tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@casilli
This is such a typical EU news:
* long delayed law
* important but boring subject
* complicated legislative process
* unclear what, precisely, the conflict was
Hope I can find an article explaining this before I forget it is even a thing (again)...
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🚨🥳🇪🇺Great news: after over two years of negotiations, in a last-minute twist worthy of a movie, EU adopts platform work directive.
The milestone was achieved at the March 11, 2024 meeting of the labour ministers, where Estonia & Greece moved past their previous abstentions to vote in favor. Done in "a spirit of compromise", this showcases EU's commitment to progressive labor policies.
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@philipncohen
With the caveat that we are speculating about someone's unspoken opinion, I think the author is more objecting to the situation where you roll up to a house and say "this is mine" on the grounds that your grandparents lived in the next village over.
In your example it is a specific property from which your direct family was forcibly evicted, and I think most Jacobin writers will have some sympathy for arguments that the descendants of the evicted have some right to compensation.
Though "grandparents parents" is a while ago, one would hope justice could be done quicker than that...
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Bad news also on global hunger. After decades of (modest) improvement in cutting hunger, the number and percentage of undernourished people is rising again.
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Some interesting results showed that urban agriculture in Sant Feliu de Llobregat may produce ~3.500 jobs and the 50% of the fresh food consumed in the city. It may reduce 1.26ºC the urban heat island and run-off by 20 mm.
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"The Musk Foundation, for instance, gave $5 million to a United Nations program that helps countries identify rural schools that need internet access. In at least two cases, those countries then became Mr. Musk’s customers, connecting their schools with his Starlink satellite service."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/us/elon-musk-charity.html
@rasmusfleischer
Det är väl inget som tvingar "val" i allmänhet att vara 100 % demokratiska bara för att någon säger att ett visst val are helt fejk?
Jag tror det är ganska allmänt förstått att "val" kan vara olika demokratiska; du behöver inte skriva ut något särskilt för att "valet i Tchad" ska låta suspekt i allmänhetens öron. Speciellt inte om hela meningen lyder "oppositionsledaren dödades en vecka efter att valet i Tchad utlystes".
@scott
Having walked the midnight sun as a year long tradition, I'm sad to report that what you are dreaming of is probably re-living the freedom possible for teenage youth, instead of the more attainable dream of just going to Vancouver or something during the summer
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The #oil🛢️ industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model https://buff.ly/3IszECq #lobbying
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I took a class on precision questioning which I found to be extremely valuable in understanding a topic.
I learned over time it also makes you cone across as an asshole who interrogates people especially if you’re in a leadership position.
Overall I’ve found showing signs of empathy and positive reinforcement while asking the questions you need answered helps them land better. Also explaining why you’re asking helps.
Most importantly avoid precision questioning in writing as much as possible.
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"It turns out that generative AI companies don’t like it when you steal, sorry, scrape, images from them. Cue the world’s smallest violin."
In Moment of Unbelievable Irony, Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft
https://www.themarysue.com/midjourney-accuses-stability-ai-of-image-theft/
@kfitz
I see your great man and raise you "one on one teaching" as the motivating principle: typically graduate study represents the most intimate teaching experience a student can get, with ready access to hands on personalised supervision.
But even so, already one of the greatest difficulties a graduate student faces is lack of supervision, and introducing means allowing the supervisor to dodge this duty to their students by having them formally take over co-authorship doesn't seem very beneficial for the students.
Just in general, how does having a co-author help the student? Have to say "no, I didn't write all of that" doesn't seem like it will help a non-academic career, except if co-authorship was the only thing that allowed completion at all.
Maybe it can be beneficial in some specific circumstances, but it seems too open to abuse by faculty looking to escape responsibility for it to be a general feature.
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poll: when you see this message in `git status`:
”Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main’.”
do you know that your branch may not actually be up to date with the `main` branch on the remote?
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Nelson's family crossed the street where they did because it was where the bus stop was. The nearest crosswalk was a 20 min out of the way.
In the aftermath of the "accident", traffic engineers inspected the place where Nelson's child died. They decided there were not enough pedestrians to justify installing a crosswalk or a traffic light.
Meanwhile in the greater Atlanta area, a quarter of all pedestrian fatalities occurred within 100 ft of a bus stop, and over half occurred within 300 feet.
@elizabethtasker
Seeing these tricksters and remembering how that scamp SLIM stuck their landing, I have some concerns...
I'd ask them to all agree to a "landing seriously" training camp. Two weeks long and the first week is just doing traditional tea ceremonies to build the mindset.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself behind the wheel of a large automobile
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What I want cis white liberals to understand is there's a reason so many poor, trans, Black, Hispanic, Arabic, and other people are upset about politics right now, and it's not because we're "low information voters" or we just feel like being mean to your heroes. It's because yelling at someone like Trump is pointless. We hope yelling at Biden and Democrats is not.
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this is one of the most violently unhinged CSB report i've ever read https://www.csb.gov/file.aspx?DocumentId=6120
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
