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I know this is probably about Australia, but I immediately imagine 19th-century high/low-tech steampunk.
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When you see a man who's broken:
Pick him up and carry him
When you see a woman who's broken:
Put her all into your arms
b/c we don't know where we come from:
we don't know what we are
and you:
you're no one
and you:
you're falling
and you:
you're traveling... at the speed of light
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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RE: @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social
This seems like it should be an ongoing ambient theme in a track by @tsrono@mastodon.social or one of their talented colleagues.
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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Everybody needs to stop beginning sentences with "Yet..."
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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Feb 26, 2026
Hey, babe, the door was locked so I used the window, and the car is in the front yard. It's OK. I heard about it on the radio or something.
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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Feb 26, 2026
"Whether F sounds like an English F or V isn't difficult." (grabs pen and napkin) "It's quite simple."
(pauses)
(pauses more)
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"Actually, it's very complicated."
-- German guy 2 years ago
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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Feb 26, 2026
But you SAID you liked piña coladas, Angela! And the rain thing!
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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I've been disheartened, over the past decade at my somewhat head-up-its-own-ass university, to find that standing up for principles everyone says they value--democracy, transparency, science, inclusion, anti-authoritarianism, etc.--has made me a lot more enemies than friends. I'm convinced that I'm on the administration's shit list, and will never receive a sabbatical or promotion. Sadly, a lot of my fellow faculty also treat me like persona non grata apparently due to me advocating for their rights.
I'm pretty sure, from patterns and occasional statements, that a lot of my colleagues don't want carefully-crafted policies, the rule of law (or at least what passes for law in a small university), democracy, or transparency because they want the option to use the injustice for their own purposes at some point. They don't want to be tied to reasonable standards because they want the ability to throw those standards away if there's someone they don't like, or some rule they personally hate, or some shitty behavior they could personally benefit from.
I grew up very religious. I wasn't a fundamentalist or anything, but I took exception to exceptions: If we preach loving everyone, then why aren't we fucking loving everyone? If disobedience to God's chosen servants is a super bad sin, then why do we only punish it when the disobedience goes politically to the left?
Anyway, this is a subtoot about a bunch of my colleagues publicly saying some serious falsehoods about the "responsible AI use" we're all being pressured to adopt: It's not actually bad for the environment or labor; those concerns are overblown and a little wonky, don't you think? And genAI is not trained on copyrighted or paywalled data! What makes you think that? That's not how these things work! Didn't you read what [billionaire] said last month? Paranoid much?"
So I think I have a few more unsympathetic colleagues after my reply, stuffed with links to things the AI bros have actually said and done.
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Anyone want a cool domain name? If you're a cool person you can have xenologue.com for $0 (or $1 or 1 euro or whatever, if I have to charge something to transfer it). Of course you'll be responsible for renewals after you own it, but I don't need it and I've been sitting on it for almost 20 years.
Ideal for someone who speaks or is interested in one or more foreign languages?
#offer #domainname #CoolPeopleOnly #free
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RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115891885954410747 Also: you give someone free rein (as in, what you use to control horses), not free reign (that's what Donald Trump wants for himself).
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@cstross@wandering.shop ALSO: Nobody will ever convince me that "based off of" is anything but edgelord idiocy coined by 19-year-olds in like 1996 who drove tuned Corollas dropped to an inch above the pavement with neon lights underneath and spoilers the size of 747 wings, and who listened to Orgy on auto-repeat on their 500-CD changers.
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RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115891885954410747 Also: you give someone free rein (as in, what you use to control horses), not free reign (that's what Donald Trump wants for himself).
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@cstross@wandering.shop The "jibe" vs "jive" thing still confuses me. I've read explainers over the years that have claimed each of them is correct, or both are.
I also don't know whether "home in on" or "hone in on" is right (though I suspect it's the former).
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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@isaackuo@spacey.space I am delighted by both of these ideas :)
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My goal was not to define "neurodiversity" or find out the "reality" of what is and is not neurodiverse. My goal was to find out what people on the fediverse believe neurodiversity is, or--more pointedly--what they want it to be.
The label itself is (IMO) not well grounded in science, and maybe can't be. No two humans have the same kind of brain, so if we want a big category like "neurodiverse" (implicitly excluding many people from the category), there have to be lines drawn in the sand. The boundaries are extremely fuzzy, and the underlying realities seem to be dimensions, no categories. I think I understand the need for the term, and I support continuing to discuss who it does and doesn't apply to, though I think that is a social and political activity, not primarily a scientific one. To be clear, I believe this kind of social and political activity is important, and has done a lot of good so far.
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My refrigerator has killed two light bulbs in the last week. I think it's just a coincidence but my evolved apophenia is incredulous
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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@ferrix@mastodon.online Highly unlikely if they were new bulbs, I think. N=2 is a small sample, but I'm wondering if something electrical is happening.
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@flargh@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop I thought that was NZ.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Hey, I sent you one of my students a few years ago. She's still there and she's awesome. You're welcome.
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It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t wash your rice before cooking it. There seems to be a correlation between those that wash coming from a ‘rice’ culture (ex: east Asia) vs those that do
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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username) Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever. Academic who likes academia as a friend. I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post. he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me. I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Nothing new, but I decided to do a quick hypothesis test on this (proportions test, done by chi-square). The poll results are rounded, so getting the Ns is a little imprecise but
Population estimates from sample...
Rice culture: 76% washers
Bread culture: 56% washers
Proportions are not statistically significantly different (X2 = 3.55, 1df, p = .06) but pretty close to being so.
The proportions (both observed and estimated) are in favor of rice culture folks being more likely to wash their rice, but the sample size (for rice culture) is really small, as you said.
For fun I did a little sensitivity test. If these proportions held in a sample of 450 (instead of 361), you would have p < .05.
Anyway, rice culture wins in the sample but the amount by which it wins is not enough to conclude that the same is true in the population. Just barely not enough.
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