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[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Not Trek but with Trek people. Is that OK?

A few episodes of the comedy quiz show podcast Go Fact Yourself, co-hosted by Trek fan Helen Hong and J. Keith Van Straaten, an old friend of Danielle Koenig.

Different guests each show, this week I've heard:

More:

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!

 

Port Roberts, Wash., is a one of a handful of pene-exclaves, or territories that reside in another country, in North America.


From NYT > Top Stories via this RSS feed


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

[–] klu9@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe by an intellectual property stickler. You know, for infringing on New York State's I ❤ NY registered trademark.

/jk

[–] klu9@piefed.social 22 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I'm in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I'm hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 12 hours ago

TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden's #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

TIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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 26 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 29 points 1 day ago (4 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 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Upvoted for FreeTube.

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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?

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