Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

My dad isn’t on here so I can share that he made an amazing wwdits Baron for Halloween and I’m absolutely screaming because he is normally allergic to fun

"It feels like I'm not crazy." Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map

Are you a customer of MeridianLinks that has received a breach notification email in the past few days? Would you please send it to me confidentially? Signal number included in my profile. Confidentiality assured.

Please boost for reach.

Let's all support the REI union, which is suing the "coop" owners for violations of labor law.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rei-accused-widespread-labor-law-violations-unionized-us-stores-2023-11-15/

The union wants publicity about this for now.

#union #retail #uspol #labor #lawfedi #lawsuit #nyc #stores

It may be a relatively small gesture, but IBM's halt in advertising on the deadbird site is still progress.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964160/elon-musk-antisemitic-x-post-ibm-ads?utm_content=buffer68501&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Meanwhile, Musk gets more and more vile, as he uses his platform to boost right-wing extremism. He hates journalism, and he amplifies enemies of democracy.

Yet journalists continue to pour their work into that poisonous place, thereby directly supporting his business.

Shame won't change their minds, obviously. I'm at a loss to know what will.

https://wapo.st/47DaoUM free link: Elon Musk fails to get X out from under 2022 FTC consent decree on data security.

In Episode 3 of #MoralRepairPodcast, @Wolven talked to us about how insurance companies have come to use #AI to determine who receives what care.

That's what's going on in this story:
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111422904090022457

Experiment over! Instagram did take down the AI-generated image of Taylor Swift in a Nazi uniform pushing a Jew into an oven only after we published this article! Instagram still hasn't replied to our email requesting comment! 🤡 https://www.404media.co/will-instagram-remove-this-ai-nazi-taylor-swift-image-after-i-post-this-article/

Whooooot! #XRISM Cycle 1 Guest Observer Announcement of Opportunity is out 🎉

▶️ https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xrism/announcements-of-opportunity

Proposal due date is 22 February 2024 12:30 EST

(I still have the photo of my old MIT whiteboard with 10+ ideas for Hitomi proposals ... Will be passing some of them for my group now!)

#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #Astrophysics #ESA #JAXA

"We're going to bring back the advertisers" is becoming Twitter/X's version of "Infrastructure week."

My story on Musk's latest self-inflicted setbacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-advertisers/ w/ Naomi Nix

The new episode of Serving Up #Science tackles “expiration dates” & why so many of the “sell by” & “use by” dates on #food labels are meaningless while contributing to our enormous food waste problem + #ClimateChange.
https://youtu.be/O5XssdVk0hQ?si=Mg4AHUc0EAGdjZNd

I had gotten to the point where I was posting only career news and updates on the former Twitter, but there's a point where not even that is tenable, and that point is today.

Big "I'm not a teacher" flags, and I made that point to them, but they've been struggling with the experimental setups sometimes. And that's my job, and *I* struggle with it sometimes, moving from a diagram of a setup where it's just "resistor", "capacitor" without telling you WHAT SIZE isn't easy until you've learned the subject, which they haven't yet by definition. The setup they'd been trying to use was fine, the resistor was just too small, so it all discharged way too fast to measure.

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

This resonates. Maybe you shouldn't use Google's tools if you don't have Google's problems.

https://www.kpassa.me/posts/google/

Conference’s are always a great place to network, meet new people and contract interesting diseases

Glad to see the Chrome design team sticking to their "Stuff Firefox Tried Four Years Ago" guns.

@engarneering Mike and Ike is iconic, and every specialist has a copy, but it's a steep climb.
For beginners, I recommend Sutor's Dancing with Qubits, Eleanor Rieffel's algorithms book, or our own online course Understanding Quantum Computers. Then follow up with Preskill's lecture notes, our Quantum Communications textbook, or maybe Peter Shot's own lecture notes, though I haven't had time to review them yet. All of this will help with Mike and Ike.