Tootfinder

»Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse:
The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.«
I am curious to see how this affects the behavior of the @… users. I cannot classify this as good or bad and have no opinion in this regard. What is yours?
:mastodon:

Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Mastodon is rolling out quote posts, allowing you to repost someone else’s content and add extra context. The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.

A treasure trove of neat little #macOS Tools. Also a great blog with many insights about macOS https://eclecticlight.co/dintch/

Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
Spundle – create, resize and compact sparse bundles Updated. Simple utility to create sparse bundles of any maximum size, choose from six different file systems, and custom band sizes. Also r…

Appreciate the nod that spatial data viz is hard, @…!
The motivation part about expensive GIS tools is a little off though 💸 :qgis:
https://m…

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Once the distinctions had been made, and the first punishments applied, the venereal were accepted into the hospital. And they were crammed inside. In 1781, 138 men occupied 60 beds in the Saint-Eustache quarter of Bicêtre, and in the Miséricorde in the Salpêtrière there were 125 beds for 224 women. Patients in the terminal stages of the disease were simply left to die. 'Grand Remedies' were applied to the others: never more, and rarely less than six weeks of care, starting of course with blood-letting and purging, then a week of baths for two hours per day, then purging again, followed by a full and complete confession to bring this first part of the treatment to a close. Rubbing with mercury could then begin, with all its efficacy. Each course of treatment lasted one month, and was followed by two more purges and one final bleeding to chase out the remaining morbific humours. Fifteen days of convalescence were then granted. After he had definitively made his peace with God, the patient was declared cured and sent away.
This 'therapeutic' demonstrates a rich tapestry of fantasy, and above all a profound complicity between medicine and morality, which give their full meaning to these purification practices. For the classical age, venereal disease was less a sickness than an impurity to which physical symptoms are correlated. Accordingly, medical perception is ruled by ethical perception, and on occasion even effaced by it. The body must be treated to remove the contagion, but the flesh must be punished, for it is the flesh that attaches us to sin. Mere corporal punishment was not enough: the flesh was to be pummelled and bruised, and leaving painful traces was not to be feared, as good health, all too frequently, transformed the human body into another opportunity for sinful conduct. The sickness was to be treated, but the good health that could lead to temptation was to be destroyed.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

"It is clear to us that the assessed approaches are not feasible, and that further research into these techniques would not be an effective use of limited time and resources. It is vital that these ideas do not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or from the critical need to conduct fundamental research in the polar regions."
New paper out today led by Martin Siegert and ft. (on here) me and @… and about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed #Polar #Geoengineering schemes are dangerous, misleading and unethical...
#AskMeAnything if you'd like to know more.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full
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Card Sorting with Fewer Cards and the Same Mental Models? A Re-examination of an Established Practice
Eduard Kuric, Peter Demcak, Matus Krajcovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03232

Card Sorting with Fewer Cards and the Same Mental Models? A Re-examination of an Established Practice
To keep card sorting with a lot of cards concise, a common strategy for gauging mental models involves presenting participants with fewer randomly selected cards instead of the full set. This is a decades-old practice, but its effects lacked systematic examination. To assess how randomized subsets affect data, we conducted an experiment with 160 participants. We compared results between full and randomized 60\% card sets, then analyzed sample size requirements and the impacts of individual pers…

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer
has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties,
a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
The race to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Mark Green could gauge the popularity of Donald Trump’s authoritarian second-term agenda, especially with suburban Republican voters.
There had be…

Special election in Tennessee draws a crowd in both parties
A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties. The departure of former U.S. Rep. Mark Green has resulted in the contested primary Tuesday in one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safe red seats in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. Eleven Republicans are running in the 14-county district, with most attention centering on state Reps. Jody Barrett and Gino Bulso and former Ten…

@… Oh for sure. I don’t have context, so I don’t want to come across as one of those all too common dicks on the web.
But if someone blamed you for the fact that you have a gitignore file, and they committed it blindly… yeah. Not your fault, obviously.
@…

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Programs
Bernardo Cornejo (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Halim Ashkar (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Matteo Cerruti (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Ilja Jaroschewski (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Pierre Pichard (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Santiago Pita (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Fabian Schussler (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Programs
Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics have experienced rapid growth over the past decade, seeking a complete picture of different cosmic phenomena. Transient sources, in particular, benefit from the input of multi-messenger observations, offering complementary perspectives on the same event while maximizing the detection probability of a rapidly fading signal. In this context, Gravitational Wave (GW) detections serve as perfect triggers for potential counterpart detections. Notably,…