Ben F. Maier

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Recovering academic.

Used to model Covid-19 at RKI and HU Berlin and other human systems at DTU Compute and Danmarks Statistiks.

physics && complex systems && algorithmic art

http://www.benmaier.org

And this one via Ryan Broderick sent me down some rabbit holes (but in a good way).

https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

Garbage Day

@ideogram

...to control people's anarchy army had take over. Now college kids couldn't take proper decisions to choose a prime minister and to reform a government. Finally, today retired supreme judge seems take place of prime minister...but there are many debates on the issue of constitutional legality, so still there are many unseen possibilities....!"

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@ideogram
Just got a msg from a Nepali friend:

"Hello brother !
How are you and where are you these days ? I tried to write you several times but messages were not delivered. Anyway i hope you're fine.
Well, about weird news of nepal is once again instability and anarchism taking place. In fact as you know it is explosion of people's anger. It is sad that more then 51 died , it was really destructive..., many things burned out and corrupted gouvernement resigned after that...

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Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.
I will never apologize for a post

Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country, 1998

Damn, right on the money.

Mastodon! I came for the social interaction, but I stayed anyway.
The fact that you can have all of these organizations calling for Kennedy's resignation (or the NYTimes op-ed by 9 former CDC directors) and it having so little discernible impact is a sign of how far the US has moved from valuing scientific advice and expertise and how big a challenge it faces...

This is what pull requests used to look like.

(The last sentence is particularly remarkable!)