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Rhodium103

@Rhodium103@mastodon.social

🧪 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry Education
📜 SFHEA dontcha know
👨‍🏫 (Deputy) Director of Education
🖥️ Self-appointed Canvas LMS expert
📊 Spreadsheet apologist
🎨 Occasional artist
⚔️ Warhammer adjacent
📺 Connoisseur of Netflix's finest trash
🐧 Chaotic neutral
🧒🏻 he/him/they
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇬🇧 (not by choice, you understand...)

Now also running https://mstdn.science/@HullScience

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tomw, to random
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Saw a thread with loads of boosts and positive comments recommending GNU Mailman as an open source substitute for Mailchimp and... what? What??

Anyone recommending this has no clue where the difficult part is today in sending emails at any list size over ~100. (Clue: it's the bit where people actually receive any of the emails.)

Rhodium103,
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@tomw
I'm pretty sure you could get Mastodon to viral boost a post with entirely fictional open source software. Post something like "Yeah, that's why I run GNU Cactus Calendar on SockDraw 2.26 alongside Papertoilet in the Jellyfish environment" and people will be, like, "Yes, these are definitely real things and excellent alternatives to Chrome".

Rhodium103, to random
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What I need AI for is when someone emails me saying "hi chris i need an extensin on my essay", it can take the student's email, cross ref it with assignments on the VLE, figure out that "essay" refers to "001:CWRK Written Assignment" in module 4000xx that's due in a week, and send me the URL of that assignment.

What they'll actually sell me is a thing that will read their reasons and use biases and heuristics to decide whether they "deserve" the extension, and leave me with the boring stuff.

Aaron_DeVries, to random
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"Randomized controlled trial"

Rhodium103,
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@Aaron_DeVries @ninkosan
Placebo parachutes!

Rhodium103, to random
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There's a lot been made of AI's carbon footprint being huge, but cryptocurrency has been in that region for years and that has absolutely no use whatsoever.

Meanwhile, AI can do immensely useful things like "paint me a picture of Nicolas Cage riding a giant cat while carrying a lightsabre" or "re-write legendary badfic 'My Immortal' in the style of Tolstoy".

Rhodium103, to random
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A year ago, Twitter introduced me to "Liz Truss Day Collar Theory".

A year ago, I stopped using Twitter.

Coincidence?

Rhodium103, to Excel
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I trust about six people on the entire planet to use as a database without causing injury. I don't know about the other five, but I still wouldn't.

Rhodium103, to random
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I, too, have never been invited to a gender reveal party, so I must be doing something right with my life.

Rhodium103, to random
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On This Day last year, I was putting off exam questions by making far-right websites:

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    @GossiTheDog
    "Look at how many coppers there are in my house... That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in, where they arrest me for conspiracy to commit criminal damage when they should be in that woman's house there, arresting her for existing!" - Laurence Fox, probably.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    UK national infrastructure projects should start at the North and make their way down. Then we might actually stand a chance of seeing some of it before the money mysteriously runs out just south of Birmingham.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    Our internet is down, and the child would like to play games on their tablet.

    But without Internet, it keeps throwing "you don't own this content" errors, even though it's all downloaded.

    Now I'm stuck explaining both mobile hotshot tethering and enshitification to a 4 year old.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    Nietzsche: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

    Microbiologists : "What doesn't kill you mutates and tries again."

    Rhodium103, to random
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    Here's how you know you've dropped the highest quality pun on Facebook:

    MnemosyneSinger, to random

    Finally getting somewhere in life thanks to rich people's advice

    Rhodium103,
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    @MnemosyneSinger In only ten years!?!?

    Rhodium103, to random
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    A man walks into a bar and asks for a pint of adenosine triphosphate.

    The barman replies, "sure, that'll be 80p".

    Rhodium103, to random
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    We should adopt putting ID badges upside-down in lanyards as the universal sign of scientific distress.

    onlmaps, to random
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    Actual distance between two points and how it looks on commonly used map drawn using Mercator projection

    (via u/zihua_)

    Rhodium103,
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    @MintSpies @onlmaps That's because the Mercator projection is designed to be used for navigation, and the Peters projection is designed to make people who like maps throw up and gouge their eyes out.

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    @amyfou The complaining is productive. Sometimes you need to let it out and make others experience the pain of wondering "how the fuck is this possible!?"

    Rhodium103, to random
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    Nothing says "British Primary School" like Comic Sans and a printer that clearly is in desperate need of a thorough clean.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    You might not be able to take 'Harry Potter Studies' for real, but you could do Potions with us in Chemistry, which is pretty much the same thing but minus the casual racism and visceral hatred of fat people.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    A fun game to play in London is to look at the back of all the terraced houses you pass while on the train, and then try to guess which extensions actually followed the building regs.

    Rhodium103, to random
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    I'd tell a great joke about trickle-down economics, but 99% would never get it.

    Rhodium103, to chemistry
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    "Even though I could"

    Rhodium103, to random
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    Is it an ADHD thing that, despite spending 100+ making it, I've only just remembered that I have a course I'm supposed to keep an eye on?

    Rhodium103, to Excel
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    I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

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