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Jeff Bezos is stepping down from the CEO role: is this important? do you care?

well this is f*ckin useless
#FOSDEM2021 #fosdem

https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

What is an acceptable amount of insect parts and rodent hair in your peanut butter? If you're in the USA and eat food from commercial food sources, the answer probably isn't "none". As it says on the site, the amounts are expected to be less than the amounts listed: they're "defect action levels" meaning it's something the FDA would act on if that amount is detected, but it's worth thinking about the fact that we're accepting these limits already.

Prompted by https://freakonomics.com/podcast/disgust/
#freakonomics #usa #food #usgov

Funny, the example for a deprecated ORCiD doesn't actually link to the "primary": it just 404's 🙄
https://info.orcid.org/managing-duplicate-orcid-ids/

https://info.orcid.org/0000-0001-6151-2200

Points 2 and 3 were things I really hadn't thought about before, but I'm glad to see researchers arguing for more control of their work. https://info.africarxiv.org/africarxiv-supports-coar-on-their-input-to-data-repository-selection-criteria-that-matter/
#openscience #researchdata #africarxiv

Interesting project:
https://www.inclusivestem.org/

It looks pretty small-scale at this point, but they have some videos that get into sort-of the nuts and bolts of how, for instance, you can correctly input mathematical formulas (e.g., for homework or research papers) more efficiently without vision to help you. It's slow work, but it's the kind of thing that genuinely enables education and growth.
#inclusivestem #education #accessibility #stem

This is pretty frickin' cool. I've been passively interested in the capabilities of arrays of antennas, and I hadn't heard of this project before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jhlm8u7Fvg&feature=emb_rel_pause

#video #lofar #radio #astronomy

p cool. Go board shows influence with pretty colors.
https://redd.it/kzbmxj
#go #baduk #weiqi

It really irks me when apologists (lately for politicians) engage in "whataboutism". Like, "So yeah, he ordered a few thousand dissidents to work camps, but what about when he built that railroad? Fosters commerce, sharing of culture..." Just because you did some good things, it doesn't mean you didn't also do bad things or that the bad things should be excused. It's so frustrating as a rhetorical tool (like, think butter knife in open-heart surgery) because there's pretense of being "balanced" and "fair-minded" when the speaker really means you should write-off the bad. Zero it out. Focus on that positive.
It's the same kind of slow-witted skulduggery as in "letting the past be the past" when the consequences of what happened "in the past" *are still actively causing problems*. Like, "So yeah, he burned some forests--" the forests have been burned! They're gone. They're *still* gone.
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Does "Verfassungsschutz" sound as silly to a #german speaker as it does to this English one? Because it sounds like a word I would make up to sound German.

why would i want to play minesweeper on a smartphone? that sounds like hell