Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

I'm pretty sure actual barbarians would slaughter their chieftain:

'After outpacing other Europeans in terms of economic growth, the nation once at the heart of the continent’s worst financial crisis has bucked the trend again, introducing a 48-hour working week. The measure, decried as “barbaric” by unions, takes effect from Monday.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/greece-introduces-growth-oriented-six-day-working-week

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But another, more sustained thread has run through many sharp increases in food prices. From oranges in Brazil to cocoa in west Africa; olives in southern Europe to coffee in Vietnam, permanently shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change are reducing crop yields, squeezing supplies and driving up prices.

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https://www.ft.com/content/125e89c0-308a-492f-ae8e-6834847d1186

Interesting piece on the fallacy of the two party system by @kityates and noone will ever forget now ‘the sneaky fucker strategy’
https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/the-dangers-of-two-party-politics?r=11blfp&utm_medium=ios

Admire the delicate interplay of color & line in "Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms: Spring Rain" at #ClevelandMuseumofArt. Notice the tranquil rain, cherry blossoms, and solitary figure with an umbrella. How does it reflect the transient beauty of life? #JapaneseArt #CherryBlossoms #Art
https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.79

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01690-8

I like the new #CreatorTag introduced by #Mastodon today and hope this gets adopted widely:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

But don't you think, it's a little bit sad, that @Gargron and his screenshots most prominently mention the adoption by @verge even though all of their authors haven't been active here for weeks, months or even years? 😉

New guest blog post (part 1) on Deborah Mayo's blog: Why didn't we move beyond p < .05 when there were 43 articles reflecting on this topic 5 years ago? Turns out, surprisingly many of the recommendations were to keep using p < .05 with some tweaks: https://errorstatistics.com/2024/07/01/guest-post-daniel-lakens-how-were-we-supposed-to-move-beyond-p-05-and-why-didnt-we-thoughts-on-abandon-statistical-significance-5-years-on/

'American democracy in action. A star chamber of preening, self-aggrandising politicians issuing offensive performative and partisan attacks against a man who has served his country for decades as a scientist and scientific administrator. The hearing was a spectacle of embarrassment for a country that has proven unable to face up to the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.'

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01338-2/fulltext

'In a pre-print paper posted earlier this month, four researchers from Germany's University of Tubingen and Northwestern University said they were inspired by studies that measured the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at excess deaths compared to the recent past. By taking a similar look at "excess word usage" after LLM writing tools became widely available in late 2022, the researchers found that "the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words" that was "unprecedented in both quality and quantity."'
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/the-telltale-words-that-could-identify-generative-ai-text/

This is not some nutjob's blog, it's a dissenting opinion from a Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor:

"The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organises a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

https://www.ft.com/content/2e93e123-e5ba-4940-b3fe-03f2124bbdd0

One of the research clusters I'm a part of is offering a workshop for PIs for how to manage the mental health of their team. 🤩
The shocking fact is that in #academia, most people reach management positions without *ever* receiving *any* training in any aspect of supervising people.
But this is the first time I've heard of a workshop addressing mental health management and I'm very excited to be part of it. #academicChatter #mentalHealth

"Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart technologies to a band of eccentric 1960s #hippies. Hidden away in a secretive, privately funded lab in #Boston, these visionaries developed intimate, personal tech a decade before Steve Jobs." @evgenymorozov
"…this #podcast unravels: Cold War psychiatry, Maoism, LSD, the Rockefellers, Scientology, CIA’s forays into extrasensory perception, and even the advent of #techlibertarianism."
https://www.sense-of-rebellion.com/