herid @herid@qoto.org
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Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan
Joined Nov 2022
@dgurdasani1 your tweets are not being crossposted. did you turn off the functionality?
@davemark there is no such functionality. Apparently the creators of Mastodon specifically didn't want it for reasons I don't agree with.
My instance qoto.org has quote tweet functionality. One of the reasons I like it. It works fine but people on other instances just see quoted tweets as links.
in your case the only option is to make a new toot and include a link to the original toot.
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both Andrew Lawrence of MMFA and Dean Baker of Beat the Press have been suspended from twitter, anyone who follows those guys knows their only sin is poking fun at the right and they aren't even major shit stirrers. Suspect the lefty purges will continue
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511: Moving to Antarctica
https://atp.fm/511
Increased traction for Mastodon, fallout from App Store ads, and progress on ButtDB.
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Yeah it’s an Apple advert but it’s remarkable. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sX9IEHWRJ8 Maybe a little more empathy for people with different abilities will come to you watching it.
Via @davemark on the fowl site.
@ami_angelwings for #books it's Life of Pi hands down. I was enjoying it all the way through and then the ending was terrible beyond polite words to express it.
@kathhayhoe it seems this is happening to a number of high profile accounts and is not limited to climate science. A cartoonist I follow on twitter (who is sadly not on mastodon) mentioned a decrease in interactions that he is seeing. He thought it might be b/c of a change in algorithms. But it could be twitter flight IMO. doesn't necessarily mean people closing accounts though. Many (myself included) are just spending much less time on twitter than they used to.
https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1598007954133123073?s=20&t=n0C5i9f3HpdfXquwEfwu6g
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Blood thinner Apixaban given as prevention (not treatment) vs placebo to >400 #COVID pts leaving hospital did not ⬇️ rehospitalization.
Awaiting full trial results
bit.ly/3uhlHQC
This HEAL study
📍Micro-clots remain a leading theory as to why millions suffer #LongCovid
📍These excellent investigators were not testing that theory but rather the idea that preventing overt clotting might help
📍This study did not aim to test neuro cognitive benefits of anticoagulants.
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RT @JaneLytv@twitter.com
Starved by Stalin, nearly deported by Nazis, and now living through Russia's war while her grandsons are on the front line. Liubov has witnessed too much suffering on Ukrainian soil in her life. And still, she volunteers. Our grandmoms deserve peace.
https://www.dw.com/en/holodomor-survivor-i-want-to-witness-this-victory/a-63933604?maca=en-Twitter-sharing
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So the oil ban kicking in next Monday is a big deal. It's criminally little and criminally late in the face of the severity of Russia's war crimes, but it's much more than anyone expected the EU to manage. And it's a big step to eliminate the EU's dependence on RU, for good.
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Hi! I'm Morgan Fairchild, an actress with an eclectic set of interests. Love foreign policy, politics, science and Rock'n'roll. Hoping to find many of my Twitter friends here and keep up the conversation!
Caro Emerald & The Grandmono orchestra - Bad Romance
The original by Lady Gaga is great but this cover is even better.
#FavoriteMusic 20/
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Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.
@johncarlosbaez they took the course last year and they are applying this year. the course is easy by math standards (**very** basic group theory culminating in the First Isomorphism Theorem) but the students may not think so. it's a 3rd year course and most people taking it are math minors with limited exposure to rigorous math.
I am getting swamped by requests for graduate school recommendation letters. I have **over a hundred requests** (about a third of the class) from students in a course I taught last year.
All these students (non math majors taking an easy math course) are viewing the letters as just a check box on the application form.
This is definitely not the case in pure math.
I have always taken recommendation letters rather seriously and have only written them for people I was sure could do well in graduate school. Same when evaluating grad school applications.
If I see an application with generic one paragraph recommendation letters I chuck it immediately.
I wonder how it is in other subjects and if there is a culture difference at play here. #academicmastodon
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Is there a journalism award for best headline? https://defector.com/an-oral-history-of-the-time-six-doctors-swallowed-lego-heads-to-see-how-long-theyd-take-to-poo/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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1) Breaking: Quebec hospitalizations for and with #COVID have been increasing for nine days in a row, jumping by 70 to 1,946 on Wednesday. This represents the highest tally in the last five and a half weeks, yet the provincial government does not seem to be overly concerned.
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Nothing will likely happen, but this is definitely tantrum-inducing level of info for the Weird Nerd King
I just love this. It's like a nice sip of high quality tea. Hits from the EU who say Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules or face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6% of global turnover, plus the US Treasury, which historically isn't exactly that liberal. 
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Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan
Joined Nov 2022
