rozzin: rozzin favorited something by rozzin: Terrifying: #q "we don't put more emphasis on reproducibility in Software Carpentry… because scientists don't care" http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4953 !science
rozzin's status on Monday, 09-Aug-2021 03:04:55 EDT
rozzin favorited something by rozzin: Terrifying: #q "we don't put more emphasis on reproducibility in Software Carpentry… because scientists don't care" http://status.hackerposse.com/url/4953 !science
lnxw48a1: Some day someone will decipher the #Q posts (that the #QAnon folks follow). I predict the true meaning will be "Q-ack Q-ack" and the author will turn out to be a duck that escaped from the zoo.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 08-Nov-2020 12:07:19 EST
Some day someone will decipher the #Q posts (that the #QAnon folks follow). I predict the true meaning will be "Q-ack Q-ack" and the author will turn out to be a duck that escaped from the zoo.
mjd: “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” #q Marilyn Monroe https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/36297
mjd's status on Monday, 01-Jun-2020 08:25:58 EDT
“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” #q Marilyn Monroe https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/36297
mjd: Sherlock Holmes was a punk! "To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived." #q The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
mjd's status on Tuesday, 26-May-2020 06:04:10 EDT
Sherlock Holmes was a punk! "To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived." #q The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
mjd: "Mistakes have been made in the handling of the crisis. Like flying the Buckingham Palace flag at half mast when the Queen’s not in, which is just an advert for burglars. In my local park, someone has tried to cheer people up by chalking “You Got This!” on the ground. Literally the last thing you want to hear in a pandemic." #q Frankie Boyle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/35638
mjd's status on Sunday, 03-May-2020 21:02:16 EDT
"Mistakes have been made in the handling of the crisis. Like flying the Buckingham Palace flag at half mast when the Queen’s not in, which is just an advert for burglars. In my local park, someone has tried to cheer people up by chalking “You Got This!” on the ground. Literally the last thing you want to hear in a pandemic." #q Frankie Boyle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/35638
mjd: "[Classical economists] were still dealing with a system in which the amount of the factors employed was given and the other relevant facts were known more or less for certain. […] The calculus of probability, tho mention of it was kept in the background, was supposed to be capable of reducing uncertainty to the same calculable status as that of certainty itself […] By "u https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/88066
mjd's status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2020 19:26:44 EDT
"[Classical economists] were still dealing with a system in which the amount of the factors employed was given and the other relevant facts were known more or less for certain. […] The calculus of probability, tho mention of it was kept in the background, was supposed to be capable of reducing uncertainty to the same calculable status as that of certainty itself […] By "u…
mjd: "Think of it: 151 countries. Somebody said to me today — that wasn’t in this particular world — they didn’t know that we had that many countries. A hundred and fifty-one countries. That’s something." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/look-at-all-the-countries/
mjd's status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2020 02:13:53 EDT
"Think of it: 151 countries. Somebody said to me today — that wasn’t in this particular world — they didn’t know that we had that many countries. A hundred and fifty-one countries. That’s something." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/look-at-all-the-countries/
rozzin: #q "They were men that had not learned the art of submission, nor had they been trained to the art of war. But our astonishing success taught the enemies of liberty that undisciplined freemen are superior to veteran slaves."
rozzin's status on Friday, 13-Mar-2020 17:08:31 EDT
#q "They were men that had not learned the art of submission, nor had they been trained to the art of war. But our astonishing success taught the enemies of liberty that undisciplined freemen are superior to veteran slaves."
