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Did you know the W3C published Ethical Principles for how the web should work?

w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principl

I find them so inspiring. And they guide what developers should be doing, too.

“The web should empower an equitable, informed and interconnected society. It has been, and should continue to be, designed to enable communication and knowledge-sharing for everyone… we need to consider the ethical implications of our work when we build web technologies, applications, and sites.”

I like the hobby of mushroom hunting. In particular, I like mushroom identification forums because their members stay down to earth. You won't find people patting each other on the back for being inexcusably terrible, due to the consequences of making mistakes.

On vouvoie les gens qui font des choses importantes mais on tutoie les gens importants.

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Le livre de la sociologue Joanna Kempner est désormais en précommande ! Elle y étudiera comment des personnes atteintes de douleurs résistantes sont parvenues, grâce à leur union et à internet, à mettre au point des traitements à base de champignons psychédéliques et à faire connaître leurs découvertes à la communauté scientifique.

« La poursuite de leur combat en dit long sur un système si défectueux que nos thérapies antidouleur les plus innovantes

Remember The Dress, a viral sensation back in 2015? I was wondering if I was still perceiving it like I used to, that is white and gold. I now see it "as it is", i.e. a terrible photo that could be interpreted either as a completely backlit white and gold dress or a blue and black dress with strong lighting coming from inside the store. I also see the colors that I would have to use to turn the photo into a painting. This is probably as a result of spending a lot of time looking at paintings and painting.

Do you see it differently than you used to 8 years ago?

Do you use an ad blocker while browsing the internet?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #AdBlocker #InternetBrowsing #UserPreferences #Ads #Internet

Of course, it could also be that flying birds evolved into walking giants thanks to their lightweight bones...

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I'm reading about giant dinosaurs and now I'm convinced that their large size required lightweight bones which became later key to evolving into flying birds.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentin

Amanita pachycolea (Western grisette), Pacific coast of northern California. One of the low-risk edible amanitas.

Principle of self-reinforcing ignorance: those who would benefit the most from new advice are those who are most likely to reject it.

A natural mind is an emerging system that shares the following properties with a cyclone:
- has a lifetime
- has a center that's defined in space with good accuracy with respect to the center of any other cyclone i.e. they are easy to distinguish from one another
- their spatial boundaries are fuzzy
- their start date is fuzzy
- their end date is also fuzzy but perhaps less so than their start date

Much of this model goes out the window when considering artificial minds implemented and clonable with modern computers.

@Vinz pizza sure, but burgers? There's a possibility that the presence of a fork and knife indicates that the place is a proper restaurant, in which case certain expectations exist that do not exist in fast-food places - which are not considered "restaurants". For example, drinking from a bottle in a restaurant is bad manners but Americans do it all the time. I find that eating a burger with knife and fork is a matter of convenience. I tend to do this in restaurants that provide silverware because their burgers are usually too large. I suppose Americans try harder to eat them with their bare hands, but it seems like more effort for them. I'm not sure about real restaurants that serve burgers in France because I haven't had much experience with those (I'm French but live in California). Also note that traditional French table manners forbid eating anything with hands except for bread, meat with bones, and certain raw or dry things that are more like appetizers or desserts. Burgers are widely understood to be a foreign thing that is super weird to serve on a plate like all sandwiches, so French people would generally not know what to do with it and improvise. Fast-food chain burgers are always eaten with hands with no hesitation.

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