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@emf@social.emfcamp.org FWIW, here's the statement by co-CEO/founder/owner, Strömberg, disavowing any connection between Berntsson's private activities and Mullvad - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696800
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@tchambers on social media harming children, has anyone seen studies that distinguish between 'social media' and 'algorithmic feed'?
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange maybe obvious, but role confusion happens with humans too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique
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@db_geek@norden.social @Wuzzy@cyberplace.social @_elena@mastodon.social thanks! The linked article still seems very critical (and rightly so, from what I can tell). I'd like to hope that there's some perspective from which this seems to make sense, so would be interested in hearing that articulated.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu a decade ago, I started a company one Sunday evening in the UK: about to go to bed, I thought I'd take a look at the documentation requirements, so I could start collecting them. Twenty minutes and £20 later, I was a CEO. No capital requirements.
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@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social I've not followed this W Social story closely, so don't know the "case for the defence". What's the best article for me to read that makes the case for it?
The difference between "people at their best" and "personal best": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0v632yddzo
Last year, I trained hard to go sub-3. I know the hours, the years, De Oliveira & Beggs would have put in to have the once-in-a-lifetime experience to run Boston faster than they'd ever run before - and the intensity of the focus on the finish line when it finally approached.
<#AndrásShiff>
I can name some very important examples of artists who have spoken out in politics and it did make a difference.
So my examples are #Beethoven, who crossed out the dedication of the Third Symphony to #Napoleon. And my great countryman Béla Bartók, who left #fascist #Hungary in 1940 because he said he couldn’t live and work under such an atmosphere. Or #Toscanini, similar reasons, having left Fascist #Italy.
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@yetzt@social.yetzt.me @rysiek@mstdn.social I don't think that the criteria ("to make you laugh, then make you think") are met.
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@cstross "Model collapse", Shumailov, Shumaylov & Papernot (2024), Nature : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz is there a page maintaining the total length of US electoral district's boundaries over time (measured, for the avoidance of confusion, with a single stick of constant length)?
Just catching up on my mail, when I (belatedly) saw April's NBER digest:
China's Rise in Global Research
"Between 1980 and 2022, China's share of global research publications in **top journals** rose from a negligible level to 32 percent, while the US share declined from 60 to about 24 percent."
The Geography of Science (NBER Working Paper 34694), Abhishek Nagaraj and Randol Yao.
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@carnage4life@mas.to Snopes doesn't buy the caption: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kid-rock-address-pentagon/
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@CCC@social.bau-ha.us never stop being awesome, #CCC!
As a Canadian, I didn't realise at first how different the CCC's roots were to those of North American hackers - smart kids playing with tech. Being rooted in _Das Leben der Anderen_ provides a deep, powerful grounding in humanity.
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@tao my favourite initiative is Jan Magnus' Philip Swallow Prize (after the character in David Lodge's _Changing Places_), to be awarded to the member of his research group with a paper rejected by the lowest ranked journal that year. He was proud to have won it in its inaugural year: https://janmagnus.nl/papers/aa-70.pdf
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@carnage4life@mas.to agreed: the Snopes post was a bit of mess, but did point - for me - to failure to confirm the topic.
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Mr. Rosenblatt shaved his bushy mustache and wore a hat to disguise himself. Also concerned with being detected by the South Vietnamese police, they used false IDs and drove a 30-year-old Citroën, and other cars that friends had abandoned upon leaving Saigon, to rendezvous with Vietnamese colleagues. Both spoke Vietnamese, and Mr. Rosenblatt was fluent in French.
“Everybody thought we were Corsican gangsters,” he said in the oral history ... “So nobody messed with us.”
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The two Americans arrived on April 22 amid chaos at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Saigon, aboard one of the last scheduled Pan Am flights into the country. From a colleague at the American Embassy, they learned that their mission had been discovered by higher-ups, and that they were to be sent home.
Fearing arrest, Mr. Rosenblatt said in a 2013 oral history, he and Mr. Johnstone “ran away as fast as we could” and went underground.
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Once home, ... Mr. Kissinger scolded but did not punish them, and even said that they had done a “wonderful, heroic job,” Mr. Rosenblatt recalled in the oral history, adding that Mr. Kissinger also told them, “We left Vietnam without much honor, but you two guys acted honorably.”
... Mr. Rosenblatt’s father told The Washington Post..., “My son must be guided by the Talmudic teaching: ‘He who saves a human life is as if he saved the whole world.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world/asia/lionel-rosenblatt-dead.html
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"As it turns out, fish indeed get wired when on #cocaine. In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, Dr. Brand and his colleagues show that coked-up #salmon swim faster and travel farther than their sober counterparts. This study prompts additional questions about the effects that human #drug habits may be having on salmon and other freshwater #fish."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/cocaine-salmon-sweden.html
How many Ig Nobels can we give for Atlantic Salmon research?
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz no privileged role for the third right arm/hectocotylus (à la https://phys.org/news/2026-04-lengths-male-octopuses-arm.html)
"I think an invisible Trump class battleship could have saved Phelan's job. Imagine a stealth battleship only the worthy could see and would be something Trump could post endless messages about. And, an invisible battleship could be built more quickly and, possibly, more cheaply even after a huge payback by the chosen vendor to one of Trump's personal companies. It could have been a win-win for the President."
dkaro
https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4fkg8r?rsrc=cshare&smid=url-share
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@delong I think I need a UCB account to see the project? If it was possible to make public, I'd love to see it!
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@carnage4life@mas.to is it better or worse that I don't know if this is insider trading or a psyop?
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To prepare documents for Vietnamese colleagues to leave aboard U.S. military aircraft, Mr. Johnstone found a typewriter in a friend’s apartment. He and Mr. Rosenblatt also obtained departure forms, stamps and consular seals from sympathetic embassy colleagues.
The two men set up in a bowling alley on the military side of the airport ... then shepherded their Vietnamese friends to planes... After five tense days with little food or sleep, the two Americans left Saigon.
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