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Ooze

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Virtually Real

"We each live in our own perceptual universe, no two sensoria are exactly alike, but, because we all live in the same physical universe, we imagine it is a shared whole, its entirety common to us all. But our perceptual worlds are as unique as we each are, each unique perceptual world adding to the creation of the whole of reality."

Theologian. Historian. Polytheist Animist. Regenerative Farmer. Refugee From Academia. Open Data Advocate. Photographer.

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Ooze, to Tasmania
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Home

The aurora filling the Tasmanian sky

Ooze, to random
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Home

The Southern Cross almost obscured by the brightness of the aurora.

Ooze, to random
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Medicine in Tasmania.

Must see doctor every x days to get new prescription. Minimum days in which it is possible to book an appointment to see a doctor =x+5

akosma, to random
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“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to have a dogmatic opinion, to be backed up by inflicting starvation, prison, and war, and to be carefully guarded from argumentative competition with any different opinion.”

Bertrand Russell, “Free Thought and Official Propaganda”, March 24th, 1922.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda

Ooze,
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@akosma Dogmatism is the greatest danger, especially in religion. https://ooze.net/dogmatic-religion-is-a-bitch/

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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"The gas giants won’t have to explore for new gas fields themselves. Santos, Woodside, Origin, Chevron, BP and Shell won’t have to spend a cent looking for new deposits — you’ll be paying for it instead.

#AusPol
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/09/labor-gas-plans-fossil-fuel-industry-capture

Ooze,
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@luciedigitalni This was always going to happen.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to Rats
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What are the most reliable rapid antigen tests? | racgp.org.au

"A new study has analysed 26 RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests

Ooze,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 tldr; most rats are shit. Buy Fanttest, Innoscreen, and Juschek if you want ones that work.

nora, to random
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im depressed, can you please tell me a fun fact to cheer me up

Ooze,
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@nora Look how many types of hedgehogs there are!

jimbob, to random
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Right. It has happened. My institution now wants to develop teaching materials for a course by literally just running my papers through an LLM to "simplify" them. Have told the person requesting this my opinions on this idea.

Ooze,
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@jimbob I hope your opinion was, "Go fuck yourself".

Ooze,
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@jimbob What's the NTEU like these days? When I was in it no one was even interested in standing up for the things that were already in the award, and if one got the union involved one was a pariah. For me it was unpaid marking.

Ooze,
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@jimbob Seems like a good opportunity to encourage them to expedite some action.

I mean, basically they are asking you to comit academic malpractice so you are within your rights to refuse.

CoinOfNote, to australia
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ANZAC day, the 25th April, is one of the most solemn days in , commemorating the first great battle Australia took part in as a nation - the storming of the beach in what is now known as "ANZAC Cove", Türkiye on April 25, 1915 as part of . stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the name for the joint force of the two young nations, forever joined in solidarity and mateship.

Lest, we forget.

@histodons @numismatics

Medallion featuring an army bugler playing "The Last Post" with "THE ANZACS" above and "APRIL 25, 1915" below.

Ooze,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics ANZAC day marks the first time that Australian and New Zealand soldiers died fighting in a war that in no way threatened our countries, in aid of an imperial power who threw away our soldiers' lives because of incompetence.

Ooze,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics May we never stop asking why we do war.

Is bravery not wasted on destruction in a facile cause? It can be more nobley deployed.

Much of the focus on ANZAC day glorifies war instead of grieving for and then preventing it.

Ooze,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics Your point is valid for those who were drafted and sent to Vietnam. Those who volunteer for the military at any time knowingly surrender their morals to those they are thus sworn to obey.

While it is true that, since the Nuremberg principles, soldiers are alleged to be able to refuse an immoral order, the likelihood of being shot should one chose to do so means the only sure way to not be forced to act against one's morals is not to enlist at all.

Ooze, to Tasmania
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Fuck the Tasmanian fire service and their claim to "protect lives and communities" by wholesale torching entire hills. There is so much research that shows that this only makes things worse.

This is over the road from my house. There is zero chance I can go outside. The inside of my house smells like smoke and I have two air purifiers going. Do we even have a clean air law in this state or what?

I m just devastated by the sheer number of creatures and plants they are killing, all in the name of protecting humans, which it isn't even doing anyway.

Ooze,
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@mightyspaceman Hot burns completely destroy even the plants that don't burn well, and don't regenerate well after fire, so only those that burn and regenerate survive so you end up with a greater likelihood of getting a burn in less extreme weather because all the plants that burn less are gone and you are only left with those that burn readily.

