tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

(#SSC author to be doxxed by #NYT)
I'm worried about Alexander's naïve comments about the journalist's intent (“it probably would have been a very nice article”; “by all indications, this was just going to be a nice piece saying I got some things about coronavirus right early on”). The experiences of #SamHarris, #EricWeinstein, #JordanPeterson and others on the #IDW have proved already that when mainstream reporters approach these contrarians, with seemingly sophisticated and supportive intentions, they end up writing the most disparaging and dishonest pieces. “Anything you say can and will be used against you.”
https://slatestarcodex.com/

“Make no mistake about it, #scientists, #technologists, #engineers and #mathematicians: your famous immunity to political concerns will not protect you against what is coming fast.”
#culturewars #university

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/political-correctness/the-missive/

(Or as I tooted last year)
#MensHealthWeek ♂️

I hope you all had a great #MensHealthWeek♂️!
EU: https://emhf.org/
US: http://www.menshealthmonth.org/week.html

“While disgust at #corruption has played a role, the political strains of today [in #Spain] owe more to the slump and the emergence of rival #populisms in the form of #Catalan nationalism, #Podemos (with its mixture of Leninism and Peronism) and #Vox.”

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/06/20/a-historian-sets-out-to-explain-spains-tumultuous-past

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/20/world/us-donald-trump-troop-cut-germany-allies/

The five or six main problems with #capitalism today — the ∪ of #RebeccaHenderson's & #RussRoberts's sets on #EconTalk podcast:

• Accelerating inequality / people who are left behind.
• Failing to deal with major environmental risks.
• Decreasing government capacity.
• The epidemic of loneliness.
• Control of information (govt vs tech).

https://www.econtalk.org/rebecca-henderson-on-reimagining-capitalism/

“The real roots of black suffering in America don’t lie just with #racism, but also with an unconscionably inadequate social-safety net, underfunded schools, self-interested #police unions that protect bad officers, a disastrous #warondrugs, and a prison-industrial complex whose profiteers feast on human misery. These are massively complicated problems that can’t be addressed with new-age religious ceremonies or self-lacerating Facebook posts from preening white suburbanites.”

https://quillette.com/2020/06/09/for-journalists-the-new-york-times-social-justice-meltdown-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come/

https://mastodon.social/@thomasfuchs/104317257674597974

OS modal windows (upgrade available, error occurred, background operation finished, unsolicited tip) that spring up unexpectedly, stealing the keyboard focus, and are accidentally accepted or dismissed because you happened to be typing — perhaps not even looking at the screen, or at *that* screen: how #$% is this still a thing? #usability #antipattern

For me, it's #Ubuntu #GNU/Linux. But I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it didn't happen on other OS's.

Those #modals should have a little timer, or perhaps wait for more deliberate interaction (like mouse hover / ⇥, then Esc / ↵).

“To condemn the #rioting—which I believe to be a moral and political imperative—is not at all the same thing as opposing the #protests. Many observers have been reluctant to do the former because they wish to avoid the latter. I maintain that this is a grave mistake. […] #Progressive intellectuals who make excuses for #streetviolence, even in the face of the awful killing of #GeorgeFloyd, are making a monumental moral and political error.”
— #GlennLoury

https://quillette.com/2020/06/03/condemn-this-violence-without-equivocation/

https://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/ladytron-destroy-everything

There are universal #web sites that don't include #JavaScript at all. There are accessible, progressively-enhanced sites that use #JS sensibly. There are crappy web apps that rely too much on #JavaScript.

…and then there is #LinkedIn, which is a blank page unless you keep its tab focused while https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ is loading and stare at it attentively and in reverential silence.

I think @bert would be even more appalled than me about this 😉
#badweb #antipattern

I am three days away from a 2-year-long streak on #Duolingo: learning a tiny bit of 🇯🇵 #Japanese and/or 🇩🇪 #German each and every day since June 2018 — and I've been travelling, out of the country, off sick…
Maintaining the streak is a silly thing, but this kind of challenges help me keep motivated and going.
I finished the German course long ago, so now I am just “practising” and not learning new stuff; and I've reached a point in Japanese where I'm not learning well (I should be properly studying grammar, vocabulary and kanji instead). On the other hand, losing the streak would be a pity, and I'm not confident that I would study regularly if I switched to my textbooks…
Mastodon: what should I do?

https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/102208612300210016
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/tripu.info

#EricWeinstein on how to learn what's necessary to think from first principles:

1. #EvolutionaryTheory (eg “The Selfish Gene”, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”).
2. #Economics (“markets are the continuation of natural and sexual selection by other means”).
3. Offbeat #history (regular history, Howard Zinn's version, conservative versions, etc).
4. #Psychology (the most durable parts).

Then: #mathematics, #physics, #chemistry, #programming…

https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/