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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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I realize this won't be a popular opinion around here. But of all the Twitter clones so far, Threads has the most juice. I wrote about why ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still

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@caseynewton I wonder if FOMO around Bluesky helped convince some early adopters who couldn't get Bluesky invites?

My insta is basically friends plus some art and garden accounts. The only people I've noticed trying Threads work in design/tech, so I'm guessing they were both curious and felt obliged to try it. Others aren't looking for a Twitter alternative as they're over it #anecdata

mia, to random
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I'm super-excited to launch a White Paper by me, @sam and @meghaninmotion at #DH2023 today:

'Recommendations, Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage: a White Paper' https://doi.org/10.21428/a5d7554f.2a84f94b

In some ways it's an open letter to funders and organisational leaders about how they can support sustainable development and innovation in the field; with calls for better evaluation; skills and working with AI / machine learning etc.

Have thoughts, examples to share? You can comment on the doc!

More background at https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/new-release-collective-wisdom-white-paper/

#crowdsourcing #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory

mia, to random
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'Telling academics they can achieve career success by using today’s algorithmic-driven platforms is like telling Millennials they could afford to buy a house by eating less avocado on toast. It’s a cruel lie because social media is a shit way to share your work now.' The Thesis Whisperer

https://thesiswhisperer.com/2023/07/10/academicenshittification/

ben, (edited ) to random
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What's the most common way you read novels?

mia,
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@ben the library books app

joelanman, to random
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The problem with tools like Figma adding advanced features like auto layout is it causes problems with collaboration.

Someone more confident will use these features, then someone else on the team less confident suddenly can't collaborate any more.

It's not just a Figma problem, using it as an example

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@joelanman sometimes using the exactly right tool for the job can also create problems when knowledge and capacity to learn new tools is unevenly distributed. It's nice that it's perfectly done but now there's an overhead for anyone else working with it

petersuber, (edited ) to twitter

Visited #Twitter again today, to post my periodic reminder that I've moved to #Mastodon.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1671547495149625346

Noticed that it put #SpaceX at the top of the list of "You might like" accounts.

mia,
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@petersuber I didn't realise Musk used they/them pronouns! (Imagine if that was true and old twitter could have continued)

joelanman, to Flowers
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My local park is just stunning #flowers

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@joelanman is that West Ham park?

mia, to random
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If your organisation uses Outlook, you might want to check for emails accidentally caught in spam filters, at something like https://security.microsoft.com/quarantine?viewid=Email

fraying, to random
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I'm so in love with our clover cover crop this year. It fixes nitrogen, shades the soil, chokes out weeds, helps retain moisture, smells delicious, feeds the bees, and just looks right purdy.

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@fraying over here plants like that have the terrible name 'green manure' (!) but they are brilliant

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How often do you update your primary's computer's OS?

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@Edent @robin my strategy is the same as Robin's. Never trust a .0 release!

mia, to ai
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Free in London this Saturday afternoon? Want to mosey around the British Academy and hear from a range of excellent speakers on many important subjects of our times?

Check out the British Academy Summer Showcase 2023! https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-summer-showcase-2023/

I'm chairing a session on 'ChatGPT, AI, and the future' in the garden, 2-3pm, with Tim Gordon (Co-founder, Best Practice AI) and Hetan Shah (CEO, British Academy)

'Much consideration has been given to how machine learning is influencing our lives, and what it means for the near future. This panel will consider ChatGPT’s current influence in research, and how it might be a tool for copyright theft, content creation, knowledge-sharing or misinformation.

This panel of experts will critically examine whose voices are being heard in the discourse around AI, what choices we must make about how it is implemented, and which technologies are bringing genuine value to world of education and research.'

#AI #DataScience #ChatGPT #MachineLearning #SALAMI

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    mia,
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    @mishellbaker @benosteen might? Though LA is huge...

