Donated to Bonfire.

@bonfire is like Lego you can use to facilitate different types of online spaces & communities.

@publicspaces wrote about them in '22:

https://publicspaces.net/2022/12/14/bonfire-social-on-your-own-terms/

Now they've launched #Bonfire Social 1 .0 & are busy working on Bonfire Open Science Network. These apps share code, but the focus of each ‘flavor’ of Bonfire is slightly different. If you have the opportunity to support them, it would be greatly appreciated!

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community#/section/what-were-building-next-4672931

#Opensource #Tech #Fediverse

It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!!

Data provided by https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

Watson and Crick used unpublished x-ray data from Rosalind Franklin and never gave her credit for it. They both were absolute noobs in x-ray structure analysis (I discovered this myself for some time, it IS hard).

Franklin was world-renowned for the quality of her x-rays. One of her coworkers who didn't like her stole the newest data and handed it over to Watson and Crick.

Using other scientists unpublished data without their consent is one of the worst things in science.

Later in his life, Watson said some incredibly stupid and racist things I won't repeat here. He did so several times. It was severe enough for Cold Spring Harbor National Laboratory to dismiss him from all duties and cut all ties with him.

I opened my 12v battery charger that had a magic smoke event in the past to see if I could fix it...
I don't understand how that kind of electronic could be sold in EU (bought it in Hubo or Brico IIRC).

• Fuse but at the output only
• Only a transformer. Not a single cap to flatten the voltage, I'm not even sure there is a diode rectifier.
• No connection to ground (no ground pin) despite the all metal packaging
• Absolutely no charge monitoring, fail check or anything

This thing is a electrical shock hazard in addition to a fire hazard. Let's say it burns (like it did) and one of the copper wire touches the case... Nothing would happen (not even differential tripping) until the owner touches the case and gets shocked.

@TheBreadmonkey @TwoClownsEating

And Ben There Were None. Hound Of The Benskervilles. Glass Benion. Bensic Instinct. MeBento (Memento). Se7Ben.

Where we are now.

[A 1944 British Admiralty nautical chart — with depths in fathoms — of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, based on a 1920 Italian survey.]

@futurebird When I was still teaching maths, there were a few things I liked to do specifically to reel in the students who had ended up internalizing a story that they were bad at maths and that maths was incomprehensible arcane magic only used by people with very special brains.

The first was to try to emphasize how *human* a lot of our conception of maths is. (It helps here that I'm not a mathematical platonist.) Why do we use base 10? Why did the practice of writing mathematical proofs first pop up in ancient India and Greece, even though eg. Babylonians had been using pretty advanced maths for millennia without bothering to prove anything? Why has so much of mathematical history been preoccupied with finding the "essence" of various constructs; is it just a coincidence that that came out of a culture that had a strong essentialist inclination?

The second was closely related to the first: Putting human faces on all these things. Did you know Pythagoras was deathly afraid of beans, and also that he was the leader of a weird cult? Or that Georg Cantor spent his later years trying to convince everyone that William Shakespeare was actually Francis Bacon writing under a cover name? That we have no reliable biographical information about Euclid at all, and that he may not have been a single individual at all? That Emmy Noether kept teaching out of her own apartment after the Nazis excluded her from the university? I've had many students - *especially* the ones less comfortable with numbers and pure maths - tell me that they could use some of all these little things as "handles" to jog their memories.

The third was to pose absurd questions that had non-obvious answers that maths clearly illuminated. Are there two people in Denmark who have exactly the same number of hair follicles on their heads? (There's about 150.000 hair follicles on an average Scandinavian head and about six million people in Denmark, so...). The story of Abraham Wald and the airplane armouring, the Linda Paradox, a Zombie Apocalypse version of the river crossing problem, etc.

Mostly, I tried to show students that maths is not an exclusive club at all. I won't say I succeeded evenly, but I know many of them appreciated it.

Die Herrschaft der fossilen Zombies
Auf Deutschland sei Verlass, so Merz auf der Klimakonferenz, als er die Zahlen der Vorgängerregierung präsentierte, um zu kaschieren, dass unter ihm das Klimaziel […]

Zum Weiterlesen den Link benutzen.
https://cartoons.guido-kuehn.de/die-herrschaft-der-fossilen-zombies/
#Klimakonferenz #merz

Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

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The talks from posit::conf are all online now, which means you can watch my keynote on the Psychology of Technologists here. I am very happy this was recorded as it was one of the talks of the year I'm the most proud of.

If you've been following my work for a while you will see many familiar projects but I believe this includes a lot of the WHY behind what I do. ❤️

https://youtu.be/B-bMX_l3nkk?si=YkSp3ttLupbetQ6Y

Today makes ten years married. Been together twenty-eight. Never figured marriage would ever be on the table for folks like us.

We fought for it. Finally got it.

Now, these days, we worry it could get taken back. Freedom ain’t free, ain’t promised, and sure as hell ain’t guaranteed.

We stand with everyone fighting for the same right—to stand as who they are, love who they love, and not have to fight for the right to exist.

why did they call it "do not disturb mode" instead of just making it the default, with a "disturb mode" that you have to enable if needed

Bellissimo progetto del collettivo @Bida: offrire supporto e infrastrutture tecniche per rendere semplice per chiunque creare una propria istanza Mastodon

https://nobigtech.social/

https://nos.nl/artikel/2589634-ook-cornell-universiteit-buigt-voor-trumps-eisen-en-ontvangt-weer-subsidie

"Daarnaast moet Cornell toelatingsgegevens aanleveren van nieuwe studenten, zodat de regering kan controleren of er geen sprake is geweest van 'positieve discriminatie'."

"In de deal die nu is gesloten staat dat Cornell een memo van het ministerie van Justitie gaat gebruiken als trainingsmateriaal voor personeel. Daarin wordt hogescholen en universiteiten opgedragen af te zien van diversiteits- en inclusieprogramma's en van transvriendelijk beleid."

#MoreleCorruptie

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Killing usually requires dehumanizing one's victims. Thus, one of the most important services the press can perform is to rehumanize them. Profiles of some of the Venezuelan villagers recently murdered by the U.S. military at Trump & Hegseth's direction (and the loved ones left behind): https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea