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jonny

@jonny@neuromatch.social

Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

This is a public account, quotes/boosts/links are always ok <3.

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sundogplanets, to random
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The only feeling I have about starship is dread.

They want to use that to launch batches of HUNDREDS of Starlinks at once. And guess where all those Starlinks will end up? The pieces that don't make it to the ground will end up in our upper atmosphere, screwing up the stratosphere, the ozone layer, who knows what else because SpaceX isn't required to do any environmental assessments of this.

Shit. Maybe a good time to post this essay I wrote yet again: https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653

elduvelle, to mastodon
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Ok this might break #Mastodon but I’ll try..
the Vermillion lakes, panorama, just the place where I had lunch today 😭🫠 :blobratheart:

#BanffNationalPark #NatureIsBeautiful

maia, to random
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"Can you host a private website that hackers don't know about?"

i don't know dear stalkerware operator, but maybe you should first make your google slides based internal issue tracker not just publicly accessible

Hein_Lab, to Neuroscience
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🎉Exciting opportunity! 13 PhD positions open in our RTG 2660 on approach and avoidance behaviour!

@uni_wue @RTG2660

#neuroscience #psychology #jobs

markdhumphries, to random
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Register now for the UK Neural Computation meeting 2024 (Sheffield 8-10th July): https://neuralcomputation.uk/

UKNC is a national meeting for everyone interested in the computations of the brain, both experimentally and theoretically.

Speakers include: Andrew Adamatzky; Geoff Goodhill; Dan Goodman; Tim O’Leary;
Rasmus Petersen; Rui Ponte Costa; Huiling Tan; Yulia Timofeeva; Mark van Rossum;
Eleni Vasilaki.
Keynote: Randy Bruno

Register by 21st June 2024
Discounted accommodation options are available.
8 July: ECR day. ~40 places are available
9-10 July: main meeting

Please boost!

jonny, (edited ) to Unions
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"Today’s strike at the University of California challenges us to think big about what a labor movement is, and what it should do. [...] Graduate student employees at the University of California, in striking against UC-led police brutality and against their employers’ support for the war in Gaza, are [...] reminding us of the labor’s movement’s best self, when it links workplace issues at home, with civil liberties, with police repression, and with foreign policy and the fates of other working people abroad. That’s what solidarity looks like."

https://lawcha.org/2024/05/30/uc-graduate-workers-and-the-history-of-political-strikes/

#UAW4811 #Union #Unions #Labor

johnwilsonwsws,
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@jonny
As UC strike expands, signs of crisis in UAW apparatus

Fain acknowledged that rank-and-file anger over job cuts at Stellantis was behind the reshuffling of positions at the top of the UAW bureaucracy.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/04/ttgv-j04.html

marcia_petyt, to random
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An open source resource and atlas of structural brain connectivity of the chimpanzee brain using high resolution diffusion MRI and tractography https://openscience.cbs.mpdl.mpg.de/ebc/

jasonkoebler, to random
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New: We obtained an internal database of employee-reported privacy incidents at Google that shows the huge breadth of data it has and the run-of-the-mill and spectacular ways it mishandles it all the time

https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

MamasPinkyToe, to random
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We could rotate the grate so that its bars are perpendicular to a bicyclist's direction of travel, thus solving the problem, or--hear me out--we could post a sign illustrating the problem.

Knoebel, to random
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[Indie Spotlight]

'Labor Power' by Feature Kreep

"Labor Power is a small Pikmin-inspired game dedicated to class solidarity and the betterment of working conditions."

It's free:
https://featurekreep.itch.io/labor-power

webknjaz, to python
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One friend of mine wrote a blog post on his @homeassistant setup:

"Home Assistant helps me survive during missile and drone attacks. Here is how." https://denysdovhan.com/home-assistant-config/config/war/

saving lives IRL y'all!

iANikzad, to Neuroscience
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A Thousand Brains : a new theory of intelligence

Hi :)
I'm a new member of this amazing community and I would like to have my first post on the amazing breakthrough of Jeff Hawkins.

Before giving my opinion, I would like everyone to tell me whether they know the theory of have they read the book or the original papers and If so what's their insight on them?

I think the material in this research is pretty much fascinating and would like to engage and talk about it more.


RickiTarr, to random
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Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

elduvelle, to random
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Got the absolute cutest goodbye present today… 😍
#PostdocLife

gregggonsalves, to random
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With Harvard's announcement on institutional neutrality, I urge you to read Yale Law's Robert Post's piece on the subject where he also warns "advocacy of institutional neutrality is associated with conservative efforts to cabin institutions of higher education." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4516235

technomancy, to random EN
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this analysis of an internal google search API leak goes into some detail about how their ranking has changed over time; recently de-emphasizing pagerank in favor of "navboost" which ranks based on click data from chrome: https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

this bit stood out to me:

Brand matters more than anything else
Google has numerous ways to identify entities, sort, rank, filter, and employ them. Entities include brands (brand names, their official websites, associated social accounts, etc.), and as we’ve seen in our clickstream research with Datos, they’ve been on an inexorable path toward exclusively ranking and sending traffic to big, powerful brands that dominate the web [over] small, independent sites and businesses.

just a gut feeling but maybe that's part of why their search results have gotten so much worse?

mothninja, to random
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Alright folks, in an effort to in some tiny way counter the fact that everything is awful, I declare this The Thread Of Small Cheering Things! Send your cute animal and pretty flower pics! Bring on the silly memes! Share any bits of good news you manage to unearth! Spread the love! <3

mothninja,
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Ducks!

NicoleCRust, to writing
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On fact checking: ugh. Tips?

I wrote a book and now I have to wrap it up. In that effort, I have many! facts to check. I think I can plow through the bulk of it at ~60 facts per/day for ~30 days (spread across ~10 sources). My new hobby, I guess?

This type of tedious, detailed work is not my favorite thing. I have the source material, but I need to go back and scrutinize what I wrote in detail to make sure it's correct.

On one hand, it may have been easier if past Nicole did a better job at documenting details along the way. On the other hand, it was really unclear what would make it through the final filter and documenting every little thing would have been even more tedious (and would have disrupted the process of connecting it all together).

Any tips for how to make this new hobby of mine easier or more pleasant?

hannah, to random
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The genus name for periodical cicadas is Magicicada and i'm sorry but that's from pokemon

susanleemburg, to random
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Lessons learned I guess:

  1. "in duplo" means run 2 separate ELISA kits if your samples are precious,
  2. Just because it is a kit that costs half the yearly budget does not mean it will work (and you do not get to complain about it),
  3. Just redo an entire year worth of experiments basically.
MicheleV_AK, to Alaska
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My hubby just sent these from Anchor Point, Alaska. He's been down there fishing for halibut and hanging out with friends. Gorgeous sunset on the beach.

Gorgeous sunset over Mt. Redoubt on the beach at Anchor Point, Alaska with hues of red, yellow and orange over Cook Inlet.
Gorgeous sunset over Mt. Redoubt on the beach at Anchor Point, Alaska with hues of red, yellow and orange over Cook Inlet.
Gorgeous sunset on the beach at Anchor Point, Alaska with hues of red, yellow and orange over Cook Inlet.

aud, to random

Today's gender is: NULL, do not perceive me.

BlogWood, to random
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Learning the Right Lessons From the UAW Loss in Alabama
https://portside.org/2024-05-26/learning-right-lessons-uaw-loss-alabama

jalcine, to random
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This point made by @ireneista is routinely weird (because of its accuracy). I always thought management (of any caliber) to be focused on helping people grow. And I guess it can be. But it's consistently about playing a buffer to the more explicit role they play: HR or the legal department of your org.

https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista/statuses/01HYVD9W5RX5DDGQADBQ4F21PZ

Additionally, I'm confident that management and managers are not taught or informed about the genesis of the field and I'd imagine (hopefully) some folks would be repulsed by it.

jalcine,
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I refer to this essay: https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/ (are you subscribed to Logic? You should IMO) by @Mer__edith a lot (especially because of the book referenced, Accounting for Slavery) because it indirectly brings to light how management has its genesis in European and American chattel slave management (and IMO has barely moved away from that, especially in the States where - in my experience when it came to organizing - upper management used lower management to break or weaken any attempts that workers have to autonomy).

In the United States, I haven't (personally) seen a way out of this. There's social privilege to being in the managerial class (you get claim over the work of your direct reports, even if the maximum of work was making sure that they signed into Slack/Teams/Meet every day - to take tech workers for example). And because of the United States' overall focus on visibility as a marker of success, there's no social incentives for lower management to challenge this: they have to give a fuck.

nova, to random

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