Tom M. @thm181@social.cleverlibre.org
As scientists, we are building our careers on being the best (and often: the only, whether true or just stated) person who can do X.
That's what our endless applications - for grants, for jobs, for time on big machines and high performance computers - are about: give me the money, the job, the time to do X. X is of immense importance and I'm the best person to do it. We believe in it ourselves.
No wonder that what comes out is a culture of overwork. 1/2
If X is so important & we are the best to do it, how can we spend our time with frivolous things in our free time instead of focusing on X? How can we leave the work in someone else's hands if only we can deliver the best possible result?
Of course it's all imaginary. The world will not end if we take a break. Our studends and colleagues will often surpass us.
But this is partly where this stupid thinking - inherent to the system - comes from. 2/2
Supreme Court limits the EPA’s authority under the Clean Water Act
Court limits regulations to wetlands that directly connect to bodies of water.
Today I learned that fish make incredibly loud, low frequency sounds. According to a researcher I spoke with, NOAA's Megan McKenna, they are kind of like frogs -- one will start yammering, then a ton of them will join into a chorus, and then it will die down. Here are some recordings! https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/mar21/calling-fish.html
Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.
Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.
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Sorry, James. Silicon Valley Bank went broke, not woke. The term now means anything Republicans don’t like or want to criticize. Like their party, it is without true meaning or value.
Someone asked ChapGPt to come up with 10 Commandments for the modern world. I could be guided by these principles. Perhaps a new religion is in order?
