Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

I genuinely believe that at this point all academic conferences should at least have a strong hybrid (online & offline) option—even when we aren’t in the middle of another COVID wave.

It makes the conference much more accessible.

So funny when cogsci guys who TA'd stats a few times graduate and join a health startup and all become "behavioral economists of futuring foresight" or whatever title they're on now

@vga256 3 solarpunk/hopepunk books for your delectation

1. Another Life by @sarenaulibarri
2. The Lost Cause by @pluralistic
3. 470 by @lindawoodrow

It seems like Madtodon is the solarpunk place to be.

@georgetakei this is a good piece on the subject. The author found that even many people features in stories like these eventually landed on their feet. That doesn’t make the college okay — there are lots of aspects of the system we need to fix. But the data doesn’t support the idea of it all being a scam. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/myth-unemployed-college-grad/676364/

Is there anything more delightful than remembering you get to create a new reference entry because you not only made the point that you now need to make in a new piece of work but backed it up in a large study 🥰

We've published over 60k words of openly shared original empirical research projects this year -- that's a book!

Website: Your password has expired! Let me take you to a different subdomain than the one where you login, to enter a new password!

MacOS KeyChain: Here is my generated strong password that I will store ... for this subdomain.

Next login attempt: Keychain enters old password…

Did a reverse image search on this container and #Google actually thinks it's a #Cybertruck 😂

#Tesla #ElonMusk

Here's an old pic I took of the snow-capped Llullaillaco #volcano, as seen at #sunset from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The volcano itself sits at the border between #Chile and #Argentina. I love the colour contrast between the ochre expanse of the Atacama #Desert and the white #snow covering the volcano!

#landscape #LandscapePhotography #astrodon #photography

Deidre asked me to "toot on the Mastodons" that we just did another episode, this time talking to Jon Millican and Timothy Buck about default-E2EE messaging across all Meta/Fb properties --- the largest E2EE deployment on Earth. Fun chat! I had at least one good question!

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/12/28/e2ee-fb-messenger/

Making friends in abandoned places is the best. I met this sweet little cat in the ghost village of Gherdeal in Romania - thankfully, even though the town was mostly deserted at the time, he did have a human to look after him 🥰

Check out the village at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-ghost-village-of-gherdeal

Philosophy
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/philospohy (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #philosophy

The 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander’s big battery makes it a BEV alternative

Charge it every night and you may only ever run the engine on road trips.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/the-2024-mitsubishi-outlanders-big-battery-makes-it-a-bev-alternative/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“Diane Duane on Tumblr”

"“Can you add AI to the hydraulics system?”"

We’re in the middle of a massive bubble and this is only a fraction of the ridiculousness it’ll reach before it pops, and all of you who are using generative models have a hand in inflating it https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/737900044438667264/half-rant-half-story-im-a-physicist-i-work-for

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at
🐘 @conda (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) on Mastodon
🔗 Conda Community (https://linkedin.com/company/condacommunity) on LinkedIn

Announcement: https://conda.org/blog/2023-12-27-social-move
We hope to see you on Mastodon and LinkedIn in 2024!

Since we're talking about compromised internet-connected cameras in homes, you may be interested in EFF's advice on how to keep your smart home private and secure, written by @legind https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/keeping-your-smart-home-secure-private

Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in MA, is reinstating masking requirements on Jan 2.

It joins Boston Medical Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Lahey Health & other MA hospitals.

Why was this not done weeks ago at the *start* of the COVID surge?

Sources:
archive.ph/Q6eBz
archive.ph/SduVQ

Today's story caps months worth of work with colleagues on a Washington Post series about critical changes in India's public governance through its domination of technology.
This piece delves into what happened before and after Apple warned journalists and politicians in India Oct. 30 that a country was attacking their phones.
What we found: The evidence suggests that India is using Pegasus again, and again going after its critics in civil society.
More surprising, and a clear sign of what the current Indian government expects from major tech companies: Ministers went on the attack against Apple, which sees India as a major market for growth.
This link is free for anyone who enters and confirms an email address.
Please read and share. Thank you.
https://wapo.st/3NEJYub

I just wanna thank @pluralistic and the reprise of his interview on the CBC for making me realize that the whole push to address "junk fees" is just yet another case of governments attacking the symptoms of a market structural failures rather than the cause: consolidation/lack of competition allowing companies to take advantage of their customers. It's a token gesture, a policy flailing because they refuse to do the long and hard work of fixing these markets. #economics

NY Times sues Open AI, Microsoft over copyright infringement

Shows evidence that GPT-based systems will reproduce Times articles if asked.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-open-ai-microsoft-over-copyright-infringement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Okay so "mastochist" got hacked that exposed keys to post to my account

The person who was kind enough not to mis use my account, thank you

"tl;dr a 3rd-party site called mastochist got hacked, so if youve ever used it you should revoke its access :) -rw672"

So please, remove access for "mastochist" if you have allowed this in the past

This can be done from account settings on the web UI (browser)