ragica

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[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

A certain sythe sweep near the end of Grim Fandango.

The dip in the river near the end of Bioshock Infinite.

Jumping into the thing near the end of Outer Wilds, and coming down where you come down going through what you go through.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Glad you found a happy cozy home. Appreciative that I can reply to you from heart of the old beast!

Relative to all the well known commercial social media platforms though aren't we all into something here hardly anyone else knows about, whether 10 users or a few thousand?

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

One easy way to test accessing your site externally is use a free web proxy to try to load it.

For example (not a personal recommendation, just a random search result) https://wproxy.net/

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here is link to settlement claim page I got via cbc (global liked here provided no link?)

https://canadianbreadsettlement.ca/

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Company I worked for a dozen years ago, who had many significant clients, already had most of their logos created by randos on Fiverr for pocket change.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

This blog post hyperbolically has "do-or-die moment" in title, and then concludes with with the final breathless line, "we must act now, before it is too late" (which it claims is "every scientist's most familiar motto", whatever that means). Yet nowhere at all in the blog post or the paper is any suggestion of what "act" could or should be done to avoid this "die" condition.

The "limitations" section of the article is a bit telling (and at least seemingly honest).

  • relies "on the instances of scientific fraud that have been reported" (i.e. someone else has already detected fraud and "acted" on it)
  • speculates that there's a lot more fraud, but has no way to quantify or measure, so it is just speculation
  • "temporal changes in detection effort or in the attention paid to different fields may produce spurious trends" (um, okay, so we don't even know if the data they do have is comprehensive enough)
  • "systematic fraudulent activity has always been large but that only now has been detected" (ah, an alternate hypothesis just thrown out there that could invalidate the entire conclusion, but is not explored)
  • not actually in the limitations section, but elsewhere it is also noted

I like also how the blog post admits, 'there is still no standard definition of what a “paper mill” actually is.' In fact no definition is offered by the blog post or the article, though the term is used constantly. (As though the problems of "paper mills" hasn't been a known concern for dozens of years already.)

The blog post concludes with "If the model public goods game offers any prognostication". But the "game" model is one that the author just made up earlier in the post, and arbitrarily setting the rules, boundaries and parameters for. So basically this is saying, "if my [extremely simplistic] made up analogy is true..."

I sympathize with the authors' concerns, but this article seem to me to have a lot of problems, and not offer much of what was promised. Can't help but wonder if PNAS picked it up just for flame-bait... which would be ironic.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Archaeologist Flint Dibble covered this, interviewing the actual archaeologist who works with this stuff. She definitely has ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps7lpR7nL5I

 
[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

'her lawyer reminded her they were fighting for “the principle of free speech.” “I’m hoping that the activists will now realize there are limits to their behavior,” she said.'

So the "principle of free speech" they were fighting for was the principle of limits to free speech?

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, my coreopsis have barely emerged from the soil... Sigh.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago
 

Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.

 

It's an interesting approach. While plastic is (mostly) not directly toxic to us, the argument that it is toxic to the environment seems scientifically sound. The classification allows for more regulation and pressure on an industry which have proven (as usual) extremely ineffective at regulating themselves, to the cost of all of us. And when you think about plastic as a direct product of the petroleum industry things just worse.

Looking at the CEPA web site it currently only lists "micro plastic beads". But I got a government link or the order. It reads "Plastic manufactured items" and goes into great detail on the rational and background.

Coincidentally I saw another story today:Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals.

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