Eric @ericireland@aus.social

UFO detector.

#UFO

Hey friends,

For the last 2 years, we've hosted an interdisciplinary inter-time-zone all-online all-free conference for the Fediverse

So I'm gauging interest for #SummerSchool 2022

If you want to be one of the co-organizers (one of the people who makes sure that presenters have moderators and fills out the schedule, etc—we're not recruiting moderators or presenters yet), please reply to this message as a DM before 2022-06-04 and I'll schedule a meeting!

I really want to yeet every idiot who complains about a candidate winning with less (first preference) votes than their preferred candidate.

Every single person who is elected (in good preferential voting systems like Australia's) is elected because >50% of people prefer the candidate to the one you are whinging about.

It's a feature, it's the point.

It's a true democracy.

I don't shed a tear because you can't manipulate results because of it.

Hi fediverse! Boosts appreciated on this one.

I’m part of a co-op building a platform for artists to sell art without getting exploited. I’ve been working on it for a while but there’s a lot of work to do and I could use some help. A ton of the main features are in place, but there’s still some big gaps and a lot of polish left before it can launch.

The platform is fully open source and developed in the open. It’s built on Phoenix/Elixir and Tailwindcss. Our co-op is already incorporated and established and it’s open to members that want to actually commit but you don’t need to be a member to contribute or help.

Does this sound interesting? I’d love some help! I’m also happy to answer questions. And no, you don’t need to know Elixir already. It’s pretty easy to learn for the things you’d be using it for. Even some design help would be welcome. Feel free to reply here or DM me!

#noxp

Took a lot of time to look at small things today. Here's a nameless plant covered in nameless rain drops.

NEW Preprint alert! Policymakers, medics, data analysts, industry IP lawyers, open research folks, this is one for you: COVID-19: An exploration of consecutive systemic barriers to pathogen-related data sharing during a pandemic.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.12098

🧵 - boosts appreciated!

US pharmaceutical giant says it will sell patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to world's poorest countries.
Pfizer to offer low-cost drugs to 45 lower-income nations

Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data

"In court documents made public on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice say Twitter violated a 2011 agreement with regulators in which the company vowed to not use information gathered for security purposes, like users' phone numbers and email addresses, to help advertisers target people with ads."

#Twitter #FTC #2FA
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101275323/twitter-privacy-settlement-doj-ftc

DID YOU KNOW? Under the hood your browser refers to itself as a “user agent,” because it is a remnant from a time when we believed the point of software was to make our lives easier, rather than to trick us into buying things we don’t need and infect us with the rage virus

Gabriella Morreale💉✨

Italian-born Spanish chemist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. She established a newborn screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain and helped to introduce iodised salt to prevent thyroid problems caused by iodine deficiency.

#mastoart #science #art #womeninscience #creativetoots #illustration #digitalart #portrait #ciencia #history

Today I got an email from a random graduate student saying they appreciate my mathematical work.

I am happy!

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graphtool@twitter.com

https://graph-tool.skewed.de

Single line installation:

anaconda ⤵️
conda create --name gt -c conda-forge graph-tool

homebrew ⤵️
brew install graph-tool

debian/ubuntu⤵️
apt-get install python3-graph-tool

oooooof so telling: NPR reporter asked someone "what makes you a Republican" and she said "I've always had conservative values; I grew up in church."

Oh honey so did I, but somehow the idea that it was a cult that required a political affiliation never quite took with me.

Prompt: corgis on the moon

Shared story with kid.

According to child Pocky is also apparently high up on the list of good things about Japan.

And I'm going to share this video of a Japanese park or zoo giving a group of capybara eating a giant watermelon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLGdRx7prA

Before I tell you about how HSBC just announced it wants to literally render the planet Earth unfit for human habitation, I want to talk about HSBC's other crimes. Remember the LIBOR scandal? HSBC was neck-deep in it, costing the world's public coffers *trillions* through fraud?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-23/banks-are-ordered-by-court-to-defend-libor-antitrust-lawsuit

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osmexport is my first go at a proper #RStats package.

This small package is useful for importing, and visualising #OSM XML data using #sf. I’m likely to expand it and rename it “osmxml”.

https://github.com/stragu/osmexport

Oh nooooo DuckDUckGo is doing shady things and lets Microsoft track you via their Ad Partnership...so shooocked! www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duck…

I kept on saying to people that DDG is a potential risk simply because it engages into TRADES. They wanted you, the user, to click their ads. And all of the "but hey we don't track you at least..." was of course a marketing strategy. Selling their search engine to these "privacy oriented" folks. Privacy-washing. Even tho I was not aware of this practice I was kinda sure they will eventually fuck things up, simply because whenever you engage into trades, sooner or later you will fuck things up.

So yeah, it seems this theory of trade, it being the originator of most problems, still holds very much true. I do not trust any trade-based service. Period. #tromlive