[-] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

A Rigorous Mathematical Deconstruction of the Hypothesized Causal Link Between Vaccines and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr. Ima Skeptik, Prof. Al B. Surd, and Dr. Con Spirov

Department of Paradoxical Epidemiology, University of Unreason, Nowhereville

https://fakepaper.app/s3/A_Rigorous_Mathematical_Deconstruction_of_the_Hypo-4ed7fe07.pdf

Abstract

This paper provides an exhaustive and incontrovertible mathematical framework establishing the causative relationship between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Employing avant-garde statistical pseudo-logic, nonlinear pseudoscience, and hyperbolic integrals, we derive novel equations that not only confirm but quantify the absurdly subtle mechanisms by which vaccines trigger ASD. Our findings challenge the prevailing dogma of evidence-based medicine by introducing the groundbreaking concept of “Vax-induced Neuro-Synapticality” (VINS) and its inverse correlation with
common sense. This work, at the intersection of quantum conjecture and wishful thinking, paves the way for future “research” in vaccine skepticism with impeccable rigor.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 30 minutes ago

KDE Connect

I've used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I'm sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone's lockscreen to pause the music.)

I'm starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.

There's more too I need to explore.

(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a 'device unreachable' error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)

[-] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 39 minutes ago

Upvoted for FreeTube.

What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I'm using LibRedirect https://libredirect.github.io/

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[-] klu9@piefed.social 6 points 47 minutes ago

"Yanis Varoufuckice" is a pen-name??? /jk

For anyone interested, it's a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

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Leo Belgicus (en.wikipedia.org)

The Leo Belgicus (Latin, 'Belgic Lion') was used in both heraldry and map design to symbolize the former Low Countries (current day Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and a small part of northern France) with the shape of a lion.

2,810 × 4,000 pixels:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Leo_Belgicus_%28Dutch-Belgic_Lion_of_the_Low_Countries%29_Famiano_Strada_c1647.jpg

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Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

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Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

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submitted 1 hour ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.

Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Ah, to let white supremacists proceed with dismantling democracy and human rights without interference from 'wokes' in the federal government?

However, in the former Confederate States, many paramilitary groups sought to suppress, often through intimidation and violence, African-American political power and return the South to rule by the predominantly white Democratic Party. Although African Americans were initially supported by the federal government, as Reconstruction went on, that support waned.[2] Following the bitterly disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election and Compromise of 1877, Congressmen and Senators from the former Confederate States returned to Washington and prioritized prohibiting the federal government from reimposing control over their states.

Yep.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Realpolitik is German for "short-term thinking that will eventually bite you in the arse".

[-] klu9@piefed.social 9 points 3 hours ago

An obedient drone serving the monarchy? Cry me a river!

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submitted 4 hours ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/china@sopuli.xyz

A Keeta delivery worker group on Facebook uses the mainland Chinese term “involution” (內捲) to describe the “K Go” scheme as it forces workers to self-exploit for their survival in a shrinking market. Keeta's parent company, Meituan, has been widely criticised for its algorithmic exploitation.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Perhaps he's not a physician after all, but a surgeon.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

"I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative."

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Academic study on the use of the octopus metaphor to represent grasping, controlling invasive entities etc. Examines many examples.

Serio-comic war map of Europe 1877

Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a nation, an ideology, or an ethnicity) is depicted as a literal or figurative octopus, with extending tendrils. In this paper, we explore how octopus maps function as visual arguments through an analysis of historical examples as well as a through a crowd-sourced study on how the underlying data and the use of visual metaphors contribute to specific negative or conspiratorial interpretations. We find that many features of the data or visual style can lead to “octopus-like” thinking in visualizations, even without the use of an explicit octopus motif. We conclude with a call for a deeper analysis of visual rhetoric, and an acknowledgment of the potential for the design of data visualizations to contribute to harmful or conspiratorial thinking.

Via Metafilter:

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Looks like another community moderated by a missing person that might disappear when lemm.ee shuts down.

Anyone thinking of / inclined to migrate it to another instance?

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by klu9@piefed.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the benefits from free software in science.


One sad but common situation is that of a graduate student who becomes accustomed to a piece of expensive commercial analytical software (such as a symbolic-mathematics program), enjoying it either through a generous student discount or because it's paid for by the department. Then the freshly-minted PhD discovers the real price of the software, and can't afford it on their postdoc salary. They have to learn new ways of doing things, and have probably lost access to their past work, which is locked up in proprietary binary files.

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As of Thursday morning, Aftermath was not able to access the game on the US Google Play Store; according to Bloomberg, it was removed from the Google Play Store in May for issues unrelated to the current ban. We’ve reached out to Google for comment.

I cannot find it in the Google Play Store here in Mexico.

But it is available as an .APK (861MB) from the game homepage:

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The genius Trump gifts another victory to Zhongnanhai.

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