Okay one last point ☝️🤓: a luggage trolley on the tarmac. Cheers London! It was a blast and I hope to come back soon. See ya’ll on the other side of the Pacific in 9h55m 👋
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Seth of the Fediverse
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“A computer can't never be held at gun point, therefore a computer must never make a decision.”
Michael Graaf
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@raycunningham @HazelChu @greenparty_ie
Ireland needs someone to do like this
Re: @julian@mat @reiver
@sl007@digitalcourage.social never really considered meta data addition as part of data authorship but the great thing about markdown is its extensibility
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
@julian
I see. It just came to my mind cause of the @reiver thread https://digitalcourage.social/@reiver@mastodon.social/116018261949860790
Matt
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I just learned that a caravan storage company burned to the ground last Sunday. The same company I bought 15 old but functional fire extinguishers from only a week before. I have so many conflicting emotions!
Mi gente platino
@reiver in my opinion, regular people will never write markdown. Regular people need an UI where they can select formatting options (or type information) like in MS Word.
My brain is not wired like everybody else I think because I watched the Olympics mixed relay biathlon instead of the Superbowl. 🤔
@martind we got caught up on Dunk and Egg.
@GeofCox @mekkaokereke in my limited experience teaching in Europe, black and brown kids tend to push themselves harder academically than their white peers. Given the history, I think this is about valuing education, not taking it for granted, but that's just a guess. The parents tend to be more interested in their kids' education too.
Yup.
That and selection bias.
There are plenty of super lazy, undisciplined Chinese, Nigerian, and Indian students, whose parents don't value education that much. They are most likely still in a village in rural Nigeria, India, and China, going to a rural school, right next to hard working, disciplined kids who do value education, but whose families don't have a need or a desire to move to Europe.
Said another way, if you see a Nigerian kid in British boarding school getting top marks 🙋🏿♂️, you're seeing one of a highly filtered subset of kids in the intersection of:
* Good enough aptitude for learning (that's most kids♥️)
* From a family that moved to a larger Nigerian city from a more rural one
* From a family that values education and growth mindset
* From a family with a strong desire to leave Nigeria
* From a family economically advantaged enough to get an international student visa
* That managed to minimize / dodge / mitigate racism through their early education
* But knows enough about racism to know that they need to significantly outperform British born white students, just to be given an equal chance
* And is resilient enough (stubborn enough) to be undaunted by any racism that they do face
Said one more way:
I bet that 1st and 2nd generation white British expat kids in India or China or Nigeria as a cohort, outperform the *average* local Indian or Chinese or Nigerian students in those countries.🤷🏿♂️
Said one last way:
My hypothesis is that once you control for racism, socio-economic advantage, selection bias, academic over-compensation, and educational opportunities and effectiveness, that there is no statistically significant academic difference between genders, ethnicities, religions, or races.
hypebot
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The reality is the US is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. The discomfort of white supremacist bigots is not a problem for us to solve; but a solution for us to pursue. White supremacist bigots *should* feel uncomfortable and excluded, as long as they would seek their identity in white supremacy. https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/
Aram Sinnreich
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1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own. https://suffolklitlab.org/algos-bias-due-process-you/
@apenkop @martinvermeer Who?
@cstross fictional theoretical physicist in an American TV sitcom. According to Wikipedia the show creator didn't intend him to be autistic, but many (including the actor playing him) find his behaviour consistent with autism. Also obsessive compulsive. Not crazy, his mother had him tested.
As of today, I now have 68,000 followers on here!
If you're a real person, thank you and I love you.
If you're a bot, beep bop boop beep I love you.
@lowqualityfacts We love you too 
Don't let AI replace you. Turn off Gemini AI 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
@Tutanota just set up my first VPS with NextCloud and the local-ai community package instead.
@morix Naah, more like making good on a kickstarter higher tier (signing copies in a warehouse).
@cstross ah, ok that makes more sense and sounds much less junkety
Seth of the Fediverse
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Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/
@stefan Thank you, Stefan.
Appreciate you publishing this info as a blog post I can share with other people (who may not yet be on Mastodon).
@redcrew My pleasure, thank you for spreading the word!
Stock Movers: Hims & Hers, Eli Lilly, Alphabet
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-02-09/stock-movers-hims-hers-eli-lilly-alphabet-podcast?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Podcasts @podcasts-bloomberg
Faster FDA Reviews Cut Red Tape, But Critics Wonder at What Cost
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/fda-priority-vouchers-make-it-harder-for-pharma-companies-to-plan?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Businessweek @bloomberg-businessweek-bloomberg
@_elena @libreoffice @CryptPad Even if it's satirical it's still a good add for these FLOSS apps.
@phillycodehound indeed!
and sorry for not checking but all Big Tech apps are like kryptonite to me - I wouldn't touch Google Docs with a ten foot pole. FLOSS apps for the win