According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

This is just embarrassing. (To expand, this is the official product support page, the product name is “Zolo”, this is the only search option, and it finds no manuals. Yet I got to this page by scanning the QR code labelled “User Guide” on the product box. — […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#rstats hivemind: can I simplify the following code using only base R? substitute() can’t do splice interpolation, and bquote() can’t inject package names (because of weird `::` syntax rules). So it seem like I need both. — But the code is an abomination […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The "science critic to far-right-darling"-pipeline is surprisingly short and reliable. As a German, Hossenfelder will be familiar with "Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" (the German equivalent of "who pays the piper calls the tune") […]

Happy “fascist loser shoots himself in the face” day to those who celebrate it. You … *are* all celebrating this, right?

So the pope will rise again in three days, did I understand that correctly?

Nature abhors a vacuum, and nature has the tendency to evolve a crab. The conclusion, I believe, is inescapable.

The Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has released a declaration on what is incompatible with the club’s values: “Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working […]

I tried the method of cooking eggs via periodic cooking (https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-024-00334-w). (Unfortunately I currently don’t have an immersion cooker so I had to constantly refill cold water to keep the 30 °C bath stable.) And, what can I say? It […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Update. From #miketaylor (@mike): "#Musk…in the last few months has possibly done more to impede the progress of science worldwide that literally any other person in history…I will not submit any of my papers to #royalsociety journals, as I have done in the past, and I urge others to take the […]

Last night, I caught a sleeper train from Vienna to Hamburg. This time, I travelled in one of ÖBB’s new Mini Cabins: one-person compartments, similar in concept to a Japanese capsule hostel pod. Here are my impressions. (tl;dr: I strongly recommend it and would do it again.) 🧵

I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same. Dear editors, Today I saw some news about the Royal Society which made me very uncomfortable. As a result, I am afraid I will withdraw my voluntary reviewing work for Royal Society. I will not after all be […]

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Now I'm glad I turned down an invitation to a Royal Society event yesterday, citing, among other things, not taking action against the individual posing the biggest threat to science today. "Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk" […]

Can we just briefly talk about the statement by an ex UK army officer that #signal is “easy to hack into”?! 😳 @signalapp https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg70xgxl3vmt?post=asset%3A00e98043-cf97-4a3b-b3d7-b79f866a6dcf#pos

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From Marc Elias of @democracydocket, sent to members today. Note the line I’ve circled!

Carcinisation (n): the many attempts of programmers to rewrite their software in Rust.

Five years ago today, as the Bay Area began lockdowns, the first human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine started. Only 66 days after the first death. That unprecedented development speed was made possible by a new technology: mRNA. Today: The NIH has advised grant applicants to not mention mRNA if […]

"Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)" is perhaps Mike Masnick's most important TechDirt post -- which is saying something given how long he's been publishing this essential-reading blog […]

You have a coding assistant with 500 billion parameters. I have a rubber duck. We are not the same.

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

Retraction of a paper from the lab of a Stanford Nobel Prize winner. The PI dismissed our combined concerns as 'micro-duplications that are typical image processing artifacts'. But after consulting with an 'image analysis expert', the authors retracted the paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

@[email protected] > Internment camps aren't a Trump innovation. There are plenty of examples from the 20th century.

Das hier sind die letzten Bilder, die es von meinem Opa gibt.
Entstanden im Frühjahr 1942 in einem Gefängnis in Wilhelmshaven. Theodor Franz Maria Hespers, geboren am 12.12.1903 in Mönchengladbach war ein politisch aktiver Mensch. 1/12

Am Vormittag den Opfern der Faschisten von gestern gedenken, um am Nachmittag den Faschisten von heute die Hand zu reichen. Ein zutiefst beschämender Tag für dieses Land und für eine Partei, die sich immer noch christlich nennt.

Given that I am pretty sure NPR will remove the Capitol Riot page they have, here's a lightweight backup https://never-forget.hrbrmstr.app/

A moderator deleted my request to remove the “X” links from Stack Overflow… by saying that my request constituted “harmful content”. I’ve flagged this ludicrous action but my flag is being ignored. If you can see the deleted post, feel free to also flag it to raise the priority […]

Stack Overflow is still prominently displaying links to the far-right social media platform X in user profiles. X has no place in polite conversation. Let’s kick it out.

Ich habe dafür schon viel Prügel bekommen, aber ich wiederhole mich: Sprecht nicht mit Springer-Journalist*innen, legt auf, wenn sie anrufen, verlinkt ihre Artikel nicht, geht nicht mit ihnen essen, ladet sie nicht auf Veranstaltungen ein, auch nicht zu Kongressen, kündigt ihnen die Freundschaft!

So, to get to the offensive point: The mainstream Christian interpretation of the religion's founding story is: "God committed rape, that's how we got our Savior, and that's A Good Thing." And this is inseparable from political talking points that "sometimes something good can come out of […]

Go is a programming language with a strange property: The more I learn about it over the years, the less I like it.

Should it surprise me that the #rstats seq.int() function has fractional output? … of course it shouldn’t. 🤦‍♂️ > seq.int(1L, 5L, length.out = 4L) [1] 1.000000 2.333333 3.666667 5.000000

TODAY: Declining a journal review because the authors write "data is available upon reasonable request" Shown: my email to the editor Feels bad and good at the same time Whatever happened to opennessinitiative.org anyway? #openresearch

It’s great to see @deevybee take a principled stance and resign from the Royal Society over the failure to expel Musk over his behaviour. I wish more academics had that much of a commitment! http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html

The ‘TSP’ #rstats package gives different results from ChatGPT for calculating optimal routes. BRB, filing a bug report.

Send some love to your favourite Open Source software maintainer. ❤️

The most brazen attempt I’ve witnessed so far to spread malware via #stackoverflow.

JFC. The #rstats function `unlink()` expands globs instead of treating its filename arguments as-is. So use `file.remove()` instead. But wait! `file.remove()` silently removes empty directories on POSIX filesystems, but not on Windows.

I just learned that the “React table” control is not, in fact, an HTML table … and my disappointment is immeasurable. (Why this matters: copying & pasting such table into a spreadsheet does not work. Accessibility sucks. Everything sucks, and my day is ruined.)

The UI of the official Android #mastofon client really needs to make actions more obvious. Boosts and Likes do not give any visual indication that an action was performed, and the button status only looks imperceptibly different afterwards (almost identical shades of grey). … I just noticed […]

Balmflue #sporespondence #silentsunday

1998: Cool URIs don't change 2024: lol just kidding https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/113272616968966433

Musk is directly campaigning for Trump. He's doing all the things he falsely accused pre-Musk Twitter of doing. Anyone who fell for that shit, especially the idea that he was just really passionate about free speech, was a dupe. It would be a similar mistake to think he actually cares about […]