Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year.
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Business stakeholders: If you talk down to your helpdesk/IT people today, you're a bad person (a piece of human excrement).
This isn't on them. Go take out your frustration somewhere else. Like on the executives who were told about these consolidation risks but didn't care.
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Events like this are why tech needs crisis researchers who are obsessed not with "productivity" or whatever the hot little project metric of the day is but with the human behaviors and cultures that help people navigate, coordinate, create immediate community under stress, and all the things that we do when large systems in our lives break down. And I am not making that comparison lightly at all (having family deeply and inextricably involved in traumatic natural disaster crisis work)
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I've been shouting that URl shorteners were a bad idea for a *long* time.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/the-perils-of-url-shortners/
Now it looks like Google is finally killing off goo.gl. Still, it lasted longer than some of their products!
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Hundreds of thousands of books with irrevocably broken links.
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So that's a million academic citations deleted.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=90&q=%22https://goo.gl/%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Perhaps I'm late to spot this, but I have only just noticed that the logo for the Paris Olympics is a flame, but also silhouette of a woman's face with "chic" haircut and lips.
Slightly amusing: The Republican National Convention is the "Superbowl of Grindr".
https://www.pride.com/republican-national-convention-grindr#rebelltitem9
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Today is the day of finding out who runs on #Microsoft #Windows ...
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There's a reason decades of psychiatric research and feminist theory eventually converged on: "Fuck it, who cares what gender is. Just let people do what makes them happy."
Because the alternates were untenable and always ended up being abusive and oftentimes deadly.
To which the conservative response has been: "But we like that."
Behind every "family values" conservative is the belief that them having power over someone else is more important than that person's happiness. And that's evil.
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Ten reasons I’m happy to be autistic 😎
A thread...
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@KatyElphinstone Love this list. Wishing I could get my ADHD teen to recognise some of these postitive aspects (as I have).
@lloyddavis Not sure how useful they ever were. Lots of spurious ones, and even serious ones were pretty much ignored if the government chose to.
Personally I got a bit more satisfaction writing to my MP, and getting a decent response on her view/interpretation of a policy matter.
"Good data is not cheap to collect — but it is good value, especially when thoughtfully commissioned or built into policymaking by default." Tim Harford on the warped priorities that have been handed to the Office for National Statistics.
https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/112808830670751890
@sohan @NanoRaptor White is sus.
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We are delighted to introduce…The McBollard!!
#WorldBollardAssociation 🍔🍟
@garius Curious to know what's the future for these TOCs? Do they just disappear? What about assets and staff?
Lovely little film, one for my fellow misanthropes.
https://www.orartswatch.org/sometimes-i-think-about-dying-qa-with-the-director-rachel-lambert-and-actor-dave-merheje-of-the-oregon-shot-film-starring-daisy-ridley/
@cfbolz @davidallengreen Aah, now I get it.
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Look, having goals is great.
Working towards something can give your life meaning and direction. But the self-help industrial complex has turned goal-setting into some kind of extreme sport. It’s not enough to have goals anymore. You need to have SMART goals, stretch goals, 10-year vision goals. And you better be crushing them, smashing them, absolutely obliterating them.
What happened to just doing your best?
When did that stop being enough?
- Location
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
