🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

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@theamazingweb

https://elicit.org/

> Elicit is a tool ... that takes beliefs you have about future events and their probabilities, and turns them into continuous distributions that you can share with others.

If you think in probabilities like me, and struggle with having to translate that into natural language to communicate with others, this is a good tool for you.

## The fediverse's first public Managed Group Server is live!

* Sign up while all the good names are available *

You can go to https://groups.qoto.org and register for a group. But be sure to read the about/more page first to understand how it works! https://groups.qoto.org/about/more

Anyway, as far as I know this is the first time the fediverse has had an open, managed group server.

QOTO also has the group directory. Attached is what the group directory, and a group timeline looks like on QOTO, but we did some streamlining, your client may render groups differently and most wont have the directory, which is a federated list of active groups.

Anyway, anyone who wants a group, go sign up for one! Its open now!

@QOTO@groups.qoto.org

Just a friendly #deer scratch

@freemo

I think the Mercatore projection we oftentime use, that distorts the areas far from the equator, can give a wildly wrong idea of the size of Africa. Africa is huge.

I'll attach a video demonstrating the real size of countries, when we remove the UTM distortion

@manarock @amerika @TradeMinister

@freemo

If I can chip my humble 50 satoshis on this, African people have way higher genetic diversity than the rest of humankind, not having experienced the bottleneck from getting out of Africa.
It's easier, therefore, to find higher diversity of problems too, and the sampling can wildly affect the results of any research. Talking about "black people" or Africans is really like putting together all the rest of humankind, papuasians, native americans, latins, australian aborigenal people etc, and say "see, they have this and that".

My main point is, we can't talk about "African people" as a group and pretend it makes sense.

This is something that until more recent genetic discovery was not well known, so a lot of studies even from a recent past have a huge bias in that sense

@manarock @amerika @TradeMinister

One of the street dogs we feed has gone missing for a couple days, and it's really worrying me. I've known for some time that street dogs have hard lives and meet with sudden injuries randomly, but somehow never imagined that happening to this girl in particular. I hope she's okay, and turns back up tomorrow shyly wagging her tail.

I'm trying to be hopeful that she's actually okay and will be back (the tenses are all over the place in the last toot because I was trying not to put her in the past tense prematurely). Maybe she's just got some minor injury that needs rest, and will be back in a couple of days; maybe one of the other people that feed her decided to take her into their home. But it's harsh reality that dogs on streets have brutal and often short lives, especially non-aggressive ones like her.
Please give your time and aid to Humane Animal Society (https://hasindia.org/) or your local equivalent, they genuinely turn lives around, or even save ones that would have otherwise been lost.