mjd: "You might assume that those who use the phrase “evidence-based practice” (EBP) are offering a testable claim, asserting that the practices in question are supported by good data. In reality, the phrase is more of an all-purpose honorific, wielded to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and imply that anyone who criticizes what they’re doing is rejecting science itself. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/85858
mjd's status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 21:38:41 EST
"You might assume that those who use the phrase “evidence-based practice” (EBP) are offering a testable claim, asserting that the practices in question are supported by good data. In reality, the phrase is more of an all-purpose honorific, wielded to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and imply that anyone who criticizes what they’re doing is rejecting science itself.…
mjd: "I live a lot of my professional life puzzling over social class and what-not. I can tell you this with the confidence of one thousand ancestors: almost all white elites think phrenology and race science are legitimate ideas. And by almost all I mean all. #lrt" #q Tressie McMillan Cottom (via Atrios) https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/12/truth.html
mjd's status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2020 19:27:39 EST
"I live a lot of my professional life puzzling over social class and what-not. I can tell you this with the confidence of one thousand ancestors: almost all white elites think phrenology and race science are legitimate ideas. And by almost all I mean all. #lrt" #q Tressie McMillan Cottom (via Atrios) https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/12/truth.html
rozzin: rozzin favorited something by mjd: "Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://status.hackerposse.com/url/19648
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2020 16:22:07 EST
rozzin favorited something by mjd: "Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://status.hackerposse.com/url/19648
mjd: "I have had moments in the last few days which led me to feel pretty hopeless. Perhaps the worst was in the ITV debate when #Corbyn was roundly jeered by a substantial section of the audience for stating that climate change impacted hardest on the poorest people in the poorest countries. […] the growl of that studio audience, infuriated that Corbyn cared about the foreign p https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/84889
mjd's status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2019 19:12:40 EST
"I have had moments in the last few days which led me to feel pretty hopeless. Perhaps the worst was in the ITV debate when #Corbyn was roundly jeered by a substantial section of the audience for stating that climate change impacted hardest on the poorest people in the poorest countries. […] the growl of that studio audience, infuriated that Corbyn cared about the foreign p…
mjd: "Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avtfMXeh40
mjd's status on Monday, 25-Nov-2019 06:45:34 EST
"Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avtfMXeh40
mjd: "#Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." #q Alexei Sayle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31967
mjd's status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2019 21:06:39 EST
"#Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." #q Alexei Sayle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31967
mjd: How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
mjd's status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 03:38:45 EDT
How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
mjd: The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself
mjd's status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 02:06:54 EDT
The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself
rozzin: RT @mjd "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
rozzin's status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2019 18:19:53 EDT
RT @mjd "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
rozzin: rozzin favorited something by mjd: "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://status.hackerposse.com/url/19000
rozzin's status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2019 18:18:23 EDT
rozzin favorited something by mjd: "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://status.hackerposse.com/url/19000
mjd: "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
mjd's status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 21:03:14 EDT
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
rozzin: #q «It’s basically like having all of the letters in the English alphabet, but getting rid of random ones. Like, “Let’s take out ‘B’ because ‘B’ kind of offends me.”» https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18772 #emoji
rozzin's status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2019 14:27:34 EDT
#q «It’s basically like having all of the letters in the English alphabet, but getting rid of random ones. Like, “Let’s take out ‘B’ because ‘B’ kind of offends me.”» https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18772 #emoji
mjd: "Not only is my glass half empty, it's not what I ordered." #q Catherine Tate https://play.acast.com/s/davidtennant/catherinetate
mjd's status on Friday, 07-Jun-2019 06:21:03 EDT
"Not only is my glass half empty, it's not what I ordered." #q Catherine Tate https://play.acast.com/s/davidtennant/catherinetate
mjd: 'There is no such thing as “the English gene”; that’s just not how science works. There is no gene that, when you put it under a microscope, looks up and says: “Do you mind? We’re in the middle of our supper!”' #q Shappi Khorsandi https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/john-cleese-racism-tweet-london-comedian-english-a8938586.html
mjd's status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 03:53:44 EDT
