ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Intro post: I'm a professor of #Biology at the #UniversityOfWashington. My training is in #EvolutionaryBiology, #BehavioralEcology, #PopulationGenetics, and #Epidemiology. I did lots of work in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkTheory. I teach #DataLiteracy. These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the spread of #Misinformation, the #ScienceOfScience, and #PhilosophyOfScience. I do a lot of #BirdPhotography and love #ravens, #crows, and all #corvids.

For your trouble, here's a perfect crow.

Save the recipes you like that you found online because in a matter of months or weeks they will be drowned out by chat gpt generated recipes that looks plausible but don't work, and have taken up the first 20 pages of search results.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

Do I as an atheist, think there may be any chance I would ever go back to religion or become religious of any type?

My response, No, I don't see myself believing in non-reality beliefs supported by faith. I don't value faith. Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, so it doesn't mean one can't have other beliefs even religious or spiritual (whatever this loose term spiritual means). I am an atheist, antitheist, and antireligionist. So, I don't enjoy attending any religious services nor follow any religious-themed teaching but understand others who are atheists may. People should do as they feel works for them.

I'm dead serious; and furthermore as someone who has studied fascism, fascists, and the white sumpremacist ideology that binds the together, I can honestly say it was probably a pretty bad idea to tell nazis who think they're invincible that climate catastrophe disproportionately affects all the people they hate the most. They're slowly turning that into a feature, not a bug, in their fantasyland nazi cracker ethos.

A traffic light that only turns green if you’re driving under 30 km/hr … an intriguing experiment underway in Brossard, Quebec bit.ly/3Boicf2
#street #BikeTooter #walking #urbanism #urbanplanning

#flowerreport #photography

This means bugs in secure enclaves can last forever. Worse, if the keys for a secure enclave ever leak, then there's no way to update all the secure enclaves out there in the world - millions or billions of them - to fix it.

Well, it's happened.

The keys for the secure enclaves in #MicroStarInternational (AKA #MSI) computers, a massive manufacturer of work and gaming PCs - have leaked and shown up on the "#ExtortionPortal" of a notorious crime gang:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-of-msi-uefi-signing-keys-stokes-concerns-of-doomsday-supply-chain-attack/

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A local market near me was attacked by some awful people who apparently purposefully rammed their storefront and destroyed half the store, I guess because racism? Not sure why, but these folks are neighborly and no one deserves this. Please consider donating if you can, or sharing where others might be able to help. #Oakland #NorthOakland #fundraiser #SmallBusiness

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-almaida-family-business

#NowPlaying Keith Jarrett > Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings > In Your Own Sweet Way https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000024JEX/?tag=littlegreenfo-20

In the 10th century, Persian traveler Buzurg ibn Shahriyar wrote in his book about a jinn market located in Kashmir.

According to local informants the jinn marketplace was located in luscious gardens among running streams. The jinn could be heard around the gardens buying and selling, but no one ever saw them.

Sadly he doesn't record more than that. Even though, it sounds like a fascinating setting for a story. 🧞 🧞‍♀️

#FolktaleMoment #histodon #folklore #mythology #WyrdWednesday #storytelling

Like I get capitalism makes us "need" money. But kids, please...get the idea that money has any real value out of your head.

If you don't believe me, read "Debt" by David Graeber. Shit will blow your mind.

Here y'all go: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-debt

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

Jordan Neely was a person.

Our society left him stranded, and, because of his desperation and our warped priorities, his existence filled people not with sympathy but with fear. Then he was killed, and that is a tragedy, because he was a person.

I’m saying obvious things, because they’re clearly not obvious to everyone.

Not just that Neely’s death was a tragedy, but that he was a person.

These are controversial propositions.

I know, because there is a controversy.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/jordan-neely-was-a-person

"Some of these systems’ abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do—and even their inventors are baffled as to why." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1656696548435148812