#EarlyModern #History needs your help! Bartmann / Bellarmine jugs were made in a very specific region of the rhineland between 1500 -1750 to be exported to England & the Netherlands. With colonial expansion they've found there way across the globe. Now an international research projects seeks to establish a comprehensive history & typology of the jugs. So if you have seen one of those shown in the Wanted Foto attached, get in touch with the researchers!
@histodons
The share of voters who say they have high interest in the 2024 election has hit an all-time low for this same point in a US presidential race, according to the latest national NBC News poll, with majorities holding negative views of both Biden and Trump. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-tight-race-election-interest-low-rcna148170
@philipncohen
Not deep enough into US academic governance lingo to be sure, but this might be about Michigan U divesting: https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/senate-assembly-passes-umich-divestment-resolution/
After Novaya reports that Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov is terminally ill, his team releases this video showing him looking as lively as the title character in Weekend at Bernie’s. The camera movement reminds me of Spaceghost trying to breathe life into Ole Kentucky Shark. Context: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/04/22/chechnya-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-reportedly-suffering-from-pancreatic-necrosis
Ramzan Kadyrov is suffering from pancreatic necrosis, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe. The video of his teenage son beating up a defenseless prisoner last year was reportedly part of a wide-ranging campaign to divert attention from his health problems.
https://t.co/xbuQ09NLF1
@jonny
Just buy a normal lamp, some paint, a glue gun, and some glitter.
For extra points, invite friends over for a "make my lamp weird" party.
@philipncohen
Depends on what you mean by recent I guess: on this list Berkeley pledged in 2019 https://www.divestfromwarmachine.org/victories
This list is a bit older but much more extensive: https://theowp.org/reports/weapons-divestment-a-short-profile-on-universities-that-have-divested-from-arms-manufacture/
But I'd say that in general weapons manufacturers are easier campaign targets than the fossil fuel industry, as the business of profiting on war is a harder sell than providing electricity and heat.
@franco_vazza
Sure, it was not supposed to be the responsibility of children to steer society towards a better future, so when they feel they need to do it themselves anyway one should not be too surprised if not every idea is fully thought through.
On the other hand, us adults just cruising past 1.5 degrees have far less excuse for the global destruction we are performing. 🤷♀️
@franco_vazza
People never do this type of large scale actions for no reason, and in this case the reason seems pretty straightforward too: they have been mistreated to the point they no longer see the school as their own.
This is, imo one of the biggest problems with running a small or single-user fedi instance. This patch would make small fedi instances about a billion times more usable - aka it's directly responsive to the problem of 'fediverse is cool, but actually most accounts are on the largest 3 servers' bc smaller servers see like 0.01% of the fedi.
this is actually imo a more efficient behavior compared to the current alternative, which is to make some dummy account (or pollute your home feed) with lots and lots of follows you need to make just to be able to see the context around a post. ie. currently you need to get many many more posts than you want vs. just requesting the context of the posts you want to see.
also a polite cc to @hrefna who i have seen write about amplification on activitypub and masto a bunch of times, in case xe have any thoughts here
@landetannien
Surf i Schweiz med de flesta Svenska abonnemang är typ det starkaste tecknet på att en lämnat EU...
Brukar stänga av roaming innan jag korsar gränsen och klara mig på reseinfo jag sparar ner innan. Lyckligtvis finns det gratis wifi på vissa ställen, särskilt på CERN.
I keep meeting students who feel they *must* test their variables for normality before analysis.
I tell them there's no need, & if the test tells them it's normal it's only because N is too small.
I decided to run some simulations to check, though, that e.g., t-tests degraded more for non-normal data & small Ns.
I was a bit surprised by the result: CI coverage degrades for normal vars just as badly as other symmetric dists, but skewed distributions do better.
Since I see that a notable VC-famous is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact that situation: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.
Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into narratives a number of invested camps want to believe, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.
SD:s partistyrelse kallar i läckt epost sina egna kommunföreträdare för "muppar". Folk som inte riktigt håller för att sitta i en nämnd brukar ibland bli erbjudna att tjänstgöra som nämndemän i tingsrätten i stället. SD utgår redan från början från ett svagt material, och när man gör sina allra svagaste kort till nämndemän, då snor de dasspappret på nämnemannatoaletten. Tyvärr fattar de ibland även utvisningsbeslut i strid med juristdomarens åsikt.
https://www.mitti.se/nyheter/sdpolitiker-doms-till-boter-efter-toapappersstold-6.3.217165.3db9d70cbf
I've been working for a year to measure, for the first time, the effect of lawful crossings of the US Southwest border on unlawful crossings.
My study just came out at @piie —> https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/2024/effect-lawful-crossing-unlawful-crossing-us-southwest-border
With a less technical summary —> https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/offering-more-lawful-pathways-us-border-crossings-reduces-unlawful
@landetannien
Nice, ser ut att vara kallt idag så skönt att slippa gå långt.
Har du förresten sett att de lagt upp platsannonsen för Fabiolas framtida ersättare?
@kallekn
Lite ironiskt att denna regering vill mucka med Ryssen över _miljöfrågor_!
Lite oklart vad syftet med utspelet är, då han knappast kan tro att det kan skrivas avtal om sjöduglighet med Ryssland just nu...
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.