Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

During my undergraduate years, I had to do a brief project on aminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminal

Basically, if you're a tutor or lecturer who wants their students to learn to never rely on autocorrect, assign them to do the same.

So, I showed up to my book launch at the literary festival today. Telling Greek and Roman myths, appropriately dressed because why not :)

Then I was told 3 minutes before stage time that... my #mythology book is not being sold at the festival.

Because... by Hungarian law, you can't sell #lgbtq content within 200 meters of a school.

So 8pm, at an adult literary event, I couldn't actually sign. Greek mythology. Because there is a school building nearby.

#books #bookstodon #Hungary

Elon #Musk has just called himself “Dark Maga” during a rally with #Trump. How can science or European government institutions still justify being active on X, a de-facto right-wing extremist propaganda platform?

I'm sure it is just a coincidence that the disability and long-term sickness rates in three nations starting rising at the start of the #COVID19 pandemic and are still rising almost five years later, despite the fact the global health emergency ended.

Data shown is for Spain, the US, and the UK.

@augieray One thing which historians will marvel about is how during our polycrisis, we documented how it's going wrong, at which rate, and how quickly, and did very little to slow it down and even did things to hasten it.

So much high quality data, so easy to understand, and so little done about it.

"Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals" https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03222-7

Interesting study but I think Nature's headline is more sensationalized than accurate. The study counted who kept publishing in the years after their first publication.

Under that metric, I'm still a scientist (I publish in librarianship now) but my husband (a chemist who worked in R&D) is not?

Interesting study but it's not a measure of who claims the title "scientist".

Two and a half weeks are left, to make the official European Citizens Initiative #TaxTheRich work!

We still need 690,000 signatures, which sounds like a lot, but for a union of 450 million people, it should be a piece of cake!

We also still need 4 more countries to reach their national threshold of supporters:

BE, NL, IT, ES, SE are on a good way.

If you are an #EU citizen, and have not signed yet:

What are you waiting for?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

Könnte bei Lanz nicht vielleicht auch mal diskutiert werden, was eigentlich der Islamismus will, und ob das wirklich nur alles abscheulich ist? Könnte man zum nächsten Sommer-Interview nicht vielleicht auch mal einen islamistischen Hassprediger einladen? Und die Tagesschau könnne vielleicht parallel dazu über Mode und Burka aufklären. Ich bin sicher, nach drei Monaten Beschallung dieser Art hätten die meisten Deutschen volles Verständnis für islamistischen Terror und die Frauen würden anfangen sich zu verhüllen. What? Ja, so funktioniert das mit dem Einfluss der Leitmedien. Und derzeit tun die genau das mit dem ganzen Nazi-Content der AfD.

Calling for the help of the fediverse!
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Dunkeldeutschland ist auch, wenn das Bundesbildungsministerium das Fediverse verlässt und damit wirbt, ihm doch auf einer rechtsextremen Plattform zu folgen. Anscheinend weht den Herrschaften hier ein Wind entgegen, den sie so gar nicht vertragen.
https://social.bund.de/@bmbf_bund/113079108198680952

Der #eXit ist machbar.

Diese Organisationen stehen zu ihren #Werten und lassen sich nicht kirre machen vom vorgeblichen #Reichweite-Verlust. Bravo, #eXiters. Ihr seid ein großartiges Vorbild! 👍 🎉
Teilt dieses Bild bitte auch auf anderen Plattformen, um zu zeigen, dass es immer mehr werden.
Weitere #eXiters bei #byebyeelon unter https://byebyeelon.de

#UnisInsFediverse 👨‍🎓 🌻 👩‍🎓 Holen wir uns #UnserInternet zurück #Jemandenvergessen? #EinfachBescheidsagen

@dbellingradt Been there; 8 Jahre befristete Stellen mit einer venia in Philosophie. Die ich jetzt wohl abgeben werde. Seit diesem Sommer bin ich "raus" aus #academia, und ich merke jetzt erst, was für ein Gefängnis es war. Tolle Themen, intellektuelle Selbstverwirklichung, jajaja, aber zu meiner großen Freude und Erleichterung gibt's das auch anderswo. Halt anders. Aber dafür anständig entlohnt, ohne diese ständige Entwertung der Befristung, mit klaren Aufgaben, und am allerbesten: Feierabende!

You don’t actually miss Twitter. You miss being 10 years younger.

Dear fedi friends,
Who knows a web service that analyzes privacy concerns in web pages? I am looking for a site that checks for trackers, advertisements, etc. In web sites. Something like what @exodus is doing for Android applications. Suggestions and boosts are welcome.

I finished another #webdev side project and built the QR code generator of my dreams: https://fietkau.software/qr

* It's instant, purely client-side, and has no ads or upsells.
* It has a variety of color, shape, and logo embedding options.
* There's PNG and SVG export.

The included logo selection is, let's say, "opinionated" and features lots of familiar faces if you enjoy federated social platforms. 😄

Here are a few example QR codes that all lead back to my Mastodon profile.

The crypto crash was fast and not very sad. The LLM crash will be long and slow and painful and a lot of beguiled suckers will have a decade of their life pulled out from underneath them when the free compute dries up and the platform logic switches from seize territory to exploit

Huh.

So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?

A mile is 1.609 kilometers.

The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.

So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc

5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.

etc etc.

Kinda neat IMO.