'There is no such thing as “the English gene”; that’s just not how science works. There is no gene that, when you put it under a microscope, looks up and says: “Do you mind? We’re in the middle of our supper!”' #q Shappi Khorsandi https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/john-cleese-racism-tweet-london-comedian-english-a8938586.html
mjd: "It's these little things, they can pull you under Live your life filled with joy and thunder Yeah, yeah we were altogether Lost in our little lives Oh, but sweetness follows Oh, but sweetness follows" #q REM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEJdjfHjD8
mjd's status on Sunday, 19-May-2019 04:23:56 EDT
"It's these little things, they can pull you under Live your life filled with joy and thunder Yeah, yeah we were altogether Lost in our little lives Oh, but sweetness follows Oh, but sweetness follows" #q REM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEJdjfHjD8
mjd: #q Janet Street-Porter "I once lived with a Jamaican boyfriend for five years, but get called racist regularly – infuriating to say the least." Is that the litmus test for anti-racism, then? Well I'm in a bit of a bind, Jamaicans being few and far between round our way. Plus I'm not as pretty as I once was, so I could well be out of luck even if I found one. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26238
mjd's status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 08:53:38 EDT
#q Janet Street-Porter "I once lived with a Jamaican boyfriend for five years, but get called racist regularly – infuriating to say the least." Is that the litmus test for anti-racism, then? Well I'm in a bit of a bind, Jamaicans being few and far between round our way. Plus I'm not as pretty as I once was, so I could well be out of luck even if I found one. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26238
mjd: "This is our hemisphere." #q John Bolton https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-idUSKCN1S73K3 #FFS #US #MonroeDoctrine
mjd's status on Friday, 03-May-2019 07:35:52 EDT
"This is our hemisphere." #q John Bolton https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-idUSKCN1S73K3 #FFS #US #MonroeDoctrine
mjd: 'I lived in L.A. for a few years and used to regularly tell folks, “You can tell I’m still new here because my teeth are still the color of human teeth.” This comment was usually met with a look of horror.' #q Dan Piraro https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2019/3/4/the-nature-of-nature
mjd's status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2019 02:59:08 EDT
'I lived in L.A. for a few years and used to regularly tell folks, “You can tell I’m still new here because my teeth are still the color of human teeth.” This comment was usually met with a look of horror.' #q Dan Piraro https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2019/3/4/the-nature-of-nature
mjd: @tregeagle @Smithums 'I was a pilot in the Royal Air Force in the war, and we were discussing on a troop ship coming home once how we would deal with the problems of unemployment. And one lad got up, and he said something I’ve never forgotten. He said, “In the 1930s we had mass unemployment, but we don’t have unemployment when we’re killing Germans.” He said, “If https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/59750
mjd's status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 23:39:53 EDT
@tregeagle @Smithums 'I was a pilot in the Royal Air Force in the war, and we were discussing on a troop ship coming home once how we would deal with the problems of unemployment. And one lad got up, and he said something I’ve never forgotten. He said, “In the 1930s we had mass unemployment, but we don’t have unemployment when we’re killing Germans.” He said, “If …
mjd: "If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." #q Abraham Lincoln https://drunkard.com/todays-reason-to-drink-february-12/
mjd's status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 20:49:49 EDT
"If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." #q Abraham Lincoln https://drunkard.com/todays-reason-to-drink-february-12/
rozzin: #q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 05:34:49 EST
#q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
kmicu: kmicu favourited a status by rozzin@status.hackerposse.com
kmicu's status on Monday, 05-Nov-2018 04:42:12 EST
kmicu favourited a status by rozzin@status.hackerposse.com
rozzin: #q «The product has not received support from Mars, Inc who said "deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
rozzin's status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 19:38:47 EST
#q «The product has not received support from Mars, Inc who said "deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
ghostdancer: good !tzag and strong !coffee dear fedizens, a bit late but happy new year and a nice !q from Neil Gaiman https://quitter.se/url/2861353
ghostdancer's status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 03:27:39 EST
good !tzag and strong !coffee dear fedizens, a bit late but happy new year and a nice !q from Neil Gaiman https://quitter.se/url/2861353
takeshitakenji: takeshitakenji favorited something by rozzin: #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
takeshitakenji's status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 10:32:06 EDT
takeshitakenji favorited something by rozzin: #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
rozzin: #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
rozzin's status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2016 10:27:19 EDT
#q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
rozzin: #q "They were using the head basically as a portable hard drive to transport pirated ebooks, movies, games, and data between Russia and South America," said Detective Andrei Supernov. "I think they thought it was funny." http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=529&mode=one
rozzin's status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:10:52 EDT
