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i love being a scientist
"the results matter not who you are"
except everything goes off of name recognition and who is coauthor and what journal you're on, and what institute you're at (and which country you're from)
we'll even sometimes voluntarily curate a better tracked and cross linked profile because that's how you get ahead, a very public resume.
We get assigned global identifiers, ORCiDs, to help disambiguate us, wouldn't want to be confused for someone with a similar name. Have to be googleable and uniquely identifiable.
oh and every time you travel your whereabouts will be more or less public. every conference schedule where you present will have your name attached and welll SEO'd, so anyone who wants to follow your movements can, easily.
"[gosh we can't find any women or minorities who want to be in this field long term]"
Hmmm something looks different about this yote on this #SqueakySaturday 👀 💙 ✨
📸: @syntaxruntime.bsky.social
Editing: @rubberbeefcake.bsky.social
#latex #rubber #latexfur #rubberfur
So, something I heard recently on my local NPR station on borrowing ebooks vs. hardcover from your local library:
Apparently, the library pays ~$15 for a hardcover book, but ~$150 for the ebook - and the ebook is a LIMITED LICENSE for, say, 52 loans of that book. After which they have to pay ANOTHER $150 for the book, AGAIN.
The takeaway here: If you can get the hardcopy from the library instead of borrowing an ebook, please do so. The impact on their budget will be SIGNIFICANT.
Here's a related, but older, reference:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118289764/the-surprising-economics-of-digital-lending
Hi - as a librarian, I want everyone to read books in whatever format they prefer! But it's true that these terms are ridiculous. What we really need is legislation calling for fair e-book pricing and publishing practices.
This is a good campaign website:
https://ebooksforus.com/take-action/
Digital books reduced the cost of reading for individuals, but big publishers are not passing along the cost savings to libraries.Library Futures
Mozilla, please go back providing a good browser and stop doing all the other shit. I need a browser from you and the developer Network - that’s it. Why do you pivot to AI and advertising? There is no ethical advertising and the moment you provide targeting there is no privacy friendly advertising.
Sincerely, a user
If you're romantically interested in someone who is Asexual but know a relationship with them would not work out due to that, do not say to that person "If only you weren't Asexual..."
I've accepted being Asexual a long time ago, but I'll admit that sometimes it still bothers me that it gets in the way of things like relationships.
Having someone say that to me upset me a bit.
Proper #COVID19 language:
We ARE in a pandemic.
The global health emergencies are over.
We are NOT post-COVID.
We are post-caring about COVID across public health agencies and the population.
The pandemic is NOT behind us.
Most COVID monitoring and precautions are behind us.
COVID IS still a risk.
And most importantly, we truly will not know the long-term impact of one infection, much less five or more infections, for another three to five years.
Small life improvement: I have changed the domain name of my private network from ".lan" to the now standardized ".internal". So when I type <hostname>.<internal-domain> Firefox will actually access the host instead of making an internet search.
https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/root-system/identification-tld-private-use-24-01-2024-en.pdf
#DNS #Networking #Firefox #LAN
The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.
All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.
I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.
"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"
No, listen, you just don't understand.
If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".
If you do it, you get banned though.
Fursuit arrived, trying it on for my first #FursuitFriday! This is pretty amazing!
🪡 Sarahcat Fursuits
Wroommm wrooommm Let's drive super fast into the weekend and have a good time!
#FurryCommunity #fursuitfriday
It was super fun to drive these cars in the fursuit, but unfortunately with limited speed. We were allowed to drive it unlimited without the fursuit. That was great, because the electrically powered cars had great acceleration.
📷 Akai_the_white_guardian (Telegram)
🧵 @Areksim
Sometimes you meet furs you never thought you would at convention, like in 2018 when I met @crash_azarel for the first time at EF then MFF. And I had the pleasure to see him again last NFC alongside the handsome @Tsumef4n 🥰 #FursuitFriday
📸 by @lisansnowtiger
David Tennant. Always supporting Pride and trans people. Just a wonderful human being ♥️
(photo by Georgia Tennant. posted on her insta)
Another commission of the cyber-deer!
This time showing off his energy-tech powers, he's supposed to be something like Mass Effect Sentinel.
Had fun with this one, I enjoy drawing energy and comic-like action shots, and it's always fun to draw some cyber parts 😎
#FurryArt #MastoArt #Commission
The summer solstice is upon us, and I've got it made in the shade. Hope you're staying cool out there!
The American road system baffles me for many reasons. The main one being:
🔴 Traffic light red:
You can turn right.
There will be no pedestrians crossing. You have right of way.
🟢 Traffic light green:
You can turn right.
There will be pedestrians crossing in front of you. You do not have right of way.
The squishability hierarchy in the UK Highway Code (the H clauses) introduced a couple of years ago were not well communicated to road users.
In the UK, only Northern Ireland has a jaywalking law, IIRC.
This is how it works in my neighborhood of Chicago, IL, USA. If I'm walking north and south, it's safer to cross on a "DONT WALK" than on a "WALK" signal because traffic will be going straight, looking at me, and driving on a side road with a 25mph speed limit. If I crossed on a "WALK" signal, traffic would be going 35mph, turning, and unable to see me until they turned.
The solution to this is to look all 4 ways before you cross, see who has a green light (or red, they'll make a rolling stop to turn right) then run like hell, and mostly ignore the crosswalk signal. I've got CFS so my "run like hell" is more of a "jog like heck" but I haven't got hit yet.
This is the framing Apple wants to sell for their decision to withhold features from the EU, and blogs are parroting it.
In reality, Apple is purposefully withholding these features from the EU, either because Apple are being retaliatory against EU customers for the existence of the DMA, or because Apple (with full knowledge of the DMA for years) refused to build these features in compliance with it.
Apple chose to harm their products in the EU. The DMA didn't. This framing is marketing.
One day I'll get more art for my komodo dragon taur character as it's been a while since anything more than a sketch has been done of him. He has such a great design that I need to do more with, but it always gets knocked down on the priority list
Art by AgroPuer
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/01wzhznhbymq
The Post Office Horizon scandal resulted in the deaths by suicide of four adults. It is rightly seen as a national disgrace.
We now have credible evidence that, since Dec. 2020, 16 trans children have died by suicide while under NHS care. That’s compared to 1 in the 7 years previous. Government policies on trans healthcare are having a real and tragic effect. Labour has promised, if elected, to continue those policies.
https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/112654471306430598
Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up.Mastodon.green
"All we have to do is punish that group of powerless people, and we’ll be happier."
- rough translation of much political speech these days
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