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@nikpayuk.bsky.social Hi Daniel. I see you are trying to find a job/raise money. Are you interested in resources about funding your work on C++ metaprogramming through open source funding agencies? I think your work may be eligible for some funding schemes.

That's a new one. Now we need to start coordinating with sperm whales.

I understand now: People crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. At times, even like catastrophe.

-- Ai Weiwei, from the article referenced here

What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.

hyperallergic.com/what-i-wish-... every move of Trump is a Reichstag fire

I would guess its data collection for some AI training.

I hope the lancheru is sending you lots of pictures and you get to visit!

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Much obliged! Thank you for doing this work!

Thank you! That was super helpful!

I am assuming you are counting HPV, Shingles, RSV under standard vaccines? (These should be standard IMO, but being based in Germany, there is some difficulty accessing all three).

Which non-standard vaccinations are a good idea to get?

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Have a little pick-me-up: Govinda and Raveena Tandon dancing the fuck out of a silly little song.

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Whats that in astronomical units?

Life does not feel like life right now. It feels like a story, with a climax, character development, strong emotions and suspense.

I wish upon myself and all of you to have a boring life again.

The point about scientists constituting a sort of epistemic elite (i.e. those who have much more say in how reality is constructed than others) is in my experience easily accessible to laypeople.

Once the separation between these concepts is made, I think the point you have been making will follow.

professionalized version of this universal activity. Science on the other hand is, to me, a professional setting where some of these universal activities are practiced in formalized, highly structured, and highly incentivized ways by people who are forming, to various degrees, an epistemic elite.

I think there is an issue with definitions here.

Laypeople in my experience do not separate neatly between empiricism, the scientific method, and science as how its practiced at institutions of science.

I would call empiricism a universal human activity and the scientific method a formalized, …

It’s sort of obvious why most of the Western world is against declaring the trafficking and enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Their ancestors did this.

I would insult the politicians who enable this violence against women as pigs and eels, but this would be unkind to pigs and eels. Death is in their wake, and they have abandoned their humanness for some shallow experience of power through violence. May their teeth fall out.

This is an apt analogy for many marginalized medical situations.

In theory, care medication can be accessed, but you run into so many roadblocks that you may just give up and accept whatever is coming to your body.

The United States of Abortion Mazes To illustrate how difficult it is to get abortion care in the United States, we built a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.

OK BUT A SERIES OF MAZES THAT INCREASE IN DIFFICULTY BASED ON HOW FUCKED UP THE ABORTION POLICY OF THAT STATE IS

Das gibt es; es gibt on-the-ground Protestgruppen die zum Beispiel von trans Menschen geführt werden.

Das sind aber auch oft Leute die direkt von ICE getargeted werden und fliegen mussten oder verschleppt wurden.

Die Strukturen leiden also echt unter den laufenden Pogromen.

By the way, I think going strictly gluten-free pretty much cured my ME/CFS. I now go running and stuff. New life, new body, new outlook, less food though. Massive cravings for pizza.

"Do you have a gluten-free meal? I have celiac disease."

"Not much, only bread. Have bread."

Airport employees. Such lovely people. So nice and friendly and so helpful. I wonder how they get their brain removed, though; that sounds medical.

Much strength to you!

I don't think it would. That's just straight up deceptive methodology.

P-hacking is more specific and refers to using statistical artifacts specifically. It can be applied to produce incorrect/deceptive results whether the methodology is sound or not.

This sounds suspiciously like P-Hacking to me, just looking at the 96.9% number. Its precisely using the 1/20 studies that happen to measure statistical artifacts.

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I did not verify that this is exactly what happened here, but we all should get a little suspicious when we see numbers close to 1/20 in science.

There are other ways of faking study results to come close to this number, such as P-hacking.

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Imagine a zoo full of ducks and penguins.

Its 80.000 ducks and 20 penguins, but you don't know that. Instead you count; but not all of then. You just pick 20 animals at random and extrapolate.

There simply is some chance that you happen to pick penguin 20 times in a row by statistical accident.

Scientific studies often use whats called a P-value. Its a measure based in the statistics of the study indicating how likely the study is wrong by chance. A P-Value of 1 means "definitely wrong", 0 means "never wrong", 0.5 means "50/50" chance.

0.05, 1/20 chance is often used as a target value.