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Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · Feb 12

10 Predictions about the coming five years:

1) All Palestinians will be forced to leave Gaza by the Israelis with US support. It will be occupied by Israeli colonists.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 23h

This implies that my birth is closer to WW2 than to today.

El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 23h

I started my PhD in 1985, which (I just realised) is halfway between the end of World War 2 and now...

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 2d

I'd take it as a compliment.

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Folia @foliacivitatis.bsky.social · 2d

Students can read the digital newspapers for free at DPG Media
www.folia.nl/en/kort

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's only disabled by default if you compile Python with the correct compiler flags (which many installers probably don't).

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Gudrun Lotze @gudrunlotze.bsky.social · 4d

If a #professor publishes code on #GitHub but ignores years old pull requests and issues, it’s not #OpenScience, it’s academic cosplay. The contributor learns that in this economy, only citations get merged. #Academia rewards visibility, not responsibility.
#AcademicSky #AcademicIncentives #RSE

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 4d

Trump’s first months back in office have tested the limits of presidential power.

Now, the Supreme Court seems ready to erase many of those limits — embracing the “unitary executive theory”, a Republican idea from the 1980s that could make the presidency all-powerful.

buff.ly/QuWiXeG

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

buff.ly

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 8d

Py-pi!

The Lobste.rs RSS feed @lobsters-feed.bsky.social · 8d

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? https://lobste.rs/s/p0iw9e ##python

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…

blog.miguelgrinberg.com

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 8d

The Nobel prizes come across as putting more emphasis on direct applicability nowadays than a few decades ago. This would be completely in line with policy at universities. I don't like it much.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 10d

Apparently, it's Nobel week again. Interesting science politics as always.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 11d

I thought the same thing, until I put the window manager on my Linux distro to "tiling by default" for a while. I quite like it, even on a fairly small laptop screen.

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 11d

The Data Umbrella talk was great. Thanks!!

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 11d

Please define "uncredited labor". Very few tasks of an academic are explicitly credited, in my experience.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 11d

Anyone here with experience with sli.dev for making slides using Markdown. I saw one example (by @fonnesbeck.bsky.social) that looked absolutely fantastic, so I'm quite interested in giving it a try. Any experience among my followers?

Slidev

Presentation slides for developers

sli.dev

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 12d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

open.lnu.se

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

Maar dan daarna weer de volgende getapt. Tenzij je die al op hebt, maar dan ben je het echt in de verkeerde volgorde aan het doen!

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Marcel Verweij @marcelverweij.bsky.social · 13d

Welke partij heeft echt oog voor wetenschap en hoger onderwijs? En welke niet of nauwelijks? De stemwijzer van #WOinActie laat het zien. @woinactie.bsky.social #verkiezingen

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

I think they can really easily see it, because the numbers are huge and it takes me about 18x longer to type it in...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

Is this a check to see if I can order one more beer?

A pin machine, with a very odd order of the numbers:
978
431
506
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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

I'm pretty sure Gemini didn't see this equation millions of times in training.

A huge multiplication, executed correctly by Gemini.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

Check out this video on the the development of Python as a programming language. It's fun!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

YouTube video by CultRepo

www.youtube.com

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

I'm totally fine with recurring payments. They're called "a once off purchase, and come with 3 years of updates.", though and that's what stings. It's not once off, it's a 3y subscription. Also $99 for a text editor for three years isn't necessarily cheap. But I'll go there once again anyway ;-)

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 13d

The (only?) one thing I sincerely dislike about Sublime Text Editor, is that their "one-time" fee, is only a one time fee if you don't care about updates after 3 years. And it isn't a cheap fee...

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 14d

Watching the @cultrepo.bsky.social python documentary made me weirdly emotional.

Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 15d

A shutdown again... Hang in there!

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