Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

#FestivalFlu #CovidIsNotOver

Substack still 15% off to celebrate the chaos on Twitter lol. Here are some conservatives posting through Twitter Blue.

https://noturtlesoup17.substack.com/p/conservatives-posting-their-ls

#FestivalFlu #Covid #COVIDisAirborne @novid

Ok internet - do your thing. You can read in the nested threads how Facebook and its leadership paid nearly $6B to avoid a real reckoning. **Unless enough of you object by July 26, 2023.** - almost 280 million of you are eligible to do it. Be creative. facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs?id=17 https://mstdn.social/@jasonkint/110220033359671782

Who's behind the curtain of the largest #SARSCoV2 & influenza database anyway? Who controls access to all that data?

Keep reading and I promise you won't regret it.
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RT @NewsfromScience
Exclusive: GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes, but its perplexing creator may be jeopardizing its future. https://scim.ag/2j2
https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1648787312690561024

We're tootin' mad and we're not gonna take it anymore! Never imagined this would be my first post on Mastodon:

The entire editorial team at #NeuroImage, including myself, resigned today after #Elsevier refused to negotiate on their absurdly high publishing fees.

Are you *IN* with us? Authors, reviewers, and readers – please follow us to #ImagingNeuroscience!
https://imaging-neuroscience.org

This is whtat happens when we say "I'll throw it away".

This mother of all landfills, Bantar Gebang, is located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

There are 30 million tons of rubbish, and 1200 vehicles dump 7000–8000 tons of waste PER DAY.

More than 20,000 individuals both live and work as rubbish pickers.

Anyone still hesitant to go circular...?

#Wastemanagement #Waste #Circular

Adoro las traducciones y subtitulados de videos literales. Este de @JesúsMargar lo mola todo. ¡Thin Joseph!🤣

I'm fascinated by Eskimo-Aleut languages in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. There are many of these languages; they ring much of the Arctic Ocean. I just learned that they use a base 20 system for numbers, with a 'sub-base' of 5. That is, quantities are counted in 'scores' (twenties) with intermediate numerals for 5, 10, and 15. This makes a lot of sense if you look at your fingers and toes.

But the Inuit didn't have a written form of their number system until the early 1990s, when nine high school students in a small northern Alaskan school invented one!

They used 5 principles:

• Visual simplicity: The symbols should be easy to remember.
• Iconicity: There should be a clear relationship between the symbols and their meanings.
• Efficiency: It should be easy to write the symbols without lifting the pencil from the paper.
• Distinctiveness: There should be no confusion between this system and Arabic numerals.
• Aesthetics: They should be pleasing to look at.

They decided that the Kaktovik digit 0 should look like crossed arms, meaning that nothing was being counted.

This was the start of quite a tale!

(1/n)

The students discovered their new system was that arithmetic was easier than with the Arabic numerals. Adding two digits together often gives a result that *looks* like the combination of the two digits!

(3/n)

"Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/whats-behind-the-gops-war-against

How treating science as a business is detrimental to quality:

"[In 1999] it was made clear that if, for example, I produced one high-quality paper in two years, then that would not hurt my career; quality would stand above quantity.

In 2022 my department [...] called out some faculty for falling behind in productivity. The lowest average number of publications per year [...] was four [...] One of my colleagues had > 20 per year. That was not seen as problematic"

via https://futureu.education/higher-ed/raging-against-the-mythical-figure-who-keeps-us-down/

Still my most favourite workchronicles cartoon. Solving problems before they grew bigger and escalate isn't very flashy and won't give any attention. No one talks about or sees these people.

11 million people using Mastodon now. It is hosted on over 22,000 servers, but like with email, everyone can communicate with everyone else.

Since no one person or company owns those servers, no one person or company can buy them or break them. #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

Python Design Patterns

https://python-patterns.guide/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://python-patterns.guide/

#practices #programming #python