clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattle and parts northwest.
My fellow tooters might appreciate this. I really wanted to read a dissertation whose author had uploaded it to Academia.edu (a very seedy website), so I signed up with a fake name, "Seedy Academic".
Today I get an email: ‘Dear Seedy Academic, 565 papers recently uploaded to Academia.edu mention the name "Seedy Academic". View your mentions.’
(It was Jennifer Pournelle’s 2003 dissertation, “Marshland of Cities:
Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization”).
@clew Propulsion's an interesting question! I cut mine knowing I could fit it to my vinyl turntable, so that was easy, but I also tested just hand spinning it on a pencil and that worked pretty well.
It'd be nice to figure out a little mechanical turntable assembly that could be built from minimal parts and used to hand crank a zoetrope, though. Not my wheelhouse but I imagine there's some good solutions out there.
How to test a random number generator (2010)
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/06/how-to-test-a-random-number-generator-2/
(submitted by Cieplak)
Specifically, I made a modular zoetrope with my laser cutter. It works okay! I need to think harder about the optics of my designs to find stuff that will animate well in this context, but the principle seems really really sound and I'm happy with it as a start.
Little question for astrophysicists out there: how far can we resolve a single star (not counting supernova) with modern telescopes ?
Today I was curious about the history of mathematical typesetting & historical typefaces used for #mathematics. I found these:
An essay on the #history of mathematical #typography
http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
Is there a perfect maths font?
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/is-there-a-perfect-maths-font/
Daniel Rhatigan's Three typefaces for mathematics (direct link, 8 MB)
http://ultrasparky.org/school/pdf/DanielRhatigan_Dissertation.pdf
Weather Underground recommends as a "must read" a new book on #climatechange caused sea level rise "The Water Will Come" https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/water-will-come-must-read-book-sea-level-rise
Habari gani, brothers and sisters? Day four of Kwanzaa is all about Ujamaa, or Cooperative Economics. I like to think of it as Black Empowered Socialism. :)
https://jakebe.com/2017/12/29/kwanzaa-day-4-ujamaa-cooperative-economics/
In this piece a few weeks ago Martha Nussbaum calls something a “a generative lie”. It is such a perfect formulation I had to google it to see if it was a Known Term of Critique. It’s not! https://nyti.ms/2yW8L5d
The idea: that there are lies that, if you believe them, not only make you wrong about that proposition, but also lead you to generate new beliefs that are also wrong.
Facebook updated how posts show up so that uBlock removes every single post.
the platform's sorta better that way.
RT @aptly_engineerd@twitter.com
Today in Tel Aviv Eritrean and Sudanese aslyum seekers and their Iallies held a mock slave auction to protest Israeli govt plans to deport 40,000 African refugees to countries where they face trafficking/enslavement. (Pics by Sonia Chaim) #StopDeportingRefugees #BlackLivesMatter
* Statue of Engels CHECK
* Farmbot growing cabbage CHECK
* Exhibition of trade union banners CHECK
* Some history of co-operatives CHECK
* Reading some Bookchin in the Central Library CHECK
Day out in Manchester, innit.
https://social.coop/media/IedF_Cfn59FjxkmfmBI https://social.coop/media/OXpLaphrQuWdJs6AMPo https://social.coop/media/6zA-wbd_vPgPYVf3a1c https://social.coop/media/RNbqxtk7UZ2PKIHtwKY
taking a panorama while rolling down a hill...
Emily Wilson's translation of THE ODYSSEY is fucking brilliant, and worth reading aloud.
When you combine the information Bruce Schneier presents, with the talks about American imperialism, you get quite a grim picture of humanity.
"Society, therefore, as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession."
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
@mwfogleman I run a small consultancy and use #emacs #orgmode extensively:
- 1 master file for all client todos. Each client gets a top level heading, tasks underneath. Drawer properties to make the client name show up in the agenda.
- track time and add notes in the master file. Code/deliverables stay in a client specific file to avoid bloat.
- add a clock table under each heading with a time range of the previous month. Re-calc & copy into accounting software on 1st of month.
Bank: Oops, our mistake cost a good few people their homes.
Any tips for a simple web-based #chat software?
I'm looking for something to host on my server and use for chat sessions with a small group of people (a team basically). No client software.
I'm NOT looking for a full blown collaboration thing, it needs to be simple and not overwhelming (because #accessibility). Just one (or more) chat rooms and maybe private messages.
I'm thinking about #IRC but I don't know any good web-clients?
People should just go to the URL and be able to chat.
Boost please 💜
