www.theguardian.com Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
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The thing is, I keep them there as a "last resort", not as main use.
Don't worry, the next Alpha Males will get crowned soon:
Not from the 800K+ fanfics , or in general from all the fanart.
The Death of the Author is a pre-Internet reflection on personal interpretation over an author's views.
Nowadays, it's way more than that: whole fandoms can tear an author's work to shreds, run with only the parts they like, and not look back. Rowling is no longer in control, or much of an influence, she's merely coasting on her previous fame for those unaware. Right now, most of the fandom is quite critical of her views, not only on trans people, but also some other troubling aspects of her work... and they make the overwhelming majority of works in the Harry Potter universe.
what do people use discord for exactly?
Too much.
It's a chat platform geared towards gamers, with voice chat, screen sharing, and streaming options... that's been coopted by vloggers... but most unsettlingly, it's being used for customer support and documentation.
A lot of knowledge bases are buried in the walled garden of servers, and a labyrinth of chat rooms.
There is this:
Paramount Is Rolling Back DEI Initiatives to Align With Trump Mandates
...but guess that's been normalized now?
Fortunately, one doesn't necessarily need to purchase any of the media to enjoy it. When an author or publisher changes flags, so can people 🏴☠️
McCaffrey took a turn towards homophobia, adding to her books that only inferior dragons would pick LGB riders, that then were used as a sort of cannon fodder, and a gold dragon queen would only choose strictly hetero riders because they were supposed to be breeders.
Roddenberry was a sexist nuisance, both on set and in the themes he tried to constantly write into the scripts. While claiming tolerance, he chased away some of the actors with his antics. Sexual tolerance themes got written more despite of him, than thanks to him, and mostly appear after he passed away. It can be claimed that he was "a man of his time", but still.
Seems like it hasn't been updated for 2 years. Is it abandoned?
JK Rowling is a poster case of why it's a good idea to disassociate an author from their work (Harry Potter), followed by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern), Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek), and some more.
The saddest part, are the nonsense arguments her kind are using. I've participated in some trans communities, and the largest issue I've seen, is that some are breeding grounds for gaslighting narcissists. That would be a much more concerning point to address, than all the BS these people are spewing.
The ecodesign requirements will include:
resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water
sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market
availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)
non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement
Finally! 🎉
Customer replaceable batteries would be nice too — those 800 cycles are not all that much — but I guess it's a tradeoff for dust and water resistance increases with wireless charging and possibly no ports.
most of today’s manufacturing done by people cannot be automated. If it could, it would have already been done so, by China
China 4 years ago: Xiaomi's "dark" factory.
Rejoice, this lack of support for blind oppression, is why Hegseth didn't get enough military backing to recommend Martial Law last week... and is to be replaced for that.
When train station announcements got automated, nobody batted an eye.
When a radio station's in-between-tracks filler talk gets automated... I couldn't care less.
I'd say this is a valid use for AI, they could even automate generating the filler talk scripts.
Following the 2nd Amendment and NRA recommendations, you can buy some ranged "pitchforks" at Walmart.
Call me a cynic, but my over/under list is:
- When they come for you
- They come for a beloved member of your family (not the despised ones)
Some of your friends disappearMass deportation of "undesirables"Opposition members get killedMartial Law gets invokedJudges get arrestedPeople sent to concentration campsPeople incarcerated without due process
...and the remaining dozens (hundreds?) of "red flags" for the last year-and-something.
Not that many generations far back. It takes several generations for changes to soak in, and that's before taking into account globalization with conflicting world views.
Nonsense, it still refuses requests as usual:
Sometimes, it doesn't even propose a viable alternative (like, evacuate the building first):
Target down 6.5% YoY for the month and Costco—beginning to see a pattern here?—up 7.5%
fellow DEI capitulators Walmart and McDonald's both saw foot-traffic increases, up 2.7% and 4.5% respectively.
Hm... what is the pattern?
- Target - no DEI - down 6.5%
- Walmart - no DEI - up 2.7%
- McDonald's - no DEI - up 4.5%
- Costco - DEI - up 7.5%
Were they all supposed to go up as much as Costco?
Squirrels sound like the stereotypical ADHD: bouts of frenetic activity, followed by a freeze, frenetic, freeze, etc.
Beavers... I'd rather associate with mild autism: hear water, need to build dam to get rid of the sound, need to chew tree, everything else is secondary.
Not sure why it seems to be using them as opposites.
Some animals have stereotyped behaviors that are easier to understand as the bare behavior, than it is to explain a behavior on the example of "someone who looks like you, but see, they don't always behave or think like you do, you need to take into account personal differences, and not everyone's differences are the same as someone else's, so we will analyze particular behavior traits as..." ...but you've lost your audience at the first comma.
In any case, what shorthand placeholders would you suggest?
The article sounds like it lifted the headline from some comment I've seen:
What they were offering – through a programme titled Safe Place for Science – was a sort of “scientific asylum”, offering three years of funding at their facility for about 20 researchers.
On Thursday the university said it had received 298 applications in a month, of which 242 were deemed eligible. The applicants hailed from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford, it said in a statement.
Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote in the French newspaper Libération.
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.
The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.
The cable encourages State Department employees to report on one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. “Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred,” the cable reads.
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale'-esque,” said one State Department official, who was granted anonymity because the individual was not allowed to speak openly about internal department affairs.
arstechnica.com Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.
Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack
www.tomsguide.com Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack — 3.2 million at risk
Legitimate browser extensions were turned bad through malicious updates
a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.
While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser
What Is the Third Term Project? Pro-Trump Group Bids to Change Constitution
www.newsweek.com What is the Third Term Project? Pro-Trump group bids to change Constitution
The project wants more Republicans to support Representative Andy Ogles' push to allow Trump to run for office in 2028.
A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1951 following the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms between 1933 and 1945. The two-term limit for presidents was introduced by Congress to prevent potential abuses of power.
www.nbcnews.com ‘Long live the king’: Trump adds monarch rhetoric to actions
Trump has already sought to test the limits of executive power.
The official White House social media accounts on X, Instagram and Facebook soon quoted his post, all sharing a fake magazine cover depicting an illustration of Trump smiling in a suit — and wearing a bejeweled golden crown.
Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington
"Press with both hands"
...just when you thought this timeline couldn't get much weirder.
www.semafor.com Trump team considers housing detained migrants in container offices
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in discussions with Phoenix-based Willscot about a lease, according to people familiar with the matter.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in discussions with Phoenix-based Willscot about leasing the company’s mobile structures to house undocumented detainees, the people said. Willscot’s products are commonly used as construction-site storage and office space.
This AI Paper Unveils the Future of MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) – Understanding Their Evolution, Capabilities, and Impact on AI Research
Brace for impact.
Israeli troops briefly enter Gaza as wider ground incursion looms
abcnews.go.com Live updates | Israeli troops briefly enter Gaza as wider ground incursion looms
The Israeli military says its troops and tanks briefly entered northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, hitting several militant targets as a wider ground incursion looms after more than two weeks of heavy air raids
Israeli troops and tanks launched a brief ground raid into northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, the military said, striking several militant targets in order to “prepare the battlefield” ahead of a widely expected ground invasion
Deleted posts
It's unnerving to find an interesting post, with an interesting conversation, only to see it deleted (not even mod removed) with hanging replies in the inbox and no way to reply back.
Is there any feature that would allow continuing those conversations? Other than direct messages, which get "black holed" (no way to see own replies). Could these conversations be somehow continued, either recovered in Lemmy, or maybe via Mastodon?
Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google's cloud services.
While it may seem like Enhanced Safe Browsing is the better way to go, there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.
Another room-temperature superconductor
thequantuminsider.com Another Day, Another Room-Temperature Superconductor
The room-temperature superconducting space has suddenly become white hot with new papers and patent applications.
This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof.
Edit: after reviewing the patent, and as pointed out by @floofloof@lemmy.ca, this is an incredible amount of BS. The patent's initial date is Feb 2020, issue date Dec 2021. It has no proof, because it claims to speculatively apply a possible theory by someone else, onto how to make a flexible Type II semiconductor out of a Type I semiconductor, in case this ever happens to be possible with that theory. Basically a patent troll waiting to see if someone happens to make possible the elements they've used in the patent, then jump in and claim an application.
Honestly, didn't know speculative patents like this were possible.