Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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@CatDad@mas.to @rebeccawatson This is precisely the reason I double-check my sentence if I use the word "female". Or add a subject, e.g. "female academic staff". That Ferenghi voice is like a little alarm reminding me.
@mammaj @davidallengreen "Succession" was so close to the truth. They know this game is rigged in their favour and waving a chequebook will always make the problem go away.
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I’m my own worst enemy but the enemy of my enemy is my friend so I’m also my own best friend it’s just basic math
Was wondering what the current state of the #Dnipro Reservoir was and what plans there might be for after the war. Rebuild, rethink or reverse all have different environmental, economic and cultural impacts. Good article from Science, Jan 2024.
Social lunch meetup today hearing about some recent #ComputerScience outreach initiatives, including our AI and #Bias module. This was developed in collaboration with Thinking Black (founded by one of our Cognitive Neuroscience PhD students).
Essays and Poetry from TB's work published in their Anthology:
https://www.thinkingblack.co.uk/product-page/thinking-black-anthology-vol-i
@uclcs is organising the 17th #LondonHopper colloquia on 24th May 2024 at #UCL. The event is for female #postgraduate students and researchers building a career in #ComputerScience.
Submissions to present your #research in a 300-word abstract are open until 3rd May.
You have only to see the monologues that people have performed on yt to know there's a deep story here.
Thinking specifically of the ones by Robert Longstreet and Victoria Pedretti.
transcribed here https://www.reddit.com/r/HauntingOfHillHouse/comments/gq987k/s1_spoilers_mr_dudleys_monologue_transcribed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HauntingOfHillHouse/comments/11hhb5p/nell_crain_full_monologue/
Although the original scenes are impossible to beat.
Finished "The Haunting of Hill House" last night, another beautiful haunting tale from Mike Flanagan. Absolutely brilliant psychological drama disguised as a ghost story.
@neil It's almost 30 years since I first darkened these doors as a long-haired A-level student coming for an open day.
@emilygorcenski Ooh that's a nice quiz! Some of the photos are aged way more than I'd expect. Although it's picking up incorrect metadata from Wikimedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_City_Tours_Dublin_Tour_bus_(78-D-951)_ex-WMPTE_6895_(TVP_895S)_%26_Dublin_Bus_Dublin_Sightseeing_Tours_bus_D603_(603_ZO),_August_1998.jpg
Said 2011 when it's actually 1998. I guessed 1996.
Current TV: The Haunting of Hill House. Another #Flanaverse spectacle, spooky goings on, woven into a psychological drama. Many of his ensemble regulars, and the fantastic dialogue he's known for.
But episode 6 is technically brilliant as well, consisting of several long takes, moving between sets and periods of time in the story. It took me a moment and I had to rewind to check I hadn't blinked between cuts.
https://youtu.be/Gkhz2W2Gk4g
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A new community for women software architects: https://www.architecther.co.uk/ 👏 (via @ahl)
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Today i learned in Thailand they use a totally different way to measure what year it is.
I always thought itnwas odd different coubtries didnt coubt years differently. Seems they do.
Fuck AD i am using BE from now on no matter what coubtry im in!
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Sunak exposes his weakness by making up ‘honorific title’ of ‘Deputy’ Foreign Secretary. It is meaningless & does nothing to address outrageous fact that he appointed an unelected Foreign Secretary who MPs can’t question in Commons & all at time of grave international instability
[2024-04-12 16:28 UTC]
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Google's open-source #Jpegli promises 35% better #ImageCompression than other methods, improving quality while saving bandwidth.
The #CodingLibrary is compatible with existing #JPEGEncoders, making it easy as a drop-in replacement.
#Google thinks it just solved #JPEG's biggest problems
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-solved-jpegs-biggest-problems/
@cyrilpedia Included in that is the philosophy of scientific endeavour, the method of how we investigate, test, record and share findings, and build on basic knowledge to come to more detailed understanding. It's not just knowing stuff and remembering formulae.
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Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/13/poor-petrified-non-doms-are-terrified-that-they-might-have-to-pay-some-tax/. There are many things that might reasonably induce fear in life. Paying tax on your wealth is not one of them.
@RichardJMurphy "Petrified" is the folks in the food bank queue. Not "shit, I need to move my Lambo to Milan. Ho hum."
@danieldurrans @neil It's that an network effects. I got dragged into WA because so many people were using that and social group conversations were happening there. Managed to move 1 family chat to Signal because brother is also techie, but it's hard to make people give a toss.
Similarly FB still remains such a cancerous lump in our society.
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Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".
90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.
Better tech ed won't fix this.
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MOVED PROFILE: Now at https://mastodon.me.uk/@davoloid
Joined Oct 2022
