tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Spare a thought for farmers like John Kemp-Welch, who owns 5,000 acres of "difficult land" in Scotland, but still somehow found time to be a full-time City stockbroker, was on the board of HSBC, and Chair of the London Stock Exchange.

Hi Astronomy community in the Fediverse. I am wondering whether we should organize better? There is now an Astro starter pack at
@mastodonmigration, but there may be more people out there.

Hence, I was wondering if we could find a (or more) volunteer(s) as curator/moderator who could collect names and think about growing the community a bit more.

Reboost in your network perhaps, reply below or via DM … #Astronomy #Astrodon #Astrophysics

I was today years old when I learned that US schools are more segregated today than they were in 1968.

Racial segregation due to racist policies (like red lining) and reinforcing economic conditions (like school funding tied to property taxes) ensure a system of oppression that is, in many ways, getting worse.

For more info, check out: Beverly Daniel Tatum's book: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

or this shorter read: https://devtechsys.com/insights/2021/02/26/racial-integration-of-schools-in-the-united-states/

#BlackHistoryMonth

20k people protesting against the draconian > 1 billion € cuts to the dutch education system, filling the Malieveld in The Hague.
You know that the right-wing government messed up when this is opposed by students, university boards, the heads of the opposition, *and a majority of their own voters*!

#WOinActie #doehetniet #stopdebezuiningen

Lyssnarrespons om minutstyrning från hemtjänsmedarbetare. Det här behöver alla läsa - vad ni än jobbar med - för en del av texten är hemskt men den andra delen väldigt vacker.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jpjmnu6x2h7gq7uvi4whpavk/post/3lbooafwtx22y

the authors respond on pubpeer, and this is actually rad: https://pubpeer.com/publications/306A99F8F7084E6F58CBBFEB84FA99

We believe that science is not restricted to the study of molecules, statistical figures, false negatives, false positives, clinical trials, biological aspects, or specific p-values such as 0.003, as well as percentages, meta-analyses, or observations made under a microscope. It also encompasses other scientific domains, particularly the human sciences, which include psychology and ethics. This is especially significant when considering the challenges faced by clinicians, particularly in demanding specialties like neurosurgery, where the neurosurgeon must shoulder considerable responsibility and act as a surgeon, clinician, psychologist, and ethicist. This symbolic document provides an examination of medical malpractice within the field of neurosurgery, utilizing fictional scenarios that draw inspiration from actual cases frequently encountered in this specialty.

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

Conway's Law says that a technical architecture reflects the social structure under which it was built. But the reverse is also true. The social structures *we can have* are made possible by the affordances of the tools we have available.

"Tech problems/social problems": false dichotomy.

This was sad for me especially; my favorite medium on the internet ever was webcomics. Webcomics still exist, sort of, but the loss of independent publishing and aggregation meant that they had to change to survive.

The shape of webcomics started to get shaped to the shape of Twitter's image box.

When you leave display logs for debugging "on" in production.

#webdev #programming #memes

Every morning I go to the duck pond, not to feed the ducks, but to establish dominance. I throw bread in, then snatch it back before they get it. The ducks know me now. They just watch, defeated. I am the Bread King of the pond.

I hung out with a fellow veteran Black person in tech recently and one thing that came up is how difficult it is to give advice to younger POC in the industry without sounding cynical or bitter.

I think Shaboozey’s experience is a great analogy. He has the second longest charting country hit of all time. Not only did he not win any awards instead his hosts made fun of his name on stage.

Working in tech is like that. Being excellent is not enough. You need to fully assimilate and then some.

A pregnant law school student should not have to fight for accommodations. Yet Georgetown argued that a test accommodation would be inequitable for her peers and alluded [that] she should have planned better bc “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/11/22/georgetown-law-pregnant-student-final-exam/

The ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’.
That’s not quite right.
Climate is feeling increasingly energized.
The big loser is us, the people of Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/election-climate-change-far-right

Ukraine can’t afford to lose tens of thousands of lives to reclaim Crimea, but the peninsula could be returned through diplomacy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview.
https://buff.ly/3ASHPb2

lol. lmao even.