Olives @olives@qoto.org

Well, so far, the next update to the science post mentions human rights a bit more and expands on the VR paragraph (as I mentioned last time, I wanted to get something out on that, as there were a few unpleasant abstract / hypothetical takes out there, so this is going to be a supplement to that).

Even if it's forensic adjacent, if a paper fails to find a link between something and crime, then that might still be interesting, but it's concerning if it's interpreted as there being a lot of criminals.

Also, there is a paper which admits that their samples were forensic adjacent now which I guess is progress.

I'll get around to working on that science post. I didn't know what to make of the update so that got delayed a bit.

It's honestly annoying when someone pretends as if a clearly unreasonable politician is making a valid argument.

Religion isn't really an excuse for being a horrible person.

What do you think the fascists mutter to themselves? In the name of the censor, the fascist, and the holy algorithm? Amen. ?

"other scales"

An example of something which someone might use is a Likert scale, so that might be something like Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, and Strongly Agree. There are other kinds of scales though.

Given Mozilla's financial state, this is not a surprising decision.

Remember that there is qualitative and quantitative research.

Quantitative research involves collecting numerical data (things like yes / no and other scales can be encoded as numbers), often from large groups of people, and analysing that to figure out what the various variables describe.

Qualitative research delves into more subjective experiences in things like interviews (and textual data) and they involve smaller groups of people (analysing the data requires more resources which makes it harder to carry out studies with larger groups of people).

Mixed methods research does both.

That's a brief summary.

The home feed appears to have repeated the same post three times.

Jeanne doesn't appear to have spoken to a single newspaper, media outlet, or even a blog about her findings. This is a good example of how someone can fail at communications.

Jeanne also makes an error here about why things might happen. It is a *political* issue. It is not a *scientific* issue. Going back a decade, there is more than enough grounds to show that it does not drive crime. This is a *political argument*. While more science might be helpful, it doesn't necessarily change the politics.

Now, my profile doesn't load.

Time and space seems to be in a bit of chaos on this instance. Probably synchronizing.

I suppose it is time for someone to bust out the Anki and those other tools to learn an extra language or two to take advantage of the new functionality.

The update appears to have added two features. An option to pick what language a post should be tagged and a thing showing when someone signed up.

When a CAPTCHA asks whether you are human, is that discrimination against extra-terrestrials? Lol.

Brendan Eich was the same guy who created JavaScript in something like two weeks. In retrospect, that might be part of why JavaScript isn't a good language.