    Can you use trashnothing to share with local freecycle/freagle groups ?

    mia, to random
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    Interesting #DigitalHumanities job at Oxford: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Scholarship
    Humanities Division/Voltaire Foundation
    Grade 7: £35,308-£43,155 per annum
    https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1[…]display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=165901

    fraying, to random
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    This is the saddest, most dystopian shit I have ever fucking seen.
    https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

    mia,
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    @fraying such strong 'if only the car wasn't going so fast, my kids would still be alive' vibes

    mia, to random
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    On crowdsourcing / HTR for records of the Comédie-Italienne with the project https://recital.univ-nantes.fr/ on the Scribe platform http://scribeproject.github.io/

    'Decision Support to Crowdsourcing for Annotation and
    Transcription of Ancient Documents: The RECITAL Workshop' https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2305/2305.18828.pdf (PDF)

    Project forum https://forum-recital.univ-nantes.fr/

    jonty, to random
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    Me: I have to do so many things

    Anxiety: How about you just get really worried about them instead

    Me:

    Anxiety: Also don't forget about all these other things

    mia,
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    @jonty I showed this to my local anxious person and she, well didn't exactly smile but she gave a look of sympathy and recognition

    mia, to random
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    In next week's @BL_DigiSchol reading group we're discussing @bestqualitycrab 's 'Scholarship in a Clopen World ' https://popjournal.ca/issue04/verhoeven

    The 'paradox of open' is also a good read on the subject http://paradox.openfuture.eu/ (HT https://twitter.com/sclaeyssens for the latter)

    (Edited to add #DayofDH2023 #DayofDH as I've just realised how on-topic it is)

    mia, to ai
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    With all the fuss around 'AI', machine learning and large language models like ChatGPT you might think that the future of 'natural language processing' (NLP, or computers understanding human language) is sorted... these PhD students have compiled a list of things that AI / language models can't do https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.12544.pdf

    And they have a feedback form for additional suggestions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQFbuTJIbJVNBQnX6fg_UgmaIChuakzZsxfkLtM_XbY4cb6Q/viewform

    #AI #LLM #MachineLearning

    mia, to random
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    Does anyone want any Phyllostachys nigra (Black Bamboo) seeds? I can pop them in the post to UK addresses. No guarantees but apparently it's rare for bamboo to flower so we might as well make the most of the seeds!

    #florespondence

    joelanman, to random
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    London #gardening note - there is no rain forecast for the next 7 days

    mia,
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    @joelanman our decision to plant into pots for a year is looking a bit daft right about now

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    @joelanman we wanted lots of colour so sweet peas and climbing beans; and lower down edamame, sugar snap peas, lobelia, bacopa, gazania, diascia; semper vivum, camomile and thyme in the post-renovation rubble... I tried wildflowers mix but I think the birds ate them all

    mia, to random
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    'The poisoning of ChatGPT':

    'seemingly every modern type of AI model. They don’t seem to require any special knowledge about the system... They seem to be able to target specific keywords for manipulation. That manipulation can be a change in sentiment (always positive or always negative), meaning (forced mistranslations), or quality (degraded output for that keyword). The keyword doesn’t have to be mentioned in the toxic entries.'

    https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-poisoning-of-chatgpt/

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    #eurovision #esc in no particular order I liked Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Finland, Czechia... the UK song is catchy but wasn't great on the night. Hannah Waddingham was fabulous

    caseynewton, to random
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    What does “good” coverage of AI mean to you? I wrote about how the disparate views that very smart people have about existential risk are making it hard to calibrate how to cover advancements in artificial intelligence.

    https://www.platformer.news/p/why-im-having-trouble-covering-ai

    mia,
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    @caseynewton 'baseline scepticism' sounds good! I understand the 'here's a cool new thing' impulse but we've all lived through the un/intended consequences of those cool new things so I prefer pieces that also ask questions about externalities - what does it mean for minorities, the environment, people previously paid for that work.

    Probably the biggest service journalists could do is pulling back the 'AI' curtain to reveal... LLMs, and helping people understand them

    joelanman, to random
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    I have a terrible slug and snail problem in my garden, they destroy everything. Bought some copper bands, go out this evening and the snails are climbing the copper bands. I give up

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    @joelanman these days I go out after it's rained and pick them off to kill humanely. Big yoghurt containers around new seedlings also helps, and I've learnt to grow things as big as possible before planting them out. I'm not sure if crushed eggshells ever made a difference. Maybe? Beer traps work but are gross (to me)

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