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Joseph Guillaume Jan 17, 2024

@inquiline @jdp23 Is this the post you're thinking of?

https://mas.to/@kissane/110793942888550843

I think the Fediverse does face a challenge that norms cannot be reliably communicated through app interfaces or a shared server identity given their diversity, and unlike email or chat platforms, the audience is not well defined if a post has public visibility.

It seems either a norm has to develop that transcends expectations (e.g. check the OP's preferences before posting) or each individual post itself needs to communicate norms about replies somehow in a sufficiently unambiguous way (e.g. I will tolerate any reply to this comment as long as it respects the OP but reserve the right to ignore, for short, a may-ignore-replies policy MIR)

Erin Kissane (@[email protected])

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt #meta

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Joseph Guillaume Aug 25, 2023

Andrea Saltelli Aug 25, 2023

The book The Politics of Modelling is officially out today

https://academic.oup.com/book/46867?searchresult=1

Some of the chapters are open access here:

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198872412.pdf

The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy

Abstract. Climate change and COVID-19 have brought mathematical models into the forefront of politics and decision-making, where they are now being used to just

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Joseph Guillaume Aug 9, 2023

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MultiSector Dynamics Aug 9, 2023

This dataset can inform the development & calibration of models in water resources, power systems, ecology, & other fields relevant to #MultiSectorDynamics. This will be valuable for researchers & practitioners interested in sustainable development & climate adaptation.

For more details, see the recent #OpenAccess article in Nature Communications by Yao Li, Gang Zhao, George Allen, & Huilin Gao.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38843-5

Diminishing storage returns of reservoir construction - Nature Communications

Despite the continually increasing global reservoir storage, the normalized storage—the ratio of the actual storage to the storage capacity—has declined over the past two decades, indicating diminishing storage returns from reservoir construction.

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Joseph Guillaume Aug 8, 2023

@angelo Ruben did write a Solid backend a while ago but it needs to be updated to the new auth. https://github.com/RubenVerborgh/mavo-solid

The get and put implementations also just treat the content as plain text, so I don't think interoperability with RDF stored on Solid has been explored yet.

GitHub - RubenVerborgh/mavo-solid: A Solid storage backend for Mavo

A Solid storage backend for Mavo. Contribute to RubenVerborgh/mavo-solid development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Joseph Guillaume Aug 6, 2023

@angelo I'd be interested in hearing more about what you find attractive.

Based on chapter 1, I found that it reinforces an architecture where the user has very little control over the app and data is tightly controlled by the server.

I prefer https://mavo.io/ as an approach to web applications.

Mavo: A new, approachable way to create Web applications

Joseph Guillaume Jul 22, 2023

Paul Cantrell May 18, 2023

This thread is now available as a blog post:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

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In college, I took a class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:

1. I was (and am) named Paul.
2. The prof, Cal Roetzel, was (and is) cool.

I didn’t figure it was an especially practical course. It was for fun, for the challenge, for the cultural knowledge, for the pleasure of doing it.

WHAT LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS FOR: A THREAD

What Liberal Arts Education Is For – Teaching – innig.net

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Joseph Guillaume Jul 21, 2023

@jonny It's also a question of when to take credit - most of the time I find it's enough to have a sense of belonging to something bigger and being an important part of making something happen.

But it is worth being self-aware enough to document the evidence of contribution for a CV or when applying for promotion.

Joseph Guillaume Jul 16, 2023

Happy kids with frogs and a chorus of currawongs in the background

#GinninderraCreek #CrokePlaceWetlands #Canberra #NaturePhotography

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Joseph Guillaume Jul 15, 2023

@vertis @hyperlunk It's fiddly, but there's a variety of markdown parser plugins that try to replicate Obsidian behaviour.

I haven't tried, but 11ty seems like it has the advantage that it supports the very large number of markdown-it plugins, whereas Jekyll by default uses kramdown.

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/languages/markdown/#add-your-own-plugins

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:markdown-it-plugin