Mastodawn

Mal ne ernsthafte Frage. Kein Klimatröt, keine Hintergedanken, keine Fangfrage. Mich interessiert wirklich nur die Grundtatsache, also bitte auch keine Riesendebatte da drunter. 😘

Gibt es irgendjemanden, der so hohe Temperaturen ab 30 Grad wirklich geil & 'Yeah, tolles Wetter' findet?

Ja, ich mags warm.

13.5%

Nee, mag ich nicht so.

86.5%

Poll ended at 9:03am.

Eugen Neuber 20h ago

Niko Heikkilä 🦋1d ago

Software engineering until 2025: "Let's apply the empirical knowledge from past decades to design maintainable and testable solutions to satisfy our users."

Software engineering in 2025: "Hey, I found this magical oil lamp from the desert. Can you tell me how to rub it correctly so the genie will obey me?"

Eugen Neuber 22h ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

23h ago

Next week, France is forced yet again to reduce output and in some cases completely shut down nuclear reactors as the high temperatures heats up the cooling water they take from rivers beyond acceptable limits. This is the new normal now and will only get worse over the following years as we collectively ignore #ClimateChange

Eugen Neuber 22h ago

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Albin Meyer 23h ago

Die Begründung für diese Steuersenkungen ist stets, dass das der Wirtschaft und somit allen nütze.

Aber stimmt das wirklich?

Eine englische Studie analysierte die Auswirkungen von Steuersenkungen für Vermögende durch neoliberale Politik in verschiedenen OECD-Staaten über Jahrzehnte hinweg.

Die Studie kommt zum Schluss, dass mit Steuersenkungen weder die Wirtschaftsleistung erhöht, noch Arbeitsplätze geschaffen werden, aber dafür die Einkommensungleichheit wächst.
https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/20/2/539/6500315?login=false

Eugen Neuber 22h ago

Veerle Slegers 2d ago

Eugen Neuber 22h ago

Andy Bell 2d ago

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

"Es ist nicht erforderlich Bosheit zu vermuten wenn Dummheit ausreicht!"

Eugen Neuber 1d ago

John Carlos Baez 2d ago

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wanted to have at least 5 Saudi universities among the top 200 in the world by 2030.

So he paid lots of scientists to falsely claim they worked in Saudi Arabia! Some got up to €70,000 a year just for pretending to work there.

Unfortunately they got caught. The newspaper El Pais exposed the scam.

In 2022, Saudi Arabia had 109 professors on the List of Highly Cited Researchers, compiled by Clarivate. After a bunch got caught, the number dropped to 26. 🤣

Someone should carefully check those 26 researchers.

In fact this "List of Highly Cited Researchers" is a fraud magnet. As of 2024, one in three apparently highly cited researchers has been caught engaging in bad practices.

This is a great example of Goodhart's Law: ""When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Thanks to @mansr for pointing this out.

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia

This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

EL PAÍS English