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Ooze

@Ooze@aus.social

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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thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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    Ooze,
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    @thomasfuchs This reminds me of a talk I gave about ethics in software development in which (in 2019!) I pointed out the evils of FB and Google and a question actually was "For those of us who don't have the privilege of leaving these firms what other things can we do to improve ethics?" Turns out "not have the privilege" meant that they couldn't make as much money anywhere else. To paraphrase myself from that talk, if you want an ethical outcome you have to make ethics your highest priority every single time. There is a link to the talk in my profile fyi.

    tylerdave, to random
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    Left from about 33 hrs ago. Had a scratchy throat this morning w/ a negative test and just now have a positive test.

    I went out with various groups, unmasked, throughout the weekend. This was a risk I was willing to take. Still, I'm glad I was wearing a mask in the convention center around folks who did not choose to take that same risk.

    I'm gonna go rest now.

    Ooze,
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    @glyph @offby1 I use these masks https://www.detmoldmedical.com/detmed/n95-surgical-respirator-masks/w247m9001/ which come in six sizes. I got fit tested the first time I bought them and so I know which size to buy. I read, and watched the video, on that page of the manufacturers instructions on how to correctly put on and take off a mask and on how to do a fit test check, and adjust the mask appropriately each time one puts it on. I have not left my house without wearing one of these since covid started.

    It wasn't a lot of effort. And now it is a transparent part of my daily life. To my knowledge I have not had covid yet.

    Ooze,
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    @tylerdave Going out with a group anywhere without a mask is taking a risk on other people's lives. You have most likely endangered everyone you encountered on your way home after getting infected and contributed to the spread of COVID. Some of those people could die or be disabled for life.

    Ooze,
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    @offby1 If someone is discouraged from sharing their test results when it is pointed out to them that all thay had to do to protect themselves and others from death is wear a mask it is because they are experiencing the shame of knowing they did the wrong thing. I assure you it gives me no pleasure whatsoever to let people know that their actions could be killing people. All I feel is sadness.

    Not sharing their results is not hurting anyone. At this stage it is a billion percent obvious that anyone who attended a group event maskless should get tested.

    Ooze,
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    @glyph @offby1 It is not as simple as that. Any mask is better than no mask https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-mask.html

    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.


    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.

    gnitro, to random
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    Did another thrift store visit today. Grabbed 49 CDs for $1 each. It's such a great time to grab physical media before people realize streaming platforms aren't the answer.

    Ooze,
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    @gnitro in the last couple of years here in Australia used record and cd shops have been opening up and any half decent album is going for $50.

    Ooze,
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    @gnitro I reckon its a bit late. The price of records has gone through the roof the last couple of years.

    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 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.

    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/

    Ooze, to mastodon
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    I would be most grateful if anyone can help me please.

    I have just migrated from mastodon.social to aus.social. When I have seen the profiles of others who have migrated instances there is a link at the bottom of their posts that says something like, previous posts were made at another instance, and there is a link to the old profile at the old instance. This is not showing up for me. Is there something I haven't done right in my migration?

    Ooze, to Tasmania
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    Home

    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.

    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."

    #COVID19 #RATs #rapidantigentests @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!

    Ooze, to photography
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    Does anyone recognise this beautiful person?

    ml, to science
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    Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? @academicchatter

    Ooze,
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    @ml @academicchatter I too wish to know the answer to this question.

    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.

    Ooze, to Tasmania
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    Top wind speed yesterday 75.6kph! Totally not coincidentally this poor darling got blown over at the time that peak happened.

    Ooze, to Astronomy
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    Deosil is anticlockwise

    I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the Sun travels through the sky, and specifically about which way it goes. In fact I wrote my Honours thesis about it, which I will put up here in the not too distant future. But I digress. The direction of the Sun’s movement is usually described as clockwise. But why is clockwise clockwise? Which is to say, why is the direction we call clockwise turning the way it is? No one will be surprised to know that clocks go that way because they are mimicking the direction of the Sun. This is based on a person facing the direction of the sunrise and seeing the Sun gradually move to their right over the course of the day; east, then southeast, then south, then southwest, then west. This direction is also referred to in English as deosil, a word with Gaelic roots. It is from from Old Irish, dess meaning right and sel meaning to turn.

    However this situation does not obtain the planet over. Indeed where I live the Sun absolutely does not do this. My Sun rises in the east and then moves northeast, then north, then northwest, then west. I remember trying to explain this to a bunch of northern hemisphere Pagans at a Glastonbury solstice vigil one time, and they fully thought I was mad. They were unable to separate the concept of deosil from that of clockwise for the same reason I was unable to reconcile what I saw when I looked at the sky with the representation of that sky on an astrological chart, i.e. it just didn’t look that way to me. It took me a very long time to learn any astrology because of this. My breakthrough came when I eventually found some astrological software that had a feature to display the chart wheel as it appears in the southern hemisphere. It was a revelation. Suddenly the framework I had been taught to work with accurately reflected the reality of my sky, where deosil is anticlockwise.

    So me and the bloke made a thing to help us austral dwellers see an astrological chart that shows our actual sky, with things moving in the direction they move for us. Here is a still from our real time, live updating chart for Hobart (42°52’48.0″S 147°19’01.2″E), Tasmania, Australia. You will have to go to the blog to see the actual live one.

    Read the rest of this piece at;

    https://ooze.net/deosil-is-anticlockwise/

    P.S. If anyone knows how to italicise text in a toot please let me know.

    Ooze, to mastodon
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    I reckon people who moved to Mastodon and stayed are the kind of people who would pass the get a second marshmallow in 15 minutes if you don't eat the first one till then test.

    Ooze, to random
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    Timely.

    I'm looking at you.

    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

    Ooze, to random
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    Home

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

    Ooze, to Signal
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    Today I discovered that you can only edit a message a maximum of ten times. I had been keeping a record of a series of events over a number of days and adding new info as it happened, hoping to be able to send a single message at the end, but it finally refused to commit an edit saying ten edits is the max.

    Ooze, to Tasmania
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    Home

    The aurora filling the Tasmanian sky

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