ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Because there is not gender parity on Mastodon and I exceeding get the impression the balance is way off, I am going to remind men that throwing the term “rape” around casually in my comments is unwelcome.

A rare off-topic post, but this one's important. To all of you that lived through this in the 80s and 90s, the end is finally in sight. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test-dna-b2515169.html

Behold the pyramid scheme known as cryptocurrency mining. Man allegedly consumed $3.5 million of computing resources from Amazon and Microsoft to generate $1 million worth of digital coin.

The real crime here is all the energy consumed.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nebraska-man-indicted-multi-million-dollar-cryptojacking-scheme

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/