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molly0xfff, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Wikipedia

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

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

jonny, 1 month ago to random

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

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auspol

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 #auspol @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.

dgar, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

What’s the scariest Australian animal?
(Set 1/2)

Ooze, 1 month ago to random

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.

#politas

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

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

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

deirdres, 1 month ago to random

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.

icy, 1 month ago to vegan

I've come to realise that the #vegan 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.

mightyspaceman, 1 month ago to Tasmania

Was just out for a night walk. I can't tell if my eyes are playing tricks, but I felt like I could see short flickers in the city light haze reflected off the air; kept walking, it seemed like it was happening in the streetlights too. Could there be something happening with the power grid?

#hobart #tasmania #powergrid #electricity

Ooze, 1 month ago to Tasmania

Home

The dry.

#Tasmania #photography

Ooze, 1 month ago to Tasmania

Keen followers will recall that a few weeks ago I posted about the wombat gate I had just built. I finally got a wildlife camera so I can see if anyone is actually using it. And they are!

Wombat goes in and then a couple of hours later goes out. Super excited.

#Tasmania #wombat #wildlife #photography

Wombat goes through wombat gate. Then goes back later.

Ooze, 2 months ago to auspol

Well this is going to be fun. Rockliff is claiming victory despite not have a majority, and neither Labor or the Libs could agree to a coalition with the Greens. I predict the first Liberal/Labor coalition government in Australia. They are so close to each other in policy that it is the only thing that either of them can do to get power.

And how the hell did Abetz get in? What the actual fuck.

#auspol #politas #TasmaniaVotes

Ooze, 2 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Centaurea montana

#BloomScrolling

Ooze, 2 months ago to auspol

Just had the pleasure of putting Abetz dead last.

#auspol #tasmania #TasmaniaVotes

larsmb, 2 months ago to openSUSE

Great, the latest #MozillaFirefox update for 123.0.1 on #openSUSE Tumbleweed just ... disabled all my add-ons because they're (supposedly?) not signed.

Remedy according to the docs?

Uninstall everything and reinstall a signed version! (They're apparently not automatically updated?)

Which, like, totally doesn't destroy the settings.

FOR FUCKS SAKE

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 months ago to auscovid19

"Qantas is facing a multimillion-dollar bill after it was found guilty of illegally firing 1700 workers during the COVID pandemic" | news.com.au

@Qantas #PandemicIsNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/qantas-faces-multimilliondollar-bill-over-illegally-firing-1700-workers/news-story/4b6c75067417e15d9d0a0672812b2700

lrvick, 2 months ago to random

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

morandi, 2 months ago to random

I see the tech feudal overlords are now saying there’s no longer a need to learn programming because AI.

These are the same wnkers who earlier said there’s no need to buy or keep physical media (books, music) because they wanted to sell you the same sht on-demand, only you never really owned it only leased it and sorry you have no rights and we f*cked you over.

F*ck them.

Learn programming.

We’ll need your skills when we’ve burned all this sh*t down and we’re rebuilding.

aggyanubis, 2 months ago to random

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱#goVegan 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago to random

Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting 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. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism