tatzelbrumm @tatzelbrumm@qoto.org

@freemo, with your ham radio background, I'll draw the analogy that social media communication patterns, "trigger warnings" included, function like a bunch of superregenerative receivers
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_circuit#Superregenerative_receiver] oversensitive to triggers.
The superregenerative receiver most sensitive to false positives and most indiscriminate when quenching anything that triggers it wins.

If Mike Godwin, of all people, isn't immune to getting distracted from the important context by the superregenerative false trigger bugs du jour in Social Media, nobody is.

That <snow at intermute> guy knows something about superregenerative triggers of which your typical "safe space" admin knows nothing.

And if you want to explain to them why their cancellation policy is faulty, Putt's Law of Insubordination takes effect:
"Rejection of management objectives is undesirable when you are wrong and unforgivable when you are right."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat — Mandatory reading if you haven't already]

@ohuu, because academia is organized like a feudal society, with senior academics and academic publishers jealously guarding their exclusive right to assign credit and the right to commericalization
(which, unsurprisingly, goes largely to the folks in control).

@freemo Do you have a LaTeX compile option that adds a bibliography of your publications if the CV is intended for an academic setting?
(In your position, do you need to bother??)

@freemo @worldsendless
The timeline bargraphs are truly impressive once you realize what they show and how.
Do the blue bars get updated every time you compile the LaTeX with the current date?

@freemo Running a social network where you can keep toxicity at bay without censoring every interesting deviation from the dumbest common denominator, at scale, would be yet another discovery of a lifetime.

A word of caution about going public:
Financial markets have rewarded the worst aspects of Social Media with astronomically high rewards, to the detriment of the more benign aspects.
Going public may force you to focus on the evil aspects.

@freemo
Social media consistently bring out the worst of us even in the best of us.

(Technically speaking, social media bring out all aspects of us superimposed, but the worst aspects propagate fastest and widest, including spooky action at a distance.)

@freemo
You've definitely watched too much "A Beautiful Mind" for keeping your mental equilibrium.

@freemo
… e.g., in 2011, while hanging out at Gert Cauwenberghs's lab at UCSD.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6051618
https://www.flickr.com/photos/89067995@N00/albums/72157711973640793

@freemo
I generally tend to make bad jokes on such occasions:
https://youtu.be/1MsKW84b-7E
…

@bitsavers @sycramore
Pappadum (if you can get them, e.g. in an asian food store) are easy to make in a microwave.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/89067995@N00/52063554219/in/album-72177720298715074/

#WasMännernSoGutSchmeckt
(see page 8 of the cookbook shown in the video)

The WW2 reenactments are getting a bit too realistic.
https://youtu.be/hdek9VV0_Zo

@sycramore You'd be probably running up hills.
https://youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw

@sycramore
die Jugend von heute kennt Asterix nicht mehr 😢
https://www.weltbild.de/artikel/buch/asterix-alles-ueber-methusalix-und-seine-frau_16864612-1

@sycramore <grummel>

@sycramore
Here's looking at you, kid.

(Blond gefärbte Haare sind so was wie eine Flasche Sekt zum Auto)
https://sycramore.de/?p=92
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

@sycramore @lolalauch @florianaigner @LangerJan
Na ja, wenn man so (zutreffende, aber nicht sooo relevante) Sachen postet wie:
„die Quantenkryptovortragend:*:Innen waren auch schon mal hübscher und blonder“
wird man schon mal großflächig von sysadmins blockiert, die da überhaupt keinen Spaß verstehen wollen.
#BeenThereDoneThat

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/musik/2022-11/schluempfe-vader-abraham-tot