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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jan-2021 22:10:50 EST 
Stephen Sekula
"Toolkits for Clear and Critical Thinking: Remembering Carl Sagans Baloney Detection Kit" Itâ**s one thing to call on people to think critically. Itâ**s another to know how to do that. Like all skills, critical thinking almost never comes naturally; it must be learned, and in many cases this is because it runs counter to instinct. Humans are very good at pattern recogni… -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 25-Dec-2020 22:01:09 EST
Stephen Sekula
Uncertainty Principle Podcast Episode 1: Isaac Newtons Pajamas Lots of people in history were born on this day. This reading of an article in the Washington Post remembers one of them, Isaac Newton, and his pandemic year. https://people.smu.edu/ssekula/2020/03/16/uncertainty-principle-podcast-episode-1-isaac-newtons-pajamas/ -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 25-Dec-2020 23:43:37 EST 
Joshua Judson Rosen
Happy !gravmass, everyone! -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 14:23:20 EST ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://status.hackerposse.com/avatar/6598-48-20201201161437.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@sim In other words, we often intentionally try to look like the #corpocentric networks and hide the things that make this one different. Then we are caught off-guard when users (especially new users, but sometimes people who have been around for a year or two) show ignorance about the fundamental differences inherent a #federated network. We need to make it clear, from the beg… -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 14:14:06 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@sim @saintfury The GS software had/has a FAQ built in (partly written by @simsa03) ... but other documentation can exist (such as wikis and blog posts), and experienced people can point new people to them. Yet other things could be to rewrite the way we do / display things, so that federation (we're communicating with people from other instances) is visible and forefront. One … -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 10:16:07 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I remember when someone discovered that search engines index federated sites. They were surprised, even though it is an expected behavior of search engines to index any site that does not forbid it in robots.txt. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 10:13:38 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@dude @moonman @mewmew@blob.cat > To think someone expects more control over how something moves in a federated system than a closed one is kind of mind boggling.
Not really. The verbal marketing of some Fediverse software says that you have total control over everything, despite the docs being silent on the issue. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 05-Dec-2020 19:16:20 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@geniusmusing You probably found this during your search, but if not: https://riscv.org/blog/2020/11/picorio-the-raspberry-pi-like-small-board-computer-for-risc-v/
#risc-v #sbc #open_source_hardware !raspi -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 10:48:57 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view. Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned. Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocia… -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 09:21:07 EST
Stephen Sekula
Reports of two promising covid-19 vaccines dont mean we magically, quickly return to normal https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-vaccine-masks-normal-life/2020/11/20/b4ed16c8-2922-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 19:00:51 EST
Stephen Sekula
"A little bit of math: vaccine efficacy" With reports from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that the preliminary analysis of their data suggests a 95% effective vaccine (one each for each company) [1], I found myself wondering about the mathematics of vaccine effectiveness. There were some small details about how numbers were calculated from the data that were lost to me. This… -
Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 22:42:50 EST 
Sorokin Alexei
@lnxw48a1 @fribbledom @rayroy Yea, I just pointed that out.
Sometimes coincidences happen, especially approximate ones. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2020 23:49:25 EDT
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Received a reply from Senator Dianne Feinstein.
I understand you are opposed to the [EARN-IT Act of 2020]. which I introduced with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on March 5, 2020.
She goes on to say that the bill targets online child sexual exploitation.
Isn't it funny that every time the government wants more power, it is either fighting child porn or terrorism? -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Nov-2020 20:21:03 EST
Stephen Sekula
I am having more fun with ddrescue than is likely recommended by most doctors. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Nov-2020 08:40:52 EST
Stephen Sekula
Can we pull colleges away from politics and back to wisdom? Although my love is physics, I benefited immensely from language, music, and political science classes. Investing in the whole education of a person, with concentrations, is essential to growth https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/11/20/can-we-pull-colleges-away-from-politics-and-back-to-wisdom/ -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 16-Nov-2020 17:26:26 EST
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I think there are still a couple of projects around making a !RasPi, #BeagleBone, or similar SBC the host of one's primary online presence. I just don't think that--given asymmetrical connection speeds and ISP interference--it is a workable solution, even in most Western countries. When you consider the poor countries where the only Internet service is mobile devices, there's n… -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 14-Nov-2020 22:00:46 EST
Stephen Sekula
From kaleybrauer https://twitter.com/kaleybrauer on Twitter: I love pictures of adaptive optics lasers because it always looks like were trying to blow up a planet https://twitter.com/kaleybrauer/status/1327304980756389888/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/68908 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 13-Nov-2020 09:41:27 EST
Stephen Sekula
Good Meeting Rule #34: Start your meeting on time. Never wait for your audience to all show up; instead, give them a reason to regret not being on time. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2020 09:21:03 EST
Stephen Sekula
Pfizer claims its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective. Heres what that actually means. | Popular Science A decent summary of why this is promising but not definitive. The research needs time to conclude. Keep calm and mask on. https://www.popsci.com/story/health/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/ -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2020 17:27:36 EST 
Douglas A. Whitfield
I know there are facebook extensions, but is there anything that blocks Trump posts? I'm tired of hearing about him, regardless from which side.
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