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jonny, 5 hours ago to random

$1.81 in 2024 money for a single bean in a decorative box is a bargain
https://botsin.space/@NoveltyBot/112438861775517550

jonny, 2 days ago to random

Reading this book about how birds go to space when its winter from 1703.

https://archive.org/details/anessaytowardsp00mortgoog

jonny, 3 days ago to random

You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide

#UCIrvine

a wide (~50m?) staircase with maybe 20 rows of cops in full riot gear stare down a handful of unarmed students

jonny, 2 days ago to random

At like 1:30 I am like is this CNN or left coast right watch, never would have expected this from corporate tv news:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/video/ucla-campus-protests-outside-agitators-lah-digvid

jonny, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Students for divestment at #UCIrvine have taken a building and riot cops are staging

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pro-palestinian-protesters-occupy-building-at-u-c-irvine/

edit: unclear whether riot cops have live ammo or just rubber bullets

jonny, 3 days ago to random

If the hammock guy tiktok is fake i will be personally upset
https://www.tiktok.com/@scottykash/video/7368171651227258154

jonny, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to workersrights

UAW 4811's strike authorization vote passed -

19,780 votes cast
ASEs (grad students): 80% yes
Postdocs: 74% yes
Academic Researchers: 73%

This authorizes the eboard to call a stand up strike similar to UAW's autoworkers strike last year. Our initial demands include amnesty for all students and workers who are facing any disciplinary action for protest, divestment from "weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and companies profiting from Israel's war on Gaza," disclosure of all investments, and the ability for researchers to opt out from funding from sources tied to the military or oppression of Palestinians (including a transitional fund for those people).

This strike is in response to our employer first allowing a vigilante mob to brutalize our students and workers, and then calling the police to further brutalize them the following night. Our union is responding to a pattern of employer violence that's as old as unions themselves, allying with police-aligned vigilantes to chill and crush organizing.

More information:
Strike vote FAQ: https://www.uaw4811.org/sav-faq
ULP landing page: https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges
ULP itself: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1obRNFpuF_8K5Xx1k4DKMB8RooT7aUsKK/

#UAW #UAW4811 #Strike #Divestment

jonny, 3 days ago to random

He added that if all the demands of the students were met, the University would have to sell $32 billion of its $175 billion portfolio.

https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/14/uc-regents-disclose-investments-in-weapons-manufacturers-amid-calls-to-divest

#UCLA #divestment

jonny, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Genuinely wondering how this is a crime. Ethereum is not a currency. This is like stealing 25 million robux or runescape coins
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacking-ethereum-blockchain-and-stealing-25m-cryptocurrency

Edit: question p much answered by @modrak_m in this post and replies:
https://bayes.club/

jonny, 4 days ago to random

Just got chased out of a lab by a PI while doing a Union walkthrough. I feel bad for people in labs like that man, for your boss to be so tightly hovering over you and actively hostile to your rights as a worker must suck a lot.

jonny, 6 days ago to random

Skeptical of how yall keep picking normal looking movies for #monsterdon but seeing some signs it might be good. #Olsen #WhoIsOlsen #FreeOlsen #OrNotIDKIfOlsenIsGoodOrBad

jonny, 6 days ago to random

Yesss finally got in touch with my unions comms team so I am back in the saddle doing Union propaganda, my favorite.

jonny, 7 days ago to random

Nothing dismays me more in academia than my colleagues excusing themselves from the world because they have internalized their job as their identity, and exist in a separate domain from everyone else. every time I knock on doors with my union I get someone, sometimes angrily, wondering what any of this has to do with them - they're here to just do science.

jonny, 7 days ago to random

I just deleted a post about how edu.us was $5 bc when I went to buy it on godaddy it said it wasnt available... but looking at the whois record, it looks like it was expired, and they just saw I was interested in it and held the registration so I would have to pay a $70 broker fee. That is shady as hell.

whois record for edu.us Domain: edu.us Registrar: .us Registry Services LLC Registered On: 2002-04-18 Expires On: 2024-04-17 Updated On: 2023-06-02 Status: clientTransferProhibited clientDeleteProhibited clientUpdateProhibited inactive autoRenewPeriod
edu.us is taken. we still might be able to get it for you. broker service fee $69.99

jonny, 8 days ago to random

Doing some research for a zine. Here's on detective agencies, spies, and sabotage in unions from "Boycotts and the labor struggle" (1914).

