John Young @jsy1001@social.cleverlibre.org

I've opted in to #tootfinder #tfr, and it's indexing my posts, but when I search for my name, neither my profile nor posts are found.

But I like the direction of where this is going! Ethical opt-in search!

I hope a related consent question will be added to the account setup process so that more people are given the option of an informed choice.

Words fail me…

The European Central Bank sees evidence that inflation is being driven by companies using inflation as an excuse to gouge consumers with price rises in excess of the cost of materials/inputs. The uncontrovertable evidence is rising profit margins at a time when they should be shrinking.
#capitalism #ecb
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/ecb-confronts-cold-reality-companies-are-cashing-inflation-2023-03-02/

Beautiful 10-day sequence of Venus and Jupiter drawing together in the western sky. The variety of twilight colors is a sweet bonus.
Photos: Soumyadeep Mukherjee
https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/56315/ #astronomy #conjunction

Here. You need this.

Pretty strong report on the unsustainability of so-called "sustainable aircraft fuels" #SAF from the Royal Society. They point out that there is nothing that even approaches #jetzero at the moment. Yet they still cling to the utopian dream that tech will save us. https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/02/net-zero-aviation-fuels-report/

Please consider donating to @tarsius , author / maintainer of many #emacs packages, most notably #magit and the transient library.

I learned today that the donations are his primary income, allowing him to work on these packages. Due to a policy change at Github, sponsors via Paypal will no longer be accepted, meaning a sudden drop of income. So especially if you already donated, please check if it's possible to continue your support through other channels, like a creditcard or a platform such as @Liberapay .

https://magit.vc/donate/

Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11cezoq/magit_maintainer_tarsius_is_losing_donators_at/

🐈‍💨 is my new emoji proposal for ChatGPT, based on the (already widely mentioned) French pronunciation "chat: j’ai pété" = "cat: I farted".
(Emojis are cat facing to the left followed by puff of wind heading to the right)

It's been 2 years since I moved to ESO in Garching, and I still geek out every morning when I pass by the Paranal LEGO model on my way to the office 🤩 It was designed by Frans Snik, and it even has a working interferometer!

You can download the construction manual and list of pieces here: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann16013/

#astronomy #astrodon #lego

Imperfect proofs | Daniel Colquitt — A very applied mathematician

#100Days writing challenge https://blog.danielcolquitt.com/42763/imperfect-proofs

🤘

Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

#programming #python

Any #cycling parents got suggestions for rear seats that work with a crossbar and avoid my roundhouse kicking my child?
No.1 has outgrown the front mount seat and trying to avoid buying a whole new bike!

There have been controversial changes to sorting and visibility of servers on JoinMastodon's list (https://mstdn.games/@britt/109832059191603469).

Whatever you think about these changes, it is problematic that new users are relying on a single central list of servers. What happens if JoinMastodon goes bad?

I'm trying to create an independent alternative with @FediGarden at:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

Are there any others? (NOTE: They have to have safety and reliability requirements and be human-curated.)

Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 / h/t @playingwithdust

I’ve just spent all afternoon meticulously working through a paper so that I can apply their approach to a new problem. I finally convinced myself that I understood their method. Then I moved to the next paper on my reading list only to discover that this paper explains a fundamental flaw in the paper that I’d spend all afternoon dissecting.

Sometimes being an academic is rubbish.

#AcademicChatter

This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates