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@rabbit_fighter@bookstodon Hi, Brad. I've gone through some of this with a nephew. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is good. The Martian by Andy Weir. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The Harry Potter series, maybe? Ender's Game also comes to mind.

#Snowflake bald auch in der #EU von Nöten? #Zensur#Frankreich#France
Internet #Zensur aushebeln, sich solidarisieren ! "Viel Spaß beim Zensur-Umgehen"
Interview mit einem Aktivisten des @cccfr
"Nicht nur im Iran, auch in anderen diktatorischen Ländern wird politischer Widerstand mehr und mehr mit Zensurmaßnahmen im #Internet bekämpft.
Im Iran momentan im Zusammenhang mit den feministischen Aufständen , besonders massiv und ausgefeilt. Mobilfunknetze sind runtergefahren, Instagram, WhatsApp blockiert, YouToube, Twitter, Facebook abgeschaltet.
Das macht eigene Organisierung, Unterstützung von Außen, Weitergabe von Inhalten und Informationen, Kontakte halten, sehr schwer. Jetzt gibt es in Chats und Bloggs aktuell Aufrufe, sich zu solidarisieren und diese Internetzensur zu überwinden. Mit #Snowflake! Aber was ist das, wie funktioniert das, was heißt das? "
https://www.freie-radios.net/118525

Neues Gesetz in Frankreich will Browser zur Zensur verpflichten
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/gefaehrlicher-praezedenzfall-neues-gesetz-in-frankreich-will-browser-zur-zensur-verpflichten/

Hello le Fediverse,

Je me permets de refaire un petit message à faire voyager.

En effet ce mois-ci j'ai décidé d'arrêter d'utiliser Twitter pour promouvoir mon travail.

Je ne sais pas encore si c'est une mauvaise décision, mais une chose est sûre, si mon travail se balade ici ça ne pourra que me faire un peu moins peur !

Si jamais ça vous dit de partager ce pouet ce serait vraiment super cool !

Merci à tous, et désolé à ceux qui en ont marre de ma tronche 😁

@academicchatter@sociology#AcademicJobMarket

Light weekend contribution:

3) The day after deadlines is glorious.

Sure, there are more due Monday, but I'm finding that my lizard brain appreciates an immediate break/reward. So if I HAVE to get work done over a weekend, I'm going to try keeping it to Sunday.

For now I'm enjoying the last weekend before the apartment pool closes. #EndOfSummer

La meilleure chose c’est évidement de pas regarder de séries parce que c’est polluant mais herm. Désolée j’avoue que ça j’aurai du mal à m’en passer 🥲

Éthiquement, c’est quoi la meilleure chose à faire quand tu veux regarder des séries alors que tu es déjà pas bien argenté ? Je veux dire, payer pour des plateformes ça coûte la blinde, pour des multinationales qui payent pas leurs impôts, et en plus tu n’accèdes qu’à une partie de toutes les créations.
Pas payer j’avoue ça fait mal pour le commun des mortels qui bosse sur ces séries, mais en même temps iels sont déjà payés eux ...

#DansMaTête

You can now PRE-ORDER our book Mapping Texts: Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (co-authored with @mtaylor_soc)!

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mapping-texts-9780197756881

It'll ship on January 30th.

#sociology#computationalsocialscience
@sociology
@communications
@academicchatter
#textanalysis
@rstats
#rstats

“Never heard of Cecilia Payne?
Now you have”

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's 1925 thesis that the sun was composed mostly of hydrogen and helium was rejected by a professor who called it "impossible". Years later, the man who rejected it realized she was in fact right, but he was credited with the discovery for decades. A prominent astronomer called her discovery "the most brilliant PhD thesis
ever written in #astronomy".
#WomenInScience

@academicchatter@sociology

2) The pace of the #AcademicJobMarket feels (is?) relentless.

I'm getting better at customizing application statements quickly, without being too much of a perfectionist, but it's already time to move on to the next thing: crafting the job talk.

There's no breather. Which of course means you have to create moments to breathe, disconnect, and celebrate yourself.

#Academia#AcademicChatter#AcademicMastodon#PhDChat

If you like:
🔎 Small-scale typography
🚂 Railway stuff
🧻 Ephemera
🎫 Dense information
🌈 Colors
🧾 Tabular text
… then definitely check out https://www.gbticket.com.

It features thousands of cool old paper tickets, most of which can be purchased for a few pounds each.

Last spring, I was arrested in a @ScientistRebellion direct action at #DanskeBank, calling for the end of its investments in #FossilFuels.

Today, I heard that Danske Bank has completely divested from the #Adani coal corporation. This is a victory, but the fight continues: Danske Bank continues financing climate collapse, via billion-dollar investments in another fossil corporation: #Equinor.

We need more activism, we need you! Contact us: srdenmark@proton.me

#dkpol#dkgreen#dkklima#dkforsk

Activism works! Our multi-movement campaign to get #DanskeBank to stop supporting #FossilFuels is paying off: they have now completely divested from the #Adani#coal corporation: https://danskebank.com/-/media/danske-bank-com/file-cloud/2019/3/list-of-excluded-companies-and-issuers.pdf?rev=c48a5c91d8124298b91daf26361481d8

Now, we need them to stop financing #Equinor & their deadly #oil extraction operations.

#dkpol#dkgreen#dkklima#dkforsk#StopAdani#StopEquinor#ClimateCrisis@ExtinctionR@ScientistRebellion

All #PlanetaryBoundaries mapped out, six of nine crossed: For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a full picture of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity.

“This update clearly depicts a patient that is unwell, as pressure on the planet increases and vital boundaries are being transgressed”, says co-author Johan Rockström: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/a-full-picture-of-planetary-resilience-all-boundaries-mapped-out-six-of-nine-crossed

If it wasn't already clear, we love Godot here at Bytten Studio, and we're committed to using it in all our future projects.

If you're looking to release something next year or later, try Godot 4. If you need something you can release sooner, try 3.

If you're still undecided, check out Cassette Beasts and decide for yourself whether Godot is ready for your projects: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/

GDScript is of course slower than C# if you're benchmarking just script code on its own, but in my experience it's rare for pure scripting to be a bottleneck in a game. There was only one area in CB where scripting hurt performance, and for that we went straight to C++, not C#!