tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

The @DataColada team has been sued by Francesca Gino for exposing the fraudulent data underlying four of her papers (she claims defamation). The legal defense could get expensive. Please join us in providing financial support for their defense.

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The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.

@asociologist I was just reading https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

“‘ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.’ Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong. … Even when the answer has a glaring error, the paper stated, two out of 12 participants still marked the response preferred.”

We know they’re wrong but we still like the answers it gives!

Over the month of July Ukraine has liberated approximately 85km² of the country.

This means that Russia currently occupies a total of 17.49% of Ukraine, a 0.01% decrease since the end of June.

Prior to the invasion on 24th February 2022, Russia occupied approximately 7.04% of Ukraine.

Subsequently, Russia has expanded its occupation to an additional 10.46% of Ukraine.

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"‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties - Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, a supporter of leading xenophobe Eric Zemmour"

"More than half the journalists at France’s only standalone Sunday newspaper have resigned after failing to prevent the arrival of an editor with far-right ties in a bitter dispute that has fanned fears of a further US-style polarisation of the country’s media.
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"In particular the company refused to contemplate committing not to publish “racist, sexist and homophobic statements and, more generally, any discriminatory or hateful content”, a guarantee the association had demanded given Lejeune’s past record."

“We didn’t win,” said Antoine Malo, a roving foreign correspondent at the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) and member of its editorial association. “We didn’t stop him, and now there’s a mass exodus. But the bigger fight will go on – from outside.”

The mainstream paper’s 100-odd journalists ended a 40-day strike – the longest media strike in France since the 1970s – on Tuesday after Geoffroy Lejeune, previously editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, took up his post as editor-in-chief.

The 34-year-old is a leading supporter of the xenophobic polemicist Eric Zemmour, who ran for the French presidency in 2022, promotes the racist “great replacement” theory, and has been investigated 16 times – and convicted on three occasions – for hate speech."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/06/we-fight-on-fears-for-frances-sunday-paper-over-rightwing-editor-geoffroy-lejeune

#France #FarRight #Xenophobia #Fascism #FrenchPolitics #News #Bias #Racism #Zemmour #Lejeune #JournalDuDimanche #JDD #Homophobia #LGBTQ #Sexism

RIP. :-(

"Dear all,

It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023.

Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.

Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of."

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324 ]

#Editors #VIM

Det kan vara svårt för en del att höra, men böcker är inte någonting som är värt att skydda mer än ett människoliv.
Absoluta förbud mot att bränna / skända heliga skrifter är ett stort principiellt steg längre än de lagar vi har emot att döda någon - där tas uppsåtet i beaktande.

En specifik antibokbrännarlag betraktar uppsåtet som egalt och alla potentiella konsekvenser som likställda den värsta tänkbara. En förolämpning via att sträcka upp långfingret ses som ett överlagt mord.
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Very cool paper on the arXiv this morning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15289

tl;dr: IceCube started a public competition on ML algorithms for reconstructing #neutrino events. Hundreds of submissions, including several that are better than the current IceCube reconstruction and that they’re hoping to adopt now. Sounds like an incredibly successful outreach project!

Vichayanun, a student I co-supervise, will be the first person defending an experimental particle physics #PhD at a #Thailand university (as far as I know)! Such #trailblazing is an incredible achievement, don't underestimate how difficult it is to do something first in your country!

Also, as I like #SciComm, I'm highlighting his fantastic Barbie-themed defense announcement (Love it!)

#science #sciencecommunication #particlephysics #CERN @CMSexperiment #Chulalongkorn @DESYnews

"Look we're all trying to find the guy who did this" says Sweden's prime minister, who rules with the support of the party whose supporters have been burning the Quran recently.

Hard to process Sinéad’s death. The nuns stole my cousin and sold her to Americans. My uncle drank himself to death after a childhood of rape by a priest in Ballyfermot - my mam and her 12 siblings grew up feral because the same priest told my nan to keep having kids. You can’t parent 13 kids and this predator knew it, so there was constant fresh meat for his appetites. Yet my mam was SHOCKED TO HER CORE when Sinéad ripped up the photo, she was so indoctrinated by that awful society.

Hi all,
If you are interested in keeping up to date with #lk99 #superconductor like I am, I would recommend the following message board. The table at the top of the thread is kept up to date, with links if you are so inclined. A lot of the users seem to know eachother and are nice, and they seem to have great links to Korean sources. By far the best source of info I found yet:
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-21

Folks are deservedly launching careers based on early JWST results--but there were others who ran out of runway a few years before launch and took jobs with less time for research, or left the field entirely.

In "A Grand and Bold Thing" @AnnFinkbeiner talks about the generation of SDSS postdocs in the 90s who put in technical work but didn't get to reap the fruits. Many of the folks who came in a few years later were able to do great science and are now senior leaders in our field.

The Times is right — e-bikes are a scourge and we must do everything we can to protect our fragile SUV-driving elites from these teen terrors. I propose we construct a nationwide network of separated e-bike enclosures to segregate these monsters from god-fearing motorists.

I’ve attached one such example from a European petrostate that has spent years valiantly protecting cars from the ravages of cycling. With work, we may be able to reduce the number of cyclist-on-motorist deaths to zero.

I'm going to try _a thing_. There are two related phenomena regarding #cars and #PublicTransport that I basically never see discussed. I wrote an article about these two things which includes two very clear definitions. I want to see if I can get some reach to disseminate these two things like a mind virus.

Boost if you like. Or don't. I'm not your boss.

The premise: when you own a #car, it is cheaper to drive the car. But: we want to get people out of their cars, even while they still own cars.

The definitions:

- Sunk cost discount: for as long as you own a car, it is cheaper relative to public transport to use that car for individual journeys, even though you would save money if you got rid of the car and exclusively used public transport.

- Trip cost scaling problem: for each additional passenger taking a journey together, the cost per passenger becomes lower when travelling by car, but higher when travelling by public transport.

The article: https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2023-07-27-the-sunk-cost-discount-and-the-trip-cost-scaling-problem/

Shamelessly tagging @notjustbikes @TheWarOnCars @ianwalker

#cycling #bancars #urbanism #train #bus #metro #tram #SunkCostDiscount #TripCostScalingProblem

As if giving water to asylum seekers in a heat wave is like giving bread to seagulls. Just incredible.