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 :)
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Joined Oct 2022
Using the #OReilly app as we have institutional access. Fine, but there's no way in the app *still* to voice read those books, or export to a #VoiceReader. I often download pdfs or push web articles straight to my regular app.
Any suggestions?
@OrbitalGardens More importantly, was that research published?
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An idea I'm playing with: A tool that lets you build a basic HTML page, and shows you how to host it for free.
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Reminder that I made https://quickinfo.io where you can quickly look up answers to certain classes of questions instead of googling and wading through bad results full of ads and spam.
Demo: https://quickinfo.io/?demo
Usages: https://quickinfo.io/?%3F
Many people still google em dash, shrug, degree sign, etc. They open a website from results, it is slow and full of ads. It shows a cookie banner. There is a better way.
@KirillOsenkov This is really cool. Doesn't pull up all things I would expect for some searches, so a button to provide feedback, or suggest a more authoritative data source would be useful. E.g. I put in UK Airport and only half a dozen came up.
I can see this being really useful as a compact offline tool you could update periodically.
@danfuzz @pluralistic The reason we have these "unnatural" mechanisms to define who is in power (which we loosely call "Democracy" is because of millennia of these types of people imposing that "natural order" and getting others to kill each other when they couldn't decide who was right.
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Different conservative groups "all disagree about who should be in charge, but they all agree that some people are ordained to rule, and that any 'artificial' attempt to overturn the 'natural' order throws society into chaos." — @pluralistic
(FWIW, I got my go-to definition of conservatism from an essay by Phil Agre: "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.")
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V Bellingcat:
From Crimea to #Iran : Two More Ships Join #Russia ’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/23/from-crimea-to-iran-two-more-ships-join-russias-grain-smuggling-fleet/?utm_source=twitter
And if you would like to hear the take of #TheGlobalJigsaw on the above, you can check out our episodes here - one on the grain deal, two on Iran, plenty on Russia:
@neil
* Angry people pointing at Bins.
* Glum teenagers holding up miscreant trainers next to a glowering mum with bad hair.
* Tributes to man who we can infer single-handedly kept local pub in business
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@simon_brooke @IndyRichard I think if I was Stormy Daniels I would regard the suggestion I had an “affair” with Trump as defamatory.
@xanna That's the key question if you hold any event which is somehow exclusive. For that group, what is the topic or theme, or environment that is particularly beneficial? There must be some reason you want to specifically talk with women and non-binary people, right?
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Not all math puns are terrible.
Just sum.
@LouisIngenthron Show me the child who enjoys a ciabbata and I'll show you a future hipster artisan baker.
@fulelo Difficult, as part of the purpose of universities is research output for the benefit of the world.
One of the more troubling developments is if state agents are infiltrating classes to monitor and intimidate students. Even so, hard to know if someone is just defending criticism of their home country in which they have been indoctrinated.
@clacke I agree, it's social filler, much as "Bless you" when someone sneezes. I guess it's recognition that a mistake or (loud noise) has been made in a public space, and it acknowledges that awkwardness and allows it to defuse. Same as loud yawns or burps (from either end).
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The fact that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Donald Trump’s armed insurrection should be mentioned every time SCOTUS is in the news, IMHO.
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@m0xEE Give yourself some time between each one! Lots to absorb.
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
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
