Nathan TeBlunthuis @groceryheist@social.coop

On Sol 414 the Ingenuity mars helicopter scouted the crash site of the parachute and backshell that brought it and the rover safely through the atmosphere before it was jettisoned and crashed on the surface.
Interactive version on Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/ouWG7

Would love to hear HCI/social computing folks’ thoughts on this piece! https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/we-know-less-about-social-media-than-we-think

Congratulations to @groceryheist for winning the @UWComm dissertation award and to @kayleachampion for winning the graduate teaching award!

.@bkeegan’s made Reddit! https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/uvfh8h/study_on_nearly_90000_samples_of_marijuana_found/

(Sorry this seems to be turning into a foodie account but..) OMG Baekjeong aka my favorite KBBQ place in LA is coming to Seattle (Lynwood to be exact)!!!!! https://seattle.eater.com/2022/5/20/23131294/seattles-korean-barbecue-scene-heats-up-this-summer

I think that #LandBack is so terrifying not because it's impossible, but rather because it's so plausible. When you start thinking with an abolition mindset, you begin to see opportunity everywhere you go. There are vast amounts of crown land and relatively undeveloped rural land that would be pretty straightforward to cede control of.

New paper by @jdfoote from my research collective!
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RT @comdatasci
Online communities are deeply interconnected and interdependent.

@jdfoote argues that systems theory can help us to study interdependencies, and that online platforms have the sort of data that is enabling really exciting new research. https://blog.communitydata.science/a-systems-approach-to-studying-online-communities/
https://twitter.com/comdatasci/status/1527316176669638657

Our ICWSM paper (with @axz and Tim Althoff) looks at what it actually means to make online communities "better."

Thru surveys of 6k+ redditors ✒️ , we find that while quality and variety of content are generally considered most important, and size and democracy are least important, there is immense variety in values 🌈!
▶️ no one size fits all solution! 🗜️

Moderators think democracy is less important than non-mods, and there is extra disagreement over safety.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05835

None of you know how to ripen a pear and that’s okay! I am here to help. A perfectly ripe pear is one of life’s great joys but most folks don’t know how to identify one! So they get a bad rap.

The thing is, pears ripen from the core outward, so by the time the flesh is soft on the outside it’s too late! What you want to do is feel the flesh right around the stem, when it's soft the pear is ripe. Try it! 🍐

We are coming to Paris for #ICA22 next week! Check out this blog post to get stickers and see presentations by @groceryheist @carlcolglazier @FloorFiers @jdfoote @kayleachampion @makoshark and @aaronshaw! @icahdq https://blog.communitydata.science/community-data-science-collective-at-ica-2022/

GPT-3 has a thing for llamas?

According to @YuhanLiu, our Mastodon instance is in the top 5 after @jbigham joined 😱

org-mode buffer getting full of notes and it's like, fuck yeah