Dr B Learned Hand @pvsundarb@qoto.org
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Some of my very best friends are still on #Twitter and they will remain there even as #Musk sponsors #DeSantis's announcement of his presidential bid. My friends are intelligent, conscientious people, and if they aren't drawing the line on using the service as its very owner openly promotes #fascism, I understand entirely why the world fell to fascism before and why it is falling to it again.
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Few things as amazing as a lazy Sunday afternoon driving the air cooled on Massachusetts backroads!
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Microsoft’s stock price is close to an all time high and it makes billions each quarter but no raises for employees this year due to “the economy”.
Instead the CMO says employees should figure out ways to make the stock price go up instead. But I thought they already did that? 📈
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Microsoft's Bing Chat AI models may be updated three-times per year because it takes months to train the models https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-chat-updates-35351.html
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Black waiter forced to serve N-word spewing diners decked in Confederate flags: report
Matthew Chapman
May 1, 2023, 5:03 PM ET
Black waiter forced to serve N-word spewing diners decked in Confederate flags: report
Confederate memorial (Shutterstock)
A Black server at an Ohio restaurant was forced to serve a dinner party that was decked in Confederate battle banners and casually tossing around the N-word, reported The Daily Beast on Monday.
"They completely dehumanized me," server Arthur Mandy told the Beast.
"'A party full of people wearing Confederate flag gear just tried to f---ing come eat in our restaurant,' a TikTok user called Nani posted Saturday, the Beast reported.
"One of our Black servers had to take them."
Nani said that the table of white guests at the Texas Roadhouse never spoke to the server or gave him eye contact. 'They’re N-word this, N-word that, while he’s there at the table,' she said. 'They’re not even trying to be quiet. They’re not even trying to stop.'
Nani said the server ended up walking outside because he got so emotional over his interaction with the table.
Speaking directly to The Beast, Mandy's account lined up with the TikTok account. He said the party included a woman “covered head to toe” in the flag, and other guests with a Confederate sweatsuit, neck tattoos, and even a onesie on an infant.
"Mandy, 41, said he expected the party to be his last table for the night. A reservation was set for 11 people, but initially only a small group showed up — including a baby wrapped in a Confederate coat," the report said.
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"But Mandy said he didn’t really notice the customers’ attire until more people joined the group. The rest of the party is walking in. The managers come and pull me aside and say, ‘Hey, if you have any issues with this table, let us know,’' Mandy said."
Mandy told The Daily Beast that he properly honed in on the group when an older, male customer sat down with them. 'I’m doing my spiel or whatever, things that we offer, things that we have, what he may like, and he says, ‘Well, I’ll tell you what, boy. Just get me a water with lemon.’'"
Mandy said that after they "dehumanized him," he couldn't return to the table, after which the group demanded the managers force him to return
https://www.rawstory.com/confederate-flag-2659934399/
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My mom stirred-up some shit with the Montana relatives on Facebook, over Zooey Zephyr. One of my GenX cousins (privately) expressed support. Disappointingly, the younger ones were completely silent. My aunt, on the other hand, is firmly of the view that persecuting trans people is an integral part of "loving Jesus".
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Gov. Abbott found it politically expedient to label the murdered victims in Texas as “illegal aliens.” He was not only despicable, he was wrong.
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@pvsundarb Well I mostly use twitter on a laptop in Chrome, so I'm using uBlock Origin. Adding this to the filters does it.
twitter.com##article [data-testid="icon-verified"]>g>:matches-css(fill: rgb(29, 155, 240)):upward(article)
I don't know of anything that supports the equivalent on mobile devices.
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This is her fourth wedding, by the way. I thought evangelicals were supposed to be all about the whole marriage is for life thing?
"decreased motivation and performance. Research on psychological capital talks about inspiring HERO from within: hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. There are not many of those things present in the subject line or email"
https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-cfo-just-committed-email-faux-pas-with-an-emotionally-tone-deaf-subject-line.html#:~:text=decreased%20motivation%20and%20performance.%20Research%20on%20psychological%20capital%20talks%20about%20inspiring%20HERO%20from%20within%3A%20hope%2C%20efficacy%2C%20resilience%2C%20and%20optimism.%20There%20are%20not%20many%20of%20those%20things%20present%20in%20the%20subject%20line%20or%20email
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If social media were regulated as the utility it is, we would all have the ability to read posts from any network in a central location not controlled by it, no?
And then we could customize the algorithm by which we filter those posts.
I realize I just described the Fediverse, of course. 😊
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Forthcoming in JAE: evidence from a randomized evaluation of an unconditional old-age pension in Nigeria finds significant positive effects on mental health, plus spillover effects on other family members @sarastro1@ana_dammert Olajide
https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/agsaaea20/304176.htm
opening day, a mother with an infant and a small child sat down at a Work and Play Station to use the computer and placed her children in the carrel — without having received any direction from staff," Weedman said. "It was gratifying to see that the design was immediately intuitive."
For Matt Hansen, a local dad with a 2-year-old daughter, the Work and Play Stations are the perfect solution for when he needs to do some work but not enough to call in a babysitter or other caregiver.
"A couple of times a week, I need to hold some office hours to knock out some emails, place inventory orders, and take care of the many other things that require me to sit down at a computer to accomplish," Hansen said. "It's amazing to have access to something like that."
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@emilygorcenski I heard that in Germany, not only do you need a license to #golf, but you must keep your golf clubs securely locked in the trunk of your auto when you transport them. Also, it is good to remember that practice swings in any direction other than down range towards the tee are strictly forbidden.
declaration is valid until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England,” if it is deemed to violate rules against perpetuity, according to the document.
A development agreement allows Disney to build projects at the highest density and the right to sell or assign those development rights to other district landowners without the board having any say, according to the presentation by the district’s new special legal counsel.
"she nonchalantly confessed: “I’m grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend.”"
https://opndt.shinyapps.io/bloodbank_india/
The main motivation behind this simple shiny app is to make it easier to locate #blood banks in I#ndia along with pincodes, addresses, contact person name and number.
Data:
Data for the #bloodbank application is sourced from Open Government Data Platform. The original data is available as a csv file called “Blood Bank Directory (updated Till Last Month)”. The raw data file, processed data file and my shiny code is made available on my github.
I have tried my best to comment and explain where necessary.
Data limitation:
One of the limitations of this application is that the data is not 100% accurate. If we plot the raw data we see a few bloood bank location in Africa. There are close to 82 NA values for latitude and longitude.
Hence when we create the shiny application we will ignore these points. I am in a process to update these points.
Help:
In case you observe the data projected on map is incorrect and you have more accurate or additional information that could be updated it will be great if you can email me - atmajitsinh.gohil@gmail.com and i will update the same.
Shiny Gallery! you can find a myriad of Shiny apps to be inspired by and to learn from. organized the apps in two main categories:
Shiny User Showcase comprised of contributions from the Shiny app developer community.
Shiny Demos that are designed to highlight specific features of shiny, the package.
Shiny User Showcase
The Shiny User Showcase is comprised of contributions from the Shiny app developer community. The apps are categorized into application areas and presented with a brief description, tags, and for many, the source code.
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