR.
So I'm running ocrmypdf to see what I can get out of it.

Not going great, TBQH!

mia,
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@Edent a recent list of options... https://fedihum.org/@Mareike2405/111024025332911268

I don't know if anyone can add books to Project Gutenberg for correction, but they're pretty good at it. Also WikiSource...

mia, to random
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A thoughtful post on Copyright and AI and journalism from @jeffjarvis for a US consultation on copyright and AI

https://buzzmachine.com/2023/09/02/copyright-and-ai-and-journalism/

jeffjarvis, to random
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No sensible person saw this over the holiday weekend: My response to the US Copyright Office's on AI and copyright, bringing context and history from journalism and proposing some alternatives:
https://medium.com/whither-news/on-copyright-and-ai-ba96553a5c9a

mia,
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@jeffjarvis the start sounds interesting but it's members only so the rest is blocked

mia,
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@jeffjarvis fantastic, thank you!

smallcircles, to privacy
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Yes, you can ditch #GoogleMaps now..

https://organicmaps.app

#OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google #Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)

mia,
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@smallcircles @jahed strong agree! If (non-geek) people can't get a result for a UK postcode search they'll just think the app doesn't work. And to be fair, it doesn't for them

mia,
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@smallcircles @jahed I was maybe a little harsh - postcode search does work, but it's not very forgiving - you have to put a space in to get a full postcode to work, and it doesn't understand a search for the first part of a postcode

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