Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

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31 maart, Tilburg: Meebrullen met Your Local Pirates!

Your Local Pirates gaat twee liedjes opnemen. In de open lucht, en jij doet mee als je wilt! De plaats: Tilburg. De datum: 31 maart, in de middag. Aansluitend, als de klus geklaard is, mikken we er een optreden achteraan. Dit doen we allemaal op de komende Anarcho Picknick, die Vrije Bond Tilburg die middag op touw heeft gezet. Weest welkom!

Opname in geluid en beeld van:
Nederlandstalige versie van El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido, befaamd strijdlied van de revolutionaire bewegingen in Latijns-Amerika, en Op De Barricaden.

Meer info op: https://yourlocalpirates.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/04/31-maart-meebrullen-met-your-local-pirates/

Plaats: Stadspark Oude Dijk, Tilburg; bij regen wijken we uit naar de aangrenzende Muzentuin.
Datum en tijd: zondag 31 maart. Vanaf 14.00 uur is de picknick; YLP neemt op en speelt van 15.00 tot 16.00 uur; de picknick duurt tot pakweg 17.00 uur.
Vragen over de anarcho picknick zelf? Mail de organisatoren via: vrijebondtilburg@riseup.net

netherlands:

everyone speaks english.
“card only” signs everywhere.
“sorry, we’re forbidden from accepting cash”.
employees even at big grocery chains visibly confused by cash and struggling to count coins.

germany:

“was?”
“cash only” signs everywhere.
“sorry, card payments from 10eur only”.
“easy online payments, just provide your online banking login and password to sofort, it’s completely safe and totally does not blatantly violate the terms of agreement you signed with your bank”.

Does anyone know a place in the Netherlands or Flanders that me, my partner, and cat can stay for a couple months from late april/early may as we try to get out of the kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare we have found ourselves in? Limburg or nearby preferred but if it's like a house sitting thing we'd probably go anywhere

Please boost

Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.

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Did you know that you can customize the css on Wikipedia? You are even allowed to change the logo to your favorite submission to the official 2003 Wikipedia logo contest if your heart so desires (mine did)

one of the libraries underpinning the Linux graphics ecosystem is called the GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit. It is primarily used by GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment. GTK's primary competitor (qt) was created by a company called Trolltech, and qt is the primary library of the Kool Desktop Environment.

All of these bind to the X window system, which is named that way because it's the successor to the W window system, which was the window system of the V operating system. It is currently being succeeded by a window system named after a town in Massachusetts.

This applies to all current publicly available AI generators, not just those producing images.

Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.

Man. First review of my paper from last night contains *multiple* instances where the reviewer just says they are “tired” of the “here’s what we did” style of writing. No substantive issues identified.

I’m not going to stop writing these easy to read papers. Papers looking hard to satisfy some idiot whose grad students have been doing all their work for years isn’t a priority. If folks think a paper is too basic because of a genuine novelty concern, they can find substantive issues, but the fact that your work has to *look hard* is just such a fucking rebuke. No wonder everyone thinks CS is worthless.

Anyway, I am angry at this attitude. Not at any person, but the attitude at top venues that values hard looking work with irrelevant bullshit.

Back when my last student was graduating, they had killer results with one of their recent innovations. They wrote up the work. It was nice but boring. Then I told them to add a formalism. They argued, this is irrelevant, it adds little, it doesn’t guide our understanding. And yet, after adding the formalism the paper got rave reviews, because it *looked* like a contribution. But the formalism was something we hacked on at a whiteboard in three days, quite far away from the months of genuine innovation that it took to get to the real kernel of the idea…

Let the machines take over eh…

@NicoleCRust "Academic power structures as they currently stand are toxic - as evidenced by the outcomes" - Kay Tye

As relatively junior scientists, some of us have talked about academic toxicity in the past only to be harassed, silenced, ignored, or forced to leave. I'm glad that someone in a position of power acknowledged the toxicity. I hope that the toxic hierarchy collapses sooner than later.

Us choosing a cooperative form of governance at neuromatch.social, instead of a typical top-down hierarchy, is our attempt of trying a different power structure. I hope that we see more of such experiments permeate throughout academia.

hey anyone around here have a CPU with more than 32 cores

I feel like the gameplay teams behind most AAA open world games don't have a good handle on why walking around in nature is intrinsically enjoyable in real life