Ooze, to random
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Home

Super conveniently located cat.

molly0xfff, (edited ) to Wikipedia
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In this video, I also go into the idea of "verifiability, not truth" — a philosophy that is controversial both on- and off-wiki.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112295872084954257

Ooze,
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@molly0xfff Which video?

jonny, to random
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Every time I see any story about how fucked scholarly communication is my first reaction is a) yall know you can just make your own websites right, b) yall know you can just review each others work without a journal giving you permission right, and only then do I arrive at c) ok there are systemic problems but seriously have you considered (a) and (b) and how this is all entirely optional

Ooze,
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@jonny Having eschewed academic publishing from the get go I followed the path you have mentioned. My PhD thesis is on my website where I placed this https://ooze.net/about/ invitation to anyone to review it to help me improve it as a resource.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auspol
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South Australia: "Ambulance ramping has been formally shelved as the Malinauskas government’s top priority in a substantial ministerial reshuffle that focuses on growing housing, population and the economy."

@PMalinauskasMP @alpsa @auscovid19

Source: https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/analysis-winners-and-losers-in-sa-labor-governments-first-cabinet-reshuffle-paul-starick/news-story/4ff2c15c2323fec2f7a7227eb9daca18

The next election, in March, 2026, is now positioned as a test of whether the Malinauskas government has fixed the housing crisis and eased skills shortages while growing the economy and population. The Cabinet has been dramatically repurposed, with substantial changes to the responsibilities of the Deputy Premier and Treasurer, at the highest level. In a sensible move, Deputy Premier Susan Close has been stripped of the defence and space portfolios, which have been handed to Treasurer Stephen Mullighan. As deputy leader, Dr Close has a substantial say in portfolio allocation, which involves balancing factions and gender. Dr Close’s new role of Workforce and Population Strategy Minister more accurately describes what she had been doing in defence. The challenge of building a skilled workforce for the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine construction is immense and her education background has been useful planning higher and vocational education developments. A pacifist, she seemed ill at ease with appearing at Osborne Naval Shipyard for high-stakes talks about warships and submarines – Mr Malinauskas revels in that spotlight. With this in mind, Mr Mullighan will have to do a lot of the grunt work as the rubber hits the road at Osborne, now the joint submarine builders have been announced and construction of the shipyard starts. Dr Close has lost portfolio responsibilities, including SA Water to a super Housing portfolio, but her internal influence has been maintained.
Nat Cook and Joe Szakacs are the biggest losers. Ms Cook cherished the social housing aspect of her Human Services portfolio, which has been lost, but she has gained Seniors and Ageing Well. Mr Szakacs has lost police and emergency services after law and order became a pain point for the government. Trade and Investment are decent portfolios but Mr Champion had them combined with housing. The ebullient Rhiannon Pearce, however, assists the effervescent Katrine Hildyard as Assistant Minister for Junior Sport Participation. This, surely, is a worthy portfolio addition given the insidious rise of social media dominating young minds, rather than healthy outdoor activities.

Ooze,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 They have learned nothing.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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What’s the scariest Australian animal?
(Set 1/2)

Ooze,
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@dgar Peter Dutton.

Ooze, to random
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Bwahahahahahaha!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/06/make-up-of-tasmanian-parliament-finally-settled-as-anti-politician-independent-takes-last-seat

Rockcliff is so fucked. He can't deal with the Greens and Lambie hates his guts. He's toast. Probably Abetz will take over and swing the party harder to the right, thus dooming any future electoral success.

eliocamp, to random
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I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

1/n

Ooze,
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@eliocamp @academicchatter I think she is spot on. I think your implication that making YouTube videos is somehow inherently dodgy is unfair. She's doing something that is accessible to people who can't access a university and she's not perpetuating the wasteful bullshit that takes up so much of an academics life in an institution.

deirdres, to random
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Dammit dammit dammit. We have another sick cockie. Not as far gone as the other, but it looks like our local flock is heading the way of some others in the area - “You can scarcely find a healthy bird in the flock” said the wildlife carer of nearby groups.

Ooze,
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@deirdres What is wrong with them?

icy, to vegan
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I've come to realise that the position can't be argued or proven false. Because at its core it's really simple: to limit animal suffering as far as practicable. It is altruistic.

You either want to do this, or you don't.

If you don't, it's either because you hold hedonistic or speciesist views. The hedonistic viewpoint—i.e. "I eat it because it's tasty"—falls flat rather quickly because most reasonable people would agree that someone kicking a dog simply because it "makes them feel good" is "wrong".

The speciesist viewpoint, of which there are a few, like the call to "sapience", "sentience" or just "we're at the top of the food chain" are all logically flawed. Once again, most reasonable people would agree that killing and eating a human child (of a similar or even lesser "sentience" to that of a pig or a cow) would be a very bad thing to do. As for the food chain: that's circular reasoning since there's no connection between our supposed position in the food chain and the justifiability of eating animals that we intentionally put beneath us by eating them.

So yeah, bottom line is: all arguments against minimising animal suffering can be distilled down as such. Just eat plants—it's good for you and for the animals.

Ooze,
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@icy Minimizing suffering does not require that one not kill animals but rather that they are raised and killed humanely. Industrial animal production does neither of these things. To argue that one must prolong life at all costs makes no sense for any kind of animal.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

Ooze,
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@pvonhellermannn Until you do something about it it totally is your fault. Join a union and do some goddam industrial action.

By your I mean the general you he refers to in his article. i.e. every academic still employed at a uni.

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