Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.
I am getting swamped by requests for graduate school recommendation letters. I have **over a hundred requests** (about a third of the class) from students in a course I taught last year.
All these students (non math majors taking an easy math course) are viewing the letters as just a check box on the application form.
This is definitely not the case in pure math.
I have always taken recommendation letters rather seriously and have only written them for people I was sure could do well in graduate school. Same when evaluating grad school applications.
If I see an application with generic one paragraph recommendation letters I chuck it immediately.
I wonder how it is in other subjects and if there is a culture difference at play here. #academicmastodon
Is there a journalism award for best headline? https://defector.com/an-oral-history-of-the-time-six-doctors-swallowed-lego-heads-to-see-how-long-theyd-take-to-poo/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
1) Breaking: Quebec hospitalizations for and with #COVID have been increasing for nine days in a row, jumping by 70 to 1,946 on Wednesday. This represents the highest tally in the last five and a half weeks, yet the provincial government does not seem to be overly concerned.
Nothing will likely happen, but this is definitely tantrum-inducing level of info for the Weird Nerd King
I just love this. It's like a nice sip of high quality tea. Hits from the EU who say Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules or face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6% of global turnover, plus the US Treasury, which historically isn't exactly that liberal.
“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
― Isaac Asimov
#quoteoftheday 10/
Rural communities are increasingly showing that they will resist renewable energy projects despite a steady decrease in the costs of wind and solar and a rising need to move away from fossil fuels, reports
@dangearino.
"The conflict touches on a broader cultural divide between urban and rural communities, and Democrats and Republicans.
In this fraught environment, expertise and facts seem to matter less than before." @insideclimatenews. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy
For people who want to understand the jury's split verdict in the Oath Keepers case this evening, this piece by @rparloff@twitter.com explains a lot: https://www.lawfareblog.com/seditious-kvetching-surprisingly-non-trivial-defense-oath-keepers-prosecution
If the printer companies cared about sustainability, they wouldn’t build IP locks into equipment that brick a perfectly good printer and force you to buy a new replacement. They would also let you refill cartridges rather than locking them with IP and forcing you to toss the old cartridges and buy new ones. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/epson-quitting-laser-printers-doesnt-address-its-bigger-sustainability-issue/
A win today for #Ontario public sector workers. #Bill124 has been struck down!
https://globalnews.ca/news/9312631/ontario-bill-124-court-decision/
With a COVIDIOT in charge of twitter this is hardly surprising but is still bad news. #COVIDisNotover
Opera theaters in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Odesa were awarded this year's 'Opera Oscar' for continuing performances even in the face of war http://bit.ly/3FdsqBs
Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan