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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Donald Trump expected to try to halt TikTok ban, allies say - The Washington Post:
"ByteDance recognized months ago that a Trump victory was its best chance to retain control of TikTok, said one person familiar with the firm’s internal discussions, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/12/trump-tiktok-ban-sale/
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petewalkden@mastodon.scot ("Pete Walkden") wrote:
Otter Family - a cub using his mum for a pillow, after they had been hunting together, in the loch behind.
From a workshop I was running out on the Isle Of Mull, Scotland.
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sylvia_ritter ("Sylvia Ritter") wrote:
Here it is :blobcat:! My new artwork/tarot card, Card No. 61 - ✨ Page of Swords ✨. This card means communication, curiosity, ideas, and speaking out. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Page-of-Swords-1121342942 #art #mastoart #fediart #tarot #krita
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Man, I used to be so good at HRP staining, and microscopy, and photomicrography.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/12/coincidentally/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Nick Fuentes is a chickenshit.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/12/a-vewy-fwightened-widdew-man/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Judith Eisen gets a well-deserved honor!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/12/one-of-my-role-models-recognized/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
NextGen ActivityPub Social API
NextGen ActivityPub Social API #activitypub #c2s
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/nextgen-activitypub-social-api/4733/2
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designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:
The cheaper option.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Same shoot, different look.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
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cryspen@ioc.exchange ("Cryspen") wrote:
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We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background or identity.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"Every little bit of uncaring makes the world a little bit worse, and once you're at a certain level of personal security then you have to own that."
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/
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ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club ("Ludic 🧛") wrote:
Great news everyone! I've outright threatened vehicular violence against some of the consultancies I've worked alongside!
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/
Mastodon Feedi0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:
Mastodon Feedtextfiles@digipres.club ("Jason Scott") wrote:
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before." — https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
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FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp ("Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🦃") wrote:
“Wow Bluesky is getting popular! You should sign up!”
“Interesting. Who are all the new users?”
“People who stayed on X for 2 years”
(-_-)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Where is the lib Joe Rogan?:
"But less than 15 years ago we had TV hosts like Jon Stewart and bands like Green Day who were able to make progressivism feel just as relevant and countercultural as Trumpism feels to young American men now."
The problem is, we killed progressivism. The left hates Stewart now because he speaks about trans rights and criticizes Dems. We don’t want a lib Joe Rogan. We want Joe Rogan as he is, minus the ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/11/11/where-is-the.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Stephen Miller Expected to Be Named a Trump Deputy Chief of Staff - The New York Times:
"The plans include restricting legal and illegal immigration in a number of ways, including rounding up undocumented immigrants already in the United States and detaining them in camps before they’re expelled from the country." https://archive.ph/0PqBi
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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
A dung beetle walks into a bar…
“Is this stool taken?”
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danderson@hachyderm.io ("Dave Anderson") wrote:
The thing I find remarkable about this, is that the Fuel Rats aren't a game feature. There are no rewards for being a fuel rat (in fact, it's policy to refuse payment if the recuee offers), except the intrinsic reward of helping people have a nice time.
Despite this, the fuel rats were one of the first "guilds" formed, if you want to call them that, and have been going strong for years. According to their stats, they have rescued 157 thousand stranded players, with a 96% success rate.
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danderson@hachyderm.io ("Dave Anderson") wrote:
This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats.
Elite:Dangerous is an MMO space sim game, with a big galaxy in which you fly a spaceship doing stuff. Spaceships need fuel, which you buy at stations, or if you have a fuel scoop you can skim the surface of certain stars to get usable fuel.
Space is big though, and it's quite possible to run yourself low on fuel in a way that you can no longer warp to any inhabited system to refuel. At which point you're screwed.
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NatalieDavis@journa.host ("Natalie Davis") wrote:
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony https://apnews.com/article/harriet-tubman-general-maryland-veterans-day-004ad9d09e8ab7ec2f89407618069a23?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
@Beachbum Even if some men in various groups that have traditionally voted Democratic voted for Trump in this election, 56% of Latinos voted for Harris.
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axwax@chaos.social ("AxWax") wrote:
Today wasn't the greatest of days for me, but putting on Bonkman Sam and his elusive Wavelets' recently uncovered debut single always lightens my mood.
https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/track/get-ready-to-bonk
Are you #ReadyToBonk? 🔈 🎶
Fun fact: As well as the lovely lead vocals by @ethicalrevolution the track features my debut as a Kunstpfeifer.
And once you're hooked grab this and all the other bonkalicious releases at https://bonkwave.org/music/ for the lowly sum of free!
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tom_nomad@kolektiva.social wrote:
OK, so that happened. Let's summarize and talk about next steps
Firstly, the results. The pre-election polling was coming in consistently with a 1-2 point lead for Harris prior to Tuesday, which is a similar lead Biden had going into election day. But, the result was extremely different, so why?
Well, polling has for some time been an approach that has been under assault for very good reasons. I have talked about how polls are simply indicators of dynamics within the confines of electoralism, but that they do not tell us a lot about granular political dynamics. When polls were introduced, and Rick Perlstein has written and spoken about this, they were roundly rejected by journalists. Polls were seen as a horrible reduction of politics to numbers, a gamification of political dynamics that obscure the ins and outs of how power works. Even further, polls and pollsters were under attack for essentially making the news through the way they framed questions, but also in shaping ideas of what is possible due to the confines of the polling.
Polling, in this sense, was seen as mechanization, and a removal of people from the political space. When this was combined with the politics of focus groups, which then took polls as the foundations for their messaging, we end up with a cycle, where the polls feed politics and politics feeds the polls, but no one ever asks whether that is a reflection of reality in any way. During this election, and the last couple, polls have been under a renewed assault, and maybe it is time for us to just move on entirely; it is not a methodology that can be fixed, and it is not one in which there is a desire to fix it.
During this election, toward the end, we started seeing stories about intentionally skewed polls, or polls that are created in order to generate a perception of what candidate has momentum. These stories center around a separation between legitimate polling and propaganda, while ignoring that polls themselves have always helped shape political dynamics and have never been an accurate way to measure much politically outside of an artificially confined series of similar options. When all political questions are reduced to just a series of options like that, it becomes difficult to imagine possibilities outside of that.
So, at the same time, it could be possible for polls to show a specific result, for example Harris up 1-2 points, and have that not reflect reality in any way. The relationship between polling and their perceived reflection of reality has been collapsing for some time, but it is time, now, to just recognize polls as one data point among many other flawed data points all based on measuring a statist concept of politics.
But, beyond just invalidating polling, this election has created conditions for a series of significant shifts in American politics, and I don't just mean on the level of presidential policy.
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
You can now get a paid internship in applied category theory, logic, programming languages, or science, technology, and society during the summer of 2025 at the Topos Institute! This is a great opportunity - my student Brendan Fong helped start this institute and it's full of cool people. I work with a bunch of them.
• The application deadline is January 17, 2025.
• The position is paid and in-person in Berkeley, California.
• The Topos Institute cannot sponsor visas at this time.These positions will last for 8 – 10 weeks, starting in June 2025 and ending in August. Each position will be mentored by Topos research staff or a select number of invited mentors. If you get one of these positions, you will complete a specific Topos project, and write a blog post about it by the last week of your employment. These projects may include an internal talk, work on a book, or publication. You can visit https://topos.site/summer/ to see what previous folks have done.
Specific topics for 2025 include, but are not limited to:
● Computational category theory using CatColab (Rust/Typescript skills recommended)
● Double category theory
● Categorical statistics
● Polynomial functors
● Interacting dynamical systems
● Hybrid dynamical systems, attractor theory and fast-slow dynamics
● Proof assistants and structure editors
● Program synthesis and spec generation
● Computational logical expressivism
● Philosophical and ethical aspects of applied category theoryDetails and instructions on how to apply are here:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good move, Maryland: “Harriet Tubman posthumously named a [Maryland National Guard] general in Veterans Day ceremony”
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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr") wrote:
2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact.
How cool is that!!! If the museum that houses this treasure doesn't have replicas in the gift shop, I would riot.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Artifacts from an ancient lost world. Sorting through my late mother's keepsakes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/11/mothers-have-a-sneaky-way-of-getting-to-you/
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