RE: https://mastodon.social/@ajayiyer/116860783197537752

Evergreen experience in academia. Love the unbridled capitalism makibg this precious friction possible.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116778804398094245

"Conservativism [in the U.S.] is a movement of bitter rubes, led by pyramid scheme swindlers."

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116345382293539190

"Year after year, the world allowed itself to become more dependent on America's easily weaponizable tech, making the tech both more dangerous and harder to escape." I've been frustrated to see French universities & INSERM offer themselves up to Microsoft, and Airbus, after Microsoft, to Google. All since COVID. But clearly there are different packages, eg Outlook configs incompatible. And infosec?! 🦗 🦗

I feel like this is a welcoming place to share my interest that a male Eurasian eagle-owl appears to have some territorial ownership over a nearby segment of our town forest, and I've heard him hoot for many minutes a couple of nights in a row. About a decade ago, one kidnapped one of our chickens, and they're fierce predators in the area, but such a fascinating critter! Bubo bubo is the original Superb🦉

'When we treat human interpreters — and any human act of care — as inefficiencies to be optimized away, we lose that pause before “the last time I saw my mother.” We lose the hand on the shoulder. We lose the tears that say: “This child is not a data point. What happened to him is an atrocity.”

My work studying crimes against humanity has taught me that some frictions should not be smoothed.'

https://www.politico.eu/article/when-the-interpreter-wept-what-automation-erases-inside-europes-institutions/

Evergreen truth by @pluralistic - I remember when it came out and cannot believe it's already been five years 🦗🦗
https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#novartis