Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Lmao. why #Linux is safer than other oses?

Thank you Morris Brown College for reinstating its mask mandate as #COVID rates rise. COVID isn't over and schools and workplaces need to stop being in denial and acting proactively to protect their staff and students. https://katv.com/news/nation-world/mask-mandate-reinstated-at-atlanta-liberal-arts-college-due-to-positive-covid-cases-morris-brown-college-social-distancing-pandemic-georgia-university-mask-mandate-reinstated-at-atlanta-liberal-arts-college

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

@dangoodin My last job was working at a FIDO2-oriented startup, and I spent a ton of time deep in the guts of FIDO2/Webauthn. Then passkey - the specific scheme of passing private keys around via platform sync mechanisms, not the base FIDO2 signature schemes with their hardware-attested UP/UV flags - carved the heart out of the underlying assumptions. Passkey doesn't count as MFA anymore, not by NIST/FIPS standards, and not by Europe's new PSD2 standard either.

Why, though?

Reporter: You're the first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold medals. That's an extraordinary feat, isn't it?

Andy Murray: I think Venus and Serena have won about four each.

#misogyny #sexism #Patriarchy

Zooming. #comics #funny #zoom

I'll take "Messages you don't want to see in your Okta admin console on Monday morning for $1000, Alex."

Assume a nonlinear dynamical system depending on some control parameters.

Assume you want to study if the system is critically slowing down or undergoing some critical transition in general.

Besides studying how autocorrelation at lag 1 and first (two) moments change over time, what would you study? Can you point to papers related to early warning signals?

Cc: @johncarlosbaez @j_bertolotti @lmrocha @lamaral @thilo @c4computation @tchambers

can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021

#journalism #TechHype #metaverse

I'm informed it's the done thing to have an #introductions post on Mastodon.

I've been on Twitter (https://twitter.com/urban_formation) for over a decade, where I've had some amazing conversations ranging from urbanism, mapping, to baking and books with some wonderful people.

For now I'll be cross-posting, testing out these hopefully less polluted waters, to see how it goes.

Thanks to @kerstinsailer for leading the way over here.

Biden administration to urge Americans get new COVID-19 boosters | Reuters

>The Biden administration plans to urge all Americans to get a booster shot for the coronavirus this autumn to counter a new wave of infections, a White House official said on Sunday

>The official said that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting an increase in infections and hospital admissions from the virus, overall levels remain low
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-urge-americans-get-new-covid-19-boosters-2023-08-20/ #covid #covid19 #vaccination #US

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

@mcnees
A few pics of the making of the Golden Record.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/making-of-the-golden-record/
#Voyager

#Cyberattack knocks 10 big telescopes offline since early this month. NSF-funded facilities in Hawaii & Chile affected.

#science #astronomy

https://www.science.org/content/article/cyberattack-shutters-major-nsf-funded-telescopes-more-2-weeks

@alexwild The American Museum of Natural History 🦕

In 2001, I got to work there as an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). Best. Job. Ever.

I’d arrive before the museum opened & walk through the still dark exhibits. One night, my cohort slept over (before Night at the Museum was a thing).

For me, AMNH will always be a magical place.

Late last week, MSN.com's Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the "cannot miss" attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft's AI model wrote, "Consider going into it on an empty stomach."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/

#AI #Ottawa #FoodBank #Bing #Microsoft

Using #Mastodon
and the #Fediverse is an act of rebellion in itself.

By being here,
you are contributing to grow an alternative system that is led by the people and for the people, not for profits.

By being here,
you are encouraging a solution to a deteriorating social climate that thrives on outrage and monetization of hate.

By being here,
you are participating to the development of a new system that can slowly build a better world.

Thank you for being here 💚

Pronounce
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #linguistics

Linguistics question - in American English, has there been a shift toward AAVE vowels among non-black Americans? I swear I've been hearing several vowel shifts I associate with AAVE e.g. feel-->fill and words like burn and journey moving toward barn and jarney.