Hi all: this account is in hybernation after #Gab functionally left the #fediverse, but wanted to wake it from slumber to note that all your work got noticed in a new ISD Report.
"There is precedent for open source communities to push back against those who seek to use their tools to promote hate speech. One such case is Mastodon, an open source social media community which has waged a long-running war of attrition against an influx of far-right users from Gab – a war which, as of December 2020, they appear to have won."
There are a few places where I use profile translation analysis and that's animated in the presentation to show what's going on there. Not quite as good in static screenshots.
If anybody wants to just have a look at the slides without the context of the rest of the class material, I put the screenshots here: https://atelier.wilsonscoffee.com/s/XDxd2rptz9w9kHK
The other book looks rather math heavy, but a quick glance through I think I remember how to read everything that's going on there.
When I saw the title of the lecture, my immediate reaction was, "oh no, this could be such a train wreck." But then I saw who was delivering that and changed my opinion to, "okay, I'd like to hear what he has to say on that topic."
Because I'm staying at a hotel right across the street from the convention center, I can apparently connect from the little patio area where there are tables I can use to work on stuff between things I'm interested in. There's a roasting lecture from a consultant based not too far from me that I plan to check out soon.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.