Derek Caelin @Argus@mastodon.technology

My talk, "Tools of Empathy and War, #games and Peacebuilding" is up: https://youtu.be/3ik00x7LiJI?t=249

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) "offers developers a statistical explanation for the observed similarity and resultant clustering effects in a large document pool. It assumes that real texts will be the products of one or more generative topics that implicitly guide their contsruction and influence their word choices.

Just hit 7,000 words in the novel. Slowly, slowly, slowly, moving forward.

*breathes into paper bag

I opened up my novel and discovered a completely blank document. Everything was gone. I checked, and every backup was the same terrifying null.

Thank goodness #nextcloud maintains a version history. I recovered the doc and now I plan to maintain a FOURTH backup. 😌

Wouldn't this be amazing.

Apply for a Mozilla Fellowship – The Mozilla Blog

We’re seeking technologists, activists, policy experts, and scientists devoted to a healthy internet. Apply to be a 2019-2020 Mozilla Fellow   Today, we’re opening applications for Mozilla Fellowships. Mozilla is ...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/apply-for-a-mozilla-fellowship/

On Encryption Apps in the White House

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/02/27/on-encryption-apps-in-the-white-house/

Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages

When does "delete" really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you're Twitter.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/twitter-direct-messages/

Google Stadia's Grand Vision for Gaming Clashes With America's Shitty Internet - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kgwyj/google-stadias-grand-vision-for-gaming-clashes-with-americas-shitty-internet

#motherboard #technology #science #future #environment #Google #στάδια

Streaming and Cloud Computing Endanger Modding and Game Preservation - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmawm/google-stadia-game-streaming-game-history-and-modding

#motherboard #technology #science #future #environment #Gaming #Google #cloud

Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps? - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zma735/why-do-we-need-so-many-different-messaging-apps

#motherboard #technology #science #future #environment #Wire #Facebook_Messenger #​signal #Messaging

OK, do I have this right?

#synapse communicates through #matrix by #riot.

Equivalent to: a Canadian communicates through French by telephone.

Right? Server, protocol, client?

Does anyone have an opinion about #searx?

The Messaging War on Universal Healthcare | On the Media | WNYC Studios

Polls show growing support for "Medicare for All." But over the past century, the idea of the policy has been tied to a messaging war over socialism.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-messaging-war-universal-healthcare-1?&sf99950552=1

Listen to: 2020 Opening Arguments: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, & Amy Klobuchar

https://one.npr.org/i/704897389:704902206

Anyone know an ethical object-tracking tool? 🤔

Not sure I'm comfortable with Tile...

Tether Says Its USDT Stablecoin Is No Longer Solely Backed by Cash
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw844b/tether-says-usdt-stablecoin-no-longer-solely-backed-by-cash-reserves

#motherboard #technology #science #future #environment #News #Tether #stablecoin #USDT #tether_reserve #usdt_peg #usdt_backing #tether_stablecoin

New Zealand video: After shooting, YouTube struggled to shut down humans who outsmarted its systems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/18/inside-youtubes-struggles-shut-down-video-new-zealand-shooting-humans-who-outsmarted-its-systems/?utm_term=.7572e282a9d0