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@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org · 2 days ago

Given my physics teacher (35 years ago) said repeatedly that girls couldn't do physics, I feel like this is a slight improvement 🙄

#sigh #HistoryRepeating

https://fediscience.org/@freyablekman/115921698028403685
freyablekman - I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Ruth Mottram

@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org · 2 days ago

Given my physics teacher (35 years ago) said repeatedly that girls couldn't do physics, I feel like this is a slight improvement 🙄

#sigh #HistoryRepeating

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: boosted

2legged

@2legged@mastodon.ie · 5 days ago

Its Friday. Two days since #EnochBurke was released from prison, and Burke's second day back trespassing at #WilsonsHospital school, in breach of the court order.

Burke is due in the #HighCourt #IEHC at 2pm for #MrJusticeCregan to hear an application by the school to return him to prison.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0116/1553419-enoch-burke/

I assume that Burke will not attend, and that the Gardai will then take the best part of a week to catch him. #sigh

2legged

@2legged@mastodon.ie · 5 days ago

Its Friday. Two days since #EnochBurke was released from prison, and Burke's second day back trespassing at #WilsonsHospital school, in breach of the court order.

Burke is due in the #HighCourt #IEHC at 2pm for #MrJusticeCregan to hear an application by the school to return him to prison.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0116/1553419-enoch-burke/

I assume that Burke will not attend, and that the Gardai will then take the best part of a week to catch him. #sigh

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

…but don’t worry,
we’re heading for Net Zero,
except for…

that 4%,
and that 3%,
and that 0.5%,
and that 8%,
and that 5%,
and that 1%,
and that 11%,
and that 2.6%,
and that 0.7%,
and that 9%,
and that 18%,
and that 3%,
and that 6%,
and that 2%,
and that 0.9%.

But we’ll get there, right?

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

@PaulWermer@sfba.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@urlyman #sigh

hypebot and 1 other boosted

Prof Heino Falcke

@hfalcke@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

How to ridicule your own message 😫

"France condemns the visa restriction measures taken by the United States against Thierry Breton and four other European figures. These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty,"

MACRON SAYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM X 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-president-macron-slams-us-visa-ban-thierry-breton-others-2025-12-24/

#sigh

Prof Heino Falcke

@hfalcke@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

How to ridicule your own message 😫

MACRON SAYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM X 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-president-macron-slams-us-visa-ban-thierry-breton-others-2025-12-24/

#sigh

Charlie Balogh

@chainq@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

The upsides of self hosting:
AWS was down - my server worked.
Azure was down - my server still worked.
Cloudflare was down - my server didn't care.
Hetzner was down - my server was still chugging along.

The downside of self hosting:
Two years ago, after 12 years of 24/7 operation, the motherboard died. The server was down for months, because it was a 1000km drive to get to it...

Pick your poison. 😅

#sigh #selfhosting #cloudflare

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

There was an old country that swallowed some wood;
We should recall it had loads of wood!
It swallowed the wood to catch the coal,
It swallowed the coal to catch the steel,
It swallowed the steel to catch the oil,
It swallowed the oil to catch more coal,
It swallowed more coal to create The Cloud,
That squiggled and jiggled and tickled its crowds.

It swallowed The Cloud to catch AI;
I don’t know why it swallowed AI – perhaps it’ll die

#energyTransition

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

@deborahh@cosocial.ca replied · 4 months ago

@urlyman @Dianora well done, Jonathan! "… to catch AI!" 😂😭
#sigh

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run · 5 months ago

Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

‘there is not much other explanation’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olG8wvK8SpA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/ - text

office worker in white shirt with glasses dozing on his laptop, "ZZZZ" above his head

oberonsghost

@oberonsghost@aus.social replied · 5 months ago

@davidgerard @jojoeffe If I were writing consultancy contracts I’d be adding, in “outputs” “… [consultant] reports must be written by and checked consultant’s actual human staff … “

#sigh

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · 5 months ago

Incidentally, if you notice any basic numeracy errors in my toots—eg. out by three orders of magnitude—I blame COVID19.

Caught it in 2022 and the first time round, for two months afterwards I was worse at mental arithmetic than ChatGPT: I couldn't reliably add two single-digit numbers correctly. I've gradually gotten some of it back, but: sub-clinical brain damage sucks, okay?

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

@deborahh@cosocial.ca replied · 5 months ago

@cstross @gdinwiddie I'm with you there: I lost some spatial ability and facial recognition. Simple things like taking a bus or watching a gangster film became stressful puzzles. #sigh

Don't get Covid, folks 😷.