Alice @alicet@octodon.social
Philosophy major 📖 📚
Creative type 🎨 🎶
Learning python 💾
Squirrel-friend 🐿️
The Trump administration wants heavy surveillance over social media of anyone crossing the border: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/immigrants-social-media-information/index.html?sr=fbCNN032918immigrants-social-media-information0127PMVODtop
Folks, the stuff we're working on matters. We need to bring social media underground. Put users in control.
delete FB / feelings / glitch art Show more
Just read an excellent article by @alicegoldfuss@twitter.com on how to fight impostor syndrome, addressing completely different aspects: http://blog.alicegoldfuss.com/slapping-back-imposter-syndrome/
A viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) on non-native Queen Anne's Lace. #butterflies #Illinois #nature #photography
Maybe the most beautiful warbler, ever.
Blackburnian Warbler, Magee Marsh, Ohio, May 2015.
I forget so many people still use FB.
I'm really kind of fascinated with the conversation around people debating it's merits as they wrestle with letting it go.
It's such a moment in time.
I trained a neural network to invent some really confusing April Fools pranks.
#machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network
Self care for perfectionists looks really different than most people expect:
1. Emailing back to say no, even if you've been procrastinating for two weeks.
2. Ignoring your inbox to go for a walk.
3. Recognizing people have needs, but that doesn't mean you have to be the one to fullfill those needs.
4. Taking time to document and celebrate your accomplishments.
5. Asking, "What if I didn't do that?" and accepting that there will always be something that needs to be done that won't be done.
Self-care for perfectionists part 7: learning to just finish the thing and hand it up, and be ok with it not quite being perfect. Firing the inner editor who wants to bin the entire essay and start over 2 days before it's due. Learning to just finish it.
A summer azure butterfly (Celastrina neglecta) in the prairie garden. #butterflies #Illinois #nature #photography
I said I would post some music so here goes: a collaborative project with a friend that’s been ongoing on and off for about a year, called Moth Ash. This recording was from one of our live performances at a #noise festival. Hoping at some point we’ll have more. There’s a pretty healthy music scene here. :)
May be of interest to #metal enthusiasts too
#introductions : part 3
Forgot to mention I’m also interested in #retrocomputing (have some #hypercard projects I’m planning) #netart, and many genres of music (pretty open), and am looking for #podcast recommendations. I have subscribed to a few #podcasts already but want more:) Really enjoying this place so far. 💾
We made a new add-on for @Firefox called Facebook Container in response to the growing demand we see for tools that help manage privacy and security.
https://t.co/WENIuspEA2 tweeted by @mozilla
Bev Skeggs on Social Media Siloing
( Social Science Bites #podcast )
“Most people,” says sociologist Bev Skeggs, “think they’re using Facebook to communicate with friends. Basically they’re using it to reveal how much they can be sold for, now and in the future, and how much their friends can be sold for.”
https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2017/12/bev-skeggs-social-media-siloing/
/* I love this show btw */
I teach a class at NYU called Reading and Writing Electronic Text that is half introduction to Python, half introduction to computational poetry. the syllabus is here: http://rwet.decontextualize.com/ and the tutorial/lecture notes are here: https://github.com/aparrish/rwet I've taught the class many times before, but this year I'm revising all the notes and porting everything to Python 3/Jupyter Notebook. I've also made entirely new tutorials on dictionaries, RNNs and keyword extraction. just wanted to share!
Someone finally recreated #Hypercard on a web browser! And I mean *really* recreated it.
A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) on a sweet black-eyed Susan in the prairie garden. #dragonflies #Odonata #insects #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #photography
