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Virtually Real

"We each live in our own perceptual universe, no two sensoria are exactly alike, but, because we all live in the same physical universe, we imagine it is a shared whole, its entirety common to us all. But our perceptual worlds are as unique as we each are, each unique perceptual world adding to the creation of the whole of reality."

Theologian. Historian. Virtual World Developer. Polytheist Animist. Regenerative Farmer. Refugee From Academia. Open Data Advocate. Photographer.

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mondoweiss , to palestine group
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Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/columbia-university-hinds-hall-defendants-reject-deals-in-solidarity-with-the-cuny-22/


@palestine @israel

Ooze ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel This is the way.

alice , to random
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I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

(on Tuesday)

Ooze ,
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@alice PhD in religion in cyberspace and ancient egyptian religion.

vampiress , to random
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Re: this headline…

Last weekend, I had organised a nice night with dinner and a movie with one of my closest friends, a university lecturer.

They had to cancel, because they were behind on marking students' papers. The reason? The process now involves (mandatorily) using "AI checkers" to vet for students using AI.

This eats whole unpaid days of "work" time for my friend.

Ooze ,
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@vampiress I do wonder why people haven't stopped setting papers as an assessment method?

Ooze ,
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@vampiress Totes a rhetorical question, but you are 1billion percent right that lots of things at unis need to be totally changed. But they won't. Which is why I don't work there anymore.

Ooze ,
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@vampiress Also it is super refreshing to hear someone admit they are not well enough informed to have an opinion!!

ml , to AcademicChatter group
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Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? @academicchatter

Ooze ,
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@ml @academicchatter I too wish to know the answer to this question.

jwildeboer , to random
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Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:

"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

Ooze ,
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@Felipe_B @jwildeboer Because @Gargron is so naive he though this would never happen.

nora , to random
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im depressed, can you please tell me a fun fact to cheer me up

Ooze ,
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@nora Look how many types of hedgehogs there are!

CoinOfNote , to histodons group
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ANZAC day, the 25th April, is one of the most solemn days in , commemorating the first great battle Australia took part in as a nation - the storming of the beach in what is now known as "ANZAC Cove", Türkiye on April 25, 1915 as part of . stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the name for the joint force of the two young nations, forever joined in solidarity and mateship.

Lest, we forget.

@histodons @numismatics

Medallion featuring an army bugler playing "The Last Post" with "THE ANZACS" above and "APRIL 25, 1915" below.

Ooze ,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics ANZAC day marks the first time that Australian and New Zealand soldiers died fighting in a war that in no way threatened our countries, in aid of an imperial power who threw away our soldiers' lives because of incompetence.

Ooze ,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics May we never stop asking why we do war.

Is bravery not wasted on destruction in a facile cause? It can be more nobley deployed.

Much of the focus on ANZAC day glorifies war instead of grieving for and then preventing it.

Ooze ,
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@CoinOfNote @histodons @numismatics Your point is valid for those who were drafted and sent to Vietnam. Those who volunteer for the military at any time knowingly surrender their morals to those they are thus sworn to obey.

While it is true that, since the Nuremberg principles, soldiers are alleged to be able to refuse an immoral order, the likelihood of being shot should one chose to do so means the only sure way to not be forced to act against one's morals is not to enlist at all.

randahl , to random
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Today I talked to someone who said, Trump would win in November.

I asked, "Do you agree, Biden won in 2020?"

— "Yes."

"Okay. What specifically has Trump done since 2020, which has improved his chances of winning?"

— "Well… not much."

"Right", I said. "Then look at what Biden has done for ordinary people: Cheaper medicine, more jobs, the economy back on track. Will that make Trump win?"

(Very long pause)
— "You may have a point."

It is all a feeling — two questions, and reality sets in.

Ooze ,
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@randahl @specktator_ Seriously? The US outspends every other country put together on its military.

eliocamp , to random
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I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

1/n

Ooze ,
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@eliocamp @academicchatter I think she is spot on. I think your implication that making YouTube videos is somehow inherently dodgy is unfair. She's doing something that is accessible to people who can't access a university and she's not perpetuating the wasteful bullshit that takes up so much of an academics life in an institution.

Ooze , to random
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Keen followers will recall that a few weeks ago I posted about the wombat gate I had just built. I finally got a wildlife camera so I can see if anyone is actually using it. And they are!

Wombat goes in and then a couple of hours later goes out. Super excited.

Wombat goes through wombat gate. Then goes back later.

futurebird , to random
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The half-baked philosophical conundrum that keeps me up at night most often is simply: why is my consciousness limited to me in particular? Why am I not everyone? Or everything? or nobody? Or you? Or an ant? Or an ant colony? How did I find myself in this particular stream and what is the nature of the boarders that keep me within it?

This idea generally frustrates and freaks me out and I doubt there is a sensible answer, I doubt it's productive to think about, but I worry on it over and over.

Ooze ,
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@futurebird My take on this is that we are all everything but we forget when we are born into this world so that we can have experiences and learn stuff and then when we die we go back and say, look what I did!

RonaldVisser , to AcademicChatter group
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Interesting read on and a criminal world that pays editors to accept papers, people paying for papers and even downright bribing!
Worrying trends!

https://www.science.org/content/article/paper-mills-bribing-editors-scholarly-journals-science-investigation-finds

@academicchatter

Ooze ,
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@furqanshah @RonaldVisser @academicchatter So much this.

maegul , to AcademicChatter group
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@academicchatter

So I just learnt that J Physiol requires figures to be made with Biorender (https://www.biorender.com/), a VC backed subscription SaaS extend and extinguish of scientists drawing pictures!

Is this a thing now!? Complete privatisation of the publication workflow!?

Am I the only one enraged by this!? Pictures? We could have just made our own shared repository of useful graphics. Our own open source software. Uggghhh!

Ooze ,
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@vartak @maegul @academicchatter Oh my sweet summer child.

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