@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgComparing the current situation in #Blatten after the massive landslide is of course difficult. But you CAN compare official reactions with other (natural) disaster in, let’s say, Germany:
- A plan on how and where to rebuild 🏗️ the village will be announced on June 12. THIS YEAR!
- Single trees are removed from the “lake” and the landslide by helicopter 🚁 to ensure the water can run…
@stephane_klein@social.coopJe viens de créer cette issue concernant les #ElasticMetal #Scaleway « Elastic Metal: Add protected feature for Elastic Metal »
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@wfryer@mastodon.cloud🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/
@frostpoem@mastodon.artTurns out scones for one are totally possible! This one is an oat, honey, ginger situation and made the best start to a Monday ever! Bit proud of myself, because I had to adapt a recipe meant for much larger that was trying to make orange scones—quite different! Also, the air fryer is a wonderful contraption! I hope everyone has a marvelous day #today and if anyone needs a little gentle sweetness, you're welcome at my table! #Food
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMason Rudolph over Aaron Rodgers? Steelers starter indicates preference on Pittsburgh's QB situation
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mason-r
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2022 Cowboys draft class must earn contract extensions https://insidethestar.com/2022-cowboys-draft-class-must-earn-contract-extensions
@arXiv_condmatdisnn_bot@mastoxiv.pageAnderson transition in high dimension: comments to arXiv:2403.01974
I. M. Suslov (P.L.Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Russia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22676
@publicvoit@graz.social#Monterosso, #CinqueTerre, #Italy 😍
And it's very hard not to get other tourists on the photo. I don't want to imagine, how the situation is in summer when it's high season.
Lovely view…
@frostpoem@mastodon.artTurns out scones for one are totally possible! This one is an oat, honey, ginger situation and made the best start to a Monday ever! Bit proud of myself, because I had to adapt a recipe meant for much larger that was trying to make orange scones—quite different! Also, the air fryer is a wonderful contraption! I hope everyone has a marvelous day #today and if anyone needs a little gentle sweetness, you're welcome at my table! #Food
@ber@social.tchncs.de"Russia's only real hope of winning this war is to convince the West to abandon Ukraine. " a key sentence from https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-25-2025 That is more an…
@atthenius@fediscience.orgMy removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21388 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieRather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.
@jby@ecoevo.socialIf you've had a grant from NSF or NIH suspended or modified because of recent executive orders, the American Institute of Biological Sciences is collecting documentation of changes to federal research grants — submit here, responses are confidential unless you say otherwise
https://
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineWhenever two Americans meet, we find ourselves talking about "the situation," an eerie crossover from lands of war and dictatorship.
My thoughts on the big picture, and why I have more reason for concern and more hope in resisting than I expected.
https://woborders.blog/2025/05/17/trum
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaHaving to use Mac instead of Linux for work soon, I finally found a concise article on the topic.
Most others are either about installing Linux on a Mac (interesting, but not my situation) or switching because they prefer Mac (uhh..) and want to use it as one.
I aim to create an workflow as similar to Linux as I manage, without having to juggle with VMs
@gwire@mastodon.socialTIL in 2017 the UK Payments Administration renamed themselves "Pay.UK" but have not obtained the domain registration for pay.uk
(This isn't a "forgot to register" situation - open .uk registration between 2014 and 2019 was reserved for equivalent co.uk holders. The domain was registered by the holder two weeks before it would have been available.)
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… @… For this to be fixed or at least less suceptible to such problems the voting situation needs to be changed. At the moment the fact that you can vote 20 times (at a cost) shows that ESC cares mor…
@remulus@social.linux.pizzaAt the end of March we decided to switch to a cheaper electric&gas company. The old company handled the disconnection process starting April 9th, which will be fully completed by April 30th.
This is the complete list of spam calls I received until yesterday.
Luckily I know how to handle the situation, still it seems to me unreal and crazy.
I'll be updating the graph every now and then just to fully understand the madness.
@davidbody@fosstodon.org"This is a very precarious situation we’re in."
This interview with the Starliner astronauts got my adrenaline pumping, even though I knew the ending.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzBiden's record on covid
Saw a comment along the lines of: "seems unfair to criticise Biden's record on covid, while the situation now under Trump is so much worse".
But I don't think of them as separate. Biden's government _contributed_ to how covid stands under Trump.
If Biden's lot had taken the opportunity to educate people (at least the ones open to considering science findings) that
- it's airborne like smoke
- an empty room can hold infectious virus
- air filters, UV and fresh air reduce the levels of it
- masks work better the better they fit
- you can be infectious without/before symptoms
- you're fairly likely still to be infectious for 10 days, a few people longer
- current vaccines don't stop you catching it or transmitting it
- it can mess with your immune system so you're more likely to catch other things
- vaccinated people can still get Long Covid
- it's not "mild", it's just that the damage is quiet
then even if they hadn't done anything more to address the problem, people would be in a far better position to deploy their own common sense.
And unlike funding or laws, that investment in _knowledge_ is something it would be difficult for Trump's lot to roll back.
But Biden & co chose instead to play down the risks, and explicitly or implicitly mislead people (e.g. the 5-day quarantine, which contradicts the real infectious period).
So, yes it's worse now, but they _contributed_ to how it is now. They chose to encourage misapprehensions and confusion, and the effects of that choice are still playing out now.
Not letting them off the hook on the grounds of being comparatively "less bad", when they themselves laid some of the foundations of the current state of play.
#covid #Biden #USPol #CovidIsntOver
@redstarfish@social.linux.pizzaI'm in a pickle! I have been giving mathematics tuition to this boy (say X) for 2 years now. His mother introduced herself as X's mother since the beginning. Sometimes, we talk to each other regarding X's studies, and during these conversations I refer to her as "you".
In this situation it's common to call someone like her as "দিদি (elder sister)" or "aunty". But, calling her "aunty" might be inappropriate as this will suggest …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialEnded up using a probability game mechanic again today and thought I might explain it here in case other #GameDev folks might find it useful. The basic problem it solves is when you want a percentage probability to be influenced by both beneficial and detrimental stats/effects, and you want these to balance against each other without the system easily tipping too far in either direction. Think about crit chance for example, and how many games have either lopsided systems where it's easy to max out at 100% or really opaque systems to try to balance things somehow. The system I'm about to describe has a nice intuitive explanation, but also permits positive & negative modifiers to balance out naturally (though it may not work well for every situation).
@DiverDoc@mstdn.caOur body always wants to have three reference points since we live in 3D space. This can be a combination of two position sensors, and vision. Here is an interesting situation. When I shower, and am standing up, I place my normal leg and foot on the floor of the shower, and kneel on a shower stool. Combine that with my visual reference of my position in space, and I am golden. (2)
@jredlund@social.linux.pizzaRhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…
