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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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lrvick, to random
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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.

Ooze,
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@lrvick I recently got refused service by a medical provider because I wouldn't agree to let the software that they use to run their practice resell my data.

RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

Ooze,
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@RickiTarr I'd like the option to do so but not the inability to die.

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.

RickiTarr, to random
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Do you think there are "normal" people? If so, what constitutes normal? If not, why not?

Ooze,
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@RickiTarr The idea of normal is what happens when you quantify psychology.

Ooze, to random
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Timely.

I'm looking at you.

Ooze, to Tasmania
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Home

I made a wombat gate because the fence was in their way.

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.

Ooze, to auspol
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Just had the pleasure of putting Abetz dead last.

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?

RickiTarr, to random
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Is Julian Assange a hero, villain, or something in between?

Ooze,
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@RickiTarr It is impossible to comment on the true nature of someone one only knows via the media.

Ooze, to Signal
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Today I discovered that you can only edit a #signal 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

Ooze, to Tasmania
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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.

Wombat goes through wombat gate. Then goes back later.

Ooze, to auspol
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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.

Ooze, to Tasmania
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Home.

Evening light.

Ooze, to random
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Home

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

Ooze, to australia
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As many as half a million households in Victoria have lost power after a major transmission line was brought down by a storm, tripping a power station and sending spot electricity prices soaring.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/victorias-electricity-spot-prices-soar-as-states-largest-coal-generator-suffers-outage

Ooze, to Tasmania
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Home.

Smoke from the fires up north fills the Huon Valley today. No going outdoors for me today, which is a bugger as I was hoping to get my seedlings planted.

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 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, to random
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Home.

The Muscovy ducklings are predictably huge already.

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 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.

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/

KathyReid, to random
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My reflection from yesterday's @linuxaustralia - you can't make things a priority for an organisation unless prioritisation involves dedicating resources to that priority.

If there are no additional resources, and other things are not de-prioritised, then you cannot logically make something else a priority.

There is a "red line" on organisational capacity - if things get added to the list of priorities / tasks, then either something else drops below the line, or more resources are required to deliver those priorities.

It's that simple.

Ooze, (edited )
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@KathyReid @linuxaustralia Your comment about my "making a big deal" about not being able to increase text size in Zoom is an excellent exemplar of how Linux Australia is doing at accommodating disability. I needed to increase the text size because I had great difficulty reading the chat despite employing accessibility options on my own computer. I should have expected nothing better after my advocating for better support of disabled people to help them participate at Everything Open was met with "we don't have the resources for that".

As I said before, I was going to offer to investigate exactly what needed to be done to get Linux Australia to be using 100% open source, but the motion was voted down without anyone even asking me if I would do anything. At the very least this is a procedural failure. The chairman put the motion to a vote without the discussion being complete. A point which another attendee made at the time.

I can understand how people in an organisation set up to promote open source might feel attacked when a member of the organisation asks them why they aren't in fact using open source software for the activities of that organisation. However I did not say "You're a bunch of hypocrites" which your toot portrays as a direct quote but is in fact a misrepresentation. I did say it was hypocritical of the organisation to advocate for open source but to not use open source itself.

The fact remains that they voted down a motion asking them to make it a priority to do the core thing the organisation purports to support. If they are angry about that then that is way more about them than about my approach. I was offering to help the organisation live up to its principles and, not only was my help not accepted, but now you are patronising me in public. This is a strange approach for an organisation that says it will support people to do things if they step up.

The fact that Linux Australia even considered using Zoom, a known data security risk and a complete trash fire of a company, for their AGM is a massive prioritization of convenience over principle, and a really bad look. And I do not apologize for calling them out on that.

I 100% don't care about political capital. I care about doing things for the community. That is why I gave my time and organised OSDC. That is why I presented at LCA. That is why I have gone on the session selection committee whenever I was asked. That is why I was offering to edit an open journal at the AGM, an offer which was also not taken up. If multiple people are offside because I offered to help the organisation not be hypocritical and to be more accessible to disabled people then this is clearly not an organisation I want to be a part of.

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