Notices by Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud)

@ajroach42 NYPL are likely to be the best specific source for you to contact regarding whether or not any such database exists, and/or if there's any work toward creating one.

Sean Raymond specifically seems to be the lead person, see:
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/31/us-copyright-history-1923-1964

I don't have contact information for him, though you're welcome to dig for that.

@SecretlyPublicDomain

Twitter inactive accounts purge: what archival tools exist for preserving public tweets?

A friend asks elsewhere if I know of tools or archives for preserving public Tweets from inactive accounts, specifically of users who've died and whose Twitter accounts will likely be purged in coming days....

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/e2br7g/twitter_inactive_accounts_purge_what_archival/

(Boosts welcomed, as are shares elsewhere.)

#Twitter #TwitterPurge #ArchiveTeam #Plexodus

With Twitter purging inactive user accounts -- including potentially numerous notable dead former users -- preservation and archival are again concerns.

There are serveral extant public archives:

http://www.archive.org/details/twitter_cikm_2010 (2006-2010)

http://www.archive.org/details/2011-05-calufa-twitter-sql (2011 -- 90 million user scrape)

https://archive.org/search.php?query=twitterstream (Archive Org)

All from the ArchiveTeam page:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitter

#plexodus #twitter #TwitterPurge #ArchiveTeam

The Estates

First: Church
Second: Nobles.
Third: Burghers
Fourth: Press
Fifth: Bloggers
Sith: Dark-side Jedi
Se7enth: Brad Pitt
Eighth: Tete-a-tetes
Ninth: Beethoven
Tenth: Camperth
Ellenth: George W. Bush
Twelfth: Elrond
Thirteenth: Freddy
Fourteenth: All citizens
Fifteenth: Renfaire
Sixteenth: Semiquavers
Seventeenth: Tierce
Eighteenth: Majors
Nineteenth: Rum-runners
Twentieth: Century Foxes

Dear #MastoMind: Is there any literature on decisionmaking in low-information, high-consequence circumstances out there?

Theory *and* examples / instances of social / cultural / historical practices would be of interest.

#decisionmaking #psychology #economics #systemsTheory

#MastoTip: After you post something with some specific hashtag, take a moment to see who else has posted under that tag previously.

Maybe there's not much. Maybe there is. Pleasant suprise is pleasant.

Dear #MastoMind: Good, small, performant, reasonably-priced Linux desktop suggestions?

Principle uses: browsing, coding, data analysis, some audio/video bits. No gaming.

Would like to be reasonably future-proofed.

Looking at Intel's NUC units, something small *and quiet* would be nice. Intel CPUs themselves not so much (Spectre/Meltdown).

Large and multi-display capable.

I vastly prefer to avoid Nvidia.

#desktops #hardware #linux

I'm seriously conflicted over the death of David Koch.

Should I dance on his grave?

Or would it be better to shit all over it then torch it with a radioactive flamethrower?

Values, Reason, Epiricism, and Identity

Rather than hijack (and, I'm realising, necropost) a 2018 thread any further (https://cybre.space/@SuricrasiaOnline/101190484337601694), I thought I'd run with a concept I'd come up in an earlier reply.

Suircrasia Online rightly notes that self-labled rationalists should consider their motivations and methods if what they're saying is paining others. And at least learn some of the tools of their self-proclaimed trade: formal logic.

#tootstorm #values #reason #empiricism #identity

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fedichive.tk are 1) archiving all Mastodon content, 2) offering search as a service 3) are refusing to remove content at the request of that content's author, and 4) are threatening retaliatory actions as a consequence of receiving such requests.

I'm requesting the instance be blocked and defederated by mastodon.cloud, and that blocking and defederation be requested of all other Mastodon instances through which content archives might be leaked incidentally.

#fedichive

https://web.archive.org/web/20190817050941/https://fedichive.tk/@fedichive/102630547432325773

I just call it Microsoft GitHub these days. Does half the job of communicating the risks of it being a hard dependency for FOSS projects in particular.

"Delete and rewrite" lately bacame the feature I use the most in Mastodon.

Not sure what that means.

(and of course I had a typo in this toot so I needed to use it here too... sigh)

A toot's got me wondering about the nature of consent in a specific way; I won't ever have an Alexa or anything like it, and maybe you won't either; but other people will.

And now I'm thinking, if you have one of these lumps of spyware in your home, should you be *required* to offer a formal warning to any visitors? I think so; you're required to place CCTV warnings if you run CCTV, and if anything systems like Alexa are more invasive, not less.

The data from a CCTV system might never leave the premises; the data from these "assistants" goes **directly** to servers outside either your *or* your host's control, where your voice may be datamined for any damned purpose the server owners choose.

Don't feel bad about saying "I don't wanna come over, you've got an Alexa running." It's not paranoia to be creeped out by AIs (or persons) unknown listening to your private conversations. It's *normal*. You don't *need* anything to "hide" for you desire not to *share* to be valid.

Be aware that social media is grossly manipulated by money.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/07/27/whoa-those-goons-buy-their-popularity/