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Did you know the Journal of Trial and Error is wanting to publish rejected grant applications? In their words, "We believe that applications often suffer from a highly competitive system rather than a deficient proposal."
If this sounds interesting to you, check out the call for submissions, which also has a link to their blog post on the topic: https://journal.trialanderror.org/pub/callrga/release/1?readingCollection=d235496a
exciting news: I'm keynoting Strange Loop this year! https://www.thestrangeloop.com/
it's one of my favourite conferences and it's the last year they're running the conference -- I was planning to go even if I didn't speak :)
Finding out that most people can visualize things clarified quite a few things that previously confused me that I hadn't linked together in the past, e.g., people generally found my explanations that involved "visualizing" an n dimension space or an n-2 dimensional subspace very unhelpful, and likewise for explanations that use dimensions abstractly.
I guess that's hard to do if you're actually visualizing things but if you always operate on an abstract model, then it feels very natural.
Too many people still don't know Cop City— an attempt to cut down an Atlanta greenspace and neighbourhood food forest to build a COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY urban warfare training facility— is happening, let alone that APD has tear-gassed and even killed people protesting against them.
They claim that the protestor they killed shot at them first, but somehow, miraculously, only have video of the after-action, not the incident itself.
Y'know, back in 2014 many of us believed the proliferation of body cameras for cops would mean real oversight and accountability. Within months it became clear that the cameras would mean nothing, and not JUST because the cops themselves would oversee the footage rather than a 3rd party.
No, we realised then, and have had it proven time and time again, that bodycams don't mean shit for accountability, because no matter how much police negligence and malfeasance the videos show, LARGE SWATHES of the public and the media will go out of their way to excuse COPS' behaviour, and blame the victims for their own deaths. Especially if those victims aren't white.
Anyway. Check the tag #StopCopCity on some other platforms.
I'm reminded again of a quote from @notjustbikes's video about grocery delivery: "There's a history of tech companies that promise cost reductions and efficiencies through modern technology, but actually provide those benefits through worker exploitation."
Jens Ohlig
Kitty Unpretty
Crystal Steltenpohl
Henry Segerman
Julia Evans
Dan Luu
Sophie 🎲🏳️⚧️
Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus
Laurie Voss
pyromechanical