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#TIL about the ctrl-z award!

"Administered by The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, the annual award honors both early-career and senior researchers who exemplify integrity in the face of perceived professional risk. (In fact, researchers who correct their own work rarely face reputation penalties.)

The award’s name, pronounced “control-zee,” is inspired by the universal keyboard shortcut for the “undo” command. By honoring those who have the courage to “hit undo” on flawed research, the award aims to shift the narrative around scientific errors and highlight the importance of transparency."

https://retractionwatch.com/ctrl-z-award/

The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work

The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

Retraction Watch

paramnesiac 2d ago

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro 3d ago

No.

They polled 197 Detroit residents about Detroit's Belle Isle State Park, but over 600 Michigan residents?

Guess who commissioned the poll? The developers.

"Under the proposal, investors would make a one-time $1 billion payment to the city in exchange for a long-term lease, and Detroit would receive an additional $50 million annually."

Sounds to me the proposal is for a bunch of greedy developers to take over Belle Isle State Park.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2026/03/28/poll-majority-of-michigan-voters-back-plan-to-turn-belle-isle-into-special-economic-zone/

#Detroit #BelleIsleStatePark

Poll: Majority of Michigan voters back plan to turn Belle Isle into ‘special economic zone’

A majority of Michigan voters and more than two-thirds of Detroit voters support a proposal to turn Belle Isle into a “special economic zone” featuring high-income, mixed-use housing, entertainment and a retail district, according to a poll released this week.

WDIV ClickOnDetroit

paramnesiac 3d ago

Jen Gentleman 3d ago

I hope whoever took the 12 tons of kitkats gets the break they clearly needed

paramnesiac 4d ago

Max Leibman 4d ago

A Russian nesting doll, except it's a pillowcase inside another pillowcase inside a fitted sheet inside the duvet cover inside the dryer.

paramnesiac 5d ago

Lake Superior! Live!5d ago

Current* conditions near Eagle Harbor, MI:

paramnesiac Mar 26

MostlyHarmless Mar 26

Childhood is idolizing Batman. Adolescence is when Joker starts to make sense. Adulthood is realizing Commissioner Gordon doesn’t get paid enough to deal with their crap.

paramnesiac Mar 26

Wren Reilly Feb 12, 2023

I am the very model of a hacker individual,
 I’ve information cryptographic, analog and digital,
 I know every cypherpunk, adhere to Kerckhoff’s principle, 
I bounce from node to node so I can make myself invisible.

I’m very well acquainted, too, with server vulnerability, 
I escalate my privilege and I trash availability, 
I know the latest breaches and I know first when the ‘net’s ablaze,
Nets ablaze nets ablaze…
With many cheerful facts about developments in zero days.

paramnesiac Mar 22

AJ Sadauskas Mar 22

In the urbanist discourse, there's rightly a lot of discussion about barrier-protected bike lanes. But I think there should be more advocacy for dedicated bus lanes as well.

#bus #Urbanism #city #cities #UrbanPlanning #Streets #auspol

paramnesiac Mar 22

@[email protected]Mar 22

#Kurosawa #Tarkovsky #Filmmaking

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/akira-kurosawa-watching-solaris-andrei-tarkovsky/

via https://bsky.app/profile/zeets.bsky.social/post/3mhl6sxs4ak2h

#AndreiTarkovsky #AkiraKurosawa #Movies #Solaris

paramnesiac Mar 21

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Mar 20

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.