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Study how marginalized groups are empowered by the internet. Retired teacher - web development and thinking skills. AAAS Section X, Science and Society Nobody is safe until everybody is safe My old Blogger: http://www.bobcalder.net/
The AMS 37th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology is coming up in three weeks. It will be my 12th time at this biennial conference (starting in 2004), and 3rd time attending it in San Diego.
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One of my favorite conference centers. Great coffee bar. And such fun seeing "Stop Chemtrails" picket signs. I never see them anywhere else.
How fascinating. Because they started this s*** in August. And suddenly, within a week, they deactivate it.
Quite the sign of how experts don't actually use Grammarly and thus hadn't noticed until last week? And how stressed Grammarly is about potential law suits now that we do realise.
Picture of a hand holding the book “the unknowers: how strategic ignorance rules the world” by Linsey McGoey
yup. Very little doubt they have a fall-guy who will be blamed for not giving them enough plausible deniability.
Grammarly is like the hair spray element of healthcare. Not concerned if they're being used on actual hair.
I find it so revealing how they use the example of a professor sharpening an essay - that the crucial difference between 'Person X has actually read your work, thought about it, and responded' and 'Person X has not been involved AT ALL in this process' is just not significant to them.
Experts have opinions about how useful AI is.
These influential writers apparently don't use academia.edu which gives me a decent perspective of what's happening in a group that focuses on one particular subject.
I used to be good at calibrating monitors back in the day. I had to do it for 4 color printing and video editing which requires you to shift the gamma.
There is more to good performance. My wife has acuity off the charts for interpreting edges of letters or images.
What's My JND? 0.0047
Figure from a paper claiming that ginger can treat toxoplasma. Image C is from an infected, untreated brain, arrow points to a supposed toxo cyst. Image E is claimed to be from a brain of a nose treated with an antibiotic. Green circles are around identical clusters of cells showing that the toxo cyst was photoshopped into the first image. It’s a pink background with little blue dots cells. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9315699/
It’s funny, because right before I stumbled across this I utilized some eagle eye ability when someone asked me what I thought about this paper on ginger as a treatment for toxoplasmosis. Skeptical to start, I immediately noticed something fishy about their first image. Details in the alt text
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"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...
Ghost town in Fukushima, 2016. Image courtesy of Maxime Polleri
In a second piece, Maxime Polleri (@maximepolleri.bsky.social) offers a critique of the narrative that "No one died from radiation at Fukushima."
He unpacks three specific shortcomings.
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#Fukushima15 #NukeSky #NuclearEnergy
His investigative reporting piece was published in @thebulletin.org and supported by @pulitzercenter.org. (4/n)
#Fukushima15 #NukeSky #NuclearEnergy
Not a lot different from when a conglomerate buys a company because it is profitable and they think they can make it more profitable by firing half the staff.
Calling out bad actors is a good thing.
More like this please.
NEW: Ukrainian forces advanced 10 to 12 kilometers deep in two separate drives in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast that have reportedly liberated more than 400 square kilometers since late January 2026. 🧵(1/7)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 10, 2026 isw.pub/UkrWar031026
After testing with @tailscale.com funnel in nix vm, we have now the matrix-authentication-service running which allow matrix.atproto.fr to support also mobile !
This is an “If Books Could Kill” thesis come to life.
Rich = Smart = Real
Poor = Dumb = Not Real
All spatial information (digital or otherwise) are priceless during war - "geography applied in the worst possible ways." Today, maps and imagery are the canvas telling the story of the horror of war; geography is the language of geopolitics. We come to know where places are and why they matter.
NEW: CENTCOM reported that US forces destroyed 16 Iranian minelayers near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian mining efforts are part of a broader effort to disrupt maritime traffic in the Strait & Gulf to impose a cost. (1/5)
Iran Update Evening Special Report, March 10, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate03...
Calling central Jersey scientists and academics!
Come out to say hi today at 5pm, Destination Dogs, New Brunswick. Apps, games, and...great people!
You can just show up! Or to help w/headcount, RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Show up to say hi and talk about how we can stop the damage!
@marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy I did not authorize this!
Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe because Trump has made the US an unsafe place to travel to.
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
How about a more timely headline on the order of Last Month Inflation Held Steady But Buckle In For A Hard Ride
Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.
President Donald Trump told America that there were dead people walking around with no arms or legs during his Monday evening speech at a GOP retreat in Florida. trib.al/h88qHQm
