Plays with fire, questions the status quo, and fights for the underdog.
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PhD candidate in Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction.
On Boorooberongal Land in the Darug Nation
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This is the updated, shortened version of a piece I wrote a few days ago for the newsletter.
So, if you don’t read German, here is my - even longer! - reflection on that space between (no longer) democracy and full-scale autocracy where America exists now:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-authoritarianism-means
If you want a moment of awe, and both the importance and insignificance of your life -all at the same time.. Watch this
Here’s a question for you: What if something big happens either to Trump or to Biden? A health scare, an incapacitation, or a criminal conviction, for example? What then? Most of us have gone along assuming that the rematch between Trump and Biden is inevitable, but elections can be unpredictable, as we learned in 2016 and 2020.
New research shows that Australian politicians are privately educated at a rate almost double that of the general populace.
In other, completely unrelated news, public schools are underfunded by more than $6 billion a year and Private schools are overfunded by almost $3 billion.
@KirstieJane is now going on a rant about how the LLM are not #OpenSource #OpenScience, quoting the work by @dingemansemark and colleagues:
"Meta using the term 'open source' for this is positively misleading: There is no source to be seen, the training data is entirely undocumented, and beyond the glossy charts the technical documentation is really rather poor" - @dingemansemark
Thomas Zimmer
George Takei 
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The Conversation AU + NZ
Nearly Normal (=>÷)
Esther Plomp
Rick Thoman