#q "They were using the head basically as a portable hard drive to transport pirated ebooks, movies, games, and data between Russia and South America," said Detective Andrei Supernov. "I think they thought it was funny." http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=529&mode=one
bobjonkmanformer: ♻ @GailDyer10 Many Cdns are NOT on Twitter. How do they communicate with the Committee? Has there been enough media coverage to inform them? #ERRE #Q ¶ !ElectoralReform !cdnpoli via @LaurelRusswurm and @FairVoteCanada on #Twitter
bobjonkmanformer's status on Monday, 08-Aug-2016 11:35:45 EDT
♻ @GailDyer10 Many Cdns are NOT on Twitter. How do they communicate with the Committee? Has there been enough media coverage to inform them? #ERRE #Q ¶ !ElectoralReform !cdnpoli via @LaurelRusswurm and @FairVoteCanada on #Twitter
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kuro: In !science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the #idea occurs first. - Francis Darwin !q
kuro's status on Saturday, 30-Jul-2016 10:52:08 EDT
In !science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the #idea occurs first. - Francis Darwin !q
ghostdancer: good !tzag and strong !coffee dear fedizens “This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” Arthur Dent !q
ghostdancer's status on Thursday, 12-May-2016 03:52:06 EDT
good !tzag and strong !coffee dear fedizens “This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” Arthur Dent !q
ghostdancer: @mmn Water is life because without water would not be coffee and without !coffee i'd kill everybody !q c[_] :-)
ghostdancer's status on Saturday, 03-Oct-2015 05:04:17 EDT
@mmn Water is life because without water would not be coffee and without !coffee i'd kill everybody !q c[_] :-)
rozzin: Nice !hack: "Tricera Hi-Tops" #dinosaur #shoes #q "Solving society's problem of a lack of wearable dinosaurs " http://www.tricerahitops.com/
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2014 22:28:33 EST
Nice !hack: "Tricera Hi-Tops" #dinosaur #shoes #q "Solving society's problem of a lack of wearable dinosaurs " http://www.tricerahitops.com/
rozzin: I #want a #T-shirt that says "Love the fucking baby yourself, you goddamn robot": http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html #robot #baby #jmc #mccarthy #q
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2014 21:06:51 EST
I #want a #T-shirt that says "Love the fucking baby yourself, you goddamn robot": http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html #robot #baby #jmc #mccarthy #q
rozzin: "Mystery clung to each impending image as it took shape, the camera conjuring up pictures of what was right before one’s eyes, right before one’s eyes. The miracle of photography, which Polaroids instantly exposed, never lost its primitive magic. And what resulted, as so many sentimentalists today lament, was a memory coming into focus on a small rectangle of film." !polaroid #q http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6456
rozzin's status on Friday, 14-Nov-2014 17:56:03 EST
"Mystery clung to each impending image as it took shape, the camera conjuring up pictures of what was right before one’s eyes, right before one’s eyes. The miracle of photography, which Polaroids instantly exposed, never lost its primitive magic. And what resulted, as so many sentimentalists today lament, was a memory coming into focus on a small rectangle of film." !polaroid #q http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6456
rozzin: #q "Having a skill and being unafraid can look surprisingly similar." https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4Y5Adb/
rozzin's status on Monday, 22-Sep-2014 11:40:33 EDT
#q "Having a skill and being unafraid can look surprisingly similar." https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4Y5Adb/
kuro: Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the #probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. - David Ellis !q !science
kuro's status on Monday, 04-Aug-2014 03:37:39 EDT
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the #probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. - David Ellis !q !science
rozzin: #q "The absurdity is that the hack is at all necessary…. In a sane legal climate, the TV station would be thrilled that Aero wants to help them reach the dead pockets in their area at no cost to them and any suggestion that such helpful people… might owe them a fee would be laughed out of court." http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3608601&cid=43345809 !copyright
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2014 22:12:13 EDT
#q "The absurdity is that the hack is at all necessary…. In a sane legal climate, the TV station would be thrilled that Aero wants to help them reach the dead pockets in their area at no cost to them and any suggestion that such helpful people… might owe them a fee would be laughed out of court." http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3608601&cid=43345809 !copyright
rozzin: #q "This may be the biggest #legal controversy to engulf the #mathematical constant #pi since that time in #1897 when the Indiana legislature tried to declare it equal to 3.2" http://www.wired.com/2014/05/pi-takedown/
rozzin's status on Monday, 02-Jun-2014 13:42:13 EDT
#q "This may be the biggest #legal controversy to engulf the #mathematical constant #pi since that time in #1897 when the Indiana legislature tried to declare it equal to 3.2" http://www.wired.com/2014/05/pi-takedown/
rozzin: #q "30% of the code in our new release was written by kids" #lp2014
rozzin's status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2014 15:03:04 EDT
#q "30% of the code in our new release was written by kids" #lp2014
rozzin: #q Walter Bender "I have 2 modest goals for kids: I want them to learn to write, and I want them to learn to write code. And the first thing we do is take away their keyboards?"
rozzin's status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2014 14:51:53 EDT
#q Walter Bender "I have 2 modest goals for kids: I want them to learn to write, and I want them to learn to write code. And the first thing we do is take away their keyboards?"