Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Dust Bath
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/dust
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

So, I’m going to have to cross-post this thing manually since micro.blog is turning into an unusable buggy slog that drops photos.

Not so unrelated question: does anybody know of a decent service for cross-posting to bluesky and mastodon that isn’t micro.blog?

Can you imagine the outrage if Mexican soldiers were caught shooting across the border at random US citizens?

#Texas

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/08/28/texas-national-guardsman-fires-into-mexico-wounds-man/

After a week on #Bluesky, I just don’t like it that much. Feed is jumbled, features are limited (no edit, no hashtags, no dms, fewer options for filtering), engagement is lower than either here or Twitter.

Shame that a lot of my old academic Twitter network is over there. Not optimal.

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/mechanism

#introduction I'm a theoretical physicist interested mainly in the dynamics of quantum matter. This involves on the one hand the development of computational methods at the interface between #machinelearning and #quantum physics such as neural quantum states. On the other hand we explore new and unconventional dynamical behaviors or paradigms in the dynamics of quantum many-body systems such as dynamical quantum phase transitions or active quantum matter.

I wore a mask for the first half of the conference last week, but with Sapporo going through a heat wave, the humidity was pretty high even inside. So… I masked less and less.

Now I have a 39C fever, a developing cough on an over-tight chest, headache and joint pains.

And… my friends… regrets.

Am now splashed on the sofa pondering the irony of getting sick while demonstrating the value of online virtual spaces.

(Covid antigen currently negative, but I guess may not stay that way.)

With record breaking heat for much of Aug in Gulf Coast areas, #GulfofMexico is on fire in the near-short north and northeast.

Gotta hope #Idalia can't take proper advantage of that. #tropicalwx

Want to help Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications? Are you in or around #Oakland, California? Are you available WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30?

In 2015 #InternetArchive acquired a *massive* collection of manuals, rescued from the closing Manuals Plus in Maryland. The manuals were packed up and sent to San Francisco, awaiting for a day some or all of it would be digitized. That day has come.

We need help sorting the manuals, looking for the radio-related stuff.

It’s time. Clean air can keep schools open…

An Italian study of schools estimated that students in classrooms equipped with ventilation systems or devices that deliver clean air had at least a 74%⬇️ risk of infection than those in classes with windows open.
#ventilation #COVID19 #CleanAir

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/schools-indoor-air-covid.html

We retracted our latest published #curl CVE as we no longer deem it to be a curl vulnerability: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-32001.html

CVE-2023-32001 is no longer

From Sheeba Samuel and @EvoMRI

"Computational reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks from biomedical publications"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07333

Found 27271 notebooks in 2660 GitHub repositories associated with 3467 articles

22578 notebooks were written in Python, including 15817 that had their dependencies declared in requirement files

For 10388, all declared dependencies could be installed successfully

1203 notebooks ran through without any errors

879 produced the original results

I still find old-Twitter and #bluesky better than #mastodon for news, events, and info, but mastodon better than either for fostering medium-length convos. Just me?

Or are there #feditips for using mastodon I'm still not up on? I follow hashtags and ppl, use lists, and try to look at who my followds follow

WHAT WE COULD DO NOW (AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING)

Mask Mandates Have Kept One Cancer Center Free From COVID-19. Others Have Lifted Masking Requirements Despite Patient Concerns
https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/home/cancer-topics/general-oncology/mask-mandates-have-kept-one-cancer-center-free-from-covid-19-others-have-lifted-masking-requirements-despite-patient-concerns/

Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/lockdowns-face-masks-unequivocally-cut-spread-covid-study-finds

I posted a video on Instagram about women in computing, and the misogynist trolls are out in force! But I've discovered that the best response to the (dozens of) comments from men I've received along the lines of "CS isn't toxic for women" or "no one is keeping women out of CS" is: "Oh it's so great to see a woman in CS who has had such a positive experience comment on my post!"

mastodon.social and mastodon.online are the first instances with a global search, BUT this setting is opt-in and you must activate it so that your posts are included:
👉 https://mastodon.social/settings/privacy
👉 https://mastodon.online/settings/privacy