ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I've never had a discussion about education with a working scientist who was not painfully aware of the lack of the teaching of *how* science is done at most schools, and in many college-level courses. The fact is, that to do this well would require extensive retraining of teachers; I also don't think it is compatible with the current goal of basic education in most countries, which is to raise standardised test scores.

"What is apparent from the surveys is that a better explanation of the nature of science—that it is revised as new data surface—would have a strong positive effect on public trust. Because scientists are so aware of this feature, it is often taken for granted that the public understands this too."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7153?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=33954923&et_cid=5173502

This is nice.

I swear, in the long term the most useful part of my tech education—which includes a master's degree in computer science from 1990—has turned out to be reading comp.risks religiously since the late 80s and watching every new grift and scam and dark design pattern and type of malware on the internet emerge in realtime.

I hate that in this century everyone needs the paranoia and skill set of a 90s network security administrator.

@Cvwarren @loren

That one has 16 legs. Isopod packages tend to be logic gates which have 14 legs.

Where Does One U.S. Tax Dollar Go? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-does-one-u-s-tax-dollar-go/

@maxkennerly
So as an AI expert, let me rephrase this...

The Netanyahu regime set up a computer to give them a random list of people that seemed like they would sound plausible in a list of Hamas members, then listed their addresses as targets, to use that as a pretense to carpet bomb civilian populated areas.

Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-possible-to-minimize-1851085308

@palestine

HuffPo got their hands on a private cable from the US Agency for International Development to the White House National Security Council today.

It warns the spread of hunger & malnutrition in Gaza amid the US-backed Israeli offensive is “unprecedented in modern history,” famine is likely already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip, & the pace of hunger-related deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”

The dire internal analysis represents a shift from USAID’s last public comment on the matter, on March 18, which called famine “imminent.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-collapse-famine_n_660c96aae4b0328a72be47f5

‘Famine’ with a capital ‘F’ is a scientific classification based on standards, evidence, & technical consensus among experts