avirr at mastodon @[email protected]

Avi Rappoport - Berkeley liberal, mom, librarian, enterprise search consultant, ally. she/her. mastodon: @[email protected]

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

I always avoided the algorithms and just followed interesting people. But the racist, sexist, transphobes, haters, nazis, elon worshipers, and/or free speech absolutists are diving me away. I’ll check my DMs here and follow on mastodon: https://t.co/EKOq1Ujqw3

[Assigned Media @assignedmedia]

I want to slow this discourse down for a moment and be very clear and deliberate about why Armstromg's history of cheating in cycling is important and relevant here, beyond a cheap gotcha. (thread)

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

AS IF THIS FEDERAL AGENCY.........WHOSE *CHIEF* RESPONSIBILITY IS *LITERALLY* TO *KEEP* THINGS......WOULDN'T KNOW.......THIS VERITABLE MOUNTAIN OF DOCUMENTS........WAS MISSING.

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@barbroseman Thank you! I haven’t actually worked in a library for decades but I do appreciate it.

[Saloni @salonium]

We have a new page on @OurWorldInData on Influenza!

• How many people die from flu each year?
• How has mortality changed over time?
• Which strains are currently circulating?
• What can flu-like illness trackers tell us?

All here + thread below!
https://t.co/3U3FQF6QnY

[Search Explained @SearchExplained]

The Art and Craft of Search Auto-Suggest by @avirr @TheSearchNetw
https://t.co/nyvpg83e56

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@SenWarren 👍

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Okay, I read it so you don't have to. Here's a reaction thread to @openAI / @sama 's blog post from Friday "Planning for AGI and beyond":

https://t.co/A8TMZYfFrr

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@geonv @NSavidge @berkeleyside I want to understand my neighbors and the implications of this kind of street planning. It was a good article.

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

Harvey Weinstein was given another 16 yrs. On his sentence. He said he “doesn’t deserve it”. Did the women he raped and assaulted deserve it? They had hopes, dreams and were trying to work. They didn’t deserve what he did to them!🥵🥵

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@NSavidge @berkeleyside Really good article, I’m undecided and learned a lot

[kendall @kendalljamaal]

R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein sentenced to life in prison today. A good day it is.

[Meduza in English @meduza_en]

At least 15,136 Russian military servicemen died in the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to @mediazona_en. That’s more military personnel than the Soviet Union lost throughout the entire Soviet–Afghan War.
https://t.co/kFEUKssndH

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@OurWorldInData Vivid steep curve there!

Could you post to mastodon as well? It’s gaining traction now.

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@sheldrakus Off! Not on!

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@sheldrakus Oh yes, I turned on every animation and gamification bit I could find and studiously ignore all the league table and rewards bits.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Biden’s EPA has just ordered Norfolk Southern clean up the ENTIRE site of the East Palestine,Ohio train derailment.

They will also have to pay ALL associated costs.

Failure to do so will result is a fine of 300% of the cost.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN!

[avirr at mastodon @[email protected] @avirr]

@kgorchinskaya @mirabile I’m sure I’ve seen a European Medieval painting with hands like that, but I don’t remember the artist