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mycotropic

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Now with less personal identification due to babka.social doxxing and less science due to the February 2024 triumph of #Enshitification embodied by #CDCSays

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bud_t, to academicchatter
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Fellow academic colleagues: please get involved in shared governance at your institution. I know, that kind of service takes up your time and is often thankless, but it is crucially important. And it is on the verge of extinction at many places. The rug is being pulled out from under us while we go about our teaching and research.

If we value our work in we have to do the work to make the institution a place that is fair, equitable, and just.

@academicchatter

mycotropic,
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@bud_t @academicchatter

It works pretty well at University of Colorado in my opinion.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

mycotropic,
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@GottaLaff

Do you expect they'll ask for her removal or are her arguments reasonable enough to cover her ass going forward?

mycotropic, to photography
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A few springtime views of our back yard, 22 years of work are represented. My lovely wife does the pruning and most of the weeding and I built the infrastructure, pavers, patio stones, arbor and all that. It's spring in Denver but too early for the masses of blooms that are coming!

[Edit] Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L so the yard isn't actually that big, it's the lens.

A grape arbor is shown in the corner of the back of a house, paving stones cover the ground and red chai cushions appear ready to accept guests butts
A garden is shown abutting a lawn, it's spring but not yet flowering and the garden is in shade

futurebird, to random
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The overhead for the AI on a minecraft ant is so great that the mod creators limit the colonies to just 20 ants to prevent lag. Fine for gameplay 20 feels like a lot.

Interesting the kind of things they do: remember the location of their nest, find a path back, collect leaves etc. are so taxing.

In the real world a colony of 1000+ is typical. Some colonies have millions of ants. And real ants have much more to "process" Kind of gives you a sense of the scale of the intelligence of a colony.

mycotropic,
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@futurebird

I'd guess that the ants each have their own GPU running a copy of the AntOS right? I wonder whether we could learn something about biological computing/cooperation by taking one of those stupid Bitcoin mining machines, installing AntOS on each of the GPUs and pointing the collective at a problem to solve?

mycotropic,
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@barrygoldman1 @futurebird

As a model for computing though, could it solve different types of problems using existing hardware? I've been told that those Bitcoin mining computers can't do much else but could you build an OS that's local to a GPU but mimics the logic that ants use in order to solve types of problems that aren't any related?

AmishSuperModel, to random
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Great article about how religion became part of American Law (and NOT by it’s Founders as some like to claim).

“The National Day of Prayer kicked off a profusion of official endorsements of religion: the National Prayer Breakfast (1953); “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (1954); a Congressional Prayer Room in the U.S. Capitol (1955); “In God We Trust” as the U.S. motto (1956), on our money (1957) and inscribed on the rostrum of the speaker of the House (1962).”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/abolish-national-prayer-day/

mycotropic,
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@AmishSuperModel

And this crap is still playing out! trump learned from and admires Roy Cohn who was McCarthy's right hand in the early 50's; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

We need, as a country, to get past that goddamn generation of fascists.

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

mycotropic,
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@todwest @Jennifer @bookstodon

Hey now, that's great news, I love that series!

mycotropic, to animals
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Kiton has this area covered, go about your business citizens.

Alice, to random
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Which one of you jerks who won’t see this unfollowed me?

mycotropic,
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@Alice
I was playing AK Odyssey! Cassandra needed some levels man!!!

mycotropic, to Bloomscrolling
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My backyard is busy using a macro lens!

Tiny blue flowers with a sea of out of focus flowers in the background
Tiny purple flowers up close

mycotropic, to random
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My daughter brought home her stuff from college, yes, that's her being eaten by seagulls and the texture is sewn on beads. It's 5 feet tall, where can I possibly hang it

A poem written by my daughter is shown, it's kind of long to type out

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

Do you like her socks?

SJBradley, to Cats
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I tried to get him to participate in but he says he's "too tired"

mycotropic,
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@SJBradley

I have no idea what you're talking about!

Alice, to random
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I dated a guy for about a week when I was a teenager and I just googled him and found a YouTube video of him doing standup comedy which is interesting because I don’t remember him being particularly funny and the video serves as proof that he still isn't.

mycotropic,
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@Alice
I used the internet to discover that my ex-wife moved to Kansas, I consider that chapter of my life 100% closed now.

falcennial, to random
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a like button is some straight 1984 shit. it can mean "I like this thing," or "I like that you told me about this thing I dislike." when something can mean either yes or no, why have it? people either have their own personal rules, or adhere to a convention they know, or don't. why have it? what outcome is it for? what outcome does it achieve? why have it?

mycotropic,
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@falcennial

I use it as a visual placeholder and acknowledgement of @GottaLaff long and incredibly interesting threads. I tick them off as I read them and I can come back to a thread, scroll through it quickly and find where I left off in a straightforward way. Same with other long threads that take a while to read or change over time.
So it's a multiply-functional tool for me!

mycotropic, to random
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She's already had enough and it's only 7:19am.

alexwild, to random
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

mycotropic,
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@alexwild

I'm a biologist/anthropologist, MPH, PhD in epidemiology and there is literally no number of dollars you could offer me that would attract me to Texas. I wouldn't accept Dean, Chancellor or President either. I'm not even tenure tracked faculty where I am and, no, no way.

mycotropic, to random
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Talked with leadership about the protests in Colorado today, nobody said; "the arrests on Friday were a mistake" but they did say; "they immediately returned and are still there"..

The problems that will generate a response is the disruption of learning or teaching and the obvious stuff like violence or hate speach, not officially but those are the rules that were quoted. They also card locked the buildings so that students could access and use the toilet but non students can't, that's to keep the protest a student protest apparently and perhaps reduce the encampment impact.

My campus is across town and I mentioned that the armored response did nothing to keep things calm and head nods all around. We read my email to the chief and his response into the record as well. All in all I think that leadership learned quickly from Friday and is acting fairly and appropriately at this point.


mycotropic, to random
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So this is what being stuck in an elevator is like!


mycotropic,
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Okay, I was freed from my metal box AND I didn't have to pee in my salad bowl!

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

I can always count on your support when it truly matters!

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

I continue to depend on you! Tell me how I can support you going forward!

mycotropic,
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@treleanor @anathema_device

Oh no! Are you still there? Should we send someone?

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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Report

"Police arrest anti-war student protesters at Texas university"

"US riot police have been filmed arresting a person who appears to be disabled during anti-war protests at the University of Texas.

"Dozens of students were arrested as police moved in to clear the encampment, reportedly using pepper spray to disperse crowds."

Video
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=X3kj6h3clLE

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/30/police-arrest-anti-war-student-protesters-at-texas-university

..

mycotropic,
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@DrALJONES

I'm trying to head this off in Colorado today! Hope I still have a job this afternoon!

Binder, (edited ) to random
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Finally bought myself a quilted comforter.

It took forever to come up w/ the down payment.

mycotropic,
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@Binder

Batting a thousand again I see!

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