This should be the last day of "isolation" due to the COVID. According to the CDC guidelines, if I don't have a fever after 5 days, I'm good to go. And I don't think I've had a fever yet, just a stuffy nose, some achyness, and general tiredness. Feeling about 90% today. I had to, of course, skip hockey but I am already looking forward to getting back on the ice on Friday. To be honest, my balky knee is probably very happy to miss a session.
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789 suivie des 4 premiers articles de la Constitution, un document "écrit par par M. Capitaine Ing[énieu]r Géog[raphe] du Roi à l'Observatoire de Paris".
Un petit document par sa taille (10x10 cm), un grand texte pour l'humanité !
@elonjet Oh dear. I see a pattern emerging here. If you're in the news he'll come and visit. Best thing is if we all just keep our heads down he'll stay away.
Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of #FOSS development, by Davide Carpano at UCSD Science Studies. This is a published companion piece, "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source"
Coupe géologique sous la place Bellecour à #Lyon pour le croisement des lignes A et D du #métro.
A l'arrière de cette maquette de la Société d'Economie Mixte du Métropolitain de l'Agglomération Lyonnaise (SEMALY), on aperçoit celles des rames du métro des lignes A et D (MPL75 et MPL85).
Ces maquettes sont exposées #ArchivesDeLyon dans l'exposition Comm(e) une ville.
Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given #GenerativeAI, I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.
I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles
@dogzilla@eilonwy@rspfau@academicchatter to be fair, I don't dislike that - teaching is not just about passing on knowledge, it's also about preparing students for the next steps in life.
Whether we like it or not - #generativeAI will be with us going forward, so might as well teach how to extract its benefits - e.g. examples of how to build and use #ChatGPT bots, etc... #academicchatter#ai
@tip@tofugolem Rules prohibiting vandalism is not oppression. Hotheads that foment violence are oppressive. Public housing typically have a community garden space. People looking to legalize vandalism should move to Russia.
Seriously, what really grinds my fucking gears is how Americans — especially American politicians — will refuse to see misery and suffering around the world as anything but in reference to #USA.
Israel-Palestine, the Rohingya crisis, the Yemeni crisis, Iranian state violence, Russia's genocide against Ukraine, Kashmir, and so on — these aren't fucking games.
Not everything revolves around your stupid, annoying, irritating elections. Learn to speak for yourselves and not in or as the tongues of your ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶ favourite politicians. Practice universal empathy for all loss of life.
"These are real-world political issues, yet they have a stereotypically recognizable form and a predictable narrative content.
They in their turn also produce predictable reactions from public and politicians.
It is as if under cue that the public becomes outraged by some events and utterances, and worried, sending their ‘thoughts and prayers’ during other events.
At certain stages of the script, politicians feel compelled, or a proper tone requires them to express their opinion, while specialists are urged to explain the contents of the issue at hand (Thunström and Noy 2019).
There is thus a certain choreography to how asocial drama is being performed and mediated in the public sphere. The characters and circumstances in these social dramas change, but the plot and the performance remain schematic and stereotypical."
@academicchatter@politicalscience This paper DEAD-ON describes America, its politicians, its media, its coverage of international crises, and EVEN how its politically charged public (especially public figures, officials, and so on) RESPOND TO CRISES.
You can then imagine just how fucking frustrating it is to watch them treat us all like cartoon characters and TV show co-protagonists/antagonists. I'm not exaggerating, there is actual discourse into this phenomenon.
Good games give me the same feeling as reading a good fictional novel: I get transported into the universe, following the character or whatever action is unfolding.
More generally, games give the player a goal to achieve, whether that’s winning over others, cooperating with others, completing a campaign, collecting a bunch of goodies (or all the goodies), relaxing and enjoying scenery, crafting min-maxed playthroughs, or trying over and over again to beat a level.
Being focused on this goal can help keep your mind off of whatever is troubling you in the present.
How do my #actuallyautistic and #AUDHD folks figure out how to task switch to something even approximating relaxation from work or is this just not possible? Any strategies anyone uses?
@dr_rug_pull I agree that I tend to use music to detox after meetings, at least when working from home. Sometimes I use minor tasks that I find interesting to detox as well. Or podcasts. #ActuallyAutistic#AuDHD@actuallyautistic