herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

https://youtu.be/rY0WxgSXdEE

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For folks asking — I'm pleased to report that my colleague Zoe Schiffer is now on Mastodon.

Follow her for hot scoops at @zoeschiffer

We'll have four polls for round 4 of the word-of-the-year voting. Here's #1.

Which word or phrase better captures the zeitgeist of 2022?

#woty #woty2022 #wotyEliteEight

If you're a parent and you don't wear a mask, I dare you to read this:

https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/i-dont-want-my-little-girl-to-die-on-the-floor-of-a-hospital-4f05fea35ce8

"Everyone talks about how cute my daughter is. They won’t do anything to protect her from these threats. If she dies, they might donate to her funeral. I don’t recognize what I’m seeing. It’s not a community. It’s a parody. My communities have failed me. I don’t belong anywhere anymore."

#CovidIsNotOver @novid #MaskUp #WearAMask #Parenting #Parent #Parenthood #Children #Kids #PublicHealth #Solidarity #Equity

The Shangri-Las - I Can Never Go Home Anymore

https://youtu.be/dYdr-MslXkw

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Apple Working to Add Support for Sideloading and Alternate App Stores in Europe https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/13/apple-europe-alternate-app-store-support/

BREAKING: US finally sending Ukraine the Patriot missile defense system, the gold standard for surface-to-air defense. This will help Ukraine defend against Russian missile and drone attacks.

Another potential game-changer in Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

It looks like Apple is finally going to allow third-party app stores, which is a pretty big win. Why are they doing it? Upcoming EU requirements that will hit in 2024.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe

Not paying severance, chaotic firing & selling blenders to make ends meet. What an unholy mess https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Having to hold a conversation daily with patients - especially parents of young children - about when to go to hospital (dehydration, lethargy, respiratory distress) and then going to meetings and shops where adults are unmasked... What will it take for people to get it? Surreal.

‼️🇺🇦Official: Ukraine launches production of 152-mm, 122-mm projectiles. (More) https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/official-ukraine-launches-production-of-152-mm-122-mm-projectiles #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/13043 ⚡️🇺🇸CNN: US to supply Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is finalizing plans to deliver Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, which may be announced this week, CNN reported on Dec. 13, citing three U.S. officials. The arrangement has yet to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and signed by Biden, according to CNN. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

@mattblaze People seem obsessed with the idea that it will lead to abuse. A month or so ago a former Twitter engineer or product person was on here saying that replies, not RTs were the place where most abuse took place.

There are so many valid reasons to have the feature (sharing with comment, following up, starting *new* conversations, not hijacking, etc.), but everyone is focused on the one *invalid* reason not to have it.

In some forthcoming work with coauthors we found that we needed a bound on the upper tail probabilities of a Poisson random variable that was just a little bit sharper than the standard bound coming from Bennett's inequality. It wasn't hard to obtain that bound, but we had difficulty locating the precise bound we needed in the literature; so I wrote a little blog post to record the (straightforward) improvement of the Bennett bound. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/an-improvement-to-bennetts-inequality-for-the-poisson-distribution/