szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the #enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

1/

Paper accepted - great way to start the morning! "Naming the menagerie: creativity, culture, and consequences in the formation of scientific names", coauthored with @Jjmlynarek, coming your way in Proceedings B.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Plataan met grote knoestige vergroeiingen

A late #MonDog entry! The pup at home.
#DogsOfMastodon

#SolarPunk dla dzieci?

Biblioteka publiczna we Wschowie prowadzi coś pod tytułem "Uniwersytet Dziecięcy". Mam możliwość zdobyć tam parę slotów na wykłady, prezentacje i warsztaty, pod warunkiem, że nie będę chciał za to pieniędzy.
Czy ktoś by przyjechał w któryś weekend i zrobił opowieść o SolarPunku? Grupa wiekowa 8-11 lat. Wsparcie pedagogiczne zapewniają organizatorzy.
Ja mogę nakarmić, oprowadzić i ogólnie dopieścić.

@mekkaokereke
She knew how to take a parting shot:

That morning at the lab, Kariko’s old boss had come to see her off. She did not tell him what a terrible mistake he was making in letting her leave. She didn’t gloat about her future at BioNTech [...] then a relative upstart in the field. Instead the woman who had bounced from dep't to dep't, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”

"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4234061-nobel-prize-winner-for-mrna-vaccines-discusses-being-demoted-by-upenn/

U Penn is bold! Real talk, I couldn't do that. I couldn't even fake that till I make that. Levels.

Continues to age like fine wine, like 15 years later

Ktoś całkiem dobrą sklejkę na śmietniku zostawił… będą z tego fajne daszki do uli i kto wie co jeszcze. :)

#DIY #upcycle #trashSalvage

#tagderdeutscheneinheit #thicktrunktuesday #catsofmastodon
Zur Feier des Tages gibt's den Baum heute mit Katze.

Wow, my small brain eventually managed to understand UTF-8 thanks to this great article:

https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

Yes, it was hard to me. Even @bortzmeyer was not enough to allow to to grasp the think.

I like UTF-8 even more now.

Here's hoping someone creates a Kariko Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.

Wspieram postulaty Otwartych Klatek - wiem, że zwierzęta same prawa nie zmienią. Politycy i polityczki muszą zrobić to za nie!

✅zakaz hodowli zwierząt na futra,
✅odejście od hodowli zwierząt w klatkach,
✅powołanie Rzecznika Ochrony Zwierząt,
✅wprowadzenie regulacji ograniczających koncentrację ferm przemysłowych,
✅poprawa dobrostanu kurczaków hodowanych na mięso poprzez wycofanie z hodowli ras szybko rosnących