> Do [...] lawmakers think that Greta Thunberg should have been booted from social media before she could organize her first protest?

I think that's actually a big reason behind this whole push.

https://archive.ph/rAK4P

how does one translate the term "cohomology" (from mathematics / algebraic topology) into Greek? That "homology" corresponds to "ομολογία" is clear, but idk how to arrive at the "dual" term...

This topic is also extremely related to #CogSec.

urgh I just got pointed at the weird "let's collect marginalizations" meta again.

That's also closely related to this topic because it often requires a weird interpretation of language (particularly when paired with self-ID) where the labels don't really mean anything except uhhh a very specific aesthetic, which does get policed. Like, non-standard strict for both directions.

Consider e.g. conspiracy theorists, in particularly those who apply magical thinking to language. These usually (or at least pretend to) have a view on language that is very strict on what they receive. They are often also strict on what they send, but perhaps not as strict as with what they receive.

I consider those conspiracy theorists as my enemies. I try to be very liberal in what I receive and am strict in what I send only when necessary (i.e. usually when writing mathematical stmts, etc).

I think it would be very interesting to consider something like a political compass, but it's about if your liberal or conservative/strict about the protocol data units you send and receive. This is of course context specific (e.g. what protocol are we talking about); it would however not just apply to computer implementations of protocols, but also to language usage by humans.

cc @deersyrup

Is there some canonical way to turn an ℝ-vector space into a ℤ-module?

Is there something like presheafs, but with the category of topologies replaced by the category of sets of sets where the inner sets don't contain each other (i.e. category of anti-chains)?

Functions having callbacks as arguments and functions returning monads are basically the same thing.

RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116012777738976570

RE: https://23.social/@dkl/116003260674525620

imo new language package managers just should not have any central repository to begin with, and the repos of it that do exist should try to use similar mirroring infrastructure like linux distros, such that one doesn't have a single point of failure. Also, package updates should be moderated actively, perhaps by having a staging version of the repo with untested, unmoderated updates, and packages only get integrated into the main repo after testing + grace period.

Ich hoffe ja sehr, dass die TVStud-Bewegung+Streiks Fortschritte erzielt, insbesondere, wenn man bedenkt, dass der aktuelle Stand bereits auch nur wegen den Fortschritten 2023 ansatzweise erträglich ist.

Hot take: I think it would be a good idea for Codeberg to try to get stuff like https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326 solved (perhaps by means of allocating funding (in case an excess is lying around next year); even tho it is kind-of out-of-scope, it might massively speed up adoption of Codeberg or other Forgejo instances in the rustdev ecosystem).

Huh, is "ansatz" really a word used in English???

I wonder if it would help to already have "done" scientific publications before the end of a Master's degree... okay, they usually won't hurt (unless one publishes in trash/pay-to-win journals), particularly because it helps gain experience about what topics would even be interesting and "deep-dive-able" enough to write a PhD thesis about...

In particular, most critiques of PhDs appear to assume a normally working economy. But what if one can pretty much predict there won't be ~? As a then-former university student, one would probably also have the disadvantage to get none or almost no "unemployment benefits / compensation" either, unless one managed to get lucky and have impressively large income during university studies.

Is it worth it to do a #PhD to try to bridge over an economic recession (where one would otherwise be mostly jobless or underpaid in a mostly unrelated field anyways)?

(this post is EU-specific (i.e. PhD building on top of a Master's degree), given that PhDs often work quite different elsewhere)

Imagine, as you will, someone with a B. Sc. in Prompt Engineering with minor subject Token Astrology /sarc