https://archive.org/details/boycottslaborstr00laidrich/page/n1/mode/2up

#LaborHistory

ccording to Miss Gertrude Barnum, one of the leaders of the strike, Morris Lubin, a young man supposedly a garment worker of Cleve- land, was hired by the cloak manufacturers of that city, through the William J. Burns agency, soon after the breaking out of the strike, at a salary of $10 a day, and was required to make daily reports to the manu- facturers* association. He was a clever talker, was elected into the union, volunteered as a leader on the picket line, and, by means of his energy, versatility and daring, soon became the idol of some of the younger element. His position in the union secure, he began to urge the strikers to less peaceful action on the picket line, arguing that the strike was the beginning of the industrial revolution and that mild actions were totally ineffective. His leadership resulted in many deeds of violence which greatly discredited the union. Some of his activities are thus described by Miss Barnum:
"Lubin led secret raids upon the homes of the strike breakers. He plotted unsuccessfully to blow up the hotel occupied by the 'scabs.' . . . He looted and wrecked other places. He was lavish in distributing lead pipe, blackjack and even revolvers to the hot heads of the union who were committing the outrages unbe- known to the officers. As a grand climax of his pro- gram of violence and bloodshed, Lubin planned an attack on a train bringing strike breakers into town. . . . Revolvers were furnished from his home. . . . They (Lubin and his followers) opened fire with their guns, shooting into the air, but didn't do any damage."
Finally a strike-breaker was slugged by Lubin and three strikers. The man afterward died. The vio- lence reported in connection with the strike aroused public opinion against the strikers, who finally lost. Miss Barnum believes, as a result of these deeds. At one time, In fact, the strikers were about to settle with a manufacturer when Lubin, Miss Barnum alleged, broke up the conference by throwing an ink bottle at the employer. On the trial for assaulting the strike- breaker, the "spy" broke down, confessed all, and was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment.

jonny, 7 days ago to random

My neighbors are singing Bohemian rhapsody next door and none of them are even close to being on pitch. Like if I focus on just their voices and not the melody they're truly random pitches in like a 4 semitone range. I genuinely dont know what the perceptual experience of being tone deaf is like. To me when im singing, esp if im following a recording, if im off pitch it just sounds like im too low or too high and I go up or down or jump an octave until im not. I dont claim to be a good singer but I can carry a tune, and it seems to be more of a binary can/can't than I would expect of a skill.

I can "dance" and follow a rhythm and learn steps, but I am really really bad at it, so someone who is great at dancing probably thinks something similar "I just know my body is in the wrong shape and I change it until its not." But it feels different to me bc the dancers I know have still had to do exhaustive practice to learn their dances, but singing on pitch (not singing "well," I know singers practice too) is effortless to me (and I imagine other people who can keep a tune).

What does it feel and sound like to be singing along to something and just not know how to sing the same notes? Does it sound like youre singing correctly? Or is it like not being sure how to change your voice to match? Like I can hear an accent and not know how to adjust my articulators to match it, and theres also a varying level of awareness when someone has a really bad fake accent.

I also wanna be clear most of the time singing off key doesnt bother me in the slightest. The ppl I have been close enough to that are tone deaf that theyve been willing to talk to me about it describe a great deal of shame, and so singing for them is painful and embarassing, so the last thing I would want to do is tell someone not to sing bc they cant hear the pitch. I am v much a sonophile generalist in that I just love sounds as a whole, like how camp problematizes "good" and "bad" art, I love me some noise and human energy. Shanties are some of my favorite forms of music because they are often like "just belt it out there and who cares how close you are".

jonny, 9 days ago to workersrights

#UAW4811 at #UCLA is ready to #strike for divestment.
https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/09/graduate-students-rally-in-court-of-sciences-to-support-strike-authorization-vote

jonny, 10 days ago to random

Thinkin bout the headless men and other ancient types of guys again. Medieval bestiaries have taken over my life

jonny, 10 days ago to random

My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all critical infra/etc." And it got me wondering how that came to be. Has anyone written like a cultural history of how furries came to concentrate in sysadmin roles and whatnot? It could be that theres no story it just is that way, but I wonder if there were notable examples of like "a team at Bell Labs in the 1960s were all furries and..."

jonny, 11 days ago to random

hiring a hitman is a complicated game theory problem because the hitman always has the option of just taking the money and calling the cops. you have to convince them that you are capable of hiring another hitman to come after the first hitman, but the very act of trying to hire the first hitman indicates that you don't have a second, more reliable hitman ready to go. so i guess the moral of the story is don't be a landlord. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/landlord-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-in-murder-for-hire-plots

jonny, 11 days ago to random

you did what
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b288

Perhaps after 34 years it’s time for us to confess that we invented cello scrotum.

jonny, 11 days ago to random

1234, 1***, same number, and birth year blocks are obvious, but you can also see in the repeating patterns of blocks of 0-5 for the starting and ending digits that people just don't use numbers >5 in PINs (except for 6969) https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/112400215689617040

jonny, 12 days ago to random

The emerging field of Beethoven's Hair Studies is the only field where I try to keep up with the literature: https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/hvae054

jonny, 12 days ago to random

More than 40 arrests at P2 parking structure, a sit in at Moore Hall, and continued unclear action at #UCLA this morning. I havent made it to campus yet but apparently cops are checking IDs all through campus.

jonny, 16 days ago to random

This is a garbage headline that is fractally wrong and also why biden has lost 20% margin in youth vote in a year. The only violence at the #UCLA encampment was committed AGAINST them by the police and the fascist mobs the police gave carte blanche to. The encampment was NOT chaotic - it was highly orderly, well disciplined, and a place of education and solidarity. The encampment is a protest AGAINST violence sanctioned by the Biden administration.