Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

The Fall of Stack Overflow: SO has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of Q&A, as well as the number of votes. The AI bots hit SO hard for sure, at least that is what I think. I still SO as top answer in Google but Bing is upto no good. LOL. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk

classic 🍪 #unix #linux #sysadmin #macos #freebsd #sudo

Important sets:
ℂ the complex numbers
ℕ the natural numbers
ℚ the rational numbers
ℝ the real numbers
𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes
ℤ the integers

The #Carpentries25 Launch event is now underway, and we will share some insights 👇 as they come up from the speakers and attendees!

I can't believe. The bird site is about to die. The final hours of Twitter before Elon is moving to X. It is already https://x.com/nixcraft (redirecting to https://twitter.com/nixcraft) So much history is about to go to the /dev/null. So many links are going to break forever. 🤡 #twitter #birdsite

Secret Panel HERE 🦋 https://tapas.io/episode/35309

This diagram by Anna-lena at #EuroPython is beautifully done 🤩

Twenty-Five Years and Counting: https://third-bit.com/2023/07/19/twenty-five-years-and-counting/

@viq @cwebber @mhoye @downey @DreamsAndLogic @alm

Congratulations Firefox team on finally matching Chrome's JavaScript performance levels after many years of hard work! (left is Firefox, right is Chrome) 🦊 https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

Project Management 101.

The challenge faced by science in the United States isn’t that scientists are awkward and bad at communication. It’s that we’re beset by propaganda and mass media channels funded by corrupt billionaires to sow confusion.

We need big, generously funded communications channels dedicated to verifiable reality. Scientists who are slightly better at talking isn’t going to cut it.

Just posted this on the bird site - what is the last straw people need to leave twitter completely? I found my limit. I'm leaving.

For me, paying nazi, misogynistic 'influencers' is too far. I've long been passive on Twitter, but used it to distribute content. I can't do it anymore. The values conflict is too much.

I'd love it if some academics took a stand with me. I'm going to delete my (50K+) follower account on the 13th of August. I'm staying for a month to do a count down and encourage others to #DeleteTwitter.

I don't have a recommendation of where is best to go. Anywhere is better than Twitter and its ocean of hate. Appreciate a boost to build a bit of momentum for this protest attempt

Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.

Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
https://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization

New phone. Looking forward to all the time I’ll save dialing by storing my contacts… on punch cards!