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antlerboy

@antlerboy@mastodon.social

systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
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Would love to automatically cross-post to and from Twitter again - not working at the moment!
I spray information around (tweets scheduled by Buffer), and seek to connect absolutely all over the place to read a huge variety of views.

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jdevoo, to random

News from the biology front line with "selectively advantageous instability" and implications for evolution and aging that will be of interest to org students cc @antlerboy @RuthMalan
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fragi.2024.1376060

kvistgaard, to random
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What Science Forgets https://nautil.us/what-science-forgets-604648/?_sp=3b7646b8-da5e-48e4-9c22-07699786cf6d.1716559517491

nileane, to random
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The French government has banned TikTok in New Caledonia following pro-independence protests.

When asked about the legality of the measure, it basically replied that since the territory is not part of the EU’s jurisdiction, it’s perfectly allowed to ban social platforms however it likes.

What in the colonial crap is this bullshit. For fuck’s sake.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/16/new-caledonia-emerges-from-third-night-of-unrest-amid-tiktok-ban-and-state-of-emergency_6671623_7.html

WearsHats, to random
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I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.

BigJackBrass, to uk
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Reasons to be Cheerful: "Beavers Are Back in London — and They’re Thriving"

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/beavers-are-back-in-london-and-theyre-thriving/

sundogplanets, to random
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social avatar

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

kvistgaard, to random
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antlerboy, to random
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Rather wonderfully, in Serbo-Croat, Medium Density Fibreboard (or MDF) is known as 'mediyapan' - because the first supplies they got were stamped... 'made in Japan'. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f753c9bfe240238f&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1GCEU_en-GBGB1000GB1001&sxsrf=ACQVn08j0FTVRC8pbe7h74-Ogletj2nsOw:1714060811528&q=medijapan+mdf&uds=AMwkrPutJ-__Ia2m5cqSncI5GW6OJ1vIgc8nODKBEPmHxP9IsWXiTaEuSwsnVbdgvUbDgWiPAYupGAdlqyIMuNbsQFFc-gcLURWNHp8bOH7vMS1QH31P15hiyl0lHeAZvIjbpJ1ShtczOzGVqAecpmfE4g1yaeG08LFUmROboAdltiSUJ3bsIJWMFVn4Rqn8zzaKECP52vCjRcpzjPZOHqRtFrEaqqaw8fcOgoaltxMT_TtsnunWDIOgwI5Brg8rXFk9kIfBC6L7kIDBnPIQPtWqMOZypAv5rnx-uKnS3JG-oZY6BFLen2Q&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKnK2O3t2FAxUxgf0HHbyiD1IQtKgLegQICRAB&biw=1440&bih=779&dpr=1

personofnorank,
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@antlerboy the Russian word for train station is vokzal, which goes back to when Russian engineers visited London in the 19th century and saw a train station with a sign saying Vauxhall.

vinceknight, to random
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Moved in to our building 3 years ago.

I have never been able to clean my whiteboard.

I have been for 3 years, trying every single internet tip and trick. Buying cleaning products etc…

Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and emailed our maintenance staff to say that: “I need a new whiteboard, I've essentially tried everything and now there's just no white space left".

About an hour later, someone turned up and with kindness slowly removed the protective film I’ve been writing on for 3 years…

daviding, to random
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Pre-announcing April 30 Dialogic Drinks session I'm leading on " and Daojia into through Changes", online 18:30 Singapore, 11:30 London, 6:30am Toronto.
Repeating May 2, 8:00pm ET.
Official notifications https://www.eqlab.co/newsletter-signup

Wen, to environment
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/judge-throws-out-case-against-uk-climate-activist-trudi-warner-sign-jurors-rights

Don't worry, Westminster will introduce new laws to deal with that… Probably as well thought out as declaring Rwanda a safe country!

A ridiculous case - but we still have the GMC putting their oar in on behalf of the malevolent, incompetent maladministration.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/uk-doctors-involved-in-climate-protests-face-threat-of-being-struck-off

sos, to infosec
@sos@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

So, Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 systems and this is a disaster.

How can you push a tool that siphons data to a third party onto a security-critical system?

What privileges does it have upon install? Who thought this is a good idea? And most importantly, who needs this?

WhatisBiotechnology, to random
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On this day in 2003: Sequence of the first human genome was published

ChrisPirillo, to motivation
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rayckeith, (edited ) to random
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    Ch_Hogberg, to sts
    @Ch_Hogberg@sciences.social avatar

    I am looking for inspiration for the introductory chapter (in Swedish: Kappa) of my compilation thesis. Any recommendation for nice compilation PhD theses in STS, sociology, info studies or adjacent fields to have a look at?
    Please send them my way!

    @sts

    mroach, to random
    @mroach@mas.to avatar

    Nothing has me running away from a website faster than the pricing page having "Book a demo", "Request a quote", "Get in touch".

    Give me the price or you don't exist to me.

    markmetz, to random
    @markmetz@sfba.social avatar

    Equal cargo area.

    franco_vazza, (edited ) to Astro
    @franco_vazza@mastodon.social avatar

    How can can one plausibly connect Easter, Lisbon, tsunamis and clusters of galaxies? Let me tell you in this rollercoaster

    franco_vazza, (edited )
    @franco_vazza@mastodon.social avatar

    Update after today visit to the tower of Belem: that's the ocean and this is where the tsunamis came from in 1755.
    And there are signals for where to take shelter in case of other tsunamis waves..

    philpem, to random
    @philpem@digipres.club avatar

    Kind of a mood. Happy Easter for all who observe it!

    stevenbodzin, to random
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    The guy leading the charge against TikTok is going to go work at Palantir.

    Lawmaker Who Led TikTok Ban Bill Joins Private Surveillance Firm: Report

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-gallagher-tiktok-ban-palantir-1234993167/

    (Original story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/03/22/china-hawk-rep-mike-gallagher-is-taking-a-job-at-palantir/?sh=235f43cf5148)

    ComicContext, to random
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    Elucidating, to random
    @Elucidating@mastodon.social avatar

    When someone says they are a "Landian" in San Francisco, this means they're at worst a NRx fascist and the very best a capitalist feudalist.

    These people are bad and you shouldn't make friends with then even if their job is interesting. This isn't a critique on accelerarionism, this is a critique on how Landians believe society should unfold.

    daviding, to random
    @daviding@qoto.org avatar

    Web video introduction of 15 minutes for 1-hour Lunch and Learn on "Systems Changes Dialogues for Social Innovation" invites practitioners for upcoming monthly meetings. Evocative animated images, details deferred to conversations with mentors.
    https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-changes-dialogues-csi/

    CelloMomOnCars, to Virginia
    @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social avatar

    Dominion wind project gets final 2 permits

    "The facility, 25 miles in the Atlantic off the Oceanfront, will have 176 turbines capable of generating enough electricity to power up to 660,000 homes.

    The more than $9 billion project is due to come on line in 2026."


    https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/dominion-energy-offshore-wind-virginia-beach/article_70be5e70-bf7f-11ee-a0d1-2baecbf317bd.html

    CelloMomOnCars, (edited )
    @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social avatar

    You know that "windmills kill birds" crap?
    That's part of the fossil fuel industry's smear campaign against clean wind energy.

    "A study to be published in 2024 found that wind farms had no statistically significant effect on bird counts. But another kind of energy did. Fracking reduced the total number of birds counted in near shale and oil production sites by 15%."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/green-energy-fact-checked/72390472007/

    [Edit to add]
    It's the same with the "windmills kill whales" crap.

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