Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

9/8/2025, 3:11:58 PM

Public

Lately kind of interested in when and why "human focused" language backfires, e.g., urging people to be more meritocratic, urging people to be more empathic, urging people to consider others

What avoids backfire? General themes across studies I'm reading match basic intervention theory. You have to get three things right: the when (message comes at the right time), the who (it's toward a person with the right preconditions to respond), the what (message itself isn't noisy, is well designed)

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

9/8/2025, 3:15:30 PM

Public

Psychological interventions can't just sound nice, or feel nice, or make intuitive sense to us when we imagine an ideal version of them.

They have to WORK.

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