How the responsibilities of conferences mirror media platforms—focusing on transparency, collaboration, and putting participants first
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That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial...
A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. propub.li/3TatVXT
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Had a little technical issue, but our recap of last week in Congress is live: govtrack.us/posts/441/2024-09-…
House isn’t back for real work today; presumably they are tomorrow. 2 weeks left to get the government funded.
Investment managers with a combined $8 trillion in assets under management are urging the banks in their portfolios to eliminate deforestation from their lending and investment practices. The new guidelines call for banks to assess their ties to deforestation, set policies to reduce harm, and track their progress.
By Shanna Hanbury
Facepalm:
"The area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides. It is written as a²+b²=c².
"One of the interesting things about this bedrock mathematical equation is that for 2,000 years, no mathematician has been able to demonstrate the truth of it without simply using the equation itself as proof; what is called circular logic, and not accepted as true evidence of proof.
"Johnson and Jackson reference Elisha Loomis’s The Pythagorean Proposition, a book investigating this concept, which flatly states that ‘there are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem,'"
"Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans said they had solved the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry"
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"investigating this concept, which “flatly states that ‘there are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem,’”"
That looks like circular reasoning to me, as well...
@cvwillegen The whole thing is a mess. Trying to work out what is actually claimed about deficiencies of previous proofs is hard, and probably non-productive.
One day I might have a closer look.
Not today.
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When will people stop throwing Project 2025 in Mr. Trump's face? He told you he knows nothing abou-- oh... never mind. :(
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The push for an "age verification" requirement on the Internet is 1% aimed at protecting children and 99% aimed at controlling speech. It effectively bans anonymity, for starters.
It is a license to speak, and read.
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@rysiek
Journalists often talk about "speech" as if it must have only come into existence with the Internet.
If you can post handbills, and your message is actually important, if you are really the one breaking a story that people NEED to hear, then your handbills will be repeated quickly, you are not silenced.
The Internet isn't "speech".
It's "reach".
In case you're wondering how bad of an idea it is, Betsy DeVos is talking up the Trump/Project 2025 plan to end the Department of Education.
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I hope you'll join me in giving to help us defeat DeVos and keep the Democratic trifecta that can undo her life's work.
#writersCoffeeClub 9/16: Name-check your cover artist, even if it's yourself. Share your best cover.
I've had a LOT of covers (30+ novels in print in each of the USA and UK, and some of them translated into over a dozen languages), but my favourite cover is the Orbit (UK) cover for "Halting State": great graphic design, cheeky tribute to the content (it's a story about espionage and crime inside MMOs).
#writersCoffeeClub A reminder about book covers:
Authors are expected to hate their book covers. Every time—it's normal.
… But if the author's literary agent complains, it's time to pay attention!
Dan Gillmor
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