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A note to professors: your undergraduates are very tired.

A note to undergraduates: your professors are very tired.

A note to professors and undergraduates: graduate students are also very tired.

A note to professors, grads and undergrads: university staff are also very tired.

L - Lesbians aren’t shooting things up.
G - Gays aren’t shootings things up.
B - Bisexuals aren’t shooting things up.
T - Transgender people aren’t either.
Q- Queer people are safely on the list.

It’s radicalized right wing fascist MAGAs that are shooting things up.
Republicans are a bigger and more widespread threat to children.

#lgbtq
Speak up now, because they may come for you next.

#politics

Over 8,000 shoes that belonged to the youngest victims of Auschwitz need conservation.

Every person can support the preservation of those moving objects that testify about the tragic history of the camp. Help us save them for the future.

Donate here: motl.org/soultosole/

#Auschwitz #children #shoes #artifacts #conservation #future #donate #soultosole #help @museum

Day eight of the BBC Micro advent calendar: it's Sophie Wilson! She created the BBC BASIC language, the operating system and much of the system architecture for the Beeb while working at Acorn. Sophie was awarded a CBE in 2019 for her pioneering work.

@prywatnik @steelman @rysiek Przy czym nazwijmy pewne rzeczy po imieniu. Mamy dwa różne poziomy kradzieży tożsamości.
Jeden poziom to podszycie się pod tożsamość "cyfrową" (w cudzysłowiu, bo to nie najlepsze określenie, ale niech już zostanie). Istnieją (istniały?) banki, które umożliwiały wzięcie pożyczki weryfikując dane kredytobiorcy przelewem. Co prawda nie mam na to danych, bo nie siedzę w temacie, ale spodziewam się, że większość wyłudzeń kredytów na skradzioną tożsamość dotyczy właśnie tego schematu. I to jest ewidentnie problem kiepskich procedur bankowych spowodowanych cięciem kosztów. Obsługa kredytobiorcy w okienku kosztuje znacznie więcej, niż wykonanie automatycznego zapytania do BIKu, przepuszczenia go przez algorytm i poczekania na przelew weryfikacyjny.

Z drugiej strony mamy pełnoskalową kradzież tożsamości, z podro... znaczy się, z kolekcjonerskim dowodem osobistym i fizyczną obecnością w oddziale banku w celu weryfikacji tożsamości. Jeżeli oszust ma warunki, żeby podążać tą ścieżką, odblokowanie PESELu w rejestrze nie będzie dla niego żadnym problemem.

Czyli znów. Tworzymy kiepskie obejście na kiepskie procedury i przerzucamy odpowiedzialność na klienta, tylko po to, żeby bank uniknął kosztów wdrożenia procedury rzetelnego sprawdzania tożsamości kredytobiorcy. Wszelkie zmiany powinny iść w kierunku zmiany procedur bankowych.

RT @AJamesMcCarthy
This is the moment Mars peeked out from behind our moon after being hidden for an hour. This shot was captured using my largest telescope and a special high-speed camera. Seeing another planet rising on the horizon of our moon was such a surreal experience.

It's that time of the year where I teach our 1st year #DataScience students about data *in the wild*

I don't tend to photograph the #forest at the #goldenhour - particularly when the sun is strong.

That doesn't mean I am not out looking for images at this time of day; it's just that direct sunlight usually adds unwanted complexity to most scenes. The woods are full of chaos & need to be simplified.

Below are some images where the strong golden light did add something extra.

p.s. A big THANK YOU for all of the awesome support on my Groot #tree post.

#photography #naturephotography #woodland

This is possibly the most depressing thing on the internet right now but I'm afraid we're going to have to face up to it...
biodiversitystripes.info/
#biodiversity
#biodiversityStripes

Washington DC voted to make its bus system fare-free, starting July 1. This is big...the first major city to make their bus service completely free, and hopefully will serve as an example to other bus services around the nation. This makes the busses available not only to the middle class but also to the very poor who can't afford transit...in other words, greater equity. (Yes, this is me in my transit advocacy mode.) #transit #bus #PublicTransit

One thing I love about Mastodon that Twitter doesn't have: I can upload GIFs. Birdsite does not allow plain old-fashioned GIFs containing just a single image. Hell, I know the format, I wrote code to read and write them at a time you didn't have libraries do to it for you.

Jednym z moich ulubionych przejawów patriarchatu jest to, że w hotelach zawsze znajdziesz bzdury w rodzaju czepka kąpielowego albo chusteczki do czyszczenia butów, ale nigdy podpaski czy tamponu. Ugh.

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