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Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Presentation “Openness in academic institutions: A Beginner's Guide” by Sarah Brundrett

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#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource



Oh man, das ist so daemlich! Auf so vielen Ebenen... Peak humanity! 🤦🏻

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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index - Ars Technica


However, the authors made a math error in their analysis that put their estimate of exposure to toxins from kitchen utensils off by an order of magnitude. Corrected, the article notes that the exposure potential from kitchen utensils is actually less than a tenth of the limit considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. Further, the study found flame retardant contamination in less than 10 percent of the 203 household products it examined—and only about 8 percent of 109 kitchen utensils.


I did not know that the original paper was retracted
#kitchen #plastic #science

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in reply to Christoph S

I didn't pay that whole thing much attention.
Some of the initial claims seemed a bit far fetched.
On one hand we are told that plastic recycling is barely a thing at all.
And then a fairly narrow type of waste is being recycled into kitchen utensils.
Always wait for the hype cycle to calm down.
in reply to Christoph S

The story got Lots of attention on "social media".
And since SM drives MSM these days, it got lots more attention than was deserved. I'm all for avoiding the gatekeeping of journals, but the "pre press" unfiltered stuff pollutes as much as it democratizes science.


The words "show" and "for a month" were redundant here.
in reply to Deniz Opal

CEO's mostly get payed in stocks, not salary
they don't even sell their stocks, they just borrow money with their stock as collateral .. that way they pay no capital gain taxes
in reply to Deniz Opal

Agreed. And a month is no good. Most people who aren't completely useless can manage anything for a month. You can't understand what it's like to live on not enough money when you know it's going to stop in a month - or even whenever you get tired of it. Only people who live that way with no end in sight, in constant fear of getting a big bill - say for car repairs, for the shitty used car that's the only way they can get to work.


"A federal district court judge has denied Republican Jefferson Griffin's request for a temporary restraining order in his bid to block the North Carolina State Board of Elections from certifying his electoral loss in a race for a seat on the state Supreme Court."
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A few hours ago, at 10:21 CET, Earth’s polar axis reached its maximum tilt away from the Sun as seen from the northern hemisphere 🌍

There will be a few more seconds of daylight here tomorrow 🌞

Rejoice 👼🏻

p.s. sorry, Australia 🙃

#WinterSolstice #DecemberSolstice

Image: Meteosat / Eumetsat




Today my first-born is turning 18. Utterly incredible how time flies when you have kids. I remember each of these moments as if they were yesterday.


so vaapi does not work without running an X instance? I cannot utilize gpu on headless alpine. #linux #gpu
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in reply to Karl Voit

#Universitäten #Österreich #Justiz #Bildung #Universität #Vertrauensindex #Wissenschaftsskepsis #Forschung

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Und um noch was draufzulegen... Bundesheer bei 67%?

In welchem Bundesheer waren die Leute beim Grundwehrdienste? Alle die da Vertrauen in unser BH haben, müssen entweder vom Dienst befreit gewesen sein, beim Zivildienst, Untauglich, zuviel Vitamin B gehabt haben oder an Vergesslichkeit leiden und sich nur auf den Katastrophenschutz beziehen....





3 things I know about Indiana.

I already knew one of their sportsball teams is called Pacers.

I think... One of their archeologists is called Jones?

And now this:

#retrocompuing #retrocomputer #commodore #c64

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Good morning. 🌿🌿🌿

21 December 2024

I got up early this morning, thanks once again to Ben; so, I made coffee and let the dogs out - in case you were wondering who. Now I'm up struggling while Ben and Charlie are fast asleep.

It is bundle up weather where I live in Louisiana (34° F or 1° C) which translates to shirt sleeve weather in Minnesota. Do you know what is weird? It is not surprising that the United States adopted the Imperial System of measurement along with the British Empire (British Weights and Measures Act of 1824), what is surprising is that after the rest of the world moved on to the metric system, the United States did not - change is difficult in the United States of America.

'Thus, the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.' - Dave Barry

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #imperialsystem #metric_system #foliage




És inconcebible que encara no el tinguem. Quan viatges arreu d'Europa veus aquest sistema que quan retornés l'embàs, et retornem els diners.
"Canvi històric: tornarà el sistema de retorn d'envasos als supermercats"
#residus #rrr #reutilizar #envasos
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