John S. Erickson 🙏
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Too bad this event won't be livestreamed. If you're in Oxford on 26 Feb, try to attend!
"Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure" with Prof Ruben Verborgh, Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Sir Nigel Shadbolt
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/ethical-web
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Ethan Zuckerman's extensions lawsuit vs. Meta would help #WebScience and #ComputationalSocialScience researchers -- not to mention, _users_! https://www.wired.com/story/meta-section-230-users-algorithm/
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Any #RStats #GeoSpatial gurus out there familiar with using #NASA #MMGIS with #Leaflet? We have issues with Leaflet actually _rendering_ tiles from the the #Mars #M20 provider. We know it's doing the #slippymath and requesting the correct tiles, but they don't show.
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More news about how #TheBirdSite is doing terrible things, and why we should be increasingly thankful for the #Fediverse https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/. #TwitterLinkDelays
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#WebEnvironmentIntegrity is an all-out attack on the free Internet: Read why #WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet #DRM
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The possibility of this happening is exactly what I worried about when Butthead took over #TheBirdSite https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/06/musk-black-twitter-spill/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
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Thiel, D. and DiResta, R. (2023). “Child Safety on Federated Social Media.” Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 https://doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874 #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience #CSAM
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Left #TheBirdSite yesterday; too much stupidity. Was a user since 2009…
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Accidentally dragged my finger too long while browsing a site via #Brave and up popped up an “inline #XBRL viewer.” Whaaaa? Then I remembered: “#RDFa for business.” Amazingly still a thing, even after 20+ years.. #SemanticWeb @semanticweb
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How new #Twitter API rules could hinder #warcrimes research and rescue efforts https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/20/twitter-policy-elon-musk-api/ #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience
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#GOP Targets Researchers Who Study #Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html @webscience #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience @computationalsocialscience
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There's a dearth of scientific studies of children's use of platforms like YouTube and Facebook precisely because those platforms make it difficult for researchers to _conduct_ that research... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html via @NYTimes #WebScience #ComputationalSocialScience
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What are “well-behaved” bots in the #Fediverse? https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/is-there-a-need-to-formalize-botiquette/2411 #SocialHub #ActivityPub #Botiquette
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Via @morganclaypool : The first two editions of "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist" (@jahendler et.al.) describe #SemanticWeb standards and how they work, their goals, and why they were designed as they are. The third edition builds on this foundation to bring Semantic Web practice to enterprise. https://t.co/7gOsVSYljR #Modeling #OWL #RDFS
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Can someone following #Rstats please explain how `@` tagging works? Does it need to be the _full_ user & server, e.g. (and esp.) `@rstats` ?? Just using `@rstats` doesn't work... #MastodonNoob