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[–] klu9@piefed.social 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. "Boelter helped lead the private security firm Praetorian Guard Security Services". Frankly, anyone who names a "security" company after the Praetorian Guard should be preemptively arrested.

  2. Web site still up at time of writing.

Praetorian Guard - Meet the Leadership Team

Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military. He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, the world's largest food company based in Switzerland and the world's largest convenience retailer based in Japan.

Yeah, so he's saying he worked at a 7-11?

[–] klu9@piefed.social 16 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Gavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground...

Oh god, this old chestnut they keep trotting out. (Remember all those "entire cities burned to the ground" by Antifa and BLM 5 years ago?)

on so many occasions

Wait, what? Now they're claiming the same governor has let the same city burn to the ground "on so many occasions"?

Well then, he gets my vote! If he's competent enough to oversee rebuilding a burned metropolis not once, not twice but "so many" times in just two terms, this guy clearly gets shit done!

 

Review of 'Daughters of the Bamboo Grove' (Barbara Demick) and 'Leftover Women' (10th Anniversary Edition)' (Leta Hong Fincher) from the Los Angeles Review of Books

In her new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, Barbara Demick analyzes how the one-child policy was not just responsible for the gender imbalance in China but also contributed to tens of thousands of international adoptions, not all of which were conducted honorably or honestly.


With the easing of the one-child policy and the decreasing population rate, one could also presume that Chinese women and girls now enjoy more freedoms than in recent decades. Leta Hong Fincher shows this is not true. Just over a decade ago, she published Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (2014), an astonishing book that revealed the dismal implications for young Chinese women in light of the campaign to push them into marriage before the age of 26. In 2023, Hong Fincher came out with a 10th anniversary updated edition of the book, which pairs nicely with Demick’s and provides a fuller picture of women in contemporary China.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

A Rigorous Mathematical Deconstruction of the Hypothesized Causal Link Between Vaccines and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr. Ima Skeptik, Prof. Al B. Surd, and Dr. Con Spirov

Department of Paradoxical Epidemiology, University of Unreason, Nowhereville

https://fakepaper.app/s3/A_Rigorous_Mathematical_Deconstruction_of_the_Hypo-4ed7fe07.pdf

Abstract

This paper provides an exhaustive and incontrovertible mathematical framework establishing the causative relationship between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Employing avant-garde statistical pseudo-logic, nonlinear pseudoscience, and hyperbolic integrals, we derive novel equations that not only confirm but quantify the absurdly subtle mechanisms by which vaccines trigger ASD. Our findings challenge the prevailing dogma of evidence-based medicine by introducing the groundbreaking concept of “Vax-induced Neuro-Synapticality” (VINS) and its inverse correlation with
common sense. This work, at the intersection of quantum conjecture and wishful thinking, paves the way for future “research” in vaccine skepticism with impeccable rigor.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 21 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

KDE Connect

I've used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I'm sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone's lockscreen to pause the music.)

I'm starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.

There's more too I need to explore.

(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a 'device unreachable' error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)

[–] klu9@piefed.social 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Upvoted for FreeTube.

What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I'm using LibRedirect https://libredirect.github.io/

[–] klu9@piefed.social 12 points 16 hours ago

"Yanis Varoufuckice" is a pen-name??? /jk

For anyone interested, it's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

 

The Leo Belgicus (Latin, 'Belgic Lion') was used in both heraldry and map design to symbolize the former Low Countries (current day Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and a small part of northern France) with the shape of a lion.

2,810 × 4,000 pixels:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Leo_Belgicus_%28Dutch-Belgic_Lion_of_the_Low_Countries%29_Famiano_Strada_c1647.jpg

[–] klu9@piefed.social 24 points 16 hours ago
[–] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Especially as the people who believe in "pizza place basements" are now running the show.

 

Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

 

Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

 

Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago

Ah, to let white supremacists proceed with dismantling democracy and human rights without interference from 'wokes' in the federal government?

However, in the former Confederate States, many paramilitary groups sought to suppress, often through intimidation and violence, African-American political power and return the South to rule by the predominantly white Democratic Party. Although African Americans were initially supported by the federal government, as Reconstruction went on, that support waned.[2] Following the bitterly disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election and Compromise of 1877, Congressmen and Senators from the former Confederate States returned to Washington and prioritized prohibiting the federal government from reimposing control over their states.

Yep.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago

Realpolitik is German for "short-term thinking that will eventually bite you in the arse".

 

A Keeta delivery worker group on Facebook uses the mainland Chinese term “involution” (內捲) to describe the “K Go” scheme as it forces workers to self-exploit for their survival in a shrinking market. Keeta's parent company, Meituan, has been widely criticised for its algorithmic exploitation.

 

Academic study on the use of the octopus metaphor to represent grasping, controlling invasive entities etc. Examines many examples.

Serio-comic war map of Europe 1877

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

Via Metafilter:

 

Lemm.ee va a cerrar.

c/Mexico va a migrar a otra instancia?

 

Looks like another community moderated by a missing person that might disappear when lemm.ee shuts down.

Anyone thinking of / inclined to migrate it to another instance?

 

Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the benefits from free software in science.


One sad but common situation is that of a graduate student who becomes accustomed to a piece of expensive commercial analytical software (such as a symbolic-mathematics program), enjoying it either through a generous student discount or because it's paid for by the department. Then the freshly-minted PhD discovers the real price of the software, and can't afford it on their postdoc salary. They have to learn new ways of doing things, and have probably lost access to their past work, which is locked up in proprietary binary files.

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