Pedro @PedroMiguel@social.cleverlibre.org

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became artificial intelligence.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I feel like twitter was a bar where for some reason everyone had a knife and now I’m here looking around like “none of you have KNIVES, right??” and you’re all like “why would I have a knife, are you ok”

On how many Mastodon hosts do you have an account? (Please boost for wide sampling, thanks)

In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

#Paris #cities #CarFree #urbanism #cars #city

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

@BrentToderian @lloydalter @conradhackett As with all figures concerning averages, we should not forget that this doesn’t reflect whether the distribution of all this newly acquired “space” is even across demographics. Those who have the resources will always be able to get more space to keep more things. Sadly, those who do not aren’t as fortunate.

The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person.
We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED all that extra space, and the excessive stuff we fill it with that we likely wouldn’t buy if we didn’t have the space we thought we needed to fill.
We really don’t.
Via #TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett #Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #urbanism #cities #suburbs #suburbia

Ce format est incroyablement efficace : https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

1. He’s not My son.
2. It’s not his birthday.
3. He wasn’t born in a manger. It was Bethlehem Memorial Hospital.

People really be like "oh imagine a future society where humans have to be cybernetically enhanced by machines to get a job" bro wake up just be an American without a car

READ: This is STILL probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. HT @NicoNovito. Iceland certainly does #Christmas well! (I’m really looking forward to working in #Reykjavik this year).
Are you giving or hoping to get some great #UrbanismBookClub books on cities this Christmas? Share what you give or get! #MerryChristmas #books #cities

I'm excited about uranium!

@BrentToderian the best advice I’ve ever gotten about how to write a good #AltText is “pretend you’re describing the image to a friend over the phone.”

Don’t make “brief” your goal. Make your goal to communicate the same information, via text, that the image is communicating. If the image is meant to evoke a feeling, describe that feeling. If certain details are important to painting a picture or understanding the image, describe them. If the details are secondary leave them out

Someone asked why we don’t have our blinds open, as is the #Chanukah tradition, with menorahs in the window. This is #Ottawa today, #Canada today. As the recipient of multiple #antisemitic death threats, it isn’t safe to indicate that our home is Jewish. Let that #hate sink in.

One thing Canadians can count on with Minister Patty Hajdu: she'll ALWAYS lie to protect the government at the expense of the public interest. She did so copiously about COVID (remember her saying it was no big deal?) and now she's been caught fibbing about compensation for abused Indigenous children. Horrible, awful woman. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-human-rights-tribunal-full-20-billion-decision-1.6694892

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

BREAKING: Nation unclear why Michelle Mone is currently in a £6,000 a night French ski resort and not in prison x

AI tools like #ChatGPT will soon be capable of answering a large fraction of traditional university homework type questions with reasonable accuracy. In the long term, it seems futile to fight against this; perhaps what we as lecturers need to do is to move to an "open books, open AI" mode of examination where we give the students full access to AI tools but ask them more challenging questions, both to teach the material and also to teach the students how best to use the AI tools of the future.