Ewout ter Haar

@ewout
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Technology for Education, University of São Paulo - USP

"inclusão bátava nas terras tropicais"

Webhttps://ewout.org/
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@timbray I am shocked, shocked to learn that the not-actually-federated, locked-in social network started by a bunch of cryptocurrency people is all in on cryptocurrency, VC and ads.

I cannot comprehend why you keep giving them the benefit of the doubt. They have told you who they are, repeatedly.

Oh no, I misunderstood. They are named Amazon: "named for the fierce female warriors from Greek mythology"

Almost too good to be true, these female fish found out how to survive without men and are from the Amazon.

https://www.science.org/content/article/genetic-trick-helps-all-female-fish-species-escape-evolutionary-doom

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

Going to invent a guitar that has magnets below the strings and when the strings vibrate within the magnetic field it will make an ELECTRIC SIGNAL thus I will call this Magnet Guitar a MAGNETAR

*wait. I’m being told…*

I’m happy to say magnetars are already available.

TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.

It’s still there. People call it Het Ding (“the thing”).

https://www.utwente.nl/en/alumni/inspiring-alumni/ut-canon/stories/het-ding/

I've been getting into writing a lot of short fiction.

I call them 'to do lists'

I shut my laptop with a snap.

I’m still in a meeting.

What is this in-person nonsense?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116201901035033328

These fuckers are dropping white phosphorus bombs on Lebanon! Each bomb shoots out 116 burning felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus over an area up to 250 meters in diameter. And they're dropping them on people's apartments:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus

White phosphorus is nasty stuff. Particles of white phosphorus catch on fire as soon as they touch air, and they continue to burn until completely consumed or starved of oxygen. If they land on you not only do they burn holes in you, the phosphorus can cause liver, heart and kidney damage.

If white phosphorus burns you, you need to immediately smother it using water, damp cloth or mud, isolating it from oxygen until fragments can be removed. Military forces typically do this with a bayonet or knife. Then you can apply bicarbonate solution to the wound to neutralise any build-up of phosphoric acid, and make sure to remove of remaining visible fragments: these are easily observed since they glow in the dark. You may also need to cut away tissue around the wound to remove fragments too small to see.

I will not show you a picture of a kid in Gaza after his white phosphorus landed on his back. Just imagine someone doing this to your neighborhood.

For more on Israel's use of white phosphorus bombs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#Use_by_Israeli_forces_in_Gaza

Nossa, um escritório da USP para lidar com "as novas [sic] tecnologias digitais" na educação.

20 anos atrasado...🙄

https://jornal.usp.br/comunicados/usp-tera-novo-escritorio-voltado-a-transformacao-digital-e-a-inteligencia-artificial/

USP terá novo escritório voltado à transformação digital e à inteligência artificial

No segundo bloco da entrevista concedida ao Por Dentro da USP, reitor fala sobre criação de um escritório dedicado a projetos de formação e criação de diretrizes éticas quanto ao uso das novas tecnologias na Universidade

Jornal da USP