paezha

paezha, 2 days ago to random

Rhonda Lenton, #YorkUniversity president, has a social justice vision that includes calling the police in riot gear on student's protesting Israel's atrocities

CityNews note explaining how police went into the campus of York University at the request of officials at the university, to remove students calling for a free Palestine.

ttpphd, 2 days ago to random

The institution cannot love you. But you can love riding a bike to your institution!

paezha, 5 days ago to Haiku

They thought me insane
— that the moon had kissed my face —
and indeed she had.

#haiku #micropoetry

lzg, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Claudia Sheinbaum is exploding some american liberal brains today. but she's a woman! but she's a scientist! but wikipedia says she's a leftist! LOLOLOL

paezha, 3 days ago to random

#Fensterfreitag

paezha, 4 days ago to random

Ok, so the Song of Songs is a really crappy love poem whose only claim to fame is that somehow it was chosen as a canonical book by the prudes who compiled the Chirstian bible in the 3rd century, confusing bad poetry with spiritual ecstasy

Change my mind.

paezha, 5 days ago to random

There is no mathematical formula for true beauty.

Not the mean of features, or the standard deviation of volumes, despite what research using photographic superposition may say.

Granted, an average face may be attractive.

Beauty, however, transcends the first layer of skin. Beauty is more like language: rich and nuanced, subtle and irreducible.

paezha, 5 days ago to random

Love is vandalism in the name of romanticism.

adr, 5 days ago to random

Still sort of anxious/not really digging giving talks, but man, each time I use #TexLaTex / #texstudio to write #beamer slides I'm like, why does anyone write slides in any other way whatsoever. Powerpoint is an abomination.

dsalo, 7 days ago to random

Jeeeeeeeeeezus, MDPI. It's not plagiarism if it's from a thesis?

I think y'all missed the bit where it's not plagiarism if it's from YOUR OWN thesis. If it's somebody else's, it's mos def plagiarism.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/03/a-disturbing-experience-postdoc-fights-to-have-work-that-plagiarized-her-thesis-retracted/

paezha, 5 days ago to random

BREAKING NEWS:

Elon Musk is a crook.

#AwfulHeadlines

paezha, 5 days ago to random

Epshteyn was receiving around $26K a month from the Trump Campaign, but then it nearly doubled to $50K the month after Trump's indictment, and after that it became $53K.

Looks like payments were "grossed up" to cover the taxes of Epshteyn.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

paezha, 6 days ago to Haiku

Early festive sounds
in a language all their own
little fucking birds.

#haiku #micropoetry

paezha, 10 days ago to ai

This morning, I received an email from #OxfordUniversityPress with an invitation to a virtual round table to learn how this publisher can contribute to an #AI-enabled future.

My reading of the event is different: Oxford University Press would like to know how to profit from AI, probably by data mining anything that you publish with them.

I just added Oxford University Press to my list of spammers.

paezha, 10 days ago to Facebook

I stopped using facebook more than a year ago, and this year I have been deleting my posts in a daily exercise of excising my memories from that ghastly platform.

Today, out of curiosity, I had a quick count: my feed was 90% "for you", "follow", "join", and 10% posts from people in my circle of friends.

I don't know if my friends don't post anymore, or if the algorithm prefers not to display their posts.

The result is the same: #facebook is utter shit.

#enshittification

paezha, 10 days ago to random

---Short Story in Progress---

There was this house where people died and saw ghosts, not necessarily in that order.

loosenut, 10 days ago to random

Surely this will be the thing that gets him

paezha, 10 days ago to random

TRUMP IS A FELON.

How this is bad news for Biden.

— The #NYT

paezha, 11 days ago to random

The Borgias were not very nice people. In all fairness, though, very few people were nice back then.

paezha, 11 days ago to random

Deep thoughts in the middle of the night.

Things must have been pretty confusing before the invention of zero.

— I have one goat and I give it to you. How many goats do I have left?
— What do you mean how many goats do you have left? You have no goats left.
— Yes, and what do you call that.
— perplexed silence
— perplexed silence
— You made my head hurt! hits the goatless idiot on the head with a club

I am sure that this story is somewhere in the bible.

#zero #oldTestament

seachanger, 11 days ago to random

very happy that i have finished a draft of a grant to help bring these dancers to my rural alaskan island!

http://emerge125.org/

malcircuit, 11 days ago to random

I've listened to the Skeptic's Guide To The Universe podcast for many years now, and it's fundamentally shaped who I am as a person. But for the past several years I've been drifting away from it more and more. I still think critical thinking is incredibly important, but the events since 2016 have been a lesson in the limits of such things.

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