Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

#PiDay turns 35: The circle of #mathematics needs more diversity, advocates say.

https://www.space.com/pi-day-35-year-anniversary-diversity-mathematics

Ok now that Lineker and the BBC have sorted out their differences, can we talk about the Government’s new Immigration Bill which is reminiscent of the laws of 1930s Germany? #Fascism #BBC #ImmigrationBill #IsBravermanAFacist?

"The gas boiler is our livelihood — if it gets banned, we have a real problem." The fossil fuel industry is fighting hard for its survival. Liquid petroleum gas firms want a EU directive to favour biofuels and hydrogen despite serious concerns over their viability.

Great piece by Fiona Harvey and Phoebe Cooke with quotes from me at @RegulatoryAssistanceProject

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/07/gas-industry-lobbying-eu-boiler-phaseout-leaked-emails-suggest

Make no mistake: History has already taught us in plain terms where this is headed if we do not collectively stop it in its tracks right now.

I am not an alarmist. I am historically literate, and we must all be in the face of this attack. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/when-they-call-for-eradication-it?sd=pf

All of England's rivers have failed quality tests for pollution… our rivers, essential to our survival, are choked with sewage and industrial chemicals ... ALL ... and this Tory Government allowed it ... Well encouraged it ... If you use water for recreational, like surfing you risk your health ... So preventable, but making profit got in the way, fly tipping on a grand scale ... Imagine if the gov allowed, on land, fly tipping

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Wonderful news to wake up to!

Nations at the UN have reached a historic agreement to protect the world's oceans following 10 years of negotiations

The High Seas Treaty places 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030 🐳

#SomeGoodNews

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64815782

I sent this chart to a dear friend yesterday because I think it's important for people to understand the risks they're taking even though the message we all get is that COVID is over.

Big picture: with every infection, the risk of every complication goes up.

You have not "gotten it over with" after your first infection.

I'm tired of it. You're tired of it. But #CovidIsNotOver.

My Coindesk article on the uncertain future of crypto banking. The problem is not the banking model, it's the customers. Crypto is so volatile and corrupt that any bank involved with it is inevitably facilitating fraud. Full reserves are no defence. https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/03/02/what-now-for-crypto-banking/

Sometimes it feels like justice will never be served, but in the era of Trump, we must remember that accountability is a road to walk, not just a destination. Trust me—I know how difficult it is to be patient in times like these.

In today's Substack, I dive into my own personal experience with what it takes to achieve closure, the kind that seeing 45 convicted and sentenced would bring, and propose how we can remain engaged, vigilant, and demanding of the truth and of results in the days ahead.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/will-we-see-justice-accountability

2 March 1943 | A transport of 1,736 Jewish men, women & children arrived at #Auschwitz from Berlin. SS doctors during the selection sent 292 men & 385 women to the camp. The remaining 1,059 people were murdered in gas chambers.

One of them was a 7-year old Rut Mandel.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #children #Berlin

I've written a post explaining why I think WASPI campaign's legal action is morally wrong.

It entices women to contribute money they can ill afford in the hope of receiving thousands of pounds from the Govt. The legal action is in my view unlikely to succeed and wouldn't give them what they want anyway.

And when 1 in 4 children is living in poverty, giving even more money to the richest generation in history would be a disgrace. Uprate working-age benefits instead.

https://www.coppolacomment.com/2023/02/waspi-campaigns-legal-action-is-morally.html

@carolynporco @joshsusser I guess this is another way they're making up for the $855 million in FCC grants they can't receive because they couldn't meet even the basic requirements?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg

It seems strange that a product with a mobility as a primary capability would charge extra for people who otherwise wouldn't need it, but that follows from everything else that's ludicrous about it

Please Boost! -- Mastohivemind: We have sequenced 36 Drosophila melanogaster and simulans genomes (raw data to SRA), and we have *phased* them using offspring of crosses. These (manually curated) phased genomes are available as fasta. What public database should they be submitted to?

@TDL99 @freemo

https://www.thelooploft.com/blogs/ryans-corner/38917697-can-you-keep-perfect-time-take-this-test-and-find-out

https://www.musicademy.com/can-you-keep-perfect-time-test-yourself/

https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/keep-time-test/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_deafness

"Fun" fact - white supremacy is really bad for (most) white people!

Here are some things white people lost out on because of racism:

-Walkable cities (because white flight post Civil Rights mean the creation of the suburbs)
-Good, cheap public transit (because they didn't want Those People to go to the newly created suburbs
-Universal single-payer health care (because You Know Who would be "welfare queens")
-Police who are accountable to the public (need to keep Wink Wink Nudge Nudge in line)
-Progressive taxation (because white people can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, just like Elon Musk, and not like I Bet You Can Probably Guess Who)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #politics #racism

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@monkeyninja

David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."

It was such a joy to attend the Interplanetary Festival, a conference of thinkers working on the frontiers of their respective fields, at the Santa Fe Institute last fall. Thank you @sfiscience for inviting me.

As for my presentation, the best part of all was artist Dario Robleto's 7-min intro of me! <blushing>

Don't miss it!
https://bit.ly/3YVd4Zh

All panels & keynotes from #IPFest 2022 are up on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlVBTf7N6GrL6ceDXxGuD22YFV_wRp0S

One for the archaeos: Utter bollocks from the #Guardian. This is a piece written by an architect basically saying that #archaeologists don't need to spend ages digging sites now, they can just use #LiDAR instead. Now, why would someone involved in the development industry think that would be a good idea I wonder? #archaeology https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1677150701

Publication bias revealed: mandatory trial registration grammatically cuts proportion of positive results

from Likelihood of Null Effects of Large NHLBI Clinical Trials Has Increased over Time https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132382 a 2015 classic