Tubefilter: Financial advice on TikTok is a volatile market. “Social media is a growing source of financial advice for Gen Z and Millennials, but not all experiences in communities like #FinTok are positive. A survey published by Intuit Credit Karma found that most people in those cohorts have consulted creators on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram for help with their finances, but some of them […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/tubefilter-financial-advice-on-tiktok-is-a-volatile-market/
"In the early 20th century, the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset warned that such resentment would eventually become the enemy of talent and ability. “The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different,” he wrote in 1930, “everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” Trump and Musk not only feel this same impulse; they have harnessed it for their personal use.
Eventually, such attacks run out of steam when the costs begin to accumulate. No matter how many times Stalin told his scientists to plant wheat in the snow so that it could evolve to grow in the winter, the wheat (which had no political allegiances) died. Today, vaccine refusal might seem like a brave stand against white-jacketed overlords—until your children are stricken with measles or whooping cough.
Modern societies, as Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in public service. The first step in containing the damage is to see Trump’s and Musk’s goals for DOGE clearly: It is a project rooted in resentful arrogance, and its true objective is not better government, but destruction."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/
Justifying your analysis with the work of others is simply incompetence.
There is the common logic already verified and there is the personal opinion of each individual, it is not the same.
The intellectual expertise is not based on a simple individual opinion on a subjective form.
The shortcuts or ease are unprofessional.
Thank you. 
The Open Notebook: Using Open Data to Sharpen Science Stories. “Many reporters are familiar with the idea of using data to bring nuance and depth to a story. They may draw from public government data, such as census data or COVID-19 dashboards, for example. But, as my team’s research suggests, journalists aren’t widely utilizing the vast troves of freely accessible data that researchers […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/30/the-open-notebook-using-open-data-to-sharpen-science-stories/
Mashable: What AI experts are saying about DeepSeek R1. “DeepSeek’s cost efficiency also challenges the idea that larger models and more data leads to better performance. Amidst the frenzied conversation about DeepSeek’s capabilities, its threat to AI companies like OpenAI, and spooked investors, it can be hard to make sense of what’s going on. But AI experts with veteran experience have […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/29/mashable-what-ai-experts-are-saying-about-deepseek-r1/
"When actions must be justified in the language of data, then the limitations inherent in data collection become limitations on human values."
An essay on what is lost, forgotten, or ignored during data collection, and the consequences on shaping politics, diminishing the role of expertise, and discounting factors that may be truly important.
Du bist du nicht nur hier, sondern auch auf #Bluesky unterwegs? Mit dem Startpaket von #RiffReporter folgst du von Anfang an seriösen Journalistïnnen. Im Paket findest du alle unsere Autorïnnen, die bereits auf Bluesky aktiv sind. Geballte #Expertise – kompakt an einem Ort: #Demokratie https://go.bsky.app/6qgUdEW
Unser zweites Online-Event im Rahmen des Themenspecials „XR in der Hochschullehre“ fand gestern statt.
Die Aufzeichnung ist jetzt schon online:
https://www.e-teaching.org/community/communityevents/ringvorlesung/objekte-szenen-und-welten-in-xr-erfahren
Zudem haben wir das Expertinnenwissen gleich genutzt und Dr. Miriam Mulders zwei kurze Fragen rund um #Empowerment, Faszination und theoretische Fundierung der Nutzung von VR/XR gestellt, die wir Ihnen hier im Bonusinhalt zusammengestellt haben:
Die internationale #Polykrise braucht die #Kooperation von Regierungen und wissenschaftliche #Expertise, fordert Anja Jetschke vom IPol an der Uni Göttingen.
#dvpw2024 #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #HotSeat @dvpw@a.gup.pe
In response to lumpy skin disease #outbreaks in #Pakistan, scientists from @loeffler_news share their #expertise and #experience with Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
Since 2021, the country has experienced high incidences of Lumpy skin disease in #cattle population. In the #workshop the participants shared expertise and experiences on the lumpy skin disease #epidemiology, #vaccines, vaccination strategies, and risk assessment.
A new job, a new instance, a new #introduction.
Hi, I'm Jim. 
I study epistemic practices in #ecology and #AI, their tensions and interconnections, and how they help us to think about the roles of #knowledge, #ignorance and #expertise in society. In September this year, I began a two-year postdoc in the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University.
While my research is in #STS, I am not so well embedded in the field. I've previously held positions in #geography, #sociology and #genderstudies departments, and draw on work from #politicalecology, #environmentalhistory, #mediastudies and #culturalstudies. If it looks interesting, I'll give it a read. 
My university profile can be found at https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/james-white, and a list of my publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6735-3893.
In addition to academic stuff, I will likely post about 
#parenting, life as an immigrant in 
#Sweden, and my nerdy hobbies: reading and watching 
#scifi, self-hosting 
#linux servers, designing ergonomic 
#keyboards, #foraging for 
#mushrooms, and experimenting with 
#fermentation.
You can find out more about my amateur #making and #coding at https://github.com/jimmerricks.
