Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social

Supporting teachers in higher education, finding opportunities for digital transformations in higher education, and still geeking out about pop culture. he/him

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

I have not been very active on Twitter for a while now, but recent events have convinced me to delete the app and stay off Twitter indefinitely. Mastodon is the only real alternative for me: @[email protected]

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Emir_G_SCL @Long_Coal @monark @elonmusk The one that does not work reliably enough to become an official feature?

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Long_Coal @monark @elonmusk Ah is this why my recommendations are full of stuff I don’t want to see? Why people keep talking about algorithms pushing posts that create the most drama? You clearly cannot optimize positivity, because how do you define that to begin with?

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Long_Coal @monark @elonmusk Is that why it works so well and without human intervention on all social media sites? Sorry but clearly it is hard and expensive. If it works well 99% of the time (which I doubt), you still get probably tens of thousands of tweets per week that are not recognized correctly.

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Long_Coal @monark @elonmusk Who will do the analysis? AI is not able to do this reliably, especially when it is this abstract.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

bring back phpbb

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

I have to say, it is amazing that this site is still free. Even if it‘s going down, Twitter hasn’t been this entertaining for a while.

[wint @dril]

who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@medieninitiativ Rez HD, Geometry Wars, Poker Smash, I still love a lot of the Live Arcade titles. Some just never came out anywhere else. Viva Piñata and Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts are any favorite unique 360 games. And the skate series, still play this to just kick back.

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@jratcliff I think you misunderstood his point. As long as your first paragraph is true, the facts of the last paragraph are dangerous and irresponsible. All of the technological achievements have not made your first statement any less true. In that regard, they are irrelevant.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Inflation is here, and there are a *lot* of explanations for it. People who worry about the monetary supply blame it on excessive money creation during the pandemic and uppity workers demanding higher wages:

https://t.co/fg6yQmES0N 1/

[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

More evidence in today's 🇨🇦GDP data that current inflation is being driven by profits not wages. Net corporate surplus rose again as a share of GDP during the 1st quarter of 2022 as inflation surged, now 2.1 points above pre-pandemic. Labour compensation still down 0.8 points. /2

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Everybody is on the "This is Fox News's fault" and, it is. But I want to focus on another community I follow closely: Gamers.
I tend to follow streamers/YouTubers who explicitly *don't* go in for these white supremacist dog whistles (obviously) but a lot of them don't call it out

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@DanHF It‘s so wild how closely this mirrors what happened with comics. With the same stories even. I await the movie equivalent of the 1/25 variant cover. For every 25th showing the theater gets to do one show of a special cut with a deleted scene and charge extra for that. Foil 1/150

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Tucker Carlson, the host of the most-watched show on prime-time cable news, uses a simple narrative to instill fear in his viewers. To understand how he promotes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories, we analyzed 1,150 episodes. Here’s what we found. https://t.co/erE9z7xSge

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Gert_Woellmann Sagt auch niemand. Wenn Sie aber sagen es läge an den Frauen andere Berufe zu wählen, dann kehren sie die Hintergründe dieser Umstände unter den Teppich und argumentieren für gesellschaftlichen Stillstand, nicht für Fortschritt.

[Jens Bonk-Wiltfang @derbonk.bsky.social @sturek]

@Gert_Woellmann Und warum machen es dann nicht mehr Männer? Warum nehmen sich nicht mal die Hälfte der Väter Elternzeit? Warum also arbeiten so viel mehr Frauen in Teilzeit? Natürlich ist es kein Naturgesetz, es ist deutsche Kultur und Sozialisation. Das sollte sich ändern.