The way we use "risk" generally reads more or less the same as "probability" which is where perhaps the problem arises, but risk is like probability × cost - i.e. Low probability × high cost can still be high enough risk while low cost × high probability can be low risk.

Can we all agree that everybody is greater than everybody else and be done with all the supremacy s&^% ?

for a longer explanation firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... - total LOL material. Enjoyed the series a ton a couple of decades ago and still as fresh and funny.

Excellent thread up and down. Thank you for your service @davidgerard.co.uk This one made me lol.

I suppose then that with the resources of the state, RTI request response time can be shortened to less than 10 days from the current 30?

There was no problem with trans people. Then bigoted conformists decided to make one. They circulated lie after lie continually, to make it look like there was a problem. It was easy with a tiny minority to think some of it was true. They’ll repeat the strategy. Until every person conforms.

I bet Douglas Hofstadter didn't intend the conversations in GEB:EGB to be used as bedtime reading for kid :D

Yesterday I learnt about "the troubled teen industry" - orgs affiliated to WWASP that do horrible things to teens of parents who think they need to be "reformed" in some way. Watched a docu along with wife - "The Program". Apparently legal action and regulation is yet to be effected on these.

"Our universities are at the front line of this crisis. They are now teaching their first truly “post-literate” cohorts of students, who have grown up almost entirely in the world of short-form video, computer games, addictive algorithms (and, increasingly, AI). "

Indian social secularism thrives in shared rituals, festivals and fluid identities, as people come together to celebrate cultural and religious events without abandoning the faith into which they were born. scroll.in/article/1087... Tanya Shrivastava writes.

Contains approaches to negotiate the terrain too, apart from pointing out the risks - From www.etuc.org/en/publicati...

Sunrise at Elliot's beach #Chennai

So .. the expensive ear wax cleaner stopped playing music and, according to the apple store, is now landfill material only.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_w... - intriguing quest.

Lies and Deception There are some people with absolutely heinous opinions and ideas that want public support for them and for them to be normalised. 1/17

www.cdac.in/index.aspx?i... TIL about "Modi-Script" Meanwhile devanagari users: We don't think something is worth writing down unless it takes a long time to write it.

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

President Stubb on the UN: No single state should have a veto power.If a member of the Security Council violates the UN Charter,its voting rights should be suspended.I believe that these changes at the top of the UN are necessary in order to maintain the UN's central role in international relations

So #India do you predict anyone will sue the cartoonist for "undignified" depiction of this potus?

Carbon absorbed by our body gets out when we breathe in oxygen, use it to burn that carbon and breathe out carbon dioxide. At least one of two things must happen for weight loss - eat less (lower calories than need) and/or breathe more (exercise). There is no other stable way I think, biochemically.

TIL about "rapture". Had no idea.

Why do they want to control people on the autism spectrum? Honey, why do you think that one kid in the story wasn't afraid to call out the emperor's nudity?

Awesome "Project Madurai" collection of Tamil works - www.projectmadurai.org/pmworks.html

"My longing for the ghata was therefore only an upshot. The seed had long been sown. The body and mind had been preparing for that moment. An “inner life” was taking shape." scroll.in/article/1086... An excerpt by Sumana Chandrashekar. Speaking Tiger Books #bookexcerpt

Yo Apple Inc! Reduce the radius of the god damned rounded corners in Tahoe or provide a setting for us to do that. Preview "full screen" of a pdf is hardly full screen now!

Was watching an episode of Star Trek:SNW where Spock and T'Pring end up swapping minds between their bodies. Kid playing nearby lols and goes "space (ha) the final frontier" 😂

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Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Shop opened near a friend's place in #Chennai.

Unfortunately it looks like someone stole this speedometer today from my (otherwise securely) parked cycle. So wont be able to track further, though the last time I checked the odometer it was over 13000km.

#BlueskyTOS - "If you break the rules or cause problems on Bluesky, you might have to pay for and help us solve any complaints or legal issues that come up." (Section 11) Really?

Having used python's `load_dotenv` for a fair while now, just discovered the much better approach of using direnv - direnv.net - #TIL

It's like I have some very expensive ear wax removal devices that happen to play some music while they're at it.

A lovely Xilinx 7-series FPGA chip layout of a sorting network produced from a dependently typed DSL in Haskell. More stuff like this during my keynote talk at ICFP 2025 in October in Singapore. icfp25.sigplan.org/details/icfp...

So when is the T administration going to announce - "Ok people, this was all an Andy Kaufman inspired reality show to see at what point people would rise up against fascism. Turns out nobody will. Fascism won."

Since 2008, we have been hosting an open mic at Prithvi Theatre Café. We welcome poets, storytellers, singer-songwriters, comedians. Fourth Monday of every month, 7 p.m. #Bombay #Bambai #Mumbai

Keep it simple - identify 3 companies you use regularly and find alternatives for them.

"Large language models like Claude cannot make any connection between the words they produce and the things in the world that those words refer to, for the simple reason that LLMs have no conception of the world." - this *seems* obvious, but is in conflict with the Yoneda Lemma from category theory?

Alt News has been fighting in the front lines fact checking various mis and disinformation that gets circulated in India. Support them here - www.altnews.in/donate/

Just back from watching "Kimetsu no yaiba" (Demon Slayer) with kids. Boy what a movie experience! One of the most satisfying in recent times. Kids were raving at the end and the hall was filled with fans. My only other comparable ref point is a Rajnikanth movie day1 release!

Good for other countries perhaps.

... and introduce him/her.

The number of dad jokes that fly about our house was made evident when the kid cracked a joke on his own and quickly followed it up with "that was a son joke".

Another HOT TAKE on Australia's 2035 targets, but also a comment more generally on rise of climate "realism" and "pragmatism", where simply giving up on trying to stop us being killed by fossil fuels is presented as the Very Reasonable and Very Serious thing to do.

Never mess with people's entertainment.

Titan 1C - the world's first single use submarine. #PhilomenaCunk 😂