Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org

Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation.

The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy.

https://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2024JCST.pdf

We’re excited to announce that we’re supporting #ActivityPub Test Suite and investing in the establishment of developer tools to ensure compatibility among ActivityPub implementations. This #interoperability also benefits users and will lead to individuals having more control over their data.

https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/activitypub-test-suite/

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Pleased to see @fesshole reach 1k on Mastodon - it's tricky for us to build up followers here as we don't know anyone. If you can help by spreading us around that would be fab - and you'll enjoy it more too as Fesshole is best when replies are lively. Also follow @anon_opin for rotten opinions that are occasionally ok.

@guardeddon checkout the interactive map, they cross link the data with how much each country is extracting gas.

I loathe airports. I particularly loathe the security theatre at airports. And what I particularly loathe about it, is just how utterly useless it is. Why do I waste my time dealing with any of it when, apparently, you can just walk on to a plane. Absolutely useless.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68118500

Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them
Saga highlights how slow, opaque action by publishers threatens the integrity of the research literature

https://www.science.org/content/article/whistleblowers-flagged-300-scientific-papers-for-retraction-many-journals-ghosted-them

Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans.

Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read.

If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an #LLM.

#SEO #enshittification

@ricmac Congrats to the migration off Substack and to Eleventy/Buttondown. In the same spirit I would also consider migrating away from Google Analytics to something more privacy focused. I am a big fan of @plausible.

Cool to see #DuckDB and #MovingPandas on Action to analyze flight data #ADSB
https://tech.marksblogg.com/global-flight-tracking-adsb.html#generalising-routes

@swearyanthony

I used to work at Very Large Multinational Company and the Legal department was quite clear in "don't email us. always call".

@idealaw

Did my bit at the anti-AfD demo in Berlin today

After having lost my EU citizenship rights through Brexit, then regained them by becoming German, I don’t want my adopted country going the right wing populist route the one of my birth did!

@neil I see it as another way in which the delivery options available to small businesses will fall further behind the likes of Amazon. Those in major urban areas I believe can get at least a subset of items the same day or even with 1 hour delivery. I get next day delivery with pretty good order tracking on the edge of the Highlands. Our postie is great and generally finds a way to avoid us needing to collect a parcel, however is massively let down by the rest of the system.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

And sorry if I sound like some old fogey, but I don't give a damn about drone taxis

I would simply like it that a family from Hagen who wants to NOT FLY to Tarragona for their summer holiday COULD GET THERE BY TRAIN, easily and for a decent price

But that seems to damned radical and hard for EU policymakers to care about 🤬