Francesco 🍁 @fra@qoto.org

Nelle interviste è importante la seconda domanda, anche quando l'intervistato è una intelligenza artificiale. #ChatGpt #Giarrusso

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive.

https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/

..which is actually a stealth request that people consider joining the MAME Artwork efforts, which allow beautiful renderings of machines to be clickable on machines. It's more in the Art than Programming sphere, and it would be great if more people joined it.

@mhoye @arclight @otfrom the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group has a collection of gloriously horrifying stories starring Excel: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

Their conference is back this year; Chatham House rules and really fun/scary/interesting: https://easychair.org/cfp/EuSpRIG_2023

@mhoye @arclight I agree with your assessment of the marginalization of some of the world's most important programmers, but *part* of that marginalization is that excel is not, in fact, fit for purpose, and they are functionally forced to use it.

Previously: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4

Previously: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

Previously: https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-not-to-excel-at-economics-13646

Previously: https://www.zdnet.com/article/excel-errors-microsofts-spreadsheet-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/

Mentally replacing "their Substack" with "their LiveJournal" helps.

James Baldwin on anti-Black racism in the USA, during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, 1960s. #TyreNichols #BlackMastodon #jamesbaldwin

Comet ZTF over Mount Etna https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230128.html #APOD

A really good article that drives home the point.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/us-police-violence-traffic-stop-data

What is this, a #fantasy #caturday crossover episode?

Devs: We should add a kiosk mode to make the application safer.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.

Mentre la crisi ambientale diventa sempre più drammatica e le classi dirigenti non sembrano interessate al problema, gli attivisti per il clima urlano al mondo che non c’è più tempo.

Sono stati definiti come criminali, terroristi, barbari. Ma siamo sicuri che siano loro quelli dalla parte del torto?

Parliamone nei commenti (solo dopo aver letto tutte le card del video!).

@ultimagenerazione #ExtinctionRebellion @fffitalia #TED #TEDx #TEDxUdine #ProudToBeX #climatechange

Da oggi sono iscritta al @pdnetwork@twitter.com!

Ho ritirato la tessera al circolo del centro storico di Roma, ringrazio i/le militanti per l’accoglienza.

Rinnoviamo insieme questo partito per costruire un’alternativa progressista alla destra più destra di sempre.

#Zelensky ha chiesto a Darth Vader la Morte Nera . https://t.co/QwUMocOep8

Mastodon clients are the new UI design playground:

From: @terhechte
https://mastodon.social/@terhechte/109762188190735435

TN rejected millions of dollars in federal money for AIDS/HIV prevention because some of the grants would have gone to groups right-wingers hate for culture war reasons.

Just absolutely monstrous, sociopathic behavior -- totally routine in red states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01/26/tennessee-federal-hiv-funding/

When you release a series of movies and you give them names instead of numbers, you should be required by law to have them sort the same alphabetically as by year.

Stop telling people to go to Hell i don't want them either.