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interested in tech on and off. i make music, i love reading, and am probably still procrastinating learning c. most important of all: i adore maths.
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Chuck DarwinMathematicians are threatening to boycott the field’s largest, most prestigious gathering this summer
if it takes place in the U.S., as currently planned.
Every four years since the turn of the twentieth century,
the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) has brought together mathematicians from all over the world to share the latest breakthroughs and plot the field’s future.
Famous speeches delivered at the congress have gone on to redefine entire subfields of math.
The ICM is also where math’s most hallowed prize, the Fields Medal, is awarded.
This July, the ICM is slated to take place in Philadelphia
—the first time in 40 years that it’s been held in the U.S.
Now a petition to move the event elsewhere is circulating among mathematicians.
It cites the recent American military actions in Venezuela and Iran,
the suspension of visas from 75 countries
and the continued presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across major U.S. cities
as contrary to the ICM’s goal of fostering “a sense of international unity amongst mathematicians.”
As of this writing, more than 1,500 mathematicians have signed the petition,
which states that they plan to boycott the event if it isn’t moved outside the U.S.
The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names,
more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.
Mullvad VPNThis is Senate House in London. When George Orwell wrote 1984, the building served as the model for the headquarters of the Ministry of Truth (the propaganda ministry). The Ministry of Truth decided what was true, for example that 2+2=5. It was responsible for censorship and rewriting history, and it banned the word “free” in the sense of freedom.
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Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂As a new, very green, very basic sysadmin, something missing from the manual vs. let’s ask a LLM mode is… the human element.
Aside from ethical considerations (environmental costs, stolen training data, erosion of skills and critical thinking), I will always choose “manual mode.” Why? I love receiving tech advice from people on the Fediverse.
I will forever remember that it’s @ilja who encouraged me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost.
I first heard about #FreeBSD from @stefano
Earlier this week I learned about #tmux from @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks
Today @antoine_ali helped me get this GoToSocial instance to federate again by restarting dnsmasq.
I know if I run into issues I can just shoot a DM to my tech mentors @stereo and @jan
Let’s not forget the beauty of human connections 💖
of course there are bits that i do not like. i despise the fact that ai is incorporated, although i will give credit to the fact that i have not seen any after i disabled it. i am concerned about the privacy of the os, but anything is better than windows.
after using this #macbook for about a day i can say that it is a really good machine. the battery life lasts for ages, only going down 30% in 5 hours in not insignificant use.
the speakers are incredible for a laptop, especially compared to my lenovo legion laptop.
i am enjoying the unix stuff in the terminal quite a lot. LaTeX works flawlessly and i was even able to install #acme from #plan9
for a machine that is due to last me over the next few years, i think i made the right choice.
it's pronounced 'yagoda'
