FFS. Whomever at The Australian did this 'audit' did not listen in high school math. Probability calculations like this are for *independent* events, like coin tosses. But today's weather is not independent of yesterday's weather. We know this because we know the mechanisms.

The Australian often writes about the failures of modern education. This is log in their own eye stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/25/bom-temperature-record-keeping-under-attack-again

Quote> Another claim of the audit was that a run of 17 consecutive days of 31C maximum temperatures at Palmerville on Queensland’s Cape York in 2004 was evidence of “data failure”. “The probability of this occurring naturally is effectively zero”, the audit report claimed, and “less likely than winning the lottery every week for a year.”

Since the BBC thinks that editing out Bisexual Pride and Progress Pride pins worn by a contestant on University Challenge is acceptable, I decided to make my own versions.

It's been a while since I've made any badges, if you want one (or various other ones) they're now available in my shop!

https://deliciouscreative.com/badges/bbc-has-no-pride?v=32

#LGBT #LGBTQIA #Bisexual #BBC

Ah yes, so festive, invoking the death and chaos of our preference and choice to drive large fossil fuel consuming behemoths around. Now, imagine those are people inside a Cybertruck where you can't open the doors, and the battery is on fire 🤪😬 #Halloween

Early voting is how stop Trump’s election sabotage, so we need to continue pushing for bigger and bigger numbers.

Use this No Kings tool to make a plan to vote early and share it widely to encourage your friends and family to do the same: https://www.nokings.org/vote-plan?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible&SQF_MEDIUM=mastodon

A word about mastodon.social: they have just started testing an experimental new interface on their website, so some of the step-by-step guides on Fedi.Tips may not work there.

However, most Mastodon users aren't on mastodon.social, so I haven't altered the guides. When the new interface is properly released and widely used on other servers, I'll update the guides to take account of it.

(None of this affects people using apps, as they are developed separately from the web interface.)

OMG--"The United States Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program (NGP) will retire the USGS Imagery Topo Base Map that combines aerial imagery with topographic map features like roads, place names, and contour lines into a single map view. It has been a popular resource for users who want to view topographic details on top of real-world imagery."

The USGS Imagery Topo Base Map service is an incredible resource!

WTAF??? 🤬 🤬

https://apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

#Geology #Geography #Map #Maps

Solo una frase, da La Stampa.

-I manifestanti si muovono in direzioni sparse con le forze dell’ordine che cercano di contenerli.-

Come le foglie...

My university is hiring for a Director of the Cognitive Science Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, with tenure home in Computer Science: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/27388?c=arizona #FediHire #AcademicChatter

"Putting a flag.txt in the root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server"

#ROFLcopterGTFO

While the majority are struggling with the cost of living, politicians are perpetuating a system that rewards the super-rich and punishes the rest.⁣
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All humans have the right to decent housing, good education and a good life. ⁣

RE: https://c.im/@icastico/117496834874373850

Reading Octavia Butler's Parable books in the 2020s is definitely a "How did she know?!!!" experience.
#OctaviaEButler #SciFi

We’re here to support libraries. Take action at action.everylibrary.org.

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

RT: @NYCMayor If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Come protest the underfunding of public education with us! Parliament Hill until 2:30pm
#Ottawa #OnPoli

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/vivek-ramaswamy-amy-acton-republican-party-rape

wolves roaming into finnish villages after being displaced by google's illegal logging operations... that wasn't in any potential future i expected when i switched search engines back in 1999

Oh, I see the government has an "AI plan".

Not a single mention of its carbon footprint. This government really doesn't understand that the number one threat we face is not from rogue AI, from economic slowdown, or from Russia, it's from climate collapse.

What is wrong with these people?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-unveils-britains-ambitious-plan-for-ai

#UKPolitics #AI #ClimateCollapse #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange

Update on Petition to E-7531 to remove #PeteHoekstra as US ambassador to #Canada

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Formally declare Pete Hoekstra persona non grata and request his removal as U.S. Ambassador to Canada;
2. Raise with the United States the pattern of conduct by Ambassador Hoekstra inconsistent with the Vienna convention on Diplomatic Relations; and
3. Direct a parliamentary committee to review U.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian domestic affairs.

Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.

Province / Territory Signatures

Alberta 30864
British Columbia 56481
Manitoba 9371
New Brunswick 6128
Newfoundland and Labrador 3333
Northwest Territories 289
Nova Scotia 11814
Nunavut 77
Ontario 121266
Prince Edward Island 1636
Quebec 30181
Saskatchewan 5988
Yukon 533

TOTAL: 281104

#2050BreakingNews Regulators have approved the merger of the last two companies, new company to be named Lockheed Wendy's

📰 Where Exactly Were the First Humans to Be Captured in a Photograph Standing? Three Obsessed Filmmakers Solved the Nearly 200-Year-Old Mystery — #Smithsonian

❝The sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century #Paris. The location is now immortalized by a bronze plaque celebrating the historic site and the “poetic” early #photograph❞

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-exactly-were-the-first-humans-to-be-captured-in-a-photograph-standing-three-obsessed-filmmakers-solved-the-nearly-200-year-old-mystery-180989727/

#